"This modern work based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" tells the eerie story of a man confronted by a sinister bird, and his slow descent into utter madness. A haunting piano line starts the piece, surrounded by contemporary effects and textures. As the man becomes more irritated, the music picks up in tempo and becomes increasingly dissonant and violent until it erupts in a cacophony of chaos. Finally, the man "breaks," and the unsettling sounds of the opening piano return to conclude the piece. A truly dramatic work for band". These are the words of the composer.

It sends chills up your spine. The whole song the man is losing his mind but then at the end it's just a creepy stillness like he might not even know who he is anymore.

Man it's been like 9 years since I played this in middle school and it STILL slaps

played the saxophone solo in this, it gave me chills just listening to the sounds my sax was making

Also played The Great Locomotive Chase... Love that

1 person shall live NEVERMORE!

Man the trombone glissandos... felt so happy when I got the sheet music and saw them marked on there cx

I'm a tenor sax and me and the rest of the low voices dominate at measure 80 😈

Clarinet, alto sax, and bass clarinet solo at the end is 10/10

IVE NEVER HEARD THE 2ND TRUMPET PART THIS CLEARLY. I had 1st on this and wow, this trumpet section is killer.

ha, all these people with 1st chair parts from the clarinet and alto sax sections. anyway, greetings from a bari sax player. (the only one in our band...)

We're playing this for our high school advanced band. I have the piano part and I'm super excited!!

Trombones go crazy right before the final piano conclude

I play clarinet in my band, but I'm playing the piano part for our concert this spring. :)))

Ahh, yess😍😍😍 were playing this for our Halloween concert alone with Tell-tale heart and Primordium😍 playing the clarinet is the best 😍

I played this about a year ago in eighth grade with my Wind Ensemble band. One of my favorite pieces to play and listen to...

I got the piano part at my Highschool and I'm a freshman I'm so happy : )

I played this my seventh grade year on trumpet and it was so fun; I am now a freshman. It brings back memories too 😍

I am honored to play this masterpiece. The ending always brings me chills.

Haunting. Just haunting.

Just got started on this for the 10th grade band. shout out for the trombones

I played this my 7th grade year it was really cool. Clarinets rock!!!

That clarinet chromatic part at 3:35 is the hardest part I think 😂 in our band, this is only our second year playing, we aren't that great at 16th notes yet, but we can play them!, so the clarinets it's pretty much end up not playing that part because its so hard😂

This song is so mysteriously beautiful it just gives me chills

Played this at ETSBOA Blue band, first chair clarinet, truly an amazing song. Sent chills down my spine, and still does. Probably one of my favorite songs ive had the honor to preform in.

playing this in band T^T can't wait to see what the flute part looks like

My sister played this in her band recently, and it was my favorite piece of music they played. So I'm glad I found this here!

I was sitting in the auditorium while my school band practiced this piece... I couldn't stop listening. I got chills and just felt so enthralled. I adore music like this

This is such an awesome piece!! Im obsessed with Poe’s famous “The Raven” this is my favorite band song I’ve heard yet! Fabulous!!!

Back in my senior year of high school, my student teacher was choosing a piece to direct. She chose this one but was unsure about it because of the difficult percussion parts. My band director responded, "Jay is a really good timpani player." If if wasn't for my expert skills on that instrument, this piece wouldn't be possible for my school's band at the time and ended my senior year on a high note. I would not see my student teacher again until this year in college marching band. Thank you for making this possible and putting your trust into my good hands for the rest of the percussion!

I love this piece were playing it for out fall band concert ! Can't wait

Played the piano for this my freshman year. God it was amazing. I miss this piece.

Using this song for a piano audition, it's so creepy and I love it!

This takes me back to senior playing this and getting all ones... I miss band something bad

why is this under auto snd vehicles?!

I remember playing this peice in my class, I played a bunch of stuff on it. if I can remember correctly I played wind chimes, suspended cymbal and timpani

Playing 1st horn for this, it's so fun I love how Erie this piece can get.

Our bad teacher gave this song to us on Halloween. We decided to rehearse it. When we played through the whole song, we looked up and he disappeared. Then the bell rang for 7th period

I loved played this part. I participated in a festival and this was one of my favorite pieces that we played.

