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This is an energetic work for tuba and piano. It combines several styles including a great upbeat jazz section. This is a showpiece for tuba from beginning to end.

'A Dance On Three Legs' is a percussion ensemble piece with constantly shifting meter, hence the title. It also has constantly changing texture and dynamics to add interest. Six players are involved a...

I wrote this piece with the intent of creating a fun piece for students to play that a non-musician could easily teach to a sixth grade class with no musical experience. It is scored for 4 players pla...

Spirituals have found their way into the standard repertoire of vocalists and instrumentalists. The lyrical tunes combined with the powerful message they tell affect us all. In this arrangement all pa...

This is a Scott Joplin rag which has been arranged for 6 clarinets. The various parts alternate playing the famous melodic lines and playing the idiomatic rag accompaniment. There have been some newly...

Inveni David' is an offertory and was originally set for male chorus and four trombones. This powerful work opens in F minor and gradually builds to a brilliant F major Alleluia. This setting makes th...

Spring is the time for renewal. We shed our heavier clothes in exchange for warmer weather, plant growth and new animal births. This is a 5 minute work divided into three sections: 'The Call to Spring...

This fanfare was written to be played before the ballet La Peri. It is often performed on its own by brass ensembles to herald in a concert or recital. This is an arrangement for brass band that featu...

The Cossack' is an incredibly popular concert march in the brass band world. This edition of a true classic march was done to correct some note errors, create a flugel horn part, make articulations mo...

This piece is an ethereal and effective work for winds, piano, and percussion. It opens with three solo flutes echoing a call as if it were played on a mountain top. Various soloists are featured thro...

A solar storm (or solar flare) is a large explosion in the Sun's atmosphere releasing massive amounts of energy. This shifty, rhythmic piece is colorful and bold with great material in all sections. I...

The opening section is free and segues to a lyrical and mournful melody, that also segues to another cadenza, followed by the finale-a fast bop style section. It portrays emotions of loss and celebrat...

Boris Godunov is an opera that centers around the Russian people in the early 17th century. Coronation Scene is one of the grandest scenes in the opera. This is when the great square in Moscow is fill...

This new work by Donald Coakley is sure to catch the attention of the band world. This piece is an ideal choice for either a concert or contest. All parts are accessible to players of this difficulty...

Composer Donald Coakley was asked, by the Pastor of St. William's Roman Catholic Church, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to write a hymn based on verses he had written about the parish's namesake. What...

Overture to An Unscripted Movie was composed to pay homage to the orchestral scores written for Hollywood action/adventure films. The Overture is in four sections: The Hero, The Villain, The Love Them...

225 million years ago, all of the earth's land masses were combined into one super continent- Pangaea. This giant land was inhabited by creatures totally alien to the world we know. Imagine if you cou...

Suite on Canadian Folk Songs was written as a Centennial project in 1967 and originally scored for brass band, although the music of the first movement had appeared in Suite from the Monteregian Hills...

Masquerade was commissioned by the Hannaford Street Silver Band. This is a brass band whose personnel is composed top freelance musicians in Toronto, Canada. Mr. Coakley wanted to personalize the piec...

Warren Barker chooses a beautiful Gershwin' ballad and gives it his own ethereal harmonic treatment in presenting this opportunity to feature a vocalist with your band (or a solo clarinetist, should y...

Another exciting composition by an exciting Canadian composer. Donald Coakley wrote Cantos in the 1970s and has now corrected previous errors in print and altered some sections. The title Cantos deriv...

For Interchangeable Woodwind Ensemble.

For Interchangeable Woodwind Ensemble.