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£65.99Fantasia on the Dargason - Gustav Holst
Scott Stanton's arrangement of this classic Gustav Holst band composition now makes Holst's entire Second Suite in F available in the Build-A-Band format. Playable with any instrumentation as long as you have the four main parts covered by the instrument of your choice, the arrangement includes optional piano, guitar, mallet percussion and percussion parts. Now bands with extreme instrumentation problems or groups of very small size can experience performing this staple of the concert band repertoire. A true classic!
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£87.99
Christmas Day - Gustav Holst
Oh, what fun it is to find a forgotten Christmas piece by Gustav Holst! Christmas Day is a set of variations on "In Dulci Jubilo" ("Good Christian Men, Rejoice") with interwoven portions of "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen," "The First Nowell," and "Come Ye Lofty, Come Ye Lowly." A charming piece for your holiday concert!
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£87.99In the Bleak Mid-Winter - Gustav Holst
Christina Rossetti wrote the words to this famous Christmas carol in 1872 in response to a request from the magazine Scribner's Monthly for a Christmas poem. They were set to music by Gustav Holst (1874-1934) for inclusion in the first edition (1906) of The English Hymnal, edited by his life-long friend, Ralph Vaughan Williams. Philip Sparke has carefully arranged the beautiful melody into this delightful version for concert band. A must for any Christmas concert.
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£70.50Old Brenton Carol (from Holst Winter Suite) (Concert Band - Score and Part) - Holst, Gustav - Smith, Robert W.
This tender Holst melody has been magnificently scored to be performed independently as a beautiful serence carol or in conjunction with the other movements of The Holst Winter Suite for Band. The first movement, On This Day Earth Shall Ring and the second movement is In the Bleak Midwinter. With this final movement complete, the finished suite is a welcome addition to modern band literature. Duration: 2.00
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£70.50On This Day Earth Shall Ring (from Holst Winter Suite) (Concert Band - Score and Part) - Holst, Gustav - Smith, Robert W.
This glorious Holst carol, the first movement of Holst's Winter Suite for Band, has been magnificently scored to be performed independently as a regal and solemn hymn or with In the Bleak Midwinter and Old Brenton Carol. This traditional Holst literature specifically for your winter program, is a brilliant addition to the literature. Duration: 2.45
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£70.50Old Brenton Carol (from the Holst Winter Suite) - Gustav Holst
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£54.99
A Holst Hymn
This timeless hymn by Gustav Holst was originally written as "Jupiter" in a movement of "The Planets." He later used the beautiful melody as source material as he set the poetry of Sir Cecil Spring Rice to music. The hymn is now a beloved British standard widely known as "I Vow To Thee, My Country." Melodically and harmonically rich, this stunning arrangement for band is appropriate for concert, festival and ceremonial programming. The absolute finest in music for the young concert band!
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£140.00Capriccio (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Holst, Gustav - Noble, Paul
The following notes have been excerpted by the arranger from those presented in the Introduction by Imogen Holst, daughter of Gustav Holst: Holst wrote this work in the spring of 1932, while he was guest Lecturer in Composition at Harvard University. He had been asked by Nathaniel Shilkret to write 'a short radio piece, not longer than five or six minutes.' for a composers' series on folk music themes. Holst wrote to me on 13 May 1932, saying: 'On May 1 I started sketching a piece for Shilkret's Radio jazz band in New York. I finished the sketch on the 4th and the full score on the 8th... Shilkret wanted something on American airs but I've left them out because I prefer my own so he may reject the thing.' Shilkret was enthusiastic about the piece, but he was unable to use it for his series. 'I hate to give it up,' he told the composer, 'but I cannot play it because it is not based on a definite English or American folk theme.' Holst never revised his hurriedly-written work, probably because he had too many other things to write during the remaining two years of his life, when he was having to spend a good deal of his time in hospital. The autograph manuscript of his original full score is in the British Library, MS Add.47833. The work had no name: Holst referred to it either as his 'Jazz band piece' or as 'Mr. Shilkret's Maggot.' The score needed editing. There were gaps and patches, with incomplete dynamics and phrase marks. I made the version for orchestra and named it 'Capriccio' in spite of the viola's (now saxophone's) expressive opening, because from the moment of the marimba's first animated remark there can be no doubt about the mood of the music. - Imogen Holst (1968)
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£110.00A Fugal Overture (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Holst, Gustav - Noble, Paul
Gustav Holst began composition of A Fugal Overture in 1922, completing the full score in January 1923. Despite its name, the overture is not strictly fugal. It belongs to the era of neo-classicism, but apparently by coincidence, for Holst had not yet heard some of the Stravinsky and Hindemith works which set this fashion. The fugal subject is full of spiky crossrhythms - Holst grouped the eighth notes (quavers) of his 4/4 into a pattern of 3 + 3 + 2, thus giving a bar of three unequal beats. The piece is intense and exciting, and should make an important addition to the repertoire of the Concert Band.
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