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£74.95Connotations (Brass Band - Score and Parts) - Gregson, Edward
Connotations was commissioned for the 1977 National Brass Band Championship finals, held in the Royal Albert Hall, London (the winner, incidentally, of that particular competition was the famous Black Dyke Mills Band).At the age of 32 Gregson was the youngest composer to have received the honour of such a commission. It came at the end of a productive five years writing for the brass band publisher R Smith. Some of those works - The Plantagenets, Essay and Patterns for example, with their direct and tuneful style, have remained popular with brass bands the world over.For Gregson, these were the means by which he sharpened the tools of his trade, preparing the ground, as it were, for his finest work to date - Connotations. He thought of calling the piece Variations on a Fourth, but with due deference to Gilbert Vinter perhaps (Variations on a Ninth), he chose a more appropriate one. As Gregson has written, 'Connotations suggests more than one way of looking at something, an idea, and this is exactly what the piece is about'.Writing a competition piece brought its own problems. 'It has to be technically difficult and yet musically satisfying. I didn't like being kept to an eleven-minute maximum. The inclusion of short cadenzas for less usual solo instruments seems to signify a certain test-piece mentality'.Gregson solved the problems admirably by adopting a symphonic approach to variation form: Introduction - fanfares, a call to attention, in effect Variation 1; Theme - a six-note motif, given a lyrical and restrained first statement; Variation 2 - a delicate toccata; Variation 3 - typically robust in melody and rhythm; Variation 4 - lyrical solos; Variation 5 - a scherzo; Variation 6 - cadenzas; Variations 7-9 - an introduction, fugato and resounding restatement of the theme.Duration: 10.30
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£74.95Music from the Elizabethan Court (Brass Band - Score and Parts) - Howarth, Elgar
Contains:The Earle of Oxford's March (William Byrd)Pavane (John Bull)Galliard (John Bull)The King's Hunting Jigg (John Bull)Duration: 10.00
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£59.95Un Vie de Matelot (Brass Band - Score and Parts) - Farnon, Robert
A Sailor's Life. Theme and Variations for Brass BandThis work was specially composed as the test piece for the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain, held at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on 11th October, 1975Duration: 10.00
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£59.95Voices of Youth (Brass Band - Score and Parts) - Gregson, Edward
The suite Voices of Youth is one of Gregson's earliest brass band compositions, written while he was still a student at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Voices of Youth was commissioned by the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain and was premiered by them under the baton of Geoffrey Brand.The work has three movements:Nobility of Youth (Duration: 4.00)Sadness and Tenderness (Duration: 2.30)Gaiety (Duration: 2.45)In Nobility of Youth there are the rich sonorities beloved of Salvationist composers such as Eric Ball and, particularly, Ray Steadman Allen, whose music he admired. The modal contour of the melodies here and at the climax of the slow movement Sadness and Tenderness reveal lessons well learned from Holst and Vaughan Williams. Gaiety is probably the most interesting amalgam of all. Beginning in the harmonic world of Gilbert Vinter - whose influence Gregson readily acknowledges at this time - the music is transformed into a bravura waltz of which Percy Grainger might have been proud. It then veers off via a contrapuntal episode of academic correctness, into a coda that takes us into more adventurous harmonic realms.Duration: 10.00
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£40.00
Parade of the Charioteers (Score & Parts) - Miklos Rozsa
Miklos Rozsa's score to the Hollywood epic Ben Hur is powerful and dramatic. This brass band arrangement by Steve Sykes of the Parade of the Charioteers makes for a great concert opener. Brass Band Grade 4: Advanced Youth and 3rd Section Duration: 10 minutes
In Stock: Estimated dispatch 1-3 working days
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£65.00
Four Sketches (Score & Parts) - Simon Dobson
Simon Dobson wrote his Four Sketches at the request of Peter Bossano, Head of Brass at the Royal College of Music, in recognition of the 25th anniversary of Benjamin Britten's death. It was the winning entry in the European Brass Band Composer Competition in 2002.Brass Band Grade: 5Duration: 10 minutes
In Stock: Estimated dispatch 1-3 working days
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£42.00Amaranth (Parts only) - Ray Steadman-Allen
The title of the work refers to a legendary imaginary purple flower, mysterious in that it never fades or dies. In an extended single movement the music explores the colours and textures of the brass band. Duration: 10:00
Estimated dispatch 7-9 working days
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£48.00A French Suite (Parts only) - Boely
Boely (1785-1858) was a French organist who preferred the traditions of Bach to the varying influences of the French Revolution. The five movements that make up this refreshing suite demand clarity of line, a fine balance in ensemble, and purity of tone and intonation - the classical style. Duration: 10:00
Estimated dispatch 7-9 working days
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£29.95Rock Eternal (Brass Band - Score and Parts)
This work has been written as a sequel to the composer's Festival Arrangement Shine Down (Festival Series 539). The two songs featured are Rock Eternal (STTL Vol. 10, part 3) and My hope is built on nothing less (S.A.S.B. 662). The first of these, the main subject that underpins the work, was written by the composer for the International Staff Songsters.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£34.95Three Carols (Brass Band - Score and Parts)
Three Carols was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic as part of their Holiday Brass series and was premiered at Avery Fisher Hall by the New York Philharmonic Principal Brass and Canadian Brass. Originally for 10 players, soon after the premiere I decided to score the piece for brass band. The brass band version was first performed by the New York Staff Band.Through the years I have been intrigued by carious carols from different countries and the challenge of creating musical treatments that sound fresh and original. When commissioned to write these brass arrangements, I wanted to create contrasting movements that could be performed either as a set or individually and thought that three carols from different countries would allow the opportunity for that contrast. The featured carols are the traditional Polish carol Infant Holy (C.C. 41), What child is this? (C.C. 100) with lyrics by William Dix and set to the English folk song Greensleeves and the lesser-known Catalonian carol Cold December flies away.- Joseph Turrin
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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