Œuvres instrumentales pour orchestre d'instruments à vent

A great traditional concert opener, this light Italian overture from the opera Tancredi is an orchestral favorite! A wonderful piece for reinforcing triplet and dotted eighth/sixteenth rhythm patterns...

A great traditional concert opener, this light Italian overture from the opera Tancredi is an orchestral favorite! A wonderful piece for reinforcing triplet and dotted eighth/sixteenth rhythm patterns...

The primary ideas of this work are stated by the woodwinds and horns in the introduction and germinate from two basic ideas: the rhythmic figure and the melodic interval of a tritone. Ostinato and lyr...

The primary ideas of this work are stated by the woodwinds and horns in the introduction and germinate from two basic ideas: the rhythmic figure and the melodic interval of a tritone. Ostinato and lyr...

From the ballet music of this famous opera, Le Cid is colorfully scored for concert band. It consists of three Spanish dances, including the vivacious Castillane, the gypsy Andalouse and the beautiful...

From the ballet music of this famous opera, Le Cid is colorfully scored for concert band. It consists of three Spanish dances, including the vivacious Castillane, the gypsy Andalouse and the beautiful...

Dance Variations is a theme, with six variations. The theme, which is made up of a unique combination of intervals, is stated three times in the opening. Each variation stresses a different tempo, tim...

Danse Slave is a joyful ballet music from Act III of Emmanuel Chabrier's comic opera Le Roi Malgre Lui (A King in Spite of Himself). This opera is generally considered to be Chabrier's masterpiece alt...

Fugue in D Minor is the first of six movements in the First Suite in D Minor, which is musically reminiscent of the Nutcracker Suite. As arranged here, this fugue makes an excellent exercise in articu...

Fugue in D Minor is the first of six movements in the First Suite in D Minor, which is musically reminiscent of the Nutcracker Suite. As arranged here, this fugue makes an excellent exercise in articu...

The title says it all: this arrangement for band and chorus or band, strings and chorus is an uplifting rendition of the hymn God of Our Fathers. Beginning with solo snare drum and trumpet, this selec...

Commissioned to honor the memory of Vincent Cichowicz, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's longtime trumpet player, this work for large brass-percussion ensemble is both reflective and celebrative. As a...

Commissioned to honor the memory of Vincent Cichowicz, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's longtime trumpet player, this work for large brass-percussion ensemble is both reflective and celebrative. As a...

Written in a dramatic idiom, this is a serious contemporary work employing serial techniques. The composer uses a predetermined series of notes throughout the composition to enhance the chordal and rh...

From the emphatic opening of this original composition to the stirring final chord, the driving rhythmic pulse permeates throughout its organ-like chordal structure. An active percussion line weaves t...