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£49.50First Decree - R.W. Smith
A joyous and authoritative opening statement for the beginning band! Beginning with a flourish of woodwinds and metallic percussion, the brass section follows with a musical fanfare conveying confidence and pride in the band's newfound musical skills. The percussion section provides a bold response completing the features of each instrumental family in the concert band. Composed using the first six notes introduced in most band methods, "First Decree" is an accessible and musical showcase for your beginning band.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£63.99Top Secret! - Larry Neeck
With all of the mystery, suspense and intrigue that you would expect from a title like this, Larry Neeck delivers on all three. Your students will love the musical setting while learning multiple musical skills and concepts along the way. This musical mission, should you choose to accept it, will be a favorite at any concert performance.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£50.50Ultimatum - Robert W. Smith
Ultimatum, Robert W. Smith's exhilarating contribution to the young band repertoire, focuses the energy and intensity of our developing musicians into one powerful musical statement. Featuring a melody that students will be practicing "over and over" on their own, the composer draws upon multiple musical styles to create this unique musical work. Using both traditional and contemporary compositional techniques, Ultimatum is sure to be the favorite of performer and audience alike.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£53.95
Ancient Duel - Mekealian
Prepare for musical combat! The competitors? Metal instruments vs. wooden instruments. Sounds of wooden swords battling metal and stone set the scene of an epic battle. The contrasting musical elements work together to create a musical melee that draws the audience into the fray. Call and response sections provide a fun and exciting method for reinforcing rhythmic accuracy and tempo discipline.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£53.95
Scaling The Mountains Of Time - Robert W. Smith
Scaling a mountain requires courage, strength and fortitude. Scaling our musical mountains as our young bands develop their skills requires the same commitment to strength, perseverance and excellence. This masterful composition reinforces fundamental technique through musical scales in an exciting statement for the beginning concert band. Powerful percussion interacting with soaring melodic lines create an engaging and pedagogically rich opportunity for all. The band also has the opportunity to experience and perform mixed meters as they journey to the musical summit. A powerful choice for educationally rich programming!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£66.30
Fanfares in Remembrance - Peadar Townsend
Fanfares in Remembrance was commissioned by Nick Jarvis, Principal conductor of the Band of the Royal British Legion, Christchurch, Dorset, UK to be premiered during the Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium on May 27th, 2017. The work is a short reflection two World War One bugle calls, 'The General Salute' and 'Retreat' or 'Sunset' as it is also known. The significance and symbolism of bugle calls from this era are well known and they are still used in Barracks across the world. I have used sections of these famous British bugle calls on two trumpets either side of the band playing in two different musical keys. The band then plays an intermittent low drone like chord, again in a different musical key to the two trumpets. In my mind this opening depicts two buglers at dawn at either end of a misty field directly after a brutal slaughter. The two buglers are almost calling out for their missing comrades only to realise they are gone...... The work moves into a haunting oboe melody signifying loss. The oboe is joined by the full band in a tune of strength, solidarity, yet profound sadness. The work concludes with a recap of the opening idea; however, the two buglers are now united in musical key sounding 'The General Salute'. The music ends as the wind blows gently. The memories live on forever......
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£214.80Figures Sonores - Henk Badings
Figures Sonores was composed in 1984 at the request of the World Music Contest Kerkrade. It was used as test piece in the 'concert division' at the 1985 contest. The board of the WMC asked Badings to write a new type of test piece, stressing the musical contents and its delivery rather than technical difficulties. Moreover the composition was not to exceed a duration of ten minutes. The latter really disturbed the composer as he felt he could not really develop completely his musical ideas. The three parts are played without any interruption. The lyrical, pathetical first part is followed by a solemn middle part in which the percussion has a preponderant role, and a virtuoso and whimsical finale concludes the work. According to the commission the musical expression dominates in all solo passages, that occur in all instrumental groups.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£121.70The Highlights from Elisabeth - Michael Kunze
The life of the Austrian empress Elisabeth (1837-1898) which started as a fairy tale but ended as a tragedy, inspired the librettist Michael Kunze and the composer Silvester Levay to write a musical based on the life of the popular 'Sissi'. The musical was premiered in Vienna on 3 September 1992 and was very successful for many years. The story is told by Luigi Lucheni, Elisabeth's murderer. So death, represented by a mysterious and seductive young man, is omnipresent throughout the musical. Several songs have become hits and, of course, you can hear them in this fine selection by Peter Kleine Schaars who gathered various music and dance styles such as the rock shuffle, the jazz waltz and the classical Viennese waltz.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£116.40Bound Sketches - Rolf Hoogenberg
