Dance Party Wind Band Set (Score & Parts)

In three contrasting movements Ron Gilmore takes you to the dancefloor. Part 1 (Warming up) ensures that the muscles loose. In part 2 (Chilling out) it's time to unwind with a beautiful trumpet solo. In the last part (Back to the dancefloor), this composition is completed on aswinging. Guaranteed success for both orchestra and audience with this spectacular Dance Party! 07:30

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Dance Sequence (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Putz, Marco

Commissioned by a consortium of school bands and avoiding exotic instruments or doublings whilst using a percussion department with plenty of players; Dance Sequence is the ideal harmonically pungent, metrically sophisticated introduction to the 21st century.Duration: 12:00

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Dance Sequence (Trombone Solo) (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Wood, Gareth

Dance Sequence helps to fill the void in the repertoire for a solo trombone with band work. The piece calls for versatility of styles from soloist and band. It exudes a sense of joy and excitement, offering the soloist an opportunity to display technical and musical skills throughout.

Dance Sequence (Trombone Solo) (Concert Band - Score Only) - Wood, Gareth

Dance Sequence helps to fill the void in the repertoire for a solo trombone with band work. The piece calls for versatility of styles from soloist and band. It exudes a sense of joy and excitement, offering the soloist an opportunity to display technical and musical skills throughout.

Dance Starters Wind Band Set (Score & Parts)

Using themes based on semi-quavers Peter Kleine Schaars has carefully crafted these four contrasting dances for the De Haske Flexible 4 Series. Each of the parts take a turn to play the melody so no player feels left out. Take your players on a musical dance lesson in which you'll hear a paso doble, a slow waltz, a tango and a swinging jive. Fantastic fun for the smaller ensemble. 0:04:15

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Dance Story (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Gistel, Luc

Duration: 4.00

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DANCE SUITE (Concert Band) - Muldowney, Dominic

Includes:1. Hey2. Pavane/Waltz3. Polka4. Waltz/Galliard5. Tangos6. Break-DanceDance Suite displays a variety of historical dance forms from a twentieth century viewpoint. The six dances move forward historically from the ancient Hey, through Waltz and Polka, to the sophisticated Tango and the jazz tradition. The rhythm that typifies each dance is constantly under attack, sometimes from a different dance style altogether. These intrusive elements are most obvious in the final dance and prompts the double meaning of the title.I. HEYHey is constructed like a mediaeval motet, where the main blocks of material are rhythmically unconnected to one another. The percussion is the most disconnected of all and seems to have arrived from a Chinese carnival. The scoring alludes to the eight, four and two foot pipes of a baroque organ.I. PAVANE/WALTZAfter a nod in the direction of Dowland's Lachrimae Pavan, the piece seems to wander to and fro between the 16th century and the 19th century world of the Lehr waltz.I. POLKAThe Polka is derived from a four bar fragment found in Stravinsky's sketchbook for The Rite of Spring above which is written: "Dieppe Polka".I. WALTZ/GALLIARDThis is a reversal of the date-shift process in the second movement, in that the wandering goes backwards rather than forwards, particularly to the William Byrd of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.I. TANGOSA slow sentimental tango is sandwiched between an abstract deconstructed one, both of which are developed in Dominic Muldowney's opera The Voluptuous Tango.I. BREAK-DANCEBreak-Dance is the fastest, hardest and strangest movement. Its exuberance fractures the texture, which slowly crumbles midway through the movement, only to be resurrected mirror fashion. The piece is a species of palindrome with no true centre, hence: "Break-Dance".Conductors are free to make a selection from these dances for festival or competition programmes, when limited performance time is available.

DANCE TO THI' DADDY (Programme Concert Band Extra Score) - Barry, Darrol

Score and parts: Duration 5:17 American Grade 4

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DANCE TO THI' DADDY (Programme Concert Band Set) - Barry, Darrol

Score and parts. Duration 5:17 American Grade 4

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Danceries (Set I) (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Hesketh, Kenneth

The term 'Danceries' can be found in a copy of Playford's Dancing Master, an extensive collection of folk and popular tunes of the seventeenth century (and no doubt earlier). This publication was used by master fiddle players to teach the various dance steps of the day to a nobleman's house or a king's court. Whilst this present set of 'Danceries' cannot be said to be an aid to terpsichorean agility, it will at least set feet tapping! The melodies themselves are a mixture of new and old--well, nearly. Where the old occurs it has been adapted in mood and composition and is often interspersed with completely new material. The harmonies and rhythms bring a breath of the new into these themes and add to the drama of the set.Movement 1: Lull me beyond thee. Gentle and lilting, almost a barcarole, this movement is very much a reverie. The original tune had the name 'Poor Robin's Maggot' - a rather disconcerting title; maggot, however, in seventeenth-century parlance meant whim or fancy. This theme can also be found in The Beggar's Opera by John Gay (first performed in 1728) under the title 'Would you have a young lady' (Air 21).Movement 2: Catching of Quails. A colourful, buoyant scherzo on an original melody. The thematic material is shuttled around the band to contrast with full-bodied tuttis. The last few bars fade away to almost nothing before a final surprise!Movement 3: My Lady's Rest. A tender pavane, also on an original theme, with Moorish leanings. Solos for principal winds and brass contrast with warmer tutti passages. The movement culminates with a final presentation of the theme before evaporating in held flute and trumpet chords.Movement 4: Quodling's delight. The final movement to the set combining one of the melodies from Playford's Dancing Master ('Goddesses') with an original contrasting melody. A dramatic and exuberant ending to the set of 'Danceries'.Duration: 12.00