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£24.95Schubert's Serenade - Franz Schubert - Rodney Newton
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) was a highly prolific writer of songs, having composed around 144 of them at the time of his death. Indeed, it is said that he even wrote one of them on the tablecloth at a Viennese restaurant...
Estimated dispatch 5-7 working days
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£24.95Silent Night - Franz Gruber - Darius Battiwalla
In 1816, a Roman Catholic priest called Josef Mohr composed a short six-stanza poem for his Christmas service which he entitled Stille Nacht. On Christmas Eve in 1818 the church organ at St Nicholas Church, Oberndorf had broken down and...
Estimated dispatch 5-7 working days
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£24.95Summer Storm - Antonio Vivaldi - Rodney Newton
Antonio Vivaldi was born in Venice and began his adult life in the church, becoming known as the 'Red Priest', presumably due to his sandy-coloured hair. Health problems prevented him continuing actively in the priesthood and he turned his attention...
Estimated dispatch 5-7 working days
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£24.95The Lost Chord - Arthur Sullivan - Robert Childs
Sullivan composed The Lost Chord whilst watching at his brother Fred's bedside during his last illness. The manuscript is dated 13th January 1877, five days before his brother's death. He had been trying to set the words of Adelaide Procter...
Estimated dispatch 5-7 working days
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£24.95The Melody Shop - Karl King - Jacob Larsen
Written in 1910, this circus march is one of Karl King's most popular marches. King had an illustrious career as a player, a bandmaster and most notably as a composer. Much of his composition was undertaken while he was working...
Estimated dispatch 5-7 working days
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£34.95Three Burns Portraits - Rodney Newton - Christian Jenkins
Robert Burns (1759-1796) was one of the most colourful literary figures of the 18th Century. The son of a tenant farmer, he was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, and earned a living variously as a farmer, flax dresser and exercise man,...
Estimated dispatch 5-7 working days
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£84.95Within Blue Empires - Paul Lovatt-Cooper - Christian Jenkins
Within Blue Empires was commissioned by Graham Taylor, a successful design consultant. Graham was whale watching off the coast of Canada when he became inspired and fell in love with the great mammals. The composition follows a programmatic brief, focusing...
Estimated dispatch 5-7 working days
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£34.95
SOUTHERN CROSS, The (Brass Band Set) - Brian Bowen
The Southern Cross is one of several excellent marches by Brian Bowen in which he carried on the more sophisticated pattern of British marches by Wilfred Heaton, Leslie Condon and Ray Steadman-Allen. It was written for the Box Hill (Australia) Corps jubilee celebrations in 1970 and formed part of the band's repertoire when it toured Great Britain in the same year. The first half of the march features part of the song, 'March on!' by Klaus Ostby, an early pioneer of Salvation Army music in Scandinavia. The contrapuntal layering of melodies in the trio, especially in the finale where 'March on!' sounds one more triumphant time, is notable, as is the shift to a slower, more stately tempo. The harmonic and rhythmic style also represents the more modern sounds of Salvation Army brass band music in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Right from the opening gestures, listeners at early performances knew that a page had turned in the evolution of the Salvation Army march.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£29.95
ARMY OF GOD (Brass Band Set) - Emil Soderstrom
This march was awarded first prize in the 1930 American Golden Jubilee National Music Competition and was published the same year in the first edition of the American Festival Series. It was subsequently re-printed in the General Series of 1984. Soderstrom's imaginative use of syncopation and chromatic harmony brought a new, American sound to the Salvation Army march. For example, he took the old Salvation Army fight song Hark, hark my soul written and changes its metre from 6/8 to 4/4 while also syncopating it!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£29.95
VICTORS ACCLAIMED (Brass Band Set) - Bramwell Coles
Bramwell Coles became known as the Salvation Army 'march king' a label he began to earn with his first march written in 1906! This march, written in 1945 to mark the end of World War Two, saluted his seven children all of whom returned unscathed from service in the armed forces.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days