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£54.95America, the Beautiful (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Bates & Ward - Smith & Story
The Smith and Story duo has scored this lush rendition to correlate with the first year of the Band Expressions curriculum, though it will add a patriotic flare to any program. This arrangement of the classic work includes great textures and harmonies for your beginners.Duration: 2.00
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£56.50Contempo (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Story, Michael
Michael Story has again written an original work with progressive elegance. The composition features a few soloistic sounds, all solidly cued, and avid percussion contributions complete the setting. The concrete scoring work will ensure an impressive musical presentation. Duration: 3.15
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£53.95Overture 1812 (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich - Story, Michael
Most musicians dislike the term "watered-down," so we asked Michael Story to present this classic overture with musical integrity and honesty but to simplify the complicated orchestral writing to be playable by a very young band or ensemble. We think you will agree: This arrangement succeeds admirably! Duration: 2.00
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£73.50Star Wars: Episode I, The Phantom Menace (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Williams, John - Story, Michael
The world had waited years, and finally the motion picture event of the century exploded on the screen in Star Wars: Episode 1 The Phantom Menace. From the power-packed John Williams score, this Michael Story treatment is a highly creative mix of "Star Wars (Main Theme)" * "Duel of the Fates" * "Augie's Great Municipal Band" * "He Is The Chosen One" and the soaring "End Credits." Every band and wind ensemble in the world will be playing this one! Duration: 5.30
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£55.50Manhattan Beach (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Sousa, John Philip - Story, Michael
Although John Philip Sousa is stereotyped as a march writer, he composed music in many forms. But, of course, it's his marches that have brought his name to millions of performers and listeners the world over. Of the hundreds of marches he wrote, many are still among the most performed of the medium. Michael Story has chosen this classic Sousa work and removed the technical difficulties so it can be enjoyed by even the youngest ensemble or band. Relish this music of the "March King"! Duration: 1.30
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£53.95The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Story, Michael
This doo-wop classic, made famous in severalmotion pictures is arranged for concert band by Michael Story. A winner! Duration: 1.45
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£70.50Outback Fantasy (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Story, Michael
The land 'down under' is hot! Australia holds a powerful fascination for many of us. Using folk material including Waltzing Matilda and Click Go the Shears, Michael Story crafts an entertaining and tuneful concert work guaranteed to make all of us think of koalas and kangaroos. This is good music, mate! Duration: 3.00
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£53.95The Great Gate of Kiev (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Mussorgsky, Modest - Story, Mike
This famous work, the finale from Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, has gone from the keyboard Medium to an orchestral version arranged by Ravel, and now to a very easy concert band arrangement by Mike Story. The power and drama is all here in an easy-play form.Duration: 2.15
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£154.60Den store dagen - Benny Borg
This beautiful song contains a huge contrast between the hopeful and the disappointing. A mother has her birthday and is waiting her children to celebrate it. Each verse starts optimistically, but the short chorus is characterized by the disappointment, that everyone calls, and cannot come. This has been tried recreated musically, mostly in the last two choruses, as it dawns on her that she will not receive a visit. It's a beautiful tune, but with a serious message that it's easy to take someone for granted.One of the elements the musicians came up with after rehearsal, was that they really liked the change between the ballad parts with even eights and the swing parts. This also gives the piece a sense of "parlando" character, which tells a story, and is therefore important to focus. It is not quite simple, as the melody also in those parts with even eights has some triplet rhythms. Therefore, this is a topic you can work on.Regarding instrumentation, Flugelhorn, Alto Saxophone and Euphonium have important roles, in addition to the rest of the first parts in the Band. The arrangement is written so you are not depending on "special" instruments. Important details are also often duplicated so you can use the arrangement for a smaller Wind Band.It is also possible to use a vocal soloist, but then you must soften the instruments that holds the melody.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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Fantasia Per La Vita E La Morte - Bert Appermont
The mystique surrounding life and death formed the starting point of this composition. I wanted to write a work without a story, mixed up in a kind of musical quest for a new world of sound, original rhythm sequences, melodies filled with suspenseand distinct orchestral tones.The indirect cause was the birth of my first child which took place during this time, followed by the death of a close family member. At such a moment you experience just how close life and death are to each other, anddespite one being the antithesis of the other, they are incredibly similar. Both radical events are passages into new worlds and have great emotional impact. Moreover, the work was commissioned by "New Life", an orchestra that lost one of itsmusician in a plane crash, which also led me to believe that this approach would be appropriate.I would prefer not to comment on which passages in the composition concern life (birth) and which refer to death. It seems to me that it is moreinteresting to question traditional conceptions and leave it open for the listener. If you think that a passage is about birth, and this idea then shifts, it is this that raises fascinating questions, on both a musical and metaphysical level.Music isin an indirect but incredibly persuasive way in which to express the endless striving and seeking of mankind. Music can even touch eternity, as it were, and give us the feeling that we can transcend death. This endless search (and also longing) canbe heard throughout the work; as much in the sound fields and accent shifts in the first part as in the enormous tension curves and compelling themes of the second part. The semi-tone functions in this way as a guide or something to hold on to,running through the whole work and upon which much of the musical material is based. Traces of profound love resound with quiet simplicity in the slow section's melodious solos, after which the work contemplates life and death one last time, musesupon joy and sadness, on the possibilities and limitations of people and on the why of all things.I would like to dedicate this work to my dearest daughter Paulientje, to Meterke and to Johan de Jong of the "New Life" orchestra. May it fare themwell, here or in another dimension...
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