Concert and Contest Band Music

This creative work is full of adventure and excitement, conjuring vivid images of dragons, castles, and other legendary creatures. With impressive writing influenced by dramatic film scores, this epic

A lively piece depicting a traditional dance from Spain, this is a great way to introduce this style to younger players with its varied articulations and traditional Spanish instruments such as castanets. A

An Oriental atmosphere is created by the floating melodies of this exotic piece. In the opening, a long, sensitive melodic line emerges, supported by Western-style harmonies. Just as a dainty

Lush with a beautiful simplicity best describes this touching original ballad. It's important that students play sensitive and melodic music like this in order to improve their expressive playing and

The contemplative opening measures set the mood, depicting the dawn of a new day. As time passes and the day progresses, the music picks up momentum, quickly launching into a spirited adventure full of

Taken from Arnold's Little Suite for Brass, Op. 80, John Paynter's splendid arrangement retains the breezy, folk-like quality of the original. Solos highlight the siciliano while the technical

Representing the hope that we can all live with peaceful thoughts, this expressive ballad lets younger ensembles work on the essential skills of legato style, listening across the ensemble, and developing

This is aptly subtitled as it is indeed a major work of substantial content in a two-movement setting. Using the hymn Give Us This Day, Maslanka has constructed a work both expressive and powerful

This excellent teaching vehicle for beginning band shows how musical modes can change the overall character of a piece of music. An effective piece that will have your beginning band students sounding their

This hauntingly beautiful composition featuring beautiful original and traditional melodies with lush harmonic construction lets performers experience and learn about expressive playing in minor keys. With

Zombies are all the craze, showing up in movies on television, and in this Latin original, on the dance floor.  It's a clash of two worlds, the stylish and elegant tango being danced by two gruesome

After a lush opening with a touch of sentimentality, the music heads off into a carefree journey with a bouncy bass line and jaunty air. The opening material reappears at times, serving as a musical

During the winter, large storms occur from time to time. These storms can be dangerous and beautiful at the same time. This piece starts off fast, dark, and furious, then moves into a lighter mood during

An ominous opening introduces the mysterious Terracotta Army that guards the tomb of China's first emperor. The texture and style of the evocative music breaths life into these towering clay figures

This musical work is based on an old traditional spiritual, God Put a Rainbow in the Clouds. The full ensemble introduces the work, then woodwinds and brass take turns presenting the lyric

The sounds of Native American tribes are quite evident in this evocative work. Quiet percussion are featured in the quiet and brief introduction, before the quickly moving dance-like material takes

This composition takes players back to earlier times when neighboring tribes would communicate with each other not by racing through the dense jungle or harsh desert but by using drums. With an interesting,

A musical depiction of being able to fly like a bird to see loved ones and friends, this lyrical composition features soaring melodic lines and intertwined countermelodies. Delicate percussion helps to

Step right up ladies and gentlemen and see the exotic, the strange, and the magical! The title of this original march means "circus of the strange" - it's written in the standard march form but sounds

March style is a very important part of band heritage and this well written original allows the youngest musicians to perform it with great results. Using only the first six notes of the B flat scale and