Haydn's Trumpet Concerto is probably the most-performed trumpet concerto ever written. The second movement is known equally for both its beautiful melody and wonderful use of trumpet as a solo instrum...
This tasteful arrangement of two classics from the English Renaissance will serve as a great 'stepping-off' point for studying music from different historical periods. The Earl of Salisbury Pavane by...
This delightful band transcription of a Debussy piano classic is an ideal teaching tool. The piece will help teach tempo, dynamics, and rhythms such as the sixteenth-eighth-sixteenth pattern. The perf...
Modest Mussorgsky (1839û1881) was a relatively unknown composer during his lifetime, but some of his works are among today's best-known pieces in concert halls and films. His orchestral work Night on...
Scheherazade is Rimsky-Korsakov's amazing musical interpretation of the tales of the Arabian Nights as told to the sultan by his wife who is destined to be executed. Her stories over 1,001 nights so e...
One of the most familiar and popular marches ever written is Franz Schubert's 'Military March No. 1.' Originally written for piano four-hands, this arrangement for young band sounds as if it was first...
Enchant everyone at your next concert with this colorful and dramatic arrangement of Puccini's 'La Tregenda.' This intermezzo from the opera, Le Villi, depicts the evildoings of the ghost maidens dese...
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859-1935) was a Russian composer who studied under Rimsky-Korsakov and later was the director for the Moscow Conservatory for many years. His most famous compostion, Process...
The Tango is a well known and recognizable style of music that originated in Argentina in the mid 19th century. El Tango is a fresh and creative example of this style, as the music gives the effect of...