Toccata (from Symphony No.8) (Brass Band - Score and Parts) - Vaughan Williams, Ralph - Littlemore, Phillip

Ralph Vaughan Williams' Symphony in D minor (his eighth) was composed in 1956, when he was in his 84th year. It is noticeably different from its predecessors in its diminutive scale and comparatively short length. However, the symphony is scored for an unusually large percussion ensemble including vibraphone, xylophone, tubular bells, glockenspiel, tuned gongs and celeste. In the Toccata, the fourth and final movement, Vaughan Williams uses the enlarged percussion forces extensively - the eight symphony is therefore in some ways a highly imaginative work, perhaps even an experimental one.. This brass band transcription tries to remain as true to the original percussion writing as possible, but with the omission of the tuned gongs and celeste--for obvious practical performance reasons. Duration: 5:00

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Toccata e Fantasia (Brass Band - Score and Parts)

Toccata e Fantasia was inspired by the composers' love of Anton Bruckner's fantastic wind instrument scoring in his symphonies. Within Toccata e Fantasia Thomas Doss has used several of Bruckner's motifs. In addition to these obvious references you will also find hints of Eastern music with the small motifs being repeated again and again in a sort of Indian guru's mantra, and an improvised blues section with a Big Band feel! A unique concert work that will thrill your audience. 10:40

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Toccata Festiva (Brass Band - Score and Parts) - Van der Roost, Jan

Toccata Festiva was commissioned in 1994 by the Dutch Brass Band Championships. The wind band version was made a year later by the composer himself. Historically speaking, the toccata is considered to be one of the first independent instrumental forms for keyboard instruments. Originally the toccata was typically more or less improvised, later this musical form was given a more regulated structure. Both elements are used in the Toccata Festiva: on the one hand the different themes are developed freely, on the other, the piece has an orderly structure. It is in a three part form (quick-slow-quick) and includes both strong rhythmical figures and broad melodic lines. Part of the composition is written in a more or less archaic tone idiom, referring to the period from which the toccata form originates (16th century).Duration: 13:30

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Toccata Fire (Brass Band - Score and Parts) - Ponsford, Steven

Toccata Fire combines a contemporary setting of Send the fire with the song Burning, Burning in an exciting work.Duration: 3.00

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TOCCATA from Organ Symphony No.5 (Brass Band) - Widor, Charles-Marie - Sparke, Philip

Recorded on Polyphonic QPRL056D National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain and Gala Concert - 1992, Polyphonic QPRL040D Pageantry

TOCCATA in D MINOR (Farr) (Brass Band) - Farr, Ray

Rock version.

TOCCATA IN ROCK (Brass Band) - Broadbent, Derek M.

Medium/Difficult

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Toccata, Elegy and Scherzo (Brass Band - Score and Parts) - Barry, Darrol

Suitable for 1st Section bands and above

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Toccata, Oh the Blessed Lord (Brass Band - Score and Parts) - Heaton, Wilfred

Originally written as a brass sextet, based on the American Spiritual 'Oh dem golden slippers', and eventually published for full band in 1973. It is hard to believe that this highly original and technically difficult composition could have first been conceived as long ago as 1938.

Toccata, Oh The Blessed Lord (Brass Band - Score only) - Heaton, Wilfred

Originally written as a brass sextet, based on the American Spiritual 'Oh dem golden slippers', and eventually published for full band in 1973. It is hard to believe that this highly original and technically difficult composition could have first been conceived as long ago as 1938.