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£32.95Elgar Variations (Concert Band - Score only) - Ellerby, Martin
The year 2007 marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of the British composer Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934) and as such I thought it an appropriate moment to write something in tribute to this event. There are quite a few enigmas about this piece and they are all intentional! First and foremost is that the variations are not constructed on any of Elgar's actual themes. Rather I have written a sequence of contrasting sections (all played without a break) on the essence and character of his musical style. I have also written this work with bands, the soloists within, conductors and, not least, their audience firmly in mind. The language is essentially tonal and the test musical rather than overtly technical. There are no tempo indications other than suggested metronome marks. I have deliberately kept things to a minimum as the true test here is to find the style and interpret that aspect over the whole structure. Whereas the faster sections are more or less self explanatory the slower parts require deliberate rubato and much feeling. This is for the conductors to discover and I encourage them to do so. Adjudicators should be fully aware that I sanction this aspect but it requires an insight and understanding to successfully execute so 'any old thing' will not suffice! The 'variation' commencing at rehearsal letter P is the emotional core of the piece and requires a passionate but not saccharine approach to pacing and sensuality. The cadenza type material is built into the process rather than being a separate sequence of entities. There are many allusions to the music of Elgar here without recourse to blatant pastiche - if it is thought of as a series of songs and dances this may help. The final comment is the dedication, after one of Elgar's own but subtly adjusted: to my friend pictured within - never to be revealed - now there's an enigma!- Martin EllerbyDuration: 14.00Recorded on Polyphonic QPRM155D Scenes from Childhood (Great British Music for Wind Band Vol.15), Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£164.95Tristan Encounters (Prestige Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Ellerby, Martin
This work is subtitled Prelude and Transfigurations for Brass, Wind and Percussion. It is derived from Wagner's Prelude to his opera Tristan and Isolde and consists of a series of tableaux-mood pictures which alternate between a romantic idiom and tritone-style aggressive music. The work is cast as a prelude and ensuing set of fourteen variations and is meant to be played as a continuous piece.Grade 5Performance time 16'25''Recorded on QPRM152D MOSAIC: Great British Music for Wind Band Vol.13 (Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra)
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£32.95
Tristan Encounters (Prestige Concert Band - Score only) - Ellerby, Martin
This work is subtitled Prelude and Transfigurations for Brass, Wind and Percussion. It is derived from Wagner's Prelude to his opera Tristan and Isolde and consists of a series of tableaux-mood pictures which alternate between a romantic idiom and tritone-style aggressive music. The work is cast as a prelude and ensuing set of fourteen variations and is meant to be played as a continuous piece.Grade 5Performance time 16'25''Recorded on QPRM152D MOSAIC: Great British Music for Wind Band Vol.13 (Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra)
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£184.95
Summer Nights (French Horn Solo with Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Ellerby, Martin
Six Vignettes for Solo Horn and Concert BandThis 'song-cycle', featuring a solo horn, is based on the same set of poems that inspired Berlioz's Les Nuits d'Ete. The original song cycle is essentially dark, encapsulated by movements of a more lively and positive nature and the essence of this approach has been maintained in this contemporary work: Villanelle; The Ghost of the Rose; On the Lagoons; Absence; At the Cemetery; The Unknown Isle.Performance time 16'15"Recorded on QPRM146D,The Year of the Dragon, Royal Northern College of Music Concert BandF Horn Solo & Piano Accompaniment edition available separately
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£44.95
Summer Nights (French Horn Solo with Concert Band - Score only) - Ellerby, Martin
Six Vignettes for Solo Horn and Concert BandThis 'song-cycle', featuring a solo horn, is based on the same set of poems that inspired Berlioz's Les Nuits d'Ete. The original song cycle is essentially dark, encapsulated by movements of a more lively and positive nature and the essence of this approach has been maintained in this contemporary work: Villanelle; The Ghost of the Rose; On the Lagoons; Absence; At the Cemetery; The Unknown Isle.Performance time 16'15"Recorded on QPRM146D,The Year of the Dragon, Royal Northern College of Music Concert BandF Horn Solo & Piano Accompaniment edition available separately
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£54.95Nessun Dorma (from Turandot) (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Puccini, Giacomo - Ellerby, Martin
Duration: 2:45
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£37.95From Kitty Hawk to the Stars (Concert Band - Score only) - Ellerby, Martin
Score only. This work was composed to commemorate the 100th anniversary of flight and is cast in a structure that provides a mini-history of the subject from its first beginning to its one hundred-year achievement in space. The work is, in effect, a tone poem for concert band.Grade 5Performance time 10'04"Recorded on QPRM146D, The Year of the Dragon, Royal Northern College of Music Concert Band
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£159.95
From Kitty Hawk to the Stars (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Ellerby, Martin
Parts only. Score available separately. This work was composed to commemorate the 100th anniversary of flight and is cast in a structure that provides a mini-history of the subject from its first beginning to its one hundred-year achievement in space. The work is, in effect, a tone poem for concert band.Grade 5Performance time 10'04"Recorded on QPRM146D, The Year of the Dragon, Royal Northern College of Music Concert Band
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£44.95Two Susato Dances (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Susato, Tielman - Ellerby, Martin
Around 1540 Tielman Susato, the Belgium trumpet player and composer, established himself in Antwerp as a printer of music. In 1551 he brought out The Third Little Music Book, a collection of instrumental dances. Most of these are arrangements, possible by Susato himself, of popular dance tunes. In keeping with sixteenth-century practice, this book details no specific instrumentation; something to be worked out by the players with whatever available means. Doubtless many of the dances were performed on wind instruments at festive outdoor events. The date of Susato's birth is unknown but estimated to be around 1500. The same applied to his death, which is thought to be somewhere between 1561-64.The third Little Music Book gives several examples of the traditional sixteenth-century genre, the dance pair, a predecessor of the Baroque suite. In such a pair the first dance was often in slow or moderate duple time, the second in quick triple time. This is the case in the pair presented here, which consists of a lively round dance followed by a Hop Up or saltarello.Titles in the Prelude Series are specifically scored for bands with few, if any, bass instruments but will sound well on larger ensembles. The bass line is playable by any combination of bass clarinet, bassoon, baritone saxophone, trombone, euphonium or tuba; in the event that none of these is available, the part for trombone/euphonium (B flat TC) can be played by tenor saxophone. The tuned percussion part is entirely optional and can be played by any available instrument(s). Each piece also includes a preliminary exercise. This is always in the same key as the accompanying piece and consists of a scale and chord progression that can be used for improving ensemble, balance, intonation and instrumental facility by changing tempo, articulation and dynamics.Duration: 2.00
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£59.95The Big Easy Suite (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Ellerby, Martin
Sub-titled New Orleans, this suite sets out to recreate musically the joy of living that exists in the 'deep south' city nicknamed the 'Big Easy'.The four movements are:Mississippi Rag - echoing the wonderful music of Scott JoplinSatchmo! - which is a salute to the great Louis ArmstrongBourbon Street Blues - a gentle interlude, nothing to do but relaxMardi Gras - a time for the city to erupt into colour, music and dance.Fun to play and fun to listen to!Duration: 6:45
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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