We played this song last year and I fell in love with this song. This song is my favorite piece out of all the songs I have played

Awesome! Can't wait to play it this year! (:

Bro there’s no way we get to play this at my school RIGHT AFTER I MOVEEEE 😭😭😭

My band just performed this piece along with Annabelle Lee and The Heart of Madness. Needless to say our concert was kickass

I play the flute, I got the flute solo along with my other flute buddy and we are so excited to play it in our concert next week

Just played this in band, was a joy to play

God I played this song my 8th grade year and I loved this song it sounded so amazing

I’m in 8th grade band bassoon and I’m resting for legit 40 measures 😢

I'm so excited to play this for our fall concert!!

I played this in middle school and we had the LA teacher reciting the raven during it and it slaps so hard.

This song was so fun to play. I miss High School Wind Ensemble

sophomore clarinet player here, super excited to start this piece

Playing this in band! I’m the timpanist :) I love this piece, I’m sat in front of the brass and I just love their solo

Why does everybody have to announce that they're playing this?

Performing this in middle school honor band tomorrow. I play Mallet Percussion Tubular Bells, Glockenspiel, and Xylophone.

I'm playing this with the high school band and the alto sax part is awesome! One of the only pieces we've played were we have the melody for more then 5-7 measures

Played for Halloween concert in 8th grade. Ahhhhh, memories

I'm playing this for my band concert next year!!!

1st alto! So fun :D

What if you wanted to see your wife in heaven but the quoth the raven “Nevermore”

I play saxophone and just the sheer speed gets me riled up and I feel like I could do anything

this piece is beautiful to listen to and fun to play at first but when you play it for months is gets old.

Sophomore pianist for this song. Having so much fun with all the solos!!!!!

Wish we can play it for a marching season

Let me tell you, the 1st flute part at the end there is a nightmare to play. Even so, i still absolutely adore this song (probably because edgar allan poe is one of my favorite authors).

this was our opener this year in marching band

playing alto sax 2 for this piece for our next concert i love it

Its fun when I am the only trumpet and I'm on third... I play really loud so that was fun... Love this song

doing this song for seating (measures 88-96) I love it.

Starting this piece in concert band! I'm super stoked but I have 1st clarinet and it's super hard!

Hyped to play the sax solo in this

This piece is the reason I absolutely fell in love with trumpet, I hated baritone so much, but in this song it wasn’t that bad, the resonance was great, then when the alto sax, clarinets, and flutes play that graceful part around 2:20 and then the trumpets come in.... TOTAL DECIMATION... trumpets overpower everything with their strong and demanding sound and uhhh they are by far the best part, this song is incredible, the haunting sounds, leading into the powerful clear sounds of trumpets just make it the best.. I love this song it’s the reason I got interested in band really

My band is playing this song and I’m very excited

I just danced to this 10/10 music

Playing this at wibc!

Played this in ninth grade symphonic band, god those were the days. Still my favourite piece ever and damn was that flute part hard back then!

My band is playing this song and I have third part And it’s hard for me Rip

We played this song at contests and our marimba player dropped and chimes so we didn't have a good tempo change. Later in the song we almost fell apart. But at the end. Our gong player waked that thing and it's still ringing to this day.

playing 3rd trombone on this. I love playing this one. It's so cool sounding.

played this last year as a Freshman love this song

Playing this song for festival this year with the trombone 1 part so much fun but my mouthpiece is almost always stuck by the end 😂

I miss middle school band so much

Well, our band conductor told us to watch the music. Follow the notes. He tapped the music stand 20 times to get the beat in our heads. Then we just played.

Playing this for band (I play alto sax) and I really hope I get one of the solos, wish me luck!!!

Sounds amazing and love the low end of this song

Hooray for tubas

I know this was in 2013, but it's 2017 and we're playing this and I think it sounds rlly cool

Bruh the switching time signature is screwing my brain over

I like this version, but second trumpet is totally high-jacking the part. Secons trumpet is totally hiding the first trumpet.

playing this in band currently, kinda pog sounding unlike most songs we get.

This song is of course difficult for younger students. I loved this song when we played it for our Spring Concert. I still love it, and play it all the time.

This was amazing we played it 2 days ago.

Bass clarinet baby! ✌️

Playing this at a Festival. I love the tempo change. A solid 160 beats per minute

Pure genius

Goaltending the flugelhorn solo in my concert this year

Somone please tell me why our band director picked a different song that this for our festival when this was obviously the better of the two... it grabs attention and it sounds amazing

We played this one for our fall concert and we said parts of the poem during the song

Tuba FTW!

Playing this in my spring concert as euphonium, but I also have the bass clarinet solo at the end! I honestly love this year’s choice of songs, the high school songs are always the best

I'm playing this as 1st clarinet for middle school band.