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£67.50
Conquerors - Timothy Johnson
Heroic themes imbue this fine new overture with an inspirationalquality. The valiant nature of CONQUERORS secures it a place in almost any venue, from concert opener to graduation piece. Minor and major keys with plenty of articulation and dynamic considerations make it an ideal overture for your young band's festival participation.Timothy Johnson demonstrates his great understanding of young bands through his careful and appropriate orchestration. The overture is accessible to young bands but never loses momentum and has enough challenge to keep everyone focused. You'll want to add this spirited piece to your basic music library.
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£72.95
Fughetta
Taken from piano repertoire, arranger Andrew Balent uses his long career of experience to provide bands with an exceptional teaching piece. Fughetta acts as an introduction to the Baroque style, and also teaches young students how to play contrapuntal music, a difficult and important skill. This piece has great potential for inclusion on contest/festival required lists.
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£60.00Pre-Goodman Rag. Wind band - Malcolm Arnold
Malcolm Arnold's 'Clarinet Concerto No. 2, Op. 115', was dedicated to Benny Goodman, and first performed by him as part of the 'Red Rocks Music Festival' with the Denver Symphony Orchestra conducted by Brian Priestman on 17 August1974. The third movement, known affectionately as 'The Pre-Goodman Rag', is an outrageous ragtime parody with a hauntingly wistful middle section. The work has now been made more widely available in this transcription for windband. This version conmtains full score and parts.
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£45.95
Danse Antiqua - Chris Sharp
Inspired by the music of Frank Erickson, Chris Sharp offers this overture with a renaissance quality to it. The melody moves effectively between the different choirs as the piece develops. In addition, Chris provides some contrasts in style throughout. Very easy to put together, and ideal for concert or festival.
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£87.50
The Abduction from the Seraglio - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
This Mozart transcription from Robert Longfield is excellent for teaching style as it retains the character of the original version. A sensitively scored middle section provides some wonderful exposure to chamber music and is an ideal addition to any concert or festival performance.
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£235.95Spring Serenade - Eric Ewazen
Spring Serenade was written for Butler University Wind Ensemble's Robert Greschesky and a 2006 wind ensemble music festival hosted by the school. The work brims with lively themes, rich chorales, lyrical lines and fanfarish gestures, all celebrating the beautiful, rich colors inherent in the glorious sounds of wind instruments, says the composer.
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£286.40Fourth Symphony - Alfred Reed
Commissioned for the World Music Festival in Kerkrade, Holland, in July 1993, this work was completed in the summer of 1992, with the composer reading the final proofs in November of that year. The music is in three movements, an opening Elegy built largely on a gentle, insisting, basic rhythm first heard in the flutes under the main theme in the oboe. These two motifs are developed through all of the colours of the wind band, at times sorrowful and song-like, and at other times highly dramatic in character, before the movement finally settles down to a soft close on an E minor chord after having been heard mainly as non-tonal in structure and feeling throughout. The second movement, by way of contrast, a gracious Intermezzo, is developed from a quiet, lilting theme with just a touch of Latin flavour, featuring the woodwind colours of the band cast in 5/8 meter through much of the texture. Joining the wind and soft percussion colours here is the harp, which at times seems almost to be sounding as a large Spanish guitar strumming accompaniments to the various melodic lines. The third movement, again as a major contrast to what has come before, is a fiery Tarantella, drawing on a fugal-like theme that is developed with all of the virtuosity inherent in the modern, fully integrated wind group, and which sweeps along relentlessly to a final, brilliant conclusion both as to its own movement and the work as a whole.
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£149.40I Byen Samarkand - Nordstoga
Odd Nordstoga is an award winning Norwegian artist who has been active since the 1990's, working in the popular-/folk music genre. I have listened to a lot of Odd Nordstogas music, in particular the Heim te mor-album. When preparing for Asky Brass Band's participation at Siddis Brass in 2008, I came across I byen Samarkand, another of Nordstogas tunes. This was from the Pilegrim album. I thought it had an exciting mix of expressions and included it in the band's repertoire for the Siddis Brass competiton. Pilegrim was initially a commision by the Bergen International Festival back in 2005, based on lyrics by author Ragnar Hovland and Odd Nordstoga's music. -Svein H. Giske -
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£78.95
Japanese Pictures - Kevin Mixon
Japanese Pictures draws inspiration from both traditional and modern Japanese music. The harmonies are western as suggested by the accompanying melodies, and the percussion is styled to give the sounds of a taiko drum ensemble. Young bands will find this piece intriguing and different. Use this work as part of your multi-cultural approach to teaching music appreciation. Also a good choice for contest or festival performance.
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£64.99Pegasus - James Curnow
A new and different approach to the young band overture! This engaging grade 1 1/2 composition is a wonderful contrast to whatever you program for your concert or festival appearance. Quality music at this level is educationally critical but has heretofore been hard to find. The bridge between grade 1 and grade 2 literature also acts as the pathway from "beginner" music to truly expressive band compositions. James Curnow's Pegasus will help you move your band in the right direction. You may also wish to use Pegasus as a cross-curricular connection with other disciplines.Solid!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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