Vanguard

Vanguard is an energetic piece that shifts between dynamic brass fanfare gestures and sweeping melodic lines. With his experience as a music educator, composer Chris Bernotas consistently provides bands with bold and beautiful compositions that lift the energy of all who play and hear his pieces. Vanguard is the perfect concert opener for your next concert.

Variations on a Sailing Song

Variations on A Sailing Song is a vigorous, lively sea chanty that should be played with gusto & enthusiasm. Carl Strommen has composed a set of playable variations on this famous theme that will be perfect to highlight your band's skills at a contest or festival.

Veni, Veni Emmanuel

Already one of the most popular choral settings in the Carl Fischer Music catalog, Michael John Trotta's setting of Veni, Veni Emmanuel has now been skillfully transcribed by James Meredith for band. Trotta's setting of this seminal carol juxtaposes the old and new together in a refreshingly different approach to the song. The piece can work with band alone or with the popular choral setting. It is sophisticated enough for high school groups to put together quickly and can also work well with middle school groups.

Venture

Venture is an exciting overture-style composition for concert band. A venture is an undertaking involving uncertainty and the possibility of risk or danger. The music reflects this definition and has many of the qualities of great film music. Powerful when needed and sensitive at times to provide contrast, the cumulative result is a dramatic addition to concert band literature. One of Sean O'Loughlin's best to date!

Victory

Victory and Celebration

Vigor

Full of spirit and life, this expansive work features marvelous dialogue among the sections of the band. Somewhat Coplandesque in style, it has vigorous percussion parts that add lots of punch! This is an especially effective concert opener!

Vires, Artes, Mores

This work is a three-part composition based on the Latin words meaning Strength, Skill, and Character. The piece opens with a poignant fanfare depicting the strength of the modern concert band, which is followed by a fast-paced section, meant to demonstrate the performers' skills. The third section of the work is an uplifting theme designed to depict character. After moving back to the skill theme in a new key, it builds to a dramatic climax, followed by a short coda that bursts to the finish. Ideal for concert or contest.

Virgo

Virgo is a lush and dramatic piece for concert band that reflects upon lost loved ones. In the case of the composer, the piece is in remembrance of his late brother whose astrological sign was Virgo. It is an emotional harmonic journey with well-placed dissonance tied together by a memorable motive. Musically, this piece is beautiful, emotive, and will stretch your young musicians to strive for musical elegance.

Visigoths

This piece is already one of Sean O'Loughlin's most successful, and it is now available in our new series of pieces with flexible instrumentation. It can be performed with as few as five players and percussion. This bold and aggressive piece will make any band sound good and with the five-part set-up of the scoring, you can overcome any instrumentation deficiencies. Check out the full recording, but also sample the excerpted recording that gives you an idea of how good this piece can sound, even with a very small ensemble.