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David Ahrens
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Composer/Arranger, Horn Teacher, Retired Band Director, MGB Enthusiast, Homesteader

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FREE SHEET MUSIC!

School Band Directors:

Today my new three-movement piece for band, “Empyrean Manifest”, is available for purchase from my website - & will soon be available at JW Pepper, Sheet Music Direct, etc.

www.sounded.us/baseline/shop/

Continue reading in image to request sheet music.
September 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Here is my recently completed 3-movement suite for #WindBand: "Empyrean Manifest". A day of dramatic storytelling in the #sky.

I. Daybreak
II. Battle Cry
III. Glory

I hope you enjoy!

#NewMusic #Composition #ConcertBand #WindEnsemble #sunrise #thunder #sunset

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"Empyrean Manifest" for Wind Band, by David Ahrens
YouTube video by Baseline Music
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June 17, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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"Alabaster Wool" is a piece I wrote 2 years ago for advanced #SATB #Choir & #Piano. It sets the poem "It Sifts from Leaden Sieves" by #EmilyDickinson
If you enjoy it, please let me know if the comments. Thanks!
#Snow

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"Alabaster Wool" by David Ahrens - SATB Choir and Piano
YouTube video by Baseline Music
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March 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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"Reconfigure Eights" is a piece I wrote for #concertband last year. It's built nearly all using #AsymetricalMeter, giving a sense of #PerpetualMotion.
Give it a listen & comment if you like it! Thanks
#WindBand #Momentum #MusicEd #MusicEducation youtu.be/Zd7dveXHWNE?...
"Reconfigure Eights" by David Ahrens - Wind Band
YouTube video by Baseline Music
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March 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Here is a #preview of movement II of my new piece for #WindBand: Empyrean Manifest. This is II. Battle Cry
I hope you enjoy it. More coming soon! #MusEdChat #MusicEd #ConcertBand #NewMusic #Composition

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Empyrean Manifest: II. Battle Cry, by David Ahrens
YouTube video by Baseline Music
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March 3, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Here's a preview of the first movement of my new piece for band "Empyrean Manifest". The idea is that this piece will tell the story of the sky. This first movement "Daybreak" is, predictably, about sunrise. #ConcertBand #MusicEd #composition #NewMusic

I hope you enjoy!
February 14, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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I love the morning.

#sunrise #beauty
January 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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My current #composition projects for #WindBand:

"Bear Fight": an aggressive piece feat. low brass.

"Discombobulate": a mechanistic rhythmic groove created before introducing a musical "wrench" & observing the aftermath.

"Empyrean Manifest": a lyrical, impressionistic piece with modal harmonies.
January 12, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Repost to fix YouTube link:

I am excited to share the premiere performance of my new #concertband piece for #Christmas

This is the Sheridan College Symphony #Band performing “Merry! Don’t You Know?”
at our concert last Friday.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=a1pz...

#composition #newmusic #MusEdChat
Holiday Swing, Fall '24
YouTube video by Sheridan College Department of Music
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January 12, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Reposted by David Ahrens
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In freezing ❄️ cold weather in Idyllwild 🌲 playing “Yardbird Suite” way too fast with Casey Abrams 😂🥲🎻😇 #CharlieParker #JazzViolin
December 6, 2024 at 12:46 AM
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Great thread!
lisaneher.bsky.social Lisa Neher @lisaneher.bsky.social · Dec 5
'Tis the season for calls for scores, so 'tis the season for some #RealTalk about the impact your well-intended call is having on composers.

Ensembles: thank you for being interested in new music, and in discovering composers you aren't familiar with yet.
December 5, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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Bill Clinton pardoned George Clinton, after the coup that allowed him to take over Parliament, and we said nothing
December 4, 2024 at 2:07 PM
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Asking a 6th grade oboe student yesterday what dolce means (sweetly) and she says “very demure, very mindful” and I died 💀
December 3, 2024 at 3:34 PM
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Working on finishing my 1st original piece for #concertband - started in about 2008 & shelved. Inspired by a harrowing adventure w/ my family over the Sawtooth Mountains of northern #Idaho when I was about 12. #musedchat
#newmusic
#musiced
#composition
#SawtoothPassage
Featuring #horns & #timpani
December 1, 2024 at 8:39 PM
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Some quality snow play for Brownie.
November 25, 2024 at 12:36 AM
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Good morning!
November 24, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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Sky's always gotta be so dramatic, sheesh!
November 23, 2024 at 11:15 PM
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I love the color contrasts!
#snow #sunrise
November 19, 2024 at 7:50 PM
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But the fire is so delightful...
November 19, 2024 at 2:12 AM
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New arrangement in time for TubaChristmas!
"You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch"
for 2 Euphoniums & 2 Tubas (or larger ensemble).

#NewMusic #SheetMusic #Christmas #DrSeuss #TubaChristmas #BrassEnsemble #LowBrass #Tuba #Euphonium #MusicEd

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"You're A Mean One, Mr Grinch" - Euphonium/Tuba Ensemble arrangement by David Ahrens
YouTube video by Baseline Music
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November 18, 2024 at 7:50 PM
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Excited to have just premiered my new piece for Wind Band "Reverie" with the Sheridan College Symphony Band on Wednesday. Enjoy! (sheet music available, if interested)

youtube.com/watch?v=Q6_M...

#musedchat #bandmusic #concertband #newmusic #windband #highschoolband #sheetmusic
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November 2, 2024 at 6:00 PM
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October sale on all of my #band & #choir #sheetmusic starting now! Including my new #Christmas piece for #windband "Merry! Don't You Know?"

Come visit & give them a listen! Thanks :)
sounded.us/baseline/shop/

#concertband #holiday #hsband #collegeband #musedchat #banddirector
September 21, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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Kid 2.1 may have met his match!

#chickens #homestead #backyardchickens
June 4, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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Absolutely incredible performance by the United States Air Force 'Airmen of Note' jazz band this afternoon. Such a treat!
#JazzSky
May 6, 2024 at 1:01 AM
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I had the honor of conducting the premiere of my "American West Folk Suite" with the Sheridan College Symphony Band in Sheridan, Wyoming.
#musedchat #musiceducation
#WindBand #ConcertBand #NewMusic #BandMusic
April 3, 2024 at 1:36 AM