Scherzo Capricioso

Scherzo Concertante - Reinhard Summerer

Scherzo Di Concerto - Jerzy Sapieyevski

Scherzo Fantastique Excerpts - J Suk

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Scherzo for Band - Luís Cardoso

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Scherzo for X-Wings - John Williams

From the blockbuster film Star Wars: The Force Awakens this exciting music is featured in the climactic battle scene with our heroes and their X-wing fighters. A dynamic tour de force for mature bands.

Scherzo from Symphony No. 5 - Dmitri Shostakovich

The second movement of Shostakovich's masterful and subversive Fifth Symphony, written as his career as a composer in communist Russia teetered in the balance, could suggest a barely literate composer from the Bureau of Artists coming to the great Shostakovich to demonstrate, through a most grotesque dance, how simple it is to compose great music under the Soviet System. This transcription of the Scherzo movement was produced by Mark Rogers, who also transcribed the complete symphony. In the transcription of the complete work, all of the music remains in the original key, while in this publication, the second movement is transposed down a whole tone to G minor. Other than the transposition and the removal of some of the more rarely found instruments (E flat clarinet, contrabassoon and harp), the music is intact, and represents the composer's intentions in every way. Conductors who choose to perform this piece will introduce their players to this important voice in Twentieth Century music and bring major issues about political life and its impact on creative life to their students in the most relevant fashion.

Scherzo Furioso - Jordan Gudefin

Scherzo Symphonique

Scherzo: Cat and Mouse - Robert Spittal

The "cat and mouse chase" has been a part of folklore and popular culture since the time of pharaohs in ancient Egypt. Over the ages, the chase has served as a metaphor for the suspenseful and sometimes alternating relation between hunter and hunted. In the modern age, the story has been played out hundreds of times in popular animated cartoons, often accompanied by a musical score representing the energetic spirit of the chase with lively twists and turns, sudden surprises and tongue-in-cheek music. In this spirit of playfulness and suspense, Robert Spittal has created a marvelous work that is both entertaining and exhilarating.