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£140.50Echoes from Within - Quincy C. Hilliard
This dramatic contest or festival piece will require your ensemble to perform emotionally in a variety of expressive styles. Using multiple meters, cadenzas, changing tempos and expressive musical shaping techniques, the music varies from romantic to light and dance-like. Challenge your entire ensemble, individual players, and audiences with this thought-provoking reflection on the strength and courage every person needs.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£140.50Resilience - Travis Weller
Written in response to adversity in its many forms, this concert or contest composition for advanced bands celebrates the spirit of rising above. Adversity is represented by various harmonic and rhythmic devices throughout the work and is resolved through creative reworkings of previous melodic material, different textural instrumental combinations and tempo and dynamic shadings. Truly a commentary on not only life's struggles but the fact that strife also causes positive growth, this complex, yet approachable, composition will challenge your musicians both musically and emotionally.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£72.95Okefenokee - R. Alan Carter
Named Land of the Trembling Earth because the peat bog, which floats on water, moves when walked upon, the Okefenokee Swamp is a natural wonder. Starting mysteriously with a full-band sound, moving through a middle section with a flute or recorder solo that depicts the life of the early inhabitants, and ending with a spirited dance that features woodwind runs, brass countermelodies and thunderous timpani and bass drum parts, this unique composition offers performers the chance to perform a programmatic work that will challenge and entertain at the same time.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£68.50Eagle Spirit March - Bene Davis
"Eagle Spirit March" captures the heart of traditional marches. With thoughtful scoring and manageable ranges, it strikes the perfect balance between challenge and accessibility - allowing every player to get either a melody or countermelody. Its engaging form, from the dogfight to the full-band finale, ensures players and audiences stay hooked until the last note.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£118.99Showdown for Band - Gilbert Tinner
Showdown for Band was written as a compulsory exercise for the Third International Light Music Competition at St. Gallen, Switzerland in 1998. The intention of the composer was to write a piece in a light music style that would at the same time challenge the various bands, particularly in the area of rhythm. The work is divided into four parts: Opening, Ballad, Finale and Ending. Using melodies that are easy on the ear and varied instrumentation, many facets of the entire band are displayed. The solo in the middle part can be played by either soprano or alto saxophone, or even by a flugel horn. The impressive composition contains many musical elements, which makes the work anespecially suitable piece with which to open a light classical concert
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£104.99
Wingin' It! - Gilbert Tinner
Wingin' It! is an entertaining concert piece. It makesespecially high demands on the rhythmic qualities ofthe band and requires exact articulation and phrasingaccording to the composer's instructions. After abrilliant opening, a catchy theme crystallizes whileall sections take turns to come to the forefront.Based on this theme, a swing in the classic big bandstyle, a peaceful Bossa (in which the woodwindsdominate) and a section with typical rock and funkrhythms follow. The two-step feeling closes thecircle to lead to the grand finale. This compositionfeatures all the essential elements of a contest pieceand provides a particular challenge in the understandingand execution ofpopular styles. It alsooffers all the facets that make a work attractive forthe audience as well as the musicians.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£87.99Burning Love - Dennis Linde
In the seventies, Elvis Presley gave many concerts with an orchestra that included a large wind section. These concerts were characterised by enthusiasm and a fast tempo. Burning Love was one of the up-tempo numbers where the bass guitar player played an especially important role. Thus, this arrangement of Burning Love, written by Thijs Oud, brings a specific challenge for the musicians in the low register. The trumpets and the trombones can also play standing behind the band adding to the visual and dynamic enhancement.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£74.99
Solo Flight - Larry Neeck
A wonderful way to encourage and challenge your best young players is by featuring them on a solo with band accompaniment. Larry Neeck's "Solo Flight" is a delightful solo feature for virtually almost any instrument in the band (Bb, Eb, C & Bass Clef Solo Parts are included with the set). Light in nature, it will be a welcome addition to any concert. Playable and enjoyable, this piece can pay big dividends to your band program! Recorded on the CD "A Lantern In The Window" by The Washington Winds.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£63.99Midnight Escape - Larry Neeck
A unique composition built on alternating 3/4 and 2/4 measures that will challenge your developing band. Lots of tasty percussion parts will keep even the largest section involved and interested and since it is written for the reduced Command Series instrumentation, it will work very well for smaller high school bands. Great rhythmic teaching material in this appealing work as it produces a "dangerous" sound that students and audiences will love! Check this one out!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£191.50Fourth Suite for Band - Alfred Reed
Subtitled "City of Music", this impressive 3 movement suite was commissioned by the City of Takasaki, Japan. The movements: Intrada, Aria, and March, all are written to challenge mature bands and this work displays why Alfred Reed's music is a favorite of upper level groups around the world. A major work by a major composer that has already been recorded and is available on a CD recording by the Kosei Wind Orchestra from Tokyo, Japan. World Class!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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