Featuring mini-variations on the folk tune Cumberland Gap, this easy overture provides a musical portrait of travel through the Appalachian Mountains. Composed in a single tempo, there is still plenty...
Featuring two traditional Irish tunes, this effective work for second year players opens with a sensitive and lyric setting of Perry Maid Milking Her Cow. The dance segment features the familiar tune...
Here is an emotion-filled arrangement for young players based on the folk tune Down to the River to Pray, which is thought to have been composed by an African-American slave. There is an element of sa...
What kid doesn't love a train! This entertaining and fun piece for beginning bands calls for some lucky student (or administrator) to be featured on a wooden train whistle (the cheap kind!). Along the...
Utilizzando due temi distintivi della Sinfonia n. 9 di Dvorak (Dal nuovo mondo), Paul Murtha ha creato un brano efficace per le bande di principianti. La sezione lenta d'apertura del 2° movimento è se...
Bring a little opera into the band room with this skillful adaptation of Verdi's famous Anvil Chorus from Il Trovatore. The woodwinds carry the melody in the opening section with a few 16th note scale...
Here is a rich and harmonious chorale treatment of this well-known melody from Dvorák's New World Symphony. After the distinctive opening chords, the first statement can be performed as a trumpet solo...
MusicWorks - Grade 1 Introduce the distinctive sounds of the Renaissance period to your young players with this marvelous setting of two gems by English composer William Byrd. Pavana (The Earle of Sal...
From Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Snow Maiden, 'Dance of the Tumblers' is considered to be one of this composer's most well known themes. Although brief in duration, this vibrant and energetic dance contai...
Based on Purcell's Come, Ye Sons of Art, this carefully crafted arrangement for second year players features a nice variety in scoring and dynamic contrasts. Phrases are traded between the woodwind an...