Concerti per banda

A fun and accessible work for any beginning band that is suitable for graduation, ceremonies, and concert performances. With extensive doubling, this is perfect for bands with limited instrumentation....

Feature your percussion section, or even a talented faculty member, in this novelty that uses the woodblock as a soloist.  Great for developing first-year counting skills, working on balance, counterm...

Inspired by NASA's Starliner, this composition offers players interesting, yet easy, melodic material and countermelodies that will let your students work on phrasing and balance while still having fu...

Intended for first-year bands, this march uses the first 6 notes in a creative way that enables young students to develop independent part playing. With a short percussion solo, this composition is ex...

Inspired by hot air ballooning, this concert or contest composition starts with a celebratory feel with soaring melodic material and progresses to a suspenseful, yet graceful, completion.  Multiple dy...

Intended for intermediate to professional concert bands, this unique setting of this patriotic standard is perfect for honoring the United States of America and members of the Armed Forces.  Not a typ...

Composed to celebrate the anniversary of women being admitted to the Notre Dame concert band, this Irish-themed composition includes The Bells of St. Mary's, I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen, Girls...

This programmatic composition, inspired by the many ghost stories that have come from the mysterious occurrence of lights on Brown Mountain, North Carolina, musically tells the story of a missing 19th...

Composed to embody the sense of American vigor and patriotism, this fast-paced and energetic fanfare, concert opener or contest selection features rousing brass fanfares, lively woodwind motives, and...

Written for smaller bands with limited instrumentation that are looking for more challenging compositions, this complex composition will develop musicians counting and rhythmic precision skills while...

Designed to help beginners improve their ability to play eighth-note rhythms, this concert or contest composition uses limited ranges so that the players can concentrate on the rhythms.  Percussion pa...

Questo concerto ha il carattere di una fantasia piuttosto che di un concerto tradizionale, svolgendosi in due ampie sezioni. La prima è tranquilla e serena, con melodie rapsodiche e trame trasparenti....

In Memoriam di David Maslanka è un tributo profondamente toccante costruito sul caro inno "If You But Trust in God to Guide You". Commissionata in onore di Susan Eck Lichtenwalter, l'opera si sviluppa...

A musical depiction of the forced relocation of over 100,000 Native Americans in the 1830s, this composition is a remembrance of the great human rights atrocity and of this shameful period in American...

This lovely ballad about the winter season is perfect for teaching blend, balance, and phrasing to developing band students.  With soaring melodies, beautiful harmonic accompaniments, and gentle percu...

This exciting concert and contest composition for young musicians features driving percussion with strong melodic material.  The melody is passed through every section creating listening and balance s...

Starting with a mallet percussion ostinato, this contemporary ballad for developing bands would also work well as a reflective selection for more advanced ensembles or as a contrasting selection in co...

Based on the carol, Good King Wenceslas, Good King Salsa explores some basic Latin rhythms.  This setting features your percussion section which can be expanded or limited to fit your group, but the b...