Marches pour harmonie

The perfect march for young players in order to be introduced how to perform in a traditional march style. The title says it all...this March should be the first for your students to start with. Numbe...

Erik Satie, born in Honfleur in Normandy (France) in 1866 is undoubtedly one of the most striking personalities in the history of French music. He composed in various, often quite divergent, styles. B...

The funeral music from the melodrama Bergliot by the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg consists of two instrumental fragments, that musically illustrate the dramatic events of the story. Johan de Meij i...

The funeral music from the melodrama Bergliot (declamation and orchestra) by the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907) consists of two orchestral fragments which illustrate the dramatical even...

The composer was inspired by heroic movie marches by composers including John Williams, Elmer Bernstein, Alfred Newman, and others.

The opera-ballet Mlada was an epic project involving six different Russiancomposers including Mussorgsky, Borodin and Rimsky-Korsakov. Unfortunately the work didn't ever receive a performance howevert...

Lively and upbeat in nature, The Centurion follows the conventional British march format. It is not technically demanding yet a successful performance will need skill and commitment from every player...

Navigation Inn was originally written for brass band to celebrate one of the most famous events of the brass band calendar - the Whit Friday marches. The Navigation Inn is a pub which is a popular mee...

Le York'scher Marsch de Beethoven fait partie d'une collection de trois tatouages (WoO 18-20) et a eu une histoire pour le moins mouvementée. Il existe plusieurs copies autographes pour différentes in...

This piece was inspired by the composer watching his young son, Benny, playing 'soldiers' with his collection of teddy bears - how appropriate! But it made him think of the many character pieces which...

What a way to open any concert. The Black Horse Troopis one of John Philip Sousa?s best known marches and was described by the great Frederick Fennell as ?a regimental march of classic content and pro...

La plupart des pays ayant institué la tradition des musiques militaires ont développé un style de marche caractéristique. Ainsi, il est relativement aisé de distinguer une marche américaine d'une marc...

Philip Sparke wrote this march for the famous brass band contest held ever year on Whit Friday in Oldham and Saddleworth. Given the competition's long history (over 120 years), he consciously composed...

Sandstone Centennial wurde von der Frodsham Silver Band aus dem Nordwesten Englands in Auftrag gegeben, zur Hundertjahrfeier dieses Blasorchesters im Jahre 2007. Dieser Marsch wurde im traditionellen...

March Celebration réunit deux célèbres marches du Luxembourg et du sud de la Belgique, combinées à un thème original signé Philip Sparke. Après l'exposition du thème original suivi d'une ligne mélodiq...

Dédiée à la Musique des Troupes de la Marine royale néerlandaise, dirigée par le commandant Peter Kleine Schaars, Raid on the Medway est une marche traditionnelle, écrite dans un style ardent et bouil...

Wind Sketches is a top quality concert work for wind band in three movements, inspired by the relationship between man and wind. Trade Winds, in the form of a march, is reminiscent of a shanty, conjur...

Salute to the Victor is in traditional march form and contains, as a tribute to Victor Grieve who was a devotee of English music (in particular that of Sir Edward Elgar), a short quote from Elgar's Se...

March Prelude: Alnwick Town was commissioned by the Alnwick Playhouse Concert Band (with Ray Thompson as conductor) to celebrate their first 25 years. It opens majestically with answering phrases betw...

Salutation was commissioned by Japanese conductor and broadcaster, Yutaka Nishida, a dear friend of the composer Philip Sparke. Salutation follows fairly conventional march form. A short fanfare intro...

Step by Step was commissioned by the Sony Concert Band to celebrate their 60th anniversary in 2018. Step by Step is an up-tempo concert march. The title was chosen as it has obvious associations with...

Le Hongrois Miklós Rózsa (1907 - 1995) fut un des derniers compositeurs de l'âge d'or hollywoodien. Auteur de plus de cent musiques de films, il fut 'oscarisé' à trois reprises pour les bandes origina...

L'imagination est un univers magique où les enfants trouvent tout ce dont ils rêvent. La joie vient les habiter lorsqu'ils entrent dans ce monde ludique, divertissant, plein de suspense, d'harmonie, d...

The Spanish 'Pasacalle' is a very characteristic genre of Spanish musical tradition. It resembles the march but is more majestic and represents the air of pretentiousness that is so typical for the Sp...

L'Amistat est un paso doble festif, aux accents résolument espagnols, mais surtout valenciens, terre natale de Ferrer Ferran. La palette des couleurs de cette composition illuminera les salles de conc...