Composed at while returning from a concert trip to Italy, this setting of the Latin hymn text was possibly heard for the first time on 21 March of 1767 at the Kloster Seeon in Bavaria. The vocal score offered here is a newly engraved one in a very easy-to-read and convenient format designed for choruses, carefully edited by Richard W. Sargeant, Jr

One of a series of liturgical works composed for the Salzburg Cathedral, the Offertorium de venerabili sacramento was first performed there on Ascension Day, 1776. With antiphonal double chorus and small orchestra, it harkens back to works of the baroque era. The vocal score offered here is newly engraved and specially formatted in an easy-to-read size for today's choruses. Editor Richard Sargeant has consulted all available sources to produce an authoritative edition.

Composed at while returning from a concert trip to Italy, this setting of the Latin hymn text was possibly heard for the first time on 21 March of 1767 at the Kloster Seeon in Bavaria. The score offered here is a newly engraved one, carefully edited by Richard W. Sargeant, Jr.

One of a series of liturgical works composed for the Salzburg Cathedral, the Offertorium de venerabili sacramento was first performed there on Ascension Day, 1776. With antiphonal double chorus and small orchestra, it harkens back to works of the baroque era. The score offered here is a newly engraved edition formatted in an easy-to-read convenient size. Editor Richard Sargeant has consulted all available sources to produce an authoritative edition complete with a continuo realization.

American impressionist composer Charles T. Griffes orchestrated the present piece, originally the first of his four "Roman Sketches" in 1919 for a ballet performance given in New York. The arrangement makes use of the full palette of orchestral color in a six-minute tone poem. The work has remained in the repertoire of orchestras to this day. The score presented here is a meticulously researched and newly engraved edition by Richard W. Sargeant, Jr.

Along with the "Benedictus, K. 117," this short work is among the earliest of Mozart's forays into liturgical music for the Salzburg cathedral, which would reach its culmination with masterpieces like the "Coronation Mass, K. 317" and the unfinished Mass, K. 427. This newly engraved and researched edition by Richard W. Sargeant has been carefully formatted for maximum useability by condcutors and students of this interesting and somewhat overlooked repertoire.

Composed in February of 1908, The Circus Bee was Fillmore's first march to be published after leaving his father's music publishing firm in 1905 - over differences about the suitability of band music (Fillmore Brothers was founded by his father and uncles as a publisher of religious music) and Henry's running off to marry the 'exotic dancer' Mabel May Jones and joining the Lemon Brothers Circus. By 1908, the composer returned to Cincinnati with his new wife, rejoined the family business and launched a career as a composer of band music whose popularity was exceeded only by that of Sousa. This...

This is a new collection of six Grainger classics arranged for wind octet - five of his unique folksong settings plus his pseudo-baroque dance Handel in the Strand. The ensemble of 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons and 2 horns is one with a history going back to the baroque era, and became extremely popular by Beethovens time. While Grainger never arranged the works selected here for the ensemble, he arranged them for all manner of instrumental combinations ranging from string quartet to full orchestra.


1. Country Gardens, BFMS 22

2. Spoon River, AFMS 1

3. Molly on the Shore,...