Halloween Concert Band Music

First-year players will love performing this bold and heroic work at their first concert. Using the first few notes in most beginning band methods, this will be easy to prepare and a pleasure to perform.

Humorous and most assuredly tongue in cheek, this quirky original offers cross-cued solo opportunities for bassoon, flute, clarinet, alto saxophone, and tuba. A wide array of percussion instruments gives

While fun to play and hear, this spooky and creative composition will also reinforce playing 6/8 compound meter. Colorful harmonies add to the eerie mood that will pique the interest and imagination of your

Mysterious and intriguing ghost lights, also known as "will-o'-the-wisps" and "spook lights," have been reported around the world. The same air of mystery and suspense that surrounds these eerie events

This fun and playfully spooky tune covers a wide variety of musical concepts. Some vocalizations and the use of a flexatone highlight this beginning band gem. Only the standard first six notes are used. An

Written for the advanced concert band, this masterpiece of cinematic scoring, complete with creepy incantations spoken in Latin, will have you expecting a film to go along with it. Unique percussion scoring

Programmatic and haunting, this work provides a nice change of pace for your next concert or festival. Nosferatu was the title of an unauthorized adaptation of the 1897 novel

This vividly imaginative work transcends the zombie genre. Extremely well-written, it can be used as a serious concert/festival work. Or, emphasize the horror elements and encourage your students to dream

Everyone gets to contribute to the spooky atmosphere of this creative piece for your youngest ensembles. Surprisingly rich-sounding despite only using six notes, this work also provides additional effects

Legends and folklore tell scary tales of a bridge guarded by a gruesome troll that lives beneath. This work takes the listener on a scary journey alone at night down a road that crosses a stream with an old

Spiders can bring fear to the hearts of many people of all ages, and with the creepy-crawly rhythms, hair-raising dissonances, and staccato movement is this piece, you can bring it to your audiences!

"Skulduggery" means underhanded, unscrupulous behavior or trickery, and that's exactly what this piece expresses musically. It contains musical twists and turns that will be intriguing for performers and

Hinting at the possibility of visitors from another world coming to earth in ancient times, this musical adventure for second-year players takes the listener on an adventure filled with excitement and

The third movement from "The Soul Has Many Motions," this delightful work begins quietly, like a specter taking shape from a cloud of mist.  Soon, the music begins swirling, changing to a

This work was written to depict the witch hunts that took place in the Salem Village of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1692. With powerful dissonant harmonies and pulsating rhythms, you can almost hear the

Capture the spooky, yet joyous spirit of Halloween with this clever work. The intriguing sounds alternate between the dark and foreboding music in the opening to a light and quirky melody that captures the

This musical narrative tells the story of an automaton engineered to have human-like traits. Robotic themes and a mechanical melody bring the android's story to life through the creative and