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£267.99Five Elizabethan Dances from 'Romeo & Juliet' - Don Freund
Five Elizabethan Dances is drawn from the music that sets the scene and provides the accompaniment for the Ballroom Scene from Don Freund's Romeo and Juliet: A Shakespearean Music Drama for singing actors and piano. The style of the dances is freely drawn from dances found in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (music from ca. 1562 to 1612), spiced up with changing meters and chromatic twists of melody and harmony reflecting a more recent musical language. Each of the dances represents a pivotal scene-within-a-scene. Excludes part doubling: 2+1.2+EH(opt).3+EbCl+BCl+CltoCl(opt).2+Cbsn(opt): AATB Saxes: 3.4.3.2Euph.2 Tuba: Perc(5)
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£339.99Ensemble Concepts for Band - Value Pak
Introducing the first-ever curriculum for high school band! Essential Musicianship for Band is the perfect tool to assist your ensemble in developing the skills needed to read, rehearse, and perform band repertoire with precision and artistry. Using proven methods for superior sound production and ensemble technique, your students will transform printed notes into a meaningful musical experience. Fits easily into the traditional concert band setting. Ensemble Concepts is designed to help ensembles to acquire maximum performance skills while increasing overall musicianship. Every aspect of ensemble development is introduced individually, in developmental order, then combined for more advanced practice. Also available in the Essential Musicianship curriculum: Masterwork Studies (HL00960078 - 00960095) focuses on six landmark compositions for band (score/parts not included). Two CD-ROMs are included, featuring: 1. Exemplary recordings of each work, performed by some of the world's finest ensembles 2. Practice loops on the more difficult passages for each individual instrument, including tempo adjustment software, on-screen assessment, and a built-in metronome 3. Scale, arpeggio, and articulation studies in all keys Ensemble Concepts - Fundamental Level (HL00960110 - 00960127) Ensemble Concepts - Intermediate Level (HL00960129 - 00960146)
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£76.99Music from O Brother, Where Art Thou?
In a quirky retelling of Homer's The Odyssey, this recent movie from Joel and Ethan Coen is set in Mississippi in 1937. The musical style is early country/folk/bluegrass, and Michael Brown's concert band setting is unique and inviting. Includes: Down to the River to Pray, I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow, Keep on the Sunny Side, and I'll Fly Away. For added flavor, use the optional guitar/banjo parts.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£64.99Highlights from Dreamgirls - Henry Krieger
Even before the blockbuster movie of 2006, this musical was a hit on Broadway. Featuring a driving pulse and memorable tunes, Jay's energetic arrangement includes Dreamgirls, And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going and Move (You're Stepping on My Heart).
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£60.99Coronation scene from Boris Godounoff - Modest Mussorgsky
This powerful movement for band is taken from a spectacular scene of Moussorgsky's famous opera. It is superbly arranged for band by Barbara Buehlman, widely respected for her skilled arrangements and transcriptions of masterworks for band. A stately processional, Coronation Scene features brilliant orchestration creating dramatic expression and ceaseless musical excitement.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£53.50Valley of Fire - Michael Sweeney
A majestic brass fanfare unveils the start of this new, exciting work for young bands. Once again Michael Sweeney's flair for innovative writing for young bands will ensure this piece's success with your students, giving them both musical and learning experience.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£57.50Millennium: A Reflection - John Higgins
Here is an accessible contemporary band work which reflects upon the 1,000 years of western musical culture, and explores the mysterious emotions of the changing Millennium. Recurring throughout the work is a plainsong melody written near the dawn of music notation deep in the middle ages. Sure to be an intriguing work to concert audiences and students, it also represents a refreshing choice for festival use.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£53.50South African Suite - John Higgins
From the composer of Pueblo and Black Wolf Run comes yet another outstanding piece for younger bands. This new suite is based on the simple, diatonic melodies that come from the rich musical culture of South Africa. John employs African sounding percussion and other unique effects to keep students interested and excited to perform something new and different.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£64.99Home Stretch - Leroy Anderson
Here's the perfect encore from the legendary writer of light concert music, Leroy Anderson. With an occasional 3/4 bar thrown in for musical grins, Home Stretch is a tuneful gallop that makes a delightful ending to a great concert.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£60.99Songs Of Heritage - Clifton Williams
Clifton Williams' final legacy for band, Songs of Heritage, was outlined in score form upon his demise in 1976. Conceived as a tribute to the composers and musicians among our forebears, the composition is indigenous of the fife and drum corps, the cakewalk, the shuffle dance, and the ballads of Stephen Foster. In a contemporary band idiom, it also reflects the present day trends in America's musical life.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days