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£76.80Music Makes Friends - Henk van Lijnschooten
Music makes friends' is the motto of the PURMERADE, the four-yearly international youth band festival, taking place again in 1994. The composition is based on seven variations on a German lovesong and is the test piece for the 1994 PURMERADE.The degree of difficulty has been adapted to the average level of the participating bands. Although some bands will have to make greater efforts, the work can be played by all bands. There are seperate instrumentations available for symphonic wind band, fanfare band and brassband.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£140.80Suite of Unity - Henk van Lijnschooten
This suite in three parts has been commissioned by the Dutch Minister of Defense on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of NATO. The first part is a festive fanfare in which you can briefly recognize a fragment of Marc Antoine Charpentier's 'Te Deum', better known as the 'Eurovision Tune'. The second part is a solemn chorale using several short excerpts of folksongs. The third part uses motives from the different National Anthems of the sixteen NATO member states and ends with the hymn 'Dona Nobis Pacem', give us Peace.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£61.00Song of Freedom - Manfred Schneider
Manfred Schneider (1953), is since 1972 a member of the German Military Band Heeresmusikkorps 300) based at Koblenz. After his overture 'Upside Down' and the rhythmical study 'Rock and Go' Molenaar Edition now publishes this lyrical 'Song of Freedom'. A nice slow tune turns into a very rhythmical intermezzo, but soon returns to its original slow but compelling character. You can hardly refrain from joining in.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£113.50A Tribute to Stephen Foster - Ted Huggens
The songs composed by the American composer Stephen Foster have been 'evergreens' for over a hundred years now. In this selection we can hear successively: 'Jeannie with the light brown hair', 'Oh, Susanna', 'My old Kentucky home', 'Old folks at home', 'Beautiful Dreamer' and 'Campton Races'.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£76.80Woody - P. Butter
Phil Butter is a most experienced Dutch wind band music arranger. He wrote this composition as a piece of symphonic jazz in the Leroy Anderson style. However, this work has the advantage that it can be performed by wind band from all levels, especially also by youth wind bands. Here you have a fine piece of light orchestral music without technical difficulties.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£116.40Habanera From 'Carmen' - Georges Bizet
Carmen - The most performed opera in the world Since its premiere in 1875, Carmen has become the most performed opera worldwide. The Habanera - The iconic moment The most famous aria from this opera is the Habanera. In this aria, Carmen compares love - and herself - to an elusive, fluttering bird (l'amour est un oiseau rebelle). About the arrangement This arrangement can be performed with or without choir. The performance requires a light, refined touch. Conductors should pay special attention to ensuring that the ostinato (originally written for the cellos) is played with utmost precision, convincingly, and as delicately as possible.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£140.80Belvedere Suite - Wilhelm Koenen
Part One: 'Danse mditerranenne'This part is composed of stylized folkmusic elements from several regions of Mediterra-nean countries. If this music recalls memories of your holidays on the sunny beaches, the composer will have reached his goal.Part Two: 'Impression'This part is meant as a contrast with the first and the third parts. The conductor should not stick to the metronome tempo, but he can express his own interpretation by means of 'rubato playing'. This 'impression' was inspired by the Provence landscape.Part Three: 'Marche grotesque'We deliberately used non-typical characteristics of the traditional march. The underlying idea is: A band starts playing a march at the ordinary marching tempo. There is already a mistake at measure 4 when some musicians play the wrong bar which causes the fifers to start too early with the drum and fife signals. A grumpy 'Stop' brings and end to the false start by means of a pathetic quaver (eighth note). The drummers however continue to play their drum beats, so the fifers start again and play very quickly in order to catch up with the drummers. They even manage to do so, thanks to that late quaver (eighth note). The band now also starts to play again and reacts to this chaos by laughter. The march that comes next does not match the metric characteristics of the usual march. The woodwinds, dreaming of holidays, get caught in a Tarantella. A compelling signal by the trumpets and the horns, soon joined by all band registers, leads the band back to reality. We deliberately chose well-known 'secondary parts' in order to make the audience accept the 'out-of-tune playing'. Original themes would not have had the same effect. The whole composition is just one great musical joke. If the audiance chuckles the composer will have achieved his aim. The third part is extremely well suited to end a concert or to be used as encore.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£116.40Suite de Salon - Henk van Lijnschooten
Commissioned by the NIB, the Dutch Wind Music Institute, with the financial support of the 'Fonds voor de scheppende Toonkunst'.CommentaryThis suite brings us back to the 18th century when an important part of the musical life took place in the salons, the favorite quarters of monarchs and important people.There is a ball and we can hear the music in four successive short movements.1. Entree. After an opening fanfare we see the solemn reception of the guests. The composer uses some 17th century musical principles such as the echo dynamics.2. Invitation a la Danse. The guests proceed to the ballroom and are officially introduced. This movement has a 'classical' character.3. Chiaconna. A solemn dance of Spanish origin with a single theme that is repeated with different embellishments and accompaniments.4. Danse Finale. A cheerful dance announces the departure of the guests, but, for sure, the feast will have lasted much longer than this suite.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£90.30Three American Snapshots - Manfred Schneider
The German composer Manfred Schneider (Ketsert am Rhein, 1953) has played the French horn in the Koblenz Police Band for many years. His band compositions such as Rock and Go, Splashing Sounds and Songs of Freedom have first been performed and promoted by several German Police Bands. Schneider writes sparkling and rhythmical music that sounds very up-to-date. This is also the case with these Three American Snapshots in which the composer draws three atmospheric portraits resulting from a trip to America. With some imagination the listener can dream a similar trip.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£52.70Ballad - J. Bremer
A sentimental ballad that can arouse quite some romantic feelings or simplymake you dream.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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