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This is a tune by Sigrid Moldestad (b. 1972), a Norwegian folk artist. She has based it on a warm and beautiful poem by Danish author Tove Ditlefsen. A text for and about love. Sigrid Moldestad won th...

This is an original piece of music composed by Oystein Olsen Vadsten, inspired by old Norwegian folk dances. 'Jumpety Jump' actually started out as a 'reinlender' (Norwegian Folk Dance) which origins...

The Sweetest Girl is a folk song from Hornindal in Norway. This arrangement feature a trombonist a soloist, but the solo part can also be played by any other Bb-instrument in the brass band. Rydland...

This arrangement combines the well-known Norwegian folksong 'Noringen' with a Springdans. Noringen is a tune associated with traditional wedding celebrations (especially on the morning of the second d...

'The Bonnie Banks of' Loch Lomond' is a traditional scottish tune first time published in 1841. It is often the last tune on a night of partying in nightclubs and dinner parties. The arrangement has...

This song from the band Hekla Stålstrenga is about Joe the boatbuilder. Joe builds the most fabulous boats, but has a deal with the devil that every seventh boat is going to him. Norwegian band Hekla...

Laling is a Norwegian folktune from Bø. The arrangementet of the lullaby starts off with a calm atmosphere (like a dream). The dream develops into a more funky section, until it calms down again. Lali...

Jules Sylvain (1900-1968) (pseudonym for Axel Stig Hansson), was a Swedish composer of popular music, writer and musician. As pianist, he had success first as musician at cafees and later as orchestra...

This piece is a collection of three folk songs from Nord-Gudbrandsdal in Norway. To the Conductor: First part (from bar 8): The trumpets presents the theme while the horns and trombones represents a k...

Svendsen wrote his three Norwegian rhapsodies between 1876 and 1877. All of them are largely based on themes from a collection og songs Ældre og nyere norske Fjeldmelodier' by L.M. Lundeman. Norwegian...

Johan Svendsen wrote several great adaptions of folk music for strings. These are all characterized by his tasteful harmonics. Far Away Star is one of the two Swedish folk songs published as op. 27 fo...

(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66', often rendered simply as 'Route 66', is a popular song and rhythm and blues standard, composed in 1946 by American songwriter Bobby Troup. It was first recorded in the s...

Alf Proysen (1914-1970) was one of Norway's premier authors and singer/songwriters of works for children. In addition to many books and recordings for children, he was also a profiled host of radio-pr...

This song was first issued on the Norwegian duo Knutsen & Ludwigsen' LP-release 'Juba Juba' back in 1983. It soon became their biggest hit ever. They achieved the Norwegian Grammy 'Spellemannsprisen'...

Funky Kidz is a cool tune that fits perfectly to showcase the beginners as soloists with the band. The solo part is easy to learn 'by ear', while a stylish bass ostinato makes it fun for the band to a...

Winter Wonderland was written in 1934 by the american composers Felix Bernard and Dick Smith. The song is often regarded as a Christmas song, although the lyrics has nothing with Christmas time at all...

The four elements; Earth, water, fire and air, were the four substances which ancient philosophers believed to be the building blocks of the physical universe. The elements were bound together by thei...

A good friend of mine, trombonist and professor Jesper Juul Windahl commissioned me a trombone quartet. I then wrote Four Nordic Folk Pops. The last of the four is a Norwegian tune called Havard Hedde...

This funky rock-chart is composed by Larry Barton, a US composer living in Kentucky. This arrangement is made to feature two soloists, the Tenor Saxophone and the Tuba. The tuba-player can choose to...

Daylight Funk is a light, funky and catchy piece of music that will fit well for concerts with your young band throughout the year. With some challenges in leading parts and simple lower parts, this i...

With it's over five billion(!) views on YouTube, it's quite likely you've seen the overly catchy 'Baby Shark' ... If not, it´s about time! Here it is as a funky beginners feature where the youngest mu...

Although this piece is written by bassist Mark King of Level 42 as far back as in the early 80's (album Strategy), this is a melody that are often used where bass-players will put each other on trial....