Concert and Contest Band Music

Develop your ensemble's tone, phrasing, and overall musicianship with this beautifully lyrical work.

Learning notes of the chromatic scale has never been so exciting! Take your students on an adrenaline-filled thrill ride while reinforcing their technical skills. Fasten your seat belts and hold on!

A burst of sparkle and color! This dramatic concert opener brings musicality and excitement at an accessible level. Confidence and energy shine through with engaging textures and harmonies. A perfect start

Introduce or reinforce 6/8 time while portraying the Viking conquests! Using minimal rhythmic motivic material, this work creates an epic and cinematic soundscape. Students get to create the sounds of ocean

A beautiful lullaby that uses piano, mallet percussion, crotales, and a number of other combinations to create lush orchestrations that paint a picture of the innocence of a sleeping baby. The wide range of

This stately march will transport your students to the plains of North Dakota! While using a traditional march structure, this work incorporates contemporary orchestration and colorful percussion. Perfect

A blistering tempo with crisp percussion writing, lots of harmonic tension, and creative tone colors including muted brass are the backbone of this imaginative and fiery original work. Well scored for

Take your audience on a trip down the Pacific Coast Highway with this infectious work. Beginning with a subdued energy, the work quickly explodes into a flurry of grooves and textures that will make

Opening with a brief three-note motif, this work expands into an array of rhythmic flurries, intense melodies, and driving percussion that paint the image of a passion-filled blaze. Excellent scoring and

Solid melodic writing, intense driving rhythms, biting dissonances, powerhouse brass and percussion scoring along with sweeping woodwinds make this thrilling original work a whirlwind of force from start to

This fresh and innovative work uses a variety of textures and techniques that are unlike other works at this level. Colorful percussion, fresh harmonies, and evocative melodies depict volcanic activity that

Originally scored for brass and percussion, this dynamic fanfare has been rescored for the modern wind band, expanding the harmonic colors and textures. An excellent concert opener that will launch your

Written to portray the goddess of wisdom and knowledge, this fanfare is a bold and vigorous start to any concert program. Exquisite woodwind flourishes juxtaposed with fresh brass interjections create a

A celestial explosion of shooting stars! This work begins with a colorful flash of contemporary textures and driving rhythms. Moments of confidence pair beautifully with moments of light-earted charm.

You'll want to be sure to begin your next program with this vibrant concert opener that is both impressive and inspiring. The ecstatic opening material is followed by a series of sweeping melodic lines that

Instrumental colors abound in this emotionally moving memorial piece. Impressionistic passages float in and out of varied instrumental combinations, creating sonic palettes of pastel colors and swirling

This famous choral work has been transcribed for concert band and makes a wonderfully moving and profound lyric selection for concert programming.

Inspired by a vivid Civil War painting, lyrical passages and flowing lines are reminiscent of the American landscape. Contrasting with this are quick-paced sections that reflect the fiery orange sky that