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£75.00Another Night Before Christmas (Narrator & Keyboard with Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Lane, Philip - Noble, Paul
The parody on the original poem is by England's Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, a Scottish poet and playwright. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at the Manchester Metropolitan University and is the first laureate to be chosen in the 21st century. The story is about a little girl who wants to see Santa Claus to prove to herself that he is real, but falls asleep at a critical moment.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£179.90Cyrano (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Schwarz, Otto M.
What are the true qualities of a person? Outward beauty or inner values? Or perhaps a balance of the two? This question has probably been posed by everyone at some time or another, and the answer is as challenging as it is subjective. This is also the theme of this work. The poet and soldier Cyrano de Bergerac is known for his big nose and his great intellect. The 17th century novelist harbours feelings for the beautiful Roxane but is sure that this love will never be reciprocated. Roxane herself falls in love with the cadet Christian de Neuvillette, who is certainly handsome but could be described as stupid. Cyrano de Bergerac writes love poems on behalf of Christian to win Roxane's heart. And then there is the Count Guiche, who is married but also wants to make her his mistress. Christian and Roxane eventually marry and the furious Count Guiche sends Christian and Cyrano, who serve together in the Captains of Gascony regiment, to the front and, some months later, on a suicide mission. Shortly before the battle, Roxane confesses to her husband that she no longer loves him so much for his beauty as for his inner values. Christian is dismayed and begs Cyrano to tell Roxane the truth, but he can't bring himself to do so. Christian de Neuvillette dies in battle and Cyrano de Bergerac remains silent about the true provenance of the letters. Only much later does the truth come to light: scarred by the war, Cyrano visits Roxane in the convent where she has been living since Christian's death and confesses his love for her. He ultimately dies in Roxane's arms.Duration: 8.30
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£37.50Ode to Joy (Flexible Ensemble - Score and Parts) - Beethoven, Ludwig van - Brand, Michael
Beethoven uses the theme as the Prelude to the fourth Movement of his Ninth Symphony and it bursts into life with the powerful Choral setting later in that movement. The test was written by the German poet and playwright Schiller and describes the triumph of universal brotherhood against war and desperation. Duration: 2.30
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£64.99Lanier Variants (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Vinson, Johnnie
During his brief lifetime, Sidney Lanier (1842-1881) was at one time or another a soldier, musician, teacher, lawyer, and a college professor. He is perhaps best remembered as a poet and for the middle school in Fairfax, Virginia which bears his name. Inspired by a favourite Lanier quote (Music is love in search of a word), Johnnie Vinson has fashioned a musical theme which captures the essence of this sentiment. With a bit of early American flavour, this main theme progresses through a series of contrasting variations, culminating in a grand and heroic closing statement.Duration: 5.00
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£75.00Masters inTthis Hall (Concert Band with Optional Choir - Score and Parts) - Noble & Willcocks
Masters in This Hall (alternative title: Nowell, Sing We Clear) is a Christmas carol with words written around 1860 by the English poet and artist William Morris to an old French dance tune. It is said to have a sixteenth-century feel, harking back to a simpler society, in line with Morris's own romanticism. It also has elements of Morris's socialist beliefs, with the poor bringing news of Christ's birth to the Masters in this Hall and a warning to the proud. The carol describes a poor man, emphasized by his rural dialect, drawing his master's attention to the birth of Christ by describing how he had met shepherds travelling to Bethlehem in solemn mood where, joining them, he had seen the Christ child in his mother's arms. The chorus repeats how the birth of Christ has raised up the poor and cast down the proud. This represents one of the Series of Band Arrangements compatible with David Willcocks' Carols for Choirs.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£76.99A Salute to Spike Jones (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Custer, Calvin
This musical pie in the face from the legendary Spike Jones is long overdue for those bands who love to entertain an audience. With all the bells and whistles, cowbells and slapsticks, this medley of silliness includes the famous comedy bit with the conductor and the cymbal player.Includes:Cocktails for TwoChloeThe Poet and the Peasant
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£89.99A Spanish Christmas Carol (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Millstone, Patrick
Rondeau of the Shepherds, so ran the official title of the famous Dutch Christmas carol Midden in de winternacht. In 1948, Dutch poet and writer Harry Prenen wrote this text. The melody is known by the 17th/18th century organ composers of suites Daquin, Balbastre and Dandrieu. Rondeau of the Shepherds is subtitled Catalan Christmas Carol because of its origins in a Spanish (probably Catalan) Christmas song from the late Middle Ages, El Desembre congelat. The motives of this song (shepherds, flutes, drums) demonstrate knowledge of the Bible and give a picture of the late medieval Christmas experience. Perfect as an up-tempo intermezzo in a church service.Duration: 3:00
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£96.00Salutation (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Esenvalds, Eriks - Littlemore, Philip
Salutation was originally composed for a cappella choir to a poem by Bengali poet and musician Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). The music takes up the spiritual message of the poem, that we live our lives in one salutation to God ending back in an eternal home. Phillip Littlemore's brilliant arrangement for concert band adds a work of great contemplative beauty to the repertoire. Duration: 3:30
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£49.95
Hymn of Endless Light - Score and Parts - Paul Mealor
A short hymn-meditation for concert band based on Welsh poet, Henry Vaughan's powerful and descriptive vision of eternity. The work is coloured by suspended metal wind chimes representing the starts, and by Celtic counter-melody describing the heart of the ring of light.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£64.95
Stai si, defenda! (Stand Up and Defend) - Score and Parts
Stai si, defenda romontsch, tiu vegl lungatg (Stand up, defend your old Romansh language): This composition was named after a quotation from a poem by famous Romansh poet Giachen Casper Muoth. The arrangement deals with various well known songs for male choir such as A Trun sut igl ischi (In Trun under the malpe tree), Si sededesta Rezia (Wake up, land of Raetia), Il pur suveran (The independent farmer) or Il paun palus (The rosted bread). An atmospheric beginning over a pedal point uses quotations from these songs and leads eventually into a dark but warmly orchestrated section on Nossa viarva (Our language) by H. Erni. The piece ends, once more quoting A Trun sut igl ischi by J. Heim, a dedication to struggle for freedom and independence.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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