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  • Pageant
    Pageant Vincent Persichetti Pageant was first performed at the American Bandmasters Association Convention in 1953 by the University of Miami Band with ...
  • Pas Redoublé
    Pas Redoublé Camille Saint-Saëns, Op. 86, transcribed for concert band by Arthur Frackenpohl This quickstep concert march (op. 86) is reminiscent of ...
  • Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor
    Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor (for organ, BWV 582) Johann Sebastian Bach / arr. Nicholas Falcone Passacaglia and Fugue in C ...
  • Passacaglia On An Old English Carol
    Passacaglia On An Old English Carol Robert Longfield Passacaglia On An Old English Carol is a set of variations ...
  • Patapan (Hanson)
    Patapan Shelley Hanson Patapan This traditional French Christmas carol about the birth of Jesus Christ is told from the perspective of ...
  • Pat-a-Pan (Longfield)
    Pat-a-Pan Bernard de la Monnoye/arr. by Chip Davis & Robert Longfield Pat-a-Pan is a traditional French Christmas carol about the birth of ...
  • Perpetuum Mobile
    Perpetuum Mobile Johann Strauss, Jr./arr. by Alfred Reed Perpetuum Mobile (“ A Musical Joke” ) This speedy polka is an example of ...
  • Peterloo Overture
    Peterloo Overture Sir Malcolm Arnold / arr. Charles Sayre Peterloo ...
  • Selections from "The Phantom of the Opera"
    Selections from The Phantom of the Opera Andrew Lloyd Webber / arr. Warren Barker  ...
  • Pictures at an Exhibition
    Pictures at an Exhibition Modest Mussorgsky/trans. Mark Hindsley Pictures at ...
  • Suite from the Ballet "Pineapple Poll"
    Suite from the Ballet Pineapple Poll Arthur Sullivan / arr. Charles Mackerras & W.J. Duthoit, A.R.C.M.  ...
  • Concert Suite from "The Polar Express"
    Concert Suite from The Polar Express Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard/arr. Jerry Brubaker Concert Suite from The Polar Express is a suite ...
  • Polka and Fugue from "Schwanda, the Bagpiper"
    Polka and Fugue from "Schwanda, the Bagpiper" Jaromir Weinberger/trans. Glenn C. Bainum  ...
  • Polonaise from “Christmas Night”
    Polonaise, from the Opera Christmas Night Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov/arr. W.J. Duthoit Polonaise from the Opera Christmas Night A Polonaise (French for "Polish”) is ...
  • Selections from Porgy and Bess
    Selections from Porgy and Bess George Gershwin This “folk” opera with music by George Gershwin was first performed in 1935. It tells the story of Porgy, ...
  • Porgy and Bess
    Porgy and Bess George Gershwin/arr. James Barnes This “folk” opera ...
  • Prelude and Fugue in B-flat Major
    Prelude and Fugue in B-flat Major Johann Sebastian Bach/arr. Roland Moehlmann The English term fugue , from the Latin fugere (“to flee”) ...
  • Prelude in E-flat Minor, Op. 34, No. 14
    Prelude in E-flat Minor, Op. 34, No. 14 Dmitri Shostakovich/trans. H. Robert Reynolds  ...
  • Prelude on Greensleeves
    Prelude on Greensleeves arr. James L. Hosay A traditional English ...
  • Prelude to "Richard III"
    Prelude to “Richard III” William Walton/arr. Paul Noble Prelude to “Richard III” was composed for a British film adaptation of Shakespeare's historical ...
  • Highlights from Promises, Promises
    Highlights from Promises, Promises Burt Bacharach Promises , Promises is a musical with music by Burt Bacharach , lyrics by Hal David and a book ...
  • Procession of the Nobles
    Procession of the Nobles Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov/arr. by Erik W.G. Leidzen Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) was a Russian composer noted for ...
  • Provence, from "Suite Française"
    Provence, from "Suite Française" Darius Milhaud Provence, from "Suite Française" The five parts of this suite are named after French provinces. ...
  • The Purple Pageant
    The Purple Pageant Karl King / ed. John Paynter The Purple Pageant was written by the legendary Karl King for Glenn Cliffe ...
  • Puerto Alegre
    Puerto Alegre William E. Rhoads Puerto Alegre (Port of Fun) is a beguine for band. A beguine is a dance, sim- ilar ...
  • Puszta
    Puszta Jan Van der Roost Puszta is a suite of gypsy-style dances in 1987. The title refers to a vast prairie in ...