Partitions pour orchestre d'instruments à vent

A very easy composition. The trumpets highest note is C, and no clarinets cross the break. The use of real jazz and blues harmonies make it very interesting while the rhythm is very simple with only...

Chris always writes great melodies with very rich harmonies regardless of grade level. The 1st clarinets have a B natural which they need play only once. The 1st trumpet's highest note is C.

This is a two-minute tribute to Steven Tyndall's many years of service to music education in Georgia. It is majestic in form and has a simple key change. It is a great educational song as well as a tr...

Northeastern Music likes to put a different twist on the standard Christmas carols. Jerry Nowak has enriched the harmonies of the song. Only the 1st clarinets cross the break. The 1st trumpet's highes...

All Grade 1/2's are playable with only 5 instruments: 1 flute, 2 clarinets, 1 alto saxophone, and 1 trumpet. Those instruments are not always doubled elsewhere. The song is written in such a way, it w...

This arrangement is slow and should be played in legato style. It is based on the tradition spiritual and written with very interesting harmonies. It is a beautiful piece and easy to play. No clarinet...

This is named after a state park in Arkansas where one can actually hunt for diamonds. It is a nice melody with good and interesting harmonies. This is a great work for using your percussion section....

Here you have a 15th/16th century sound for your beginning band. Clarinets do not cross the break. 1st trumpet's highest note is C.

This work has a very nice melody and is a great introduction to easy independence. While the work is very easy, it gives the director to work on the students paying attention to articulation. No clari...

This is an exciting and spirited composition. It is easy and would be considered a grade ½ by range, but there is some easy independence taught is this fun work. The students love to play it! No clar...

How about adding a bit of Latin samba to your Christmas concert combining Jolly Old St. Nicholas and Deck The Halls into one great song! A little Latin percussion adds just the right amount of spice t...

This is a nice and easy song in ¾ time. It is also a good exercise in dotted quarter/eighth note rhythms. The 1st trumpet's highest note is A. No clarinet crosses the break.

This work is written in a C minor mode. There are no accidentals so it is easy for the student to play while have harmonies not usually heard in young band music. 1st trumpet's highest note is C. Clar...

Andrew Poor is a middle school band director and knows what students can easily play and what is difficult. He has taken this very easy march with limited range so you can teach the students easy sync...

This composition has a patriotic and majestic quality which pays tribute to our men and women in service of our country. The 1st trumpet's highest note is C. Only the 1st clarinets cross the break.

This work is taken from the original work by Fritz Spindler who lived ih the 19th century. It sounds far more difficult that it is to play (always a plus for programming). This is also a great exercis...

This is an easy and fast song to add to a religious theme concert or it is very playable in a church setting. Everyone in the Catholic church knows this song. The first clarinets play over the break....

All Grade 1/2's are playable with only 5 instruments: 1 flute, 2 clarinets, 1 alto saxophone, and 1 trumpet. Those instruments are not always doubled elsewhere. The song is written in such a way, it w...

A very easy work for beginners. Only whole, half and quarter notes are in the wind section. The percussion section plays eighth notes. The 1st trumpet's highest note is A. The 1st clarinet has to p...

Your percussionist will love this song. It gives them a chance to show off and have fun with different kind of percussion instruments. 1st trumpet's highest note is A. Clarinets do not cross the break...

This work is to honor the heroic efforts of the first landing of the moon in 1969. It has several contrasting sections from slow to faster and always wonderful melodies. Only the 1st clarinets cross t...

This is an easy song that features the percussion section The 1st trumpet's highest note is D. 1st clarinets cross the break. This is the perfect composition to introduce syncopation.

This song is easily playable by bands with limited instrumentation. The form is a basic ABA, with harmonies of a flatted 2nd and 3rd, seldom heard at this performance level. The middle section is in m...