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£124.95The History of Mr Polly (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Alwyn, William - Ellerby, Martin
William Alwyn (1905-1985) studied at the Royal Academy of Music where, at the age of 21, he was appointed Professor of Composition - a position he held for nearly thirty years. Apart from his vast output of serious music he contributed nearly 200 scores for the cinema. Starting, mainly with documentaries he wrote his first full feature-length score in 1941.The film, The History of Mr Polly, is based on the novel by H.G. Wells. Mr Polly is a sensitive daydreamer and has a lifestyle leading him into many difficult situations.Alwyn's music portrays many of these calamities and each one is represented as a movement in this suite:The Wedding and Funeral (his father's)FireChristabelPunting SceneUtopian SunsetA truly memorable fulm in every respect.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£87.95The Crimson Pirate (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Alwyn, William - Ellerby, Martin
William Alwyn (1905-1985) studied at the Royal Academy of Music where, at the age of 21, he was appointed Professor of Composition - a position he held for nearly thirty years. Apart from his vast output of serious music he contributed nearly 200 scores for the cinema. Starting, mainly with documentaries he wrote his first full feature-length score in 1941.The Crimson Pirate (1952) has music written in the form of an overture. As the title suggests the film was a swashbuckling adventure with romance thrown in for good measure. As always, Alwyn's music echoed the action on the screen!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£74.95The Million Pound Note (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Alwyn, William - Ellerby, Martin
William Alwyn (1905-1985) studied at the Royal Academy of Music where, at the age of 21, he was appointed Professor of Composition - a position he held for nearly thirty years. Apart from his vast output of serious music he contributed nearly 200 scores for the cinema. Starting, mainly with documentaries he wrote his first full feature-length score in 1941.The Million Pound Note (1953) was based on a story by Mark Twain Set in Victorian times. For the main theme, Alwyn wrote this charming waltz with a stylish Victorian flavour.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£94.95In Search of the Castaways (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Alwyn, William - Ellerby, Martin
William Alwyn (1905-1985) studied at the Royal Academy of Music where, at the age of 21, he was appointed Professor of Composition - a position he held for nearly thirty years. Apart from his vast output of serious music he contributed nearly 200 scores for the cinema. Starting, mainly with documentaries he wrote his first full feature-length score in 1941.In Search of the Castaways (1962) was his third score for the Walt Disney Company, and starred Hayley Mills and Maurice Chevalier. This suite includes a lilty waltz and a lively rumba keeping the percussion section busy!Duration: 5:45
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£94.95Desert Victory (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Alwyn, William - Ellerby, Martin
William Alwyn (1905-1985) studied at the Royal Academy of Music where, at the age of 21, he was appointed Professor of Composition - a position he held for nearly thirty years. Apart from his vast output of serious music he contributed nearly 200 scores for the cinema. Starting, mainly with documentaries he wrote his first full feature-length score in 1941.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£164.95Tristan Encounters (Prestige Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Ellerby, Martin
This work is subtitled Prelude and Transfigurations for Brass, Wind and Percussion. It is derived from Wagner's Prelude to his opera Tristan and Isolde and consists of a series of tableaux-mood pictures which alternate between a romantic idiom and tritone-style aggressive music. The work is cast as a prelude and ensuing set of fourteen variations and is meant to be played as a continuous piece.Grade 5Performance time 16'25''Recorded on QPRM152D MOSAIC: Great British Music for Wind Band Vol.13 (Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra)
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£32.95
Tristan Encounters (Prestige Concert Band - Score only) - Ellerby, Martin
This work is subtitled Prelude and Transfigurations for Brass, Wind and Percussion. It is derived from Wagner's Prelude to his opera Tristan and Isolde and consists of a series of tableaux-mood pictures which alternate between a romantic idiom and tritone-style aggressive music. The work is cast as a prelude and ensuing set of fourteen variations and is meant to be played as a continuous piece.Grade 5Performance time 16'25''Recorded on QPRM152D MOSAIC: Great British Music for Wind Band Vol.13 (Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra)
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£184.95
Summer Nights (French Horn Solo with Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Ellerby, Martin
Six Vignettes for Solo Horn and Concert BandThis 'song-cycle', featuring a solo horn, is based on the same set of poems that inspired Berlioz's Les Nuits d'Ete. The original song cycle is essentially dark, encapsulated by movements of a more lively and positive nature and the essence of this approach has been maintained in this contemporary work: Villanelle; The Ghost of the Rose; On the Lagoons; Absence; At the Cemetery; The Unknown Isle.Performance time 16'15"Recorded on QPRM146D,The Year of the Dragon, Royal Northern College of Music Concert BandF Horn Solo & Piano Accompaniment edition available separately
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£44.95
Summer Nights (French Horn Solo with Concert Band - Score only) - Ellerby, Martin
Six Vignettes for Solo Horn and Concert BandThis 'song-cycle', featuring a solo horn, is based on the same set of poems that inspired Berlioz's Les Nuits d'Ete. The original song cycle is essentially dark, encapsulated by movements of a more lively and positive nature and the essence of this approach has been maintained in this contemporary work: Villanelle; The Ghost of the Rose; On the Lagoons; Absence; At the Cemetery; The Unknown Isle.Performance time 16'15"Recorded on QPRM146D,The Year of the Dragon, Royal Northern College of Music Concert BandF Horn Solo & Piano Accompaniment edition available separately
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£54.95Nessun Dorma (from Turandot) (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Puccini, Giacomo - Ellerby, Martin
Duration: 2:45
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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