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£49.00Silent Midwinter's Noel
This fantasia on three traditional Christmas carol uses Bleak Midwinter, Silent Night and The First Noel as its foundation. Written in accessible keys to help students achieve excellent intonation, the arrangement also helps players perform with their instrument's characteristic sound. Careful attention to the harmonic cadences will also teach performers about tension and resolution and its place in musical expression. A perfect complement to a faster holiday selection, this carol-based arrangement with a modern setting will be a favorite with all.
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£68.00Passacaglia and Interlude - Gerald Sebesky
Gerald Sebesky brings us back to an era for style and form of the past, but with a modern sound. Not dissonant, but changing time meters, and counterpoint all within the Grade 4 performance level.First trumpet's highest note is B flat.
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£49.00Deck the Hall
Looking for a more challenging holiday flex arrangement? Featuring contemporary harmonies and rhythms to present an old favorite in a new way, this arrangement fits the bill. Using a fanfare-like ostinato and modern harmonic structures combined with the traditional melody, use this to present "Deck the Halls" in a new way while teaching contemporary interpretations and techniques.
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£64.00Deep Winter's Night
Beginning with percussion and dissonant chords, this setting of The First Noel quickly moves to a beautiful flute duet. With a freely adapted melody using rhythmic motives, tone clusters, and creative alterations of the main thematic material, this piece although holiday oriented will work well in many performance situations. Every section plays the melody at some point and with modern compositional styles mixed with traditional chorale will engage performers and audiences alike. A great choice for holiday and Christmas concerts.
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£68.00The Quest
Taking the listener on an epic musical journey, this modern composition with strong melodic lines, expanded percussion opportunities, and moments of musical reflection will challenge and develop your Grade 3 band's expressive and technical abilities. Featuring several tempo changes, this is an excellent festival or contest programming choice that also works as a concert opener or closer.
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£68.00Bandology - Eric Osterling
Using rich, full dance band chords and interesting rhythms, this standard of school and community bands for over 50 years, has been re-edited and corrected with the modern concert band in mind. A stop-time section for brass and percussion and a pleasingly lyrical trio have made this light concert march a perennial audience and performer favorite. This new edition will be a valuable addition to any band's library.
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£57.00The Corcoran Cadets March
Written in 1890, this early Sousa march is a great exercise in rhythmic precision and dynamic contrast. Rearranged and technically adjusted for the modern concert band from the original Carl Fischer publication, this march really flies!
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£38.00Achieve
The march style is important to the heritage of the modern concert band. Why not get beginners off to a great start by teaching them this essential band style as early as possible?Achieveuses only the first six notes of the Bb-major scale and utilizes two repeated eighth notes as the most difficult rhythm. It is written in traditional march form and style, but without modulation in the trio.
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£72.00Black Light
Black lightis defined as infrared or ultraviolet light which is invisible to the naked eye. The idea of an entire spectra existing out of the range of human perception was a large influencing factor for George Sweet in the composition of this piece.Richly scored for the modern concert band,Black Light is written in a post-minimalist style and is also heavily influenced by the work of American composers Steve Reich, John Adams, and Philip Glass.
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£94.00Clarinet on the Town - Ralph Hermann
Clarinet on the Town is a modern novelty clarinet solo of medium difficulty. It begins with a bright, romping section, going next to a blues section, and finally returning to the first theme with a real curtain-raising" coda. Its capricious character makes this a good encore number." (Program note)
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days