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¡Una aventura musical de variantes desgarradoramente contrastadas! Destellos de armonías aterradoras conducen este viaje lleno de suspense a través de una variedad de tonalidades. Algunas acrobacias m...

Se trata de una suite de tres movimientos que capta la pompa y la majestuosidad de la vida en un castillo real. El primer movimiento, La Corte del Rey, capta el ajetreo y el bullicio de la ajetreada c...

Temporal Shift lleva a su banda a un emocionante viaje en el que los cambios de compás, los cambios de tempo y las armonías cambiantes crean una sensación de movimiento constante. Un emocionante solo...

Explore la intersección de la naturaleza y el ingenio humano con A Niagara Portrait. Esta pieza representa las maravillas de la ingeniería y el esplendor natural del río Niágara y las cataratas Horses...

Originalmente llamada Paráfrasis de un coro de Judas Macabeo, esta transcripción de órgano a vientos y percusión es natural. La sonoridad de toda la banda es muy organística y todo el conjunto tiene v...

Composer Donald Coakley was asked, by the Pastor of St. William's Roman Catholic Church, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to write a hymn based on verses he had written about the parish's namesake. What...

This powerful and dramatic work makes an ideal contest piece. It is based on the legends The Fairy Ring from the Chippewa tribe and The Witch of the Mitche-hant from the Passamaquoddy. Both contain co...

This is an exciting work by composer Donald Coakley. The driving rhythms, lots of percussion and powerful melodic material make this an excellent choice for either concert or contest use. The beautifu...

This is the composer's orchestration of his choral work There is Sweet Music Here. The joyous outer movements, Song of the Laughing Green Woods and Piping Down the Valley's Wild, inspired by William B...

In the early morning of August 3rd 1492, Christopher Columbus went aboard the Santa Maria and gave the command to unfurl the sails. When the wind caught the sails, the three caravels were off and they...

Now The Morning Is Begun was commissioned to celebrate the 150th anniversary of St. Michael's College School, a private Catholic high school for boys in Toronto, Canada. This work is constructed aroun...

Overture to An Unscripted Movie was composed to pay homage to the orchestral scores written for Hollywood action/adventure films. The Overture is in four sections: The Hero, The Villain, The Love Them...

Suite on Canadian Folk Songs was written as a Centennial project in 1967 and originally scored for brass band, although the music of the first movement had appeared in Suite from the Monteregian Hills...

William Berczy is considered to be Canada's most important pre-Confederation artist. Mr. Cable has taken three of his paintings and set them to music. The first portrait is of the Woolsey family of Mo...

Masquerade was commissioned by the Hannaford Street Silver Band. This is a brass band whose personnel is composed top freelance musicians in Toronto, Canada. Mr. Coakley wanted to personalize the piec...

The Dragon King, China's first emperor, was crowned in 221 BC. He unified the various states throughout the country and led with an iron hand. His ambitions saw no boundaries. Some of the massive proj...

This five-minute work is an ideal concert or contest selection. After a slow opening, a driving rhythmic pulse takes over with the colors of the band being shown off with contrasting scoring. This pie...

In 1956, Howard Cable created Newfoundland Rhapsody, a collection of well-loved folk songs from eastern Canada. This brilliant montage has been performed hundreds of times by band all over the world....

Kingsmere Overture is an exciting and rhythmic piece by talented composer Ryan Meeboer. This work is divided into three main sections depicting the development of a career as a music educator: 'The Es...

Warren Barker chooses a beautiful Gershwin' ballad and gives it his own ethereal harmonic treatment in presenting this opportunity to feature a vocalist with your band (or a solo clarinetist, should y...

This spectacular piece, commissioned by the Markham District High School Wind Symphony, Bill Thomas conductor, is a large-scale dramatic work for concert band. Chromatic harmonies and dissonant interv...

This is a great piece by Donald Coakley. He has taken commonly used compositional techniques and developed them into a three movement work. He had this to say about the piece: All these components are...

Mahler is regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. There are very few arrangements of his brilliant music so this arrangement for band of his first symphony is quite significant. The mel...

Another exciting composition by an exciting Canadian composer. Donald Coakley wrote Cantos in the 1970s and has now corrected previous errors in print and altered some sections. The title Cantos deriv...

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel es un canto del siglo VIII o IX y este arreglo para metales, órgano y coro entrelaza hábilmente la melodía a través de los intérpretes y añade cantos por encima de la melodía...