Spartiti per banda avanzata

This classic of the Ludwig Music library is a wonderful reworking of one of Richard Strauss' lovely and haunting early art songs. The wind band arrangement is extremely respectful of the original work...

Dana Wilson always strives to introduce students and audiences to new ways of thinking about music and performance practices. This work serves somewhat as an incantation, a summoning up of, by means o...

As a composer with great skills and an avowed desire to artfully combine traditional band forms and formats with contemporary techniques and colors, Tom Duffy has fashioned this one-movement tone poem...

Colorful, sophisticated, challenging, rewarding and fun are all words that come to mind in Duffy's tribute to the automobile industry. Composed in five continuous sections, 'Cold Starts,' 'Chasing the...

Sousa was a prominent composer of operettas or musical comedy, his most successful being El Capitan (1895). It has been noted that if he had not established his popular and world famous professional b...

Doyen was written to commemorate the launch of the luxury motor coach of that name and is a sort of musical journey which includes sounds of the coach starting up, cruising at speed and slowing down a...

Score & Parts

This is a continuous set of variations on the famous Ronde tune by sixteenth century composer, Tielman Susato. To add spice, Bedford takes a sequence of chords from Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde a...

Extra Score only. Symphonic sequence after William Blake for Symphonic Winds using Holy Thursday from Songs of Innocence. Duration: 21 mins. Extra Score only. Symphonic sequence after William Blake fo...

A Leadsman, Landsmen and Dances begins with The Jolly Sailor, a boisterous portrait of the subject. Then comes O Shepherd, O Shepherd, Won't You Come Home? which perhaps presents both austere and idyl...

Score & Parts: Picc; 2 Fl; 2 Ob; Cor Ang; Eb Cl; 2 Cl; B.Cl; 2 Bsn; 2 A.Sax; Ten.Sax; Bar.Sax; 4 Hn' 3 Tpt; 2 Tbn; B.Tbn; Tuba; Timp; 3 Perc' Pno' Hp' Dbl.Bass.

A miniature masterpiece! This short prelude describes both the funny and serious sides of comedy. Bitter-sweet in mood, it is tightly constructed and gives all sections of the band a chance to shine.