This moving piece embodies all the simplicity of Russian Orthodox music, yet displays the sweeping beauty of Rachmaninov's lyricism. Conductors will appreciate the opportunity to teach extended phrase...
Haydn's Trumpet Concerto is probably the most-performed trumpet concerto ever written. The second movement is known equally for both its beautiful melody and wonderful use of trumpet as a solo instrum...
This tasteful arrangement of two classics from the English Renaissance will serve as a great 'stepping-off' point for studying music from different historical periods. The Earl of Salisbury Pavane by...
This delightful band transcription of a Debussy piano classic is an ideal teaching tool. The piece will help teach tempo, dynamics, and rhythms such as the sixteenth-eighth-sixteenth pattern. The perf...
Le Danze Slave di Antonin Dvorak sono state per generazioni un'attrazione per il pubblico dei concerti orchestrali. Qui, una delle sue Danze slave più conosciute è stata meravigliosamente adattata per...
Modest Mussorgsky (1839û1881) was a relatively unknown composer during his lifetime, but some of his works are among today's best-known pieces in concert halls and films. His orchestral work Night on...
Scheherazade is Rimsky-Korsakov's amazing musical interpretation of the tales of the Arabian Nights as told to the sultan by his wife who is destined to be executed. Her stories over 1,001 nights so e...
One of the most familiar and popular marches ever written is Franz Schubert's 'Military March No. 1.' Originally written for piano four-hands, this arrangement for young band sounds as if it was first...