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£55.00Wenceslas March (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Bankston, Brian
Are you looking for a beginning band opener for your next holiday concert? Brian Bankston's new arrangement of the traditional English Christmas carol "Good King Wenceslas" is masterfully scored using limited ranges in all instruments. This is a perfect setting to introduce the march style to your young musicians. Duration: 2.00
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£75.00Once in Royal David's City (Concert Band with Optional Choir - Score and Parts) - Noble & Willcocks
Once in Royal David's City is a Christmas carol originally written as a poem by Cecil Frances Alexander. The carol was first published in 1848 in her hymnbook Hymns for Little Children. A year later, the English organist Henry John Gauntlett discovered the poem and set it to music. According to The New Oxford Book of Carols, the text was conceived by Cecil Alexander after overhearing a group of her god children complaining about the dreariness of the catechism. Cecil masterfully took doctrines from the Apostle's Creed and simplified them for her hymns. Cecil wrote about 400 hymns in her lifetime, among which are All things bright and beautiful and There Is a Green Hill Far Away. She used the money for charitable purposes, and was a tireless advocate (and visitor) of the poor and sick. Henry John Gauntlett had spent the first half of his career as a lawyer before abandoning his practice to pursue music. He served as the organist at a number of leading London churches. Gauntlett was a prolific writer and is said to have composed over 1000 hymn tunes. He made tremendous contributions to the world of music, even inventing mechanical improvements to the organ. As a result, he was praised by the famous Felix Mendelssohn and was awarded an honorary doctorate in music from the Archbishop of Canterbury. In 1919, Arthur Henry Mann, organist at King's College (1876-1929), introduced an arrangement of Once in Royal David's City as the processional hymn for the service. In his version, the first stanza is sung unaccompanied by a boy chorister. The choir and then the congregation join in with the organ on succeeding stanzas. This has been the tradition ever since. It is a great honor to be the boy chosen to sing the opening solo--a voice heard literally around the world. In this arrangement for band accompaniment, the first five verses may be performed as directed by the conductor, with different groupings of instruments for each verse, i.e., Vs.1, A cappella; Vs. 2, Fl., Oboe, E.H., Bsns; Vs. 3 Cl., Saxes; Vs. 4, Brass; Vs. 5, All, and Vs. 6 as written with featured descant. This arrangement is one of the Series of Band Arrangements compatible with the David Willcocks Carols for Choir, Book 2 (#31).
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£75.00Diminished Minor Alterations (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Lovrien, David
The newest addition to our wildly popular "Minor Alterations" series is scored for younger bands, yet it retains all the humor and excitement of the Grade 5 version! It's a game of holiday hide-and-seek for your audience where favorite Christmas tunes are transposed from major to minor keys then disguised, layered and morphed even more. How many can you name? From the ominous introductory Deck the Halls to the final, frenzied Nutcracker Suite finale, each tune is lovingly twisted into something new and inventive. Duration: 4.15
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£85.00Rejoice and Sing! (Concert Band with Optional Choir - Score and Parts) - Rutter, John - Noble, Paul
Rejoice and sing! was written in celebration of the 95th birthday of Sir David Willcocks. John Rutter writes: I was delighted to be asked by OUP to compose a new carol in his honour. Writing 'Rejoice and sing!' I recalled the many happy Christmas concerts he conducted with the Bach Choir in London's Royal Albert Hall, thinking also of his fondness for quirky rhythms, hence the lopsided 7/8 which runs through much of the music. This arrangement is written for combined Concert Band and Chorus, but may be performed by band alone. It is compatible with the original version except that it is transposed down by one-half step (semi-tone).
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£53.95Saxes We Have Heard on High (Saxophone Feature with Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Story, Michael
Your beginning saxes lead the way. Craftily scored by Michael Story, there are only two divis for your alto saxophones supporting their Christmas feature. Remove the angels and replace them with your saxes. This is a charismatic new setting of the cherished French carol.Duration: 2:15
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£84.50Fantasia on Greensleeves (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Vaughan Williams, Ralph - Wagner, Douglas E.
Most recently used as a part of the royal wedding service, this arrangement is certain to add an inviting, lush selection to your winter concert that will warm the hearts of all! Douglas Wagner's cherished new rendition of this time-honoured classic is sure to be a welcomed addition to the standard Christmas repertoire.Duration: 5.00
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£99.99Ukrainian Bell Carol (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Leontovych, Mykola Dmytrovich - Sparke, Philip
The Ukrainian Bell Carol is part of a large choral work entitled Shchedryk by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Dmytrovich Leontovych (1877-1921). It was first performed by students of Kiev University in December 1916. The tune is an adaptation of an old 'shchedrivka', a song traditionally sung on Ukrainian New Year's Eve (January 13th) which hopes for good fortune in the year to come. In Shchedryk, Leontovych added his own the lyrics which concern the legend claiming that when Jesus was born, all the bells on earth started ringing in his honour. The tune has since been the inspiration of at least four different Christmas carols, but Philip Sparke has sourced the original Ukrainian melody to create this stirring arrangement.Duration: 3:00
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£54.99The Chipmunk Song (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Bagdasarian, Ross - Ricketts, Ted
Here's a new twist on this Christmas novelty classic. In the middle of this well-known waltz, there is a surprise feature for kazoos! Easy to learn, this one will certainly be the talk of your concert.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£64.50Fanfare and Processional on an Old English Carol (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Smith, Robert W.
Based on the English carol "Adeste Fidelis," this sparkling new setting was written as an opener for a Christmas concert. With Robert W. Smith's highly inventive trademark use of percussion and soaring wind lines, this work will effectively launch any concert performance. Highest energy!Duration: 3:15
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£84.99Es ist ein Ros Entsprungen (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Praetorius, Michael - Schwarz, Otto M.
The many sided and productive Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) is known as a composer of dance music, sacred music and music for the advent and Christmas time. He worked as Kapelmeister to the court at Wolffenbuttel, but he was also asked to serve in other places, including Dresden. Praetorius was valued for the new impulses he gave to music by means of his use of instrumental accompaniment. His main contribution is his theoretical work "Syntagma Musicum", one of the most important musical reference books, in connection with instruments and instrumentation in the early 17th Century. "Es ist ein ros entsprungen" is a well known ancient melody which has inspired numerous composers and arrangers throughout the Centuries. Otto M. Schwarz has made a choral arrangement.Duration: 3:00
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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