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£116.40Little Suite No. 1 - Malcolm Arnold
Sir Malcolm Arnold (1921) put an end to his career as leading trumpeter with several famous London symphony orchestras to become a full-time composer. He became world famous with his soundtrack music for 'The Bridge over the River Kwai', but he composed a lot of orchestral, vocal, ballet and chamber music. He wrote several works for wind band and for brass band, such as three 'Little Suites for Brassband'. The 'Little Suite Number 1' Opus 53 for orchestra (followed by the Second Opus 78) consists of a 'Prelude' (Maestoso), a 'Dance' (Allegretto) and a well-known 'March' (Allegro con brio). The march is still on the concert repertoire of many British military bands.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£76.80Teabreak for Band - David Jackson
In everyday life in Great Britain 'tea-time' plays a rather important role and this is what Jackson tried to suggest in this original wind band composition. Jackson was born in 1957 and graduated from the 'Kneller Hall' military school of music where he studied the oboe, the saxophone, arranging and composing for band. In 1976 he joined the army as a musician with the 'Alamein Staff Band of the Royal Tank Regiment'. He actually conducts several wind bands. We already published his succesful band piece 'Sun-Tan' and here is a new piece that adds some British 'flavour' to the wind band repertoire.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£76.80For My Friend - Jef Penders
Jef Penders, often called 'The Spanish Limburger', lives since many years in the province of Valencia where he is strongly involved in the local musical life. He wrote this fine seguidilla Per al meu Amic (To my Friend) for his good friend Jess Alcntara. The seguidilla is a typical Spanish folkdance in a quick three-four time which was already popular back in the sixteenth century. It is in fact the melodic continuation of the bolero. Penders proves clearly that he understood and adopted the Spanish musical spirit.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£116.40Anacreon Ouverture - Luigi Cherubini
Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842) was one of the leading figures in the musical world of the early nineteenth century, being active as well in Paris, London and Vienna as in his home country Italy. He became the first inspector of the Paris Conservatory of Music where he taught composition from 1816 onwards and was director from 1821 to 1841. Besides his famous 'Requiem in C minor' he wrote some thirty operas, fallen into oblivion except for the overtures, and also several marches for wind band. 'Anacreon' is a ballet-opera in one act written and first performed in 1803. The composition is rather representative for Cherubini's style and boasts several pleasant melodies fitting in a distinct structure. The overture is written in a simple classical style. The introducing largo leads to the central allegro and then the themes are developed in a fascinating way.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£195.30Guggisberg Fantasie - Rob Goorhuis
The composition Guggisberg Fantasie is based on a beloved and well known Swiss folksong. This song from the 17th century tells the sad story of two lovers who can never be together. The girl Verena is married off against her wishes. Simon her lover, has a fight with her rich new husband and ends up believing he has killed his wealthy opponent. To escape punishment he joins the army. When Simon returns, years later, he discovers that Verena has died of a broken heart.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£38.20Hoch und Deutschmeister Marsch - D. Ertl
Dominik Ertl (1857-1911) was subsequently musician, drum major and assistant conductor with the Band of the Austrian Infantry Regiment Number 4, better known as the 'Hoch-und Deutschmeister Regiment'. He was very popular in the fashionable Vienna high society of the last decades of the nineteenth century. He left the army to tour all over Europe with his own orchestra. He composed some ten marches but only the 'Hoch- und Deutschmeister' march became internationally famous. It is of course dedicated to the illustrious regiment and, though considered as the most musical of all Austrian military marches, it never became the official regimental march.
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£38.20Hey Look Me Over - Cy Coleman
Cy Coleman was born in New-York in 1929. As a child prodigy he gave piano recitals at the age of six. Cy wanted to become a concert pianist, but finally got famous as composer, entertainer and producer. He became a television star and composed a lot of music for film and television and also some popular musicals. He was particularly successful at Broadway with 'Barnum', 'Sweet Charity' and 'Wild Cat' (1960). The popular march 'Hey look me over' is extracted from the musical Wild Cat.
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£115.60
Marche pour la crmonie des Turcs - Jean-Baptiste Lully
Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) moved from Italy to Paris and started as a kitchen boy. Alongside he also composed music and was a dancer and actor. He soon became leader of the court orchestra, and wrote music for the parties at the court. At aconcert in 1687 he hit his foot with his conductor pole, got gangrene in the wound and died three months later. Lully is the first known composer of French baroque operas and had great influence on the development of the European music towards theend of the 1600s. Turkish march is used in the 1991 movie "All the mornings of the world" (Tous les matins du monde) starring Grard Depardieu. The action takes place in France in seventeenthcentury where we follow the relationship between the violplayer Marin Marais and his mentor Sainte Colombe.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£104.99
Galileo - Thomas Doss
For this spirited concert march, the creative and lively mind of the great Italian mathematician, physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei, who lived from 1564 to 1642, served as a source of inspiration. Galileo was the founder of experimental thinking in physics, and he made numerous discoveries and formulated many useful theories in this field. His reluctance to unquestioningly accept established authorities and ideas was also typical of his inventive mind. Moreover, Galileo was more accessible to the common people. He tried to encourage them to think for themselves, and he published his research results in the form of dialogues that were easy to understand. This accessibleconcert march - a suitable homage to Galileo - builds a bridge between the musician and the listener.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£89.99Copernicus - Johan Nijs
Polish academic Nicolaus Copernicus was a genius, excelling in the fields of mathematics, physics, law and astronomy. He is most remembered for his then revolutionary model of the solar system. Going against the grain, he put forward the idea that the sun, and not the earth, was the focal point of our solar system and all the planets revolve around it. Despite the initial uproar his ideas caused, he revolutionised science during the 15th century. His influence can still be felt today and despite being separated by many centuries, Copernicus inspired composer Johan Nijs to write this exciting piece for concert band.
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