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£84.99
A Western Christmas - Paul Curnow
Now here is something different for Christmas! Who could even think up a concert recipe like this? Peel a bunch of well known Christmas melodies. In a large concert auditorium mix them with whole box of recognizable Old West music styles and conventions. Season well with humor. Bake under the stage lights, and what do you get? A WESTERN CHRISTMAS! You really have to hear it to believe it! You betcha! This is the one your winter concert audience will be talking about long after the show is over!Are there still some "wide open spaces" left on your winter concert program? Yeeeee-Haw!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£84.99
Christmas Latina - James L. Hosay
Add some spicy Latin excitement to your holiday concert this year! James Hosay's setting of four yuletide favorites is almost too hot to handle. Up on A Housetop, Good King Wenceslas, Jolly Old St Nicholas and Jingle Bells combine to make a rhythmically complex, playful, and unique new holiday number.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£54.99
Don't Fall off the Housetop! - Timothy Johnson
This light and fanciful arrangement will bring a sparkle to your holiday performance! The skillful use of variation and counterpoint will surely catch your students' imagination as they practice their parts and prepare for the performance.Considerations such as staccato playing and dynamic contrasts make this a great teaching tool as well as an enjoyable and entertaining excursion up to the rooftop. Every section has something fun to play so the students, as well as their parents and friends, will love it.Imaginative!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£64.99
Cavalcade of Christmas - James Curnow
The perfect Christmas opener! This bright and energetic work presents portions of numerous well-known carols in an engaging and uplifting way. What a perfect opportunity to thrill your audience as the house lights go down and the curtains go up. Varied and creative orchestration is the hallmark of this enchanting new arrangement. Always imaginative, James Curnow finds the mark once again with Cavalcade of Christmas!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£67.50
Sounds of Holiday Cheer - Douglas Court
Douglas Court weaves his own unique kind of harmonic magic into his thrilling new holiday offering SOUNDS OF HOLIDAY CHEER. Animated rhythms and surprising turns engage the audience and announce the joyful season.Young bands can always count on Douglas Court to write music that is exciting but skill-level appropriate. Stylish modern harmonies and compelling syncopated forward motion will make this a favorite among your musicians.Light up the season!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£69.99
Along Came the Cowboys - Stephen Bulla
Spirited rhythmic underpinnings support three great Old West songs in Stephen Bulla's ALONG CAME THE COWBOYS. You'll find a bonanza of great teaching tools in this Western extravaganza: phrase extensions, style contrasts, dynamic and articulation considerations, rhythmic counterpoint, and much more. Your young musicians will really enjoy playing music that employs the types of mechanisms standardized by decades of cowboy movie underscoring. This is something your students can definitely get into! What a great supporting assignment to have your students try to find examples of comparable musical treatments on their movie videos and DVDs.Head 'em up! Move 'em out!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£94.99
When the morning stars sang - James Curnow
At times intimate and reflective, at times boisterous and unrelenting, this uplifting new work by James Curnow was inspired by the biblical story of Job and his "never give up" attitude. The old spiritual Balm in Gilead is incorporated as the piece takes us through tribulation and solace, turmoil and relief. The full spectrum of orchestration from rich, dark Brasses to flashing Woodwinds, and some small solo recitatives create contrast in density as well as mood. There is a great deal to appreciate in the scoring and construction of this piece as you prepare for performance.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£67.50On a Cold Winter's Night
Alluring harmonies give this great new treatment of The First Noel a special character all its own. Your band members will light up as they go to work on it. Creative orchestration and rhythmic treatments mean there's always something of interest going on. On A Cold Winter's Night will be the perfect contrast piece for your concert.Unique!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£79.99Sailing - Virginia Allen
This charming A-B-A form tone poem takes us on a memorable pleasure sailboat ride on the Chesapeake. Skillful scoring and natural melodies make sure this piece will show your group well on the concert stage. After a calm opening, the contrasting detached middle section of the piece sparkles as you feel the gentle breeze pick up to push the boat along on a joyously exciting cruise. Pleasing to play and pleasant to hear, you'll want to add Virginia Allen's Sailing to your music library right away.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£154.99Symphonic Variations - Jacob de Haan
This composition is based on a passacaglia theme, in which artistic perfection, symphonic drama and oriental melody lines play a role. The passacaglia is originally a dance made up of a series of variations above a bass line constantly present as an ostinato. It is not in this sense that the "Symphonic Variations" are in the passacaglia form but in the sense of the open form of the variations. Jacob de Haan, himself originally an organist, took his inspiration for this piece from the famous passacaglia for organ in C-minor by J.S. Bach. Following the introduction of the passacaglia theme (in the bass) the entry by the trumpets and trombones forms the majestic start to amusical adventure, in which this theme (often fragmentary) returns in variations. Then there follow two faster movements with dramatic contrasts and virtuose passages. Particularly striking here is the use of two characteristic intervals from the beginning of the theme namely the minor second and the augmented fourth. An apause in the composition comes in the slow bridge where a syncopated bourdon (perfect fifth) is constantly repeated. The tension grows in dynamics and harmony, and the oriental-flavour becomes obvious in the melody. We arrive at a faster movement via an accelerando, in which a perpetuum mobile based on the passacaglia theme is central. Finally the whole flows into a martial theme, in which the ostinato accompaniment n the descant derives from the passacaglia theme.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
