About Us

Thorp Music is an Australian print music publishing company. Thorp Music arrangements and compositions are written with the music educator in mind. The charts utilise progressive musical concepts without compromising on entertainment value.

Thorp Music currently publishes works by 11 different arrangers and composers in their respective areas of expertise:- Joan Thorp, Mike Butcher, Martin Anderson, Frank Holdforth, Peter Corkill, Wei Cai Zhang, Dr Barry Bignell, Greg Butcher, Roger Downton, Elaine Johnson and Adrian Hallam. Our writers are accredited and affiliated with organisations such as The Australian Music Teachers Association (MTA), The Australian Band and Orchestra Directors Association (ABODA), The Music Arrangers Guild of Australia (MAGA), Australian Music Centre (AMC), Trinity College London, Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Australian Society of Musicology & Composition (ASMC), the Fellowship of Australian Composers (FAC) and The Orchestras of Australia Network (TOAN).

Sheet music categories include Concert Band (Wind Orchestra, Wind Symphony), Jazz Ensemble (Stage Band, Big Band, Jazz Combo), Flexible Ensemble (Classroom Ensemble, Mixed Ensemble, Quartets, Quintets), String Orchestra (String Ensemble, Chamber Orchestra) and Guitar Ensemble. Some of our more popular titles include, "Happy (from "Despicable Me 2")", “Mah Na Mah Na”, “Let’s Get Loud”, "Funky Town”, “I Got You (I Feel Good)”, “Moondance”, “I’m a Believer”, “The Fabulous Village People" (medley) and “Sway”.

Original Australian compositions, classical works and traditional Christmas titles are also available to choose from.

Our fun and exciting charts are available World-wide through popular retail music stores, mail-order and online.

 

AUSTRALIAN MUSIC FOR CONCERT BAND

GRADE 1

Volcano!
Kung Fu
Waltzing Matilda
Advance Australia Fair
The Sword of Destiny
Cops and Robbers
Snake Charmer
Stadium Rock

GRADE 1.5
The Unknown Soldier
Australian Medley No.1
Australian Medley No.2
Blew Bottle Blues
A Brown Slouch Hat
Haunted
Swinging Saxes
The Clarinets Polka
Advance Australia Fair
Waltzing Matilda

GRADE 2
I Still Call Australia Home
Space Quest
Transylvanian Dances
Carnival Capers

GRADE 2.5
Liquorice Allsorts

GRADE 3
Starlight
Captain Thunderbolt
Exuberance
Jazzin' Around
Ragtime Square
You're the Voice
Chookas

GRADE 4
Phaeton
The Man from Snowy River
Kurrajong
Music for a Jubilant Occasion
A Centivintennial Overture

GRADE 5
Surfonic Winds
Parapet Crenellations
Kangaroo Hill