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£47.50Farandole - Francois Dorion
Featuring snare drum and flutes at the start Farandole (traditional French dance) is sure to be a fun piece for your beginning students. The catchy melody is passed around to each section of the band, and cleverly scored with simple rhythms and very limited ranges. The First Concepts Series features simplified instrumentations, unison bass lines, optional advanced snare drum parts, and optional piano accompaniments.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£47.50The Magic Mirror - Robert Buckley
Looking at a perfectly still body of water, images appear right side up and upside down at the same time. The Magic Mirror creates this illusion with upper and lower instrument groups moving in contrary motion. Effective even for beginners, this piece sounds more advanced than it is, and everyone gets a chance to play melody! The First Concepts Series features simplified instrumentations, unison bass lines, optional advanced snare drum parts, and optional piano accompaniments.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£42.50Cool Moose - Francois Dorion
Although usually calm and peaceful, the moose can also be fast and aggressive, and is most certainly a cool beast! With an industrial rock feel, Cool Moose features simple tutti rhythms and lots of fun variety for the percussion section. The First Concepts Series features simplified instrumentations, unison bass lines, optional advanced snare drum parts, and optional piano accompaniments.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£38.50The Blue Iguana - Robert Longfield
Here is a solid teaching piece for beginning bands featuring an infectious rhythmic groove and a contemporary Latin feel. The tuneful melody is passed around to all sections, and the percussion section is featured throughout. The First Concepts Series features simplified instrumentations, unison bass lines, optional advanced snare drum parts, and optional piano accompaniments.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£38.50Merrifield March - Michael Oare
Composed for first-year players, Michael's attractive easy march gives every section of the band something interesting to play, and includes a nice variety in scoring and dynamic contrasts. A perfect introduction to march style. The First Concepts Series features simplified instrumentations, unison bass lines, optional advanced snare drum parts, and optional piano accompaniments.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£72.99Raven (The Trickster) - Bob Baker
From a song shared by Squamish First Nation artist and performer Bob Baker, comes this distinctive work for concert band shaped by Robert Buckley that will allow your students to experience the music of one of North America'sFirst Peoples. Raven flows from a playful pentatonic melody and uses falloffs to imitate the original vocal style of the Eagle Song Dancers.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£72.70Welcome to the City of Friends - Carl Christian Hamre
"The City of Friends" is a Norwegian animation series for children that was broadcasted on TV2 in Norway for the first time in 2011. The story was created by police officer Carl Christian Hamre. It's inspired by children's fascination with the emergency services. The three main characters in "The City of Friends" are the monkey "Apa" (Police), the elephant "Elfie" (Fire Brigade) and the bear "Ted" (Emergency Ambulance). Your young musicians will find it fun to play the title song "Welcome to the City of Friends" from the hugely popular TV-series!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£79.99Finale from Symphony No. 5 - Ludwig van Beethoven
The year 2020 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven. While the first movement of his famous fifth symphony is more often performed, the majestic and triumphant finale beautifully exemplifies thecraftsmanship and genius of one of the greatest composers of all time. Slightly truncated in form, this masterful adaptation for concert band still retains the thematic material, power, and excitement found in the original.(MusicWorks)
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£91.99March Prelude: Alnwick Town - Philip Sparke
March Prelude: Alnwick Town was commissioned by the Alnwick Playhouse Concert Band (with Ray Thompson as conductor) to celebrate their first 25 years. It opens majestically with answering phrases between various sections of the band, leading to a faster march-like section its main theme echoes the rhythms of the opening material. A bridge passage featuring snippets for saxophones and trumpets leads to a new theme, more legato in nature and repeated after a change of key. The bridge passage returns to herald a restatement of the main theme before the opening material reappears to close the work with a flourish.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£144.99The Air Race - Otto M. Schwarz
In 1934, the city of Melbourne celebrated its centenary and marked the occasion with the MacRobertson International Air Race. KLM's entry was its first DC-2, PH-AJU 'Uiver' (Stork), which took off on 20 October 1934. Shortly before the finish, the plane had to make an emergency landing due to poor weather conditions. The following morning, the entire town turned out to dig the aircraft out of the mud, enabling to resume its flight. Nonetheless, the distance was covered in three days, 18 hours and 17 minutes: a winning performance! This programmatic piece tells the story describing the start of the engines in bar one, the flight over the clouds, the thunderstorm, theemergency landing and many more scenes!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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