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This is exhilarating! With Heart & Voice begins with a feeling of reticence and apprehension, and works through many emotions, finally growing into celebration with joyful and dramatic exuberance. What better way to...

With My Swag is based on the Australia folk tune "With my swag all on my shoulder." The tune itself has origins in Ireland and America before its apparent migration to Australia. This setting has a lively rhythmic opening, a...

An age of peace, of reason and understanding, is heralded in this work for elementary band. This new age starts 'with trumpets sounding.'Genre: Elementary Band Series | # of Players: Standard Level: 1 | Duration: 2:05...

With Wings Like Eagles is a ceremonial march that offers an alternative to the traditional processional for graduation or other ceremonial occasion. The writing is scored to allow for breaks from playing, especially in the...

With You captures and celebrates the essence of the ensemble experience: making music with one another. A somber setting evolves into soaring melodies to invite musicality and expression, while providing challenges for...

Wombat Shuffle is a bouncy, toe-tapping piece for young bands. The music is moderate swing style with bright melodies and rhythmic accompaniment.Genre: Young Band Series | # of Players: Standard Level: 2 | Duration: 2:55...

Wonder attempts to capture the feeling of being filled with awe, a feeling of amazement or to simply marvel at something beautiful, remarkable, or interesting.Genre: Band | # of Players: Standard Series: Young Band Series ...

In Wonderworld, the band enters into a mysterious and colorful world of circuses and fairgrounds. However, life is not just “bread and circuses;” in the middle of the piece there is time for the darker sides of...

2017-18 J.W. Pepper Editor's Choice Selection This free setting of the hymn song “What Wondrous Love Is This” focuses on the variety of tonal colors and instrumental textures possible with the wind band. While...

Woodland Serenade & Rondo is a 6-minute concerto, crafted to spotlight not only a fine saxophone soloist, but also to give a director the opportunity to feature other outstanding solo wind players in the ensemble.Genre:...

World Dances, by Stephen Roberts, is a suite of four dances, each with a distinctive rhythmic character. It is designed to be easy, but enjoyable, to play and was originally commissioned by the National Schools Band...

Recall the days of waiting on the modem? The opening of www.winds.com imitates the tones and burbling noises of a modem or fax. A lovely ballad follows before quickly returning to the previous material.Genre: Band | # of...

Yankee Doodle Bandy is a theme and variations on the familiar tune, but with a twist. Throughout the piece melodies from classic band literature – some well known and others less so – provide interludes and...

Ye Banks and Braes O’ Bonnie Doon is a Grade 3, well-suited for the mature junior high or high school band. The opening 16 bars of this well-known setting of Percy Grainger’s have been re-scored for the mallet...

Ye Merry Fantasy is a clever theme and variations on the Christmas carol “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” that takes the listener on a journey through several iterations of the popular tune, each shining a...

The Young Masters' Concert is designed to be played when your students are half way through book 1 of their band method. It is written to be method book inclusive, as far as possible, and to allow for the band to play a full...