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£101.50
Slavic Scherzo (Furiant) - Joseph Compello
Inspired by the Slavonic Dances of Czech master Antonin Dvork, Joseph Compello has written his own Furiant, a Bohemian dance, usually in triple meter with frequently shifting accents. This dazzling little original piece makes much of the contrast between 6/8 and 3/4. This variety of rhythmic pulse gives the piece tremendous energy and momentum. Slavic Scherzo is a selection that will energize the band and delight the audience in equal measure.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£65.50
Scottish Bobber - Larry Clark
Bobber in the old Scots language is the word for a dance. The piece is an original composition for developing bands in a Scottish style. It contains all of the typically Larry Clark compositional techniques that you have come to know and your students have come to love.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£123.95
Indiana
Give your group a chance to sound like a classic big band in the style of Glenn Miller with Indiana, a fun, brash new piece in the swing style. If you're looking for repertoire for a pops concert or for your community band's performance, Jerry Nowak has just the ticket. You'll be sure to get people on the dance floor with this one.
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£84.50
Juba - Kevin Mixon
Based on a type of African dance, Juba is a tuneful, funky piece with tons of percussion and some great solo opportunities for your young players to improvise. Add in some hambone clapping, stomping and yelling and you have all the ingredients to change up the pace of your concert program. Bravo, Kevin Mixon!
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£64.99
Appalachia - Stephen Bulla
Along a corridor of the northeastern USA lie the sprawling Appalachian Mountains. Their colourful folklore is the subject of the composer's impression in this piece. The themes make playful references to characteristic folk and square dance melodies. Be sure to listen for the 'fiddler' tuning up.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£164.99
Four Colonial Country Dances - James Curnow
Throughout the colonial period in America, country dancing was the principal recreation of all social classes. Americans had inherited this tendency from Elizabethan England, and many continental Europeans also took up English country dancing as their own. Four Colonial Country Dances feature country dance tunes that were indigenous to New England and particularly to the Boston area.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£122.50
Down From The Shimmering Sky - James Curnow
A concert "centerpiece", this major work from James Curnow explores the spiritual perspectives of the First Nations of the Pacific Northwest in North America. The five movements investigate the "Cosmos" and its four "Worlds". With such complete contrasts as "The Undersea World" and the ceremonial dance in "The Mortal World", an authentic First Nations melody in "The Spirit World" and the ethos of "The Sky World", the wonders are many. Your performance of "Down From The Shimmering Sky" will be meaningful and memorable for musicians and audience alike. This is a landmark piece for concert band.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£99.99The Nutty Nutcracker - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Imagine Tchaikovsky on a vacation trip that was arranged by a really, really bad travel agent. That, in a "nutshell", describesThe Nutty Nutcracker. This humorous style parody of what may arguably be some of the best-known melodies on the planetis a certain crowd pleaser. Everybody knows the tunes, but not like THIS! The Arabian Tango; The Chinese Hoedown; TheWaltz of the Mariachi Flowers; The Dance of the Klezmer Clarinets and MORE. You get the idea! Great fun for everyone.You'llwant to use Mike Hannickel's A Nutty Nutcracker again and again.Whoops! Where are we?
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£149.99
Ritual - Jan Hadermann
Ritual, a work for large concert band, describes the atmosphere during a pagan ceremonial offering. The tension of the approaching ritual, softly supported by a mysterious percussion accompaniment, slowly builds and leads to an enticing dance. This precedes the height of the ritual, the pagan sacrifice. Following the sacrifice the peace seems to be restored until suddenly a surprising final turn ends Ritual.
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£154.99
Symphonic Variations - Jacob de Haan
This composition is based on a passacaglia theme, in which artistic perfection, symphonic drama and oriental melody lines play a role. The passacaglia is originally a dance made up of a series of variations above a bass line constantly present as an ostinato. It is not in this sense that the "Symphonic Variations" are in the passacaglia form but in the sense of the open form of the variations. Jacob de Haan, himself originally an organist, took his inspiration for this piece from the famous passacaglia for organ in C-minor by J.S. Bach. Following the introduction of the passacaglia theme (in the bass) the entry by the trumpets and trombones forms the majestic start to amusical adventure, in which this theme (often fragmentary) returns in variations. Then there follow two faster movements with dramatic contrasts and virtuose passages. Particularly striking here is the use of two characteristic intervals from the beginning of the theme namely the minor second and the augmented fourth. An apause in the composition comes in the slow bridge where a syncopated bourdon (perfect fifth) is constantly repeated. The tension grows in dynamics and harmony, and the oriental-flavour becomes obvious in the melody. We arrive at a faster movement via an accelerando, in which a perpetuum mobile based on the passacaglia theme is central. Finally the whole flows into a martial theme, in which the ostinato accompaniment n the descant derives from the passacaglia theme.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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