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Polar Bear Parade is a concert march that will delight your audience with catchy melodies and a familiar formal structure and challenge your players with unexpected (tonal) chromaticism. Genre: Band | # of Players: Standard...

It's waltz time. A first-rate piece that features the most elegant of all musical styles. Poor Wandering One features a solo clarinet with the whole band getting involved in the rapture of the waltz.Genre: Solo Clarinet with...

This brilliant three-movement work shows the best of band music. Appropriate for contest or concert. Or, select one of the movements for your concert. Features an uplifting 1st movement, graceful 2nd movement, and a clever...

Genre: Band# of Players: Standard Level: 1.5

A catchy folk tune in a catchy arrangement, guaranteed to please your audience. Ideally scored by the master composer Michael Brand. Portsmouth has all the ingredients of a concert or contest opening march.Genre: Band | # of...

Inspired by the composer’s travels through Europe, Postcards depicts three European locations in an imaginative composition for winds and percussion. The first two movements depict specific locales while the third...

Come and enjoy the mountains! This flex band composition celebrates the area of Southwest Virginia, hidden in the Appalachian Mountains. Written to focus on articulation and blend, this piece will be a wonderful addition for...

Commissioned by a middle school band, Prairie Fire illustrates an ideal balance among woodwind, brass and percussion sections. the piece follows a logical music flow ideal for musicians enjoyment and listeners' appreciation...

With varied instrumental textures, exciting harmonic treatments, and sensitive use of percussion this suite of four of the most enduring cowboy songs of the old West is sure to be a concert highlight. A Prairie Songbook...

Originally published for brass band in 1949, Wilfred Heaton's festival march Praise is a classic example of his creativity and was rightly described as 'groundbreaking' when it first appeared in print. Using an old chorus...

Prayer & Canto beautifully conceived piece rich with melodic invention and harmonic color. The two sections of the work differ in intent with one being sacred and the other secular. They serve somewhat different roles in...

This curtain raiser sets a lively mood by bursting into a fanfare, followed by a short bouncing figure and a lively clarinet solo. Rhythmic bi-play, trombone glissandi and a light-hearted obbligato, all add to the merriment...

'La Traviata' has become one of Verdi's most performed and best loved works. The Prelude, with which the opera opens, offers a fine example of Verdi's delicacy of scoring and genuine imagination in his writing for the...

Wagner finished the first act of 'Tristan and Isolde' on the last day of 1857 and two years later he finished the entire opera. Yet it was not until 1865, after various disasters had prevented the piece being performed, that...

From the film "49th Parallel," this Prelude is a hymn in praise of freedom and mutual trust, which accompanies the film's prologue which is spoken over majestic shots of the Canadian Rockies. Osmon's orchestration retains...

Stately, elegant, and stimulating. Prelude in the Dorian Mode is a master work scored by a master composer. A wonderful piece to learn about how to balance continuously moving lines. It is the 'individualism' of Grainger's...