Japanese Pictures - Kevin Mixon

Japanese Pictures draws inspiration from both traditional and modern Japanese music. The harmonies are western as suggested by the accompanying melodies, and the percussion is styled to give the sounds of a taiko drum ensemble. Young bands will find this piece intriguing and different. Use this work as part of your multi-cultural approach to teaching music appreciation. Also a good choice for contest or festival performance.

Japanese Suite - Gustav Holst

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Japanese Tune - Soichi Konagaya

Japanese sounds, pentatonic scales, throbbing drums and (for Western wind orchestras something quite new), glissandi on the double-reed instruments. The fact that Molenaar's Editions for wind-orchestra are now sold worldwide has a reciprocal effect. Composers from countries such as Japan are gratified to see their work appearing in our lists of new publications. We consider ourselves fortunate that we have been able to publish this 'Japanese Tune', as we are convinced that it will exercise a refreshing new influence on the wind-music repertoire.Technically speaking, the opening section with its shrill glissandi is the most difficult. In the percussion, use can be made of the various Japanese Drums, but these can easily be replaced by Tom-Tom, Cymbals, Sleighbell, etc. etc.

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Japanese War March - Eric Rath

Jaquet-Droz - Emile De Ceuninck

Jardin Secret - Jérôme Naulais

Jargon - After William Billings - Fisher Tull

Jaromir Vejvoda Portrait 1

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Jaromir Vejvoda Portrait 2

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Jasmine Flower