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£122.20Stjernen og Rosa (The Star and a Rose) (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Hannevik, John Philip
The Star and a Rose is a big-scale Christmas piece for band, featuring four seasonal chorales.The first is a Gregorian-like chant Hodie Christus natus est.In this section of the piece, a soloist can be placed away from the band, maybe on a gallery. The soloist can be a tenor instrument, maybe trombone, or you can feature a vocal soloist. After this, the music leads us on to the old German Christmas chorale Lo, how a rose e'er blooming. This song is given a fairly rhythmical treatment, but make sure that the melody is presented in a cantabile style. An interlude follows, before the piece presents one of the most used and loved Scandinavian Christmas chorales, Mitt hjerte alltid vanker (My Heart will always wander), composed by the Danish bishop Hans Adolph Brorson around 1732. This song is building towards a climax, before the solo horn brings it all down to the Stable view described in the lyrics. Then comes a transition that brings us in to the final section of the piece, which presents the international Christmas Carol Adeste Fideles. As many will notice, I have borrowed a section from David Wilcocks majestic harmonization towards the end.The title of the piece has its background form the lyrics in My heart will always wander, where the text speaks about the stars in the sky. But also in the Latin text for Adeste Fideles: Stella duce, Magi, Christum adorantes. The Rose is of course from the lyrics in the chorale Lo, how a Rose.Duration: 10.30
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£140.50
Holiday Portraits
If you are looking for a challenging Christmas piece that is well worth the effort, look no further then this magnum opus from composer/arranger Sean O'Loughlin. You will hear a potpourri of Christmas favorites cleverly weaved together with snippets of symphonic music favorites. Try to spot the tributes to Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Gershwin, Bartok and even Bernstein along the way. This piece is ideal as an opener or closer for your holiday concert.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£50.50Pat-A-Pan
"Pat-a-Pan" is a very rustic Christmas piece that is set in a round beginning with two clarinets and adding a solo flute and trumpet. The percussive "drone" parts add a distinct colour to this piece. The round builds to a glorious climax giving way to an odd duet pair---the tubas! The piece ends how it began, quietly with a rustic flare. (2:20)
Estimated dispatch 3-5 working days
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£37.95Christmastimes Three (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Sheldon, Robert
Robert Sheldon has crafted a fascinating Christmas piece for your next holiday concert. This piece is very mature sounding, you won't believe it's only grade 1! "The Holly and the Ivy," "Bring a Torch Jeanette, Isabella" and "The First Noel" are all cleverly intertwined in this work for young band.Duration: 2.45
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£37.95Christmastimes Three
Robert Sheldon has crafted a fascinating Christmas piece for your next holiday concert. This piece is very mature sounding--you won't believe it's only grade 1! "The Holly and the Ivy," "Bring a Torch Jeanette, Isabella" and "The First Noel" are all cleverly intertwined in this new work for young band. Correlated with , page 20.
Estimated dispatch 3-5 working days
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£49.00Swingin' Santa - Benjamin Hanby
Get your young band students swinging this year with a fun Christmas piece based on the ever-popular "Up On The Housetop." Drawing from his jazz background, Carl Strommen delivers an arrangement that is unique and authentic to the idiom, but within the technical capabilities of the intermediate student. Oh what fun it will be to ride this sleigh - Ho, ho ho!
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£72.95Swingin' Santa
Get your young band students swinging this year with a fun Christmas piece based on the ever-popular Up On The Housetop. Drawing from his jazz background, Carl Strommen delivers an arrangement that is unique and authentic to the idiom, but within the technical capabilities of the intermediate student. Oh what fun it will be to ride this sleigh - Ho, ho ho!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£31.68Jingle Bells Around the World (Concert Band - Score and Parts)
Capture the Holiday Spirit with this tasteful Jerry Williams original that is perfect for intermediate level bands. Skillfully arranged to get the most from young musicians, this delightful secular Christmas piece is sure to be the "hit" of any concert. Excellent program material.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£62.95Riu, Riu, Chiu
This is a lesser-known Spanish Christmas piece dating from around 1550. It is rhythmic and colorful with melody in several voices. The opening is a call-and-response between the trombone and the remainder of the band. This has huge dynamic shifts and Renaissance percussion writing---something a little different on a holiday concert.
Estimated dispatch 3-5 working days
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£104.99Prelude and Polonaise - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) composed his opera The Night before Christmas in 1894-95. The premiere took place on December 10 1895 in St. Petersburg. The libretto to the opera came from Rimsky-Korsakov himself and is based on a tale by Nikolai Gogol, which some years earlier had already served as operatic material for Pjotr Tchaikovsky. The opera tells the story of Vakula, the blacksmith of a small Ukranian village. He is madly in love with Oxana who demands - as proof of his love - a most unusual Christmas present: the magnificent slippers of the Empress. Knowing full well that, in normal circumstances, he would never be able to fulfil Oxana's wish, Vakula seekssupernatural assistance and finds it in the shape of the devil, who comes up with a ploy to help him. The devil carries him on his back to St. Petersburg, where during a lavish reception at court Vakula finds an opportunity to present his request to the empress. The Empress actually agrees to Vakula's wish and hands over her slippers to him. Thereupon he returns to his own village. Here, in the meantime, he had been given up for dead, and Oxana had been plunged into great sorrow as she had come to realise that she also truly loved Vakula. In the end, however, all misunderstandings are resolved and all adversities overcome: Oxana receives her extravagant present, the lovers are united, and the church bells call the villagers to the Christmas service.The vibrant Polonaise is played in the 3rd act of the opera at the entrance of the Empress, whose appearance is anticipated in the prelude by the fanfare motives. The music paints a vivid picture of the party atmosphere and the marvellous dcor at the imperial court of St. Petersburg, which Rimsky-Korsakov conjures up in his opera and which can also be played outside of the Advent and Christmas season, for example as an opening piece to any festive concert.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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