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£57.50Nonantum Bulgar - Hankus Netsky
Adding to the minuscule number of Klezmer pieces for concert band, Nonantum Bulgar is the 20th piece published in the BandQuest series. The title, Nonantum Bulgar, refers to Nonantum, a district in Newton which is home to the city's oldest synagogue (on the National Register of Historic Places), and bulgar (pronounced 'bull-ghar'), a type of Klezmer dance. When writing the piece, the composer imagined the dedication of the Adams St. Shul, which took place over one hundred years ago and featured a prominent Boston cantor and choir and a klezmer orchestra leading a Grand March down Adams St. This upbeat work is fun to play, features a trumpet solo, and gives every instrument the opportunity to play the melody. Learn more on YouTube! BandQuest, an exciting series of new music and accompanying curricula for band, is a program published by the American Composers Forum. The series was started as a response to feedback from music educators that there is a pressing need for new, fresh band music. The heart of this program is new works written by a diverse group of leading American composers who have created challenging pieces that are a true departure from standard middle school repertoire. Every BandQuest project includes a residency component in which the composer works collaboratively with a middle school as they create their new piece. Many BandQuest pieces are accompanied by an interdisciplinary curriculum designed to assist students as they learn the music and to integrate each piece with non-music studies. Visit www.bandquest.org to learn more about this innovative series, and email [email protected] to request a free downloadable audio catalog.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£60.99My America - Samuel F. Smith
Featuring an original descant along with the patriotic favorite My Country 'Tis of Thee, this arrangement for band and optional choir provides a fresh and effective setting. Optional string pak also available.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£64.99It'S A Holiday Season
This 3-minute medley of popular holiday songs is a sparkling selection for a holiday concert finale or community event. For added effect combine this with your school's choir and strings for a truly magical production. Includes: Happy Holiday, The Holiday Season and Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£54.99Latin Magic - Robert E. Foster
Focus on the Latin rhythms and musical concepts popular in Central and South America with the popular folk song, featuring the "Latin percussion of El Condor Pasa." Use all of your percussionists, and more. Students from other classes (history, geography, humanities, general music, choir, etc.) can be added to the percussion section playing Latin percussion instruments.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£54.99Ave Verum - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
This beautiful work was written for one of Mozarts friends who was a school teacher and choir director in Baden, a small town near Vienna. One of Mozarts most beloved works, this is a piece of timeless beauty, which can be enjoyed and performed with great care and sensitivity, even today, over 200 years after its creation. (5 minutes 10 seconds)
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£57.50Carrying You from "Laputa: Castle in the Sky" - Joe Hisaishi
New Sounds in Concert Band Series(NSB) for small band with 2-part choir Duration: approx.4'10" Arranged by Eiji Suzuki"Carrying You" was composed as a theme song to Castle in the Sky, an animated film produced by Studio Ghibli and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, released in 1986. The composer for Castle in the Sky was originally not Joe Hisaishi, but the director Miyazaki strongly requested him. The director told Hisaishi his vision for the film, and based on the world he imagined, Hisaishi made a collection of music called the Image Album. The melody that later becomes the basis for "Carrying You" was born from this album. However, the director Miyazaki was not planning on including a theme song in this film. Isao Takahata, the producer, proposed including a song, for the audience to think over the film at the end. He wanted the audience to think, "While the protagonists sought for the treasure, they didn't obtain any treasure. What did they obtain instead?" They thought, if they are going to create a theme song, it should be something organically connected with the entire film. Takahata requested the director Miyazaki to write the lyrics for the theme song. And to Hisaishi, he gave instructions to create a melody for the theme song using an instrumental piece called "Pazu and Sheeta" from the image album mentioned above. Director Miyazaki handed a piece of memo with lyrics to Takahata. "Carrying You" we hear now is this lyrics with some changes, set to Hisaishi's music. The melody is used at the opening of the film as well as the scene where Laputa is destroyed, and the song is used for the ending. Performance Advice from Arranger Suzuki: This is an extremely simple arrangement that can be performed by lower grade bands and singers. Of course, it can be played without singers and chorus, but the contents of the lyrics are very tasty so if possible, we recommend that you perform using the voices. Depending on your resources, the voice parts can be done as all solo, all female chorus, and so on.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£551.99Missa Solemnis - AndrĂ© Waignein
Having written several large works for vocalists and concert band, Andr Waignein composed Missa Solemnis, a mass for soprano, mixed choir and concert band. In his own completely unique style, Waignein has produced an unusual and soulful piecethat, despite the modern compositional techniques employed, stays entirely loyal to the theme of the composition.Choral parts available separately.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£80.99Pageant of Light - David Shaffer
This great composition is intended to capture the integrity and intensity of Thomas Edison. Opening with an alternating woodwind quintet- brass choir section, it quickly moves into a fanfare and theme exposition. Warm rich harmonies underscore a lyric trumpet solo which begins the slower middle section. EXCELLENT!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£71.50The Seventh Day - David Shaffer
Based on the hymn tune "My Shepherd Shall Supply My Need", this fantasia is a musical reflection of the biblical account of The Creation. A powerful programmatic piece that opens with the woodwind choir and as the piece develops the mood shifts to excitement and a feeling of exhilaration. The tension and musical drama is brought to a conclusion only in the last measure as the climax is suspended for a long electric moment with the decay of a single chime tone. Without a doubt this is David Shaffer's most aggressive work to date. Highly Recommended.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£74.99From Whom All Blessings Flow - Ed Huckeby
An impressive concert piece built around a very familiar hymn tune, this wonderful composition is certainly going to enhance Huckeby's already formidable reputation as a dynamic composer of the highest order. Excellent for concert, festival or contest performances, it even comes complete with an opt. choir part! Tremendous from start to finish!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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