Partituras de Orquesta de viento de Manhattan Beach Music

Blue Goose Rag, a piano rag by Raymond Birch, arranged for concert band by Timothy Broege.

The discovery of the yellow metal at Sutter's Mill in California's Sacramento Valley in 1849 was only the beginning of subsequent gold-rushes to occur in the state. 'Gold-Rush Rag' was written to comm...

Charles Dickens certainly would have known the three carols in A CHARLES DICKENS CHRISTMAS. They were among the best-known and best-loved carols of the Victorian Era, and were a staple of the repertoi...

Charles Dickens certainly would have known the three carols in A CHARLES DICKENS CHRISTMAS. They were among the best-known and best-loved carols of the Victorian Era, and were a staple of the repertoi...

THE SHAKERS The Shakers were a religious sect who splintered from a Quaker community in the mid-1700's in Manchester, England. Known then derisively as 'Shaking Quakers' because of the passionate shak...

Canzon Primi Toni a8, from Gabrieli's 'Sacrae Symphoniae 'of 1597

Frank Ticheli Composition Contest Winner

Cajuns are descendants of the Acadians, a group of early French colonists who began settling in Acadia (now Nova Scotia) around 1604. In 1755 they were driven out by the British, eventually resettling...

A'bracadabra' was composed in the summer of 2004, and was orchestrated the following November during a residency at the MacDowell Colony. The piece is dedicated to my son, and is at once playful and s...

Composer's Notes Portrait of a Clown is in ABA form surrounded by an eight-bar introduction and coda: Introduction (beginning at measure '1') A (beginning at rehearsal letter 'A') B (beginning at rehe...

Background In 1992 I composed a concerto for traditional jazz band and orchestra, 'Playing' 'With' 'Fire', for the Jim Cullum Jazz Band and the San Antonio Symphony. That work was composed as a celebr...