LudwigMasters Wind Solo & Small Ensemble Sheet Music

Bruce Broughton's Sonata for Tuba and Piano remains a perennial favorite, as does Beryl Rubenstein's Sonata for Flute and Piano. Teachers keep returning to Floyd Harris's Competition Solos series at grade 1.5, which offer accessible material that still sounds polished in performance. Ralph Vaughan Williams's folk song arrangements for clarinet and Reinhold Gliere's Four Pieces for Horn round out the staples.

Alan Shulman's Rendezvous for Clarinet and String Quartet appeared in May 2026, offering a fresh chamber option that pairs clarinet with strings. Karl King's Mournful Maggie for trombone and band, along with a Bach Concerto for piccolo or oboe published this summer, give you novelty and baroque substance in one recent window.

Floyd Harris has 20 titles in this collection, anchored by the Competition Solos series at grade 1.5. His work is steady, unadorned, and designed for students who need material that doesn't oversell itself. Edmund J. Siennicki brought a lifetime of compositional discipline to these solos. Born in Cleveland and influenced by a conversation with Paderewski at age 12, Siennicki studied at Kent State and Columbia, earning recognition from his alma mater as a Distinguished Alumnus. His Happy Song for cornet and piano shows up often in teaching studios. Camille Saint-Saëns rounds out the masters here with 19 titles, including the popular Cavatine, Op. 144, which gives students a taste of French salon style. George Frideric Handel's 13 arrangements (including Thrice Happy the Monarch for tuba and piano) bridge baroque and modern pedagogy.