I Prelude (start)II Landscape ( measure 17)III Crowded and Urbanization (measure 68)In case of lack of time or potential technical problems, it is possible to skip the third part. One can make a straight jump from measure 65 to measure 109.In 'Bound Sketches' the composer links two musical sketches Waterland by means of the theme of the prelude.Rolf Hoogenberg was born at Middenmeer (Province of Northern Holland) in The Netherlands in 1984. At nine he started studying the trombone with Wim de Vreugd at the Waterland music school. Since September 2001 he has been studying trombone and wind band conducting at the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music.For the 1998/1999 Musical Olympics he composed a work for Fanfare band, called 'Townscape' about Purmerend, the small town where he lives. With this composition he did not only win those Musical Olympics, but was also warded the NIB (Dutch Wind Music Institute) Prize for the best wind band composition of that season. The composer Johan de Meij handed him the prize during the ABCO concert on 12 December 1999.'Bound Sketches' was commissioned by the Waterland Music Festival for its 50th anniversary. By means of this commission, the festival foundation hopes to stimulate wind band music in the Waterland area.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£113.30Moderate Dances - Angelo Sormani
This piece is a tribute to dance music, especially passionate, intense and meditative dance music. "Moderate Dances" is divided into three movements: a "Tango", a "Slow Waltz" and a "Bossa Nova". Each movement and each dance has its own particular characteristics but, when combined, these different rhythmic beats and times give the piece a feeling of completeness and uniformity. The Tango started to flourish in the suburbs of Buenos Aires in around 1880. There is still some doubt as to its origins, which may be Cuban (Habanera) but are probably African. It was most popular in Argentina and Brazil: here the male protagonist was originally the "gaucho" with his inseparable guitar, later to be replaced by the proud, elegant "compadre". By around 1910 the Tango had spread to Italy and France. New clubs opened, where the upper classes could watch and dance the Tango. Here the dance also underwent some rapid transformations. The exaggerated and extravagant gestures and body movements disappeared. Slow, gliding steps replaced the old rotational movements. The women's red ankle-boots and the partners "staring into each other's eyes" accentuated the erotic nature and sensuality of this dance. So much so that, in 1913, the German government banned soldiers from dancing the Tango. Those who broke the law were immediately discharged from the army. From a strictly musical perspective, the basic instruments were a flute, a harp (the diatonic harp typically played by the Indians of Paraguay) and a violin, or flute, guitar and violin or even clarinet, guitar and violin. These instruments were easy to transport, ideal for playing at parties, in the streets and in courtyards. The musicians played by ear, frequently improvising: there were no scores, no records, which is the main reason why it is impossible to trace the Tango back to its exact origins. However, the Tango's evolution (and growing popularity) was once again fostered by its fundamental ability to absorb "other" cultures, languages and sounds. And it was the arrival of the "bandoneon" (an accordion-like instrument that was invented in Germany and brought to Rio de la Plata by some immigrant), which replaced the flute, that marked the beginning of the Tango's huge success outside Argentina. A number of talented composers, above all the great Astor Piazzola (1921-1992), transformed the bandoneon from a simple accompanying instrument to a solo instrument that was to become the distinguishing feature of the 20th century Tango. The Slow Waltz originated from the Waltz, the typical dance of the Bavarian and Tyrolese peasants in the 1700s. It was composers like Johann Strauss, father and son, who carried the Waltz to its zenith in the 1800s, creating the sensual and melancholy yet joyful and charming dance we are all familiar with. When the Waltz first became popular in Germany, the members of respectable society were shocked at the closeness of the dancing partners, who had always previously danced apart. The main difference between the Waltz and Slow Waltz is that the latter has a slower, more expressive rhythm: the men wear tails and the women wear ball gowns decorated with beads and feathers and couples dance in graceful rotational movements. "Bossa Nova" is the title of the last movement in the piece. Jobim, the great Brazilian musician, described this musical genre as a combination of modern Jazz and Samba. Bossa Nova means "new wave". This was the name of the artistic and musical movement that evolved in Brazil in the late Fifties and was extremely popular throughout the Sixties. The songs are usually about love or social matters, drawing inspiration from the slums of Rio De Janeiro and the lives of their inhabitants. Bossa Nova, with its original compositions and the artistic talent of its musicians, also became hugely popular in the United States and Europe, and top Jazz musicians (Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz, Bob Cooper, Charlie Bird, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, Dizzy Gillespie) started to include Bossa in their repertoires.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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