Partitions moyen pour Harmonie

The idea for this came when I was reading a critic's review of an opera; the critic quoted an Italian saying: -Prima la Musica- the music comes first! Apologies to Verdi for the tune used in the trio...

An old Spanish dance accompanied by foot stamping provided for Sousa and for Sarasate, who arranged it as a showpiece for his own violin virtuosity. I saw its possibilities as a glittering showpiece f...

1) 'Jour de Fête.* A quiet sunday atmosphere on the Avenue Foch, a residental area for the well-to-do in Paris. It begins with full-soun­ding chords, with a wealth of added tones. It seems as if many...

I needed a new tune at trotting tempo to accompany a display at the 'Horse of the Year Show' for which my band plays every year. I couln't find one but managed to think of this one which fitted nicely...

With this 'Air', the third part of his cantata about People going to church on Whitsuntide, the Dutch composer Pieter Goemans (Istambul, 1925) proves his talents as a composer go far beyond songs for...

Since the Soviet Union no longer seems to be that far away from our Western World, we are eager to know Russian music better. Of course, we do prefer the music by Russian composers (such as Salnikov's...

In a previous successful work Glenn meets Wolfgang Penders revised a Mozart tune in the Glenn Miller style; this time the famous spiritual Battle of Jericho was the willing victim of Glenn Miller's sp...

The outer movements of this Little Suite are based on traditional Swedish folkdances. The melancholy second movement sings of the girl Hilla and her love for Duke Hillebrand, unattainable for her, as...

Gertl Jahns is in fact a well-known Dutch wind band music composer. He wrote this litle Latin-American sounding piece for wind band and was inspired by the 'Bajon', a typical Brazilian folkdance tune....