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£71.50At Ease! - Matt Conaway
Personal stories from two generations of servicemen led to this charming and unique trumpet trio. Written in honor of the composer's grandfather, this setting represents the atmosphere in the barracks "after hours" when the soldiers aren't quite as gung-ho as usual. Unfortunately, inspections can happen without warning, and the troops quickly assemble, clean up their bunks, and display their staunch military discipline... until the officer leaves, and life can return to normal. With just minor tempo adjustments, this delightful piece is effective for players and audiences of all ages. A great, light-hearted bit of fun for your next concert!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£65.99A World Holiday Celebration - Robert W. Smith
Featuring music celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Ramadan, "A World Holiday Celebration" is a unique medley for the concert band. Programmable in any educational setting, the arrangement features melody and ethnic percussion from multiple cultures celebrating the holiday season. Beginning with an introduction based on "We Wish You A Merry Christmas", the arrangement continues with a setting of "Oh Hanukkah" featuring the saxophones. "Sounds of Ramadan" follows representing cultures of the middle east. An African percussion ensemble serves as the accompaniment for Kwanzaa, a chant featuring the seven principles of the holiday celebration. The winds return with "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" as the entire percussion section continues to a very exciting finish. This is the perfect ending for your holiday concert as your ensemble brings together the entire community in celebration.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£114.99
Joyful Exclamations - James L. Hosay
What an outstanding way to conclude your concert. James L. Hosay writes some of the most exciting music to be found in Concert Band literature, and music doesn't get much more exciting than this! While titled as a Grand Finale, this concert band tour de force can be programmed in numerous ways. Consider it also as a roof-raising opener or even in the guise of an entr'acte as you return from intermission. You will find JOYFUL EXCLAMATIONS to be one of the most thrilling and uplifting arrangements available in band literature today. This is also a perfect vehicle through which to study music history.Indescribable!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£79.50
When Spirits Soar - Brian Balmages
Let the emotion pour off your stage with this powerful new composition by Brian Balmages. Combining the undeniable spirit of youth along with the emotional passing of a spirit, this work will carry your audience through an arrayof emotions. Opening with exciting woodwind flourishes and contrasting fanfares, the piece eventually moves into a sensitive passage featuring beautiful chamber writing. Special effects are employed (including tuned wine glassesand singing) in an ethereal presentation of the melody using piano, bells, and vibraphone. As the piece builds one final time, the beautiful sweeping lines of the lyrical section return under soaring woodwind ostinatos. Thisworktruly soars! (6:12)
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£113.30Fantasy For Winds - Lorenzo Pusceddu
The piece opens with a sumptuous celebratory fanfare dominated by the brass section. In the following Allegro, the woodwind instruments weave their graceful melodious plots, with occasional intense interruptions by the brass section. The piece continues with Valzers where the initial melancholic mood set by the woodwind is superseded by the brass section harkening back to modal musical mode before, once more, being taken up by the woodwind instruments. The piece closes with a gently expressive Andante. The gentle delicacy of this section moves to a moderate Allegro featuring a running dance with light-hearted irregular rhythm. The return to the opening fanfare brings us back to the anniversary celebrations of the Band and a solemn final sequence to the composition. The debut performance took place under the direction of the composer at the Gala Concert on March 28, 2009.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£75.00Sonata - Derek Bourgeois
This work, composed in 1998, was commissioned by the American trombonist Don Lucas as a work for trombone and piano and first performed by him in Birmingham on 19th May 2000. Subsequently, I arranged the music for both solo trombone and brass band and solo trombone and wind band so that it now exists in three formats. The first movement, in B flat major, is brisk and energetic, and is cast in sonata form. The second subject is gentler and more lyrical. The second movement, a scherzo in C major, is the most complex of the four. Basically the structure is a rond. For a long time the music remains in the opening 5/8 time until a new theme introduces more broken rhythms in a more jazzy idiom. After a return of the opening theme the following episode is more tonally ambiguous. Finally, the main theme returns to round off the movement. The third movement, a lyrical adagio, is really one long extended melodic flow. The harmonies are lush and the textures simple and direct. The tonal center is A minor, but the music meanders through so many keys, that this key centre is heavily disguised. The finale is a fiery affair. G minor is really its home key, but throughout the movement the music moves about a lot and the second subject is first heard in A flat minor. The movement's underlying sonata structure is masked not only by its loose tonality but also by its frequently changing time signatures. Like the first movement the second subject is more lyrical in nature and for a while it seems that the music will end peacefully, but a final flurry heralds a triple forte unison on the home note of the first movement - B flat. Derek Bourgeois
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£104.50Celebration For A New Era - Robert E. Foster
This work was commissioned by the University of Kansas to celebrate the Inauguration of the 16th chancellor, Dr. Robert Hemenway. It opens with bold fanfares that lead into a bright scherzo section, which is followed by a traditional processional. The entire work culminates with a return of the fanfares and a rousing, fast-paced finale.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£121.00Emmanuel Variants - Robert E. Foster
This fresh, innovative setting of the well-known hymn Oh Come, Oh Come Emmanuel begins with a stirring brass fanfare leading into a quiet, meditative setting of the hymn. A series of developments utilizing different voicings, rhythmic treatment and harmonic development follow. This most appealing treatment then concludes with a return of the brass fanfare for a brilliant finale.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£82.50
Fantasy On A Welsh Folksong - Robert E. Foster
A beautiful treatment of the well-known Welsh folksong, All Through the Night, this work features chorale settings of this theme through the various brass and woodwind choirs as it builds and develops. There is an exciting climax utilizing the resources and power of the entire band before a return to the quiet, serene and effective ending.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£121.00Celebration At Lake Sequoia - Gary P. Gilroy
Gilroy composed this festive work to commemorate the Twentieth Anniversary of the Lake Sequoia Symphonic Music Camp. It is an energetic work which is meant to evoke the spirit of celebration, the beauty of the area, the music camp, and its teachers. Beginning with a brilliant fast section, this is followed by a more serene, introspective section with lyrical lines and soloistic playing in the oboe, horns, and trumpet. Wh then return to the festive tempo for a rousing finale.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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