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£114.99
Joyful Exclamations - James L. Hosay
What an outstanding way to conclude your concert. James L. Hosay writes some of the most exciting music to be found in Concert Band literature, and music doesn't get much more exciting than this! While titled as a Grand Finale, this concert band tour de force can be programmed in numerous ways. Consider it also as a roof-raising opener or even in the guise of an entr'acte as you return from intermission. You will find JOYFUL EXCLAMATIONS to be one of the most thrilling and uplifting arrangements available in band literature today. This is also a perfect vehicle through which to study music history.Indescribable!
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£64.99
Armada of Freedom - James Curnow
A powerful statement in recognition of the allied D-day armada! There are so many musical considerations that make this piece an extraordinary teaching tool, let alone the cross-curricular tie-ins with the history department! The contrasts of style, dynamics, articulations, and harmonic balance make it a superb learning experience with an important historical connection. Perfect for festival or concert, James Curnow's ARMADA OF FREEDOM will be a memorable event in your concert season.To the front!
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£54.99Sea to Shining Sea - James Curnow
The perfect arrangement for your Beginning Band's first patriotic performance! There are lots of opportunities for young players to solidify basic skills here. A few easy accidentals, articulations, dynamics, and phrasing can all be taught while rehearsing Sea to Shining Seay. There are many more uses for this arrangement than the typical concert setting, too. Does your student body meet at the flag pole on Monday mornings for a flag salute? Play it there. How about a short performance at a school board meeting? The possibilities are endless!Don't miss it!
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£141.99Fantasia di Falcone - James Curnow
Fantasia di Falcone is a four movement suite of fantasy variations composed as a showpiece for your outstanding Euphoniumsoloist. The piece opens with an expressive 12 measure soliloquy which presages the dynamic, modern variations, and diversionsthat fully explore the moods of the Euphonium. Exquisite orchestration contrasts and effects give the soloist perfect supportas the ensemble reinvents itself again and again, revealing surprising new facets to this gem of the compositional art.Significant!
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£79.99Joyride - Timothy Johnson
What fun you'll have with this descriptive tone picture by Timothy Johnson! All kinds of creative rhythmic and orchestration effects bring the old Model T to life once again. Young musicians will revel in the fun of interpreting this joyous look at the "old days." It's a perfect contrast to lighten up your concert and refresh the audience. There's also plenty to teach in the realm of style, articulation, phrasing, and much more, let alone the opportunity for cross-curricular teaching in U.S. history. It makes learning fun.
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£69.99Rejoice and be Merry - James Curnow
This heart-warming Christmas selection makes use of three complementary carols Rejoice and Be Merry, The First Noel and We Wish You a Merry Christmas in creative and artistic ways. While preparing for your winter concert, this is a perfect vehicle to establish the foundational concepts of good phrasing and balance with your young group. Bringing these items into focus early in the academic year will pay dividends as your year progresses. In addition there are enough contrasting style considerations to make this a remarkably good teaching tool on many levels. Quality!
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£79.99Home on the Range
This thoughtful and creative arrangement of the classic song of the American West is a rich and sonorous treatment infused with exquisite and unexpected harmonies. You've never heard it like this before! Bryan Kidd has managed to bring a true musical adventure to the developing band in his own unmistakably personal way.This is a wonderful chance for your musicians to show that they can be truly expressive. This piece is the perfect tool for a cross-curricular unit with U.S. history. Surprising!
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£91.99Holiday Jambalaya
Bring something different to your holiday concert this year. This New Orleans style medley of holiday favorites will bring down the house. Infectious rhythms and jazzy tunes make this fine new offering from James L. Hosay just about as much fun as you can possibly have in a concert hall. With music for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza and New Year's Eve, this will be the perfect cross-cultural centerpiece for your next winter concert.Jazzy!
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£154.99Symphonic Variations - Jacob de Haan
This composition is based on a passacaglia theme, in which artistic perfection, symphonic drama and oriental melody lines play a role. The passacaglia is originally a dance made up of a series of variations above a bass line constantly present as an ostinato. It is not in this sense that the "Symphonic Variations" are in the passacaglia form but in the sense of the open form of the variations. Jacob de Haan, himself originally an organist, took his inspiration for this piece from the famous passacaglia for organ in C-minor by J.S. Bach. Following the introduction of the passacaglia theme (in the bass) the entry by the trumpets and trombones forms the majestic start to amusical adventure, in which this theme (often fragmentary) returns in variations. Then there follow two faster movements with dramatic contrasts and virtuose passages. Particularly striking here is the use of two characteristic intervals from the beginning of the theme namely the minor second and the augmented fourth. An apause in the composition comes in the slow bridge where a syncopated bourdon (perfect fifth) is constantly repeated. The tension grows in dynamics and harmony, and the oriental-flavour becomes obvious in the melody. We arrive at a faster movement via an accelerando, in which a perpetuum mobile based on the passacaglia theme is central. Finally the whole flows into a martial theme, in which the ostinato accompaniment n the descant derives from the passacaglia theme.
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£355.99Cyrano - Piet Swerts
This delightful new composition takes its inspiration from the classic French swash buckling tale of Cyrano de Bergerac and his fight to win the love of the beautiful maiden Roxane. The subject was a perfect departure point for composing a symphonic poem with a variety of musical aspects reflecting the story. Lyricism (the theme of Roxane), dramatic episodes, as well as Debussy-inspired impressionist moments are some of the elements that give the band and its conductor the chance to expose themselves as a versatile ensemble being able to create colour, to sing and to play like virtuosi. This work is sure to become a standard item in the concert band repertoire.
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