Nouvelles Importations

If you're commissioned to write a work for the Lorain County (OH) 4H Band, of course you're going to use tractor parts as part of the sound picture. Surely one of your students will have access to jus...

Traditional in many ways in construction, this march shows a gift of melody and innovation. Mustang March by Daniel Sault features all the things you want to hear in a march, but always just a little...

Composed around a 10th Century poetic couplet, Hugh M. Stuart's Three Ayres From Gloucester is for full Concert Band.

When dinosaurs roamed the earth, I imagine they made a lot of stomping noises. The is much question and answer between the wind instruments and the percussion. Best performed where there is a wooden f...

This work has some really fun syncopation for the band to work on. The rhythms "ricochet" around the band and the main melody is like a groovy 1960's TV show.

Syttende mai er jeg så glad i ("J'aime le 17 mai") est l'une des chansons pour enfants les plus connues, chantée à l'occasion de la fête de la Constitution norvégienne, le 17 mai. La mélodie est basée...

In the late 1960s, Alan Shulman composed four works for symphonic winds. Interstate 90 dates from a 1962 sketch depicting a drive heading west on the Massachusetts Turnpike and New York State Thruway....

A tone poem depicting the extreme emotions and complicated lives of soldiers in Vietnam, Thousand Mile Eyes by Mark Fabio is one of deep emotional impact. It vividly portrays the hardships of the Viet...

The result of a commission from the St. Edward High School Band (Lakewood, OH) for their performance at Severance Hall, Of Dreams and Destiny by Clarence Barber speaks to the dreams of students for th...

Trouping Days is a popular "band wagon" march, played fast and loud as the band rode through towns to attract customers. This arrangement by Gene Milford exhibits Karl King's wonderful gift for melody...

A minimalist approach makes this a unique work well-suited for teaching of chromatic fingerings. Chris Campbell's Perspective Shift is clever, tongue-in-cheek, and features interesting but not difficu...

Safely scored, Acclamation Overture by Kelly Bennette is playable by less experienced bands. It is a rewarding challenge, well worth the effort and---to add to it all---it is an enjoyable work to play...

A Welsh ballad, this lovely melody has been set for concert band by Gene Milford in this arrangement called The Sun's Bright Glow. Myfanwy has been called by some "the greatest love song ever written....

Instrumentation rather than difficulty makes this work a grade 3. Jeremy Martin's arrangement of Be Thou My Vision is ideal for memorial services or just for that spot at your concert where you want t...

Back Home Again in Indiana by James F. Hanley has become a jazz standard over the years and is the perfect vehicle for your band's vocal soloist. It may be played without the vocalist if you wish, wit...

The Trolls live below Mount Doom and can often be heard marching and singing tunes that are harmonised in 4ths & 5ths. If the Trolls had a band, this is what it would sound like. Plenty of percussion...

An explosive Fanfare & Theme composed for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Olympic broadcast for the 2000 Sydney Olympics. The didgeridoo part is not notated as the didgeridoo is mostly an im...

An explosive Fanfare & Theme composed for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Olympic broadcast for the 2000 Sydney Olympics. The didgeridoo part is not notated as the didgeridoo is mostly an im...

Originally created for full orchestra, this version for advanced level bands, and recorded by the acclaimed Dallas Wind Symphony conducted by Jerry Junkin, is a magnificent and powerful setting for th...