Windependence

This delightful woodwind quintet gives each player the chance to portray part of a frog's daily routine, from swimming to lazing on the lily pad to catching bugs. Five Frogs is light-hearted but chall...

Vincitore del Premio di Composizione NBA William Revelli 2003. Ballata scozzese per banda di fiati, Perthshire Majesty trova le sue radici musicali nell'eredità di David Gregory, il direttore d'orches...

As One Listens to the Rain' is a marriage of two distinct musical ideas. The first, a solitary, solemn melody, is introduced in the trumpet and cloaked in an aura of slowly shifting transparent harmon...

Meridian nasce dall'amore del compositore per la musica ostinata, o basata sul groove. Altre influenze diverse includono il jazz di Keith Jarrett e Jan Garbarek, influenzato dalla World Music, e le si...

Meridian comes very much out of the composer's love for ostinato, or groove-based, music. Other diverse influences include the World Music-infused jazz of Keith Jarrett and Jan Garbarek, as well as th...

Il compositore norvegese Ola Gjeilo è una stella emergente nel campo delle opere corali e anche della musica per banda di fiati. Come i suoi precedenti lavori per banda Meridian e The Spheres, Serenit...

Composed for the commission project celebrating the 85th birthday of legendary conductor Frank Battisti, this beautiful lyric piece from Kathryn Salfelder offers a rewarding emotional depth for young...

Windependence - Master Level (Grade 4) Originally intended as a homage to Percy Grainger, The Jig is Up combines an Irish folk theme with interjections from other ethnic elements. Flowing invitingly f...

The well-known traditional Irish hymn is here thoughtfully arranged for wind band and optional vocal/choral part. The setting captures the humble, yet majestic, simplicity and deep faith represented b...

This graceful arrangement of the traditional four-part English chorale is perfect for teaching clear tone concepts to your band. The work is scored for beginning band or beginning string orchestra, al...

Windependence - Master Level (Grade 4) The sound world of Homages is anchored in the rich harmonic palette of the 20th century and features a luminous orchestral transparency. Homages is the composer'...

Windependence - Artist Level (Grade 5) Conceived as a concerto for wind ensemble, Scenes Revisited features the virtuostic and technical stamina of every section of the group. The composer describes t...

Windependence - Advanced Apprentice Level (Grade 3) Sinfonia XIX was commission by the Berwick Middle School 7th-8th Grade Band, Brian Fish, Director, and was composed during December 1998 and January...

This striking orchestration of the Northern Irish melody that underlies the song Danny Boy offers intermediate and advanced concert bands an opportunity to explore the tune's soaring beauty through br...

Beloved by music-lovers worldwide, this dazzling folk dance was originally transcribed and arranged by Dvorák for piano duet and subsequently for orchestra. Ambitious concert bands will find this unda...

Shelley Hanson originally composed Islas y Montañas for orchestra. Tocata is the first movement and functions as a fanfare or introduction. It features the entire ensemble clapping rhythmic patterns b...

Windependence - Artist Level (Grade 5) As Brooks composed this piece, he kept in mind the different definitions of the word, Dreadnought: a total absence of fear ' invincible ' a name given to a class...

An American Song is a collage that portrays the motto e pluribus unum by combining several dozen American tunes into a single whole. Fragments of hymns, spirituals, show tunes, jazz standards, country...

Sparkle received its world premiere at the WASBWE Conference in San Luis Obispo, California (1999). Imaginatively scored for wind ensemble, it begins quietly with delicate and rapid woodwind passages...

This gentle piece has a lush Irish feel, and is inspired by a poem from an old Irish blessing that is inclued for optional narrator. When the storms break for him, may the trees shake for him their bl...