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£52.95Helios Rising - Todd Stalter
In Greek mythology, Helios is a Titan who faithfully drove the Sun's chariot across the sky each day, disappearing in the west into Oceanus (the ocean, which the Greeks believed encircled the Earth), and rising out of it again in the east the next morning. Helios' journey at sunrise is referenced musically by the ascending leap in the main theme and the strong driving rhythms of the low winds and percussion. The contrasting light and dark textures in the slow section depict twilight inevitably giving way to the darkness of night. (2:45)
Estimated dispatch 3-5 working days
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£53.95A Welcome Voice - Lewis Hartsough / arr. Frank McKinney
Lewis T. Hartsough wrote "I Hear Thy Welcome Voice" in 1872 at a revival meeting in Epworth, Iowa. This lyrical setting explores the rich sonority available to the young concert band. The opening melody is heard in the dark, rich, full sound of the clarinets' chalumeau register and is doubled by the baritone. As the piece slowly unfolds, it offers the hymn in increasingly dramatic fashion up to its glorious resolution and final Amen.
Estimated dispatch 3-5 working days
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£110.00Revolution - Erik Morales
Be immersed in a sea of swirling colors with this bold and exciting new scherzo for band. The furious 3-beat pulse evokes images of spiraling colors and dark, passionate and intense moods. Animated rhythms give way to a poignant hymn introduced and concluded by a piccolo solo in a contrasting lyrical section. Spiraling once again into a juxtaposition of themes, the work combines excellent percussion writing, soaring melodies, and great counterpoint to drive the piece to a furious and spectacular finish!
Estimated dispatch 3-5 working days
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£62.95Spyscape - Timothy Loest
Secret codes, double agents, and covert operations converge in this riveting and enigmatic soundscape using adrenaline fueled ostinatos. Stealth-like melodies and dark complex harmonies help set the stage for a wild and entertaining ride. Guaranteed to connect with performers and audiences alike, Spyscape is an anxiety-driven ride into the undercover world of spies.
Estimated dispatch 3-5 working days
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£82.95Cycle of the Werewolf - Jeremy S. Martin
A surrealistic tour-de-force for concert band, this work sizzles from the first note to the last. Inspired by the Stephen King story of the same name, the work shows the contemporary concert band at its best. Dark, foreboding, and yet triumphant, this is a can't miss selection for any concert.
Estimated dispatch 3-5 working days
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£66.95Silver Winds - Victor López
Inspired by the official Command Exhibition Parachute Demonstration Team from Fort Benning, Georgia, your performers and the audience will enjoy Victor Lpez's musical journey from the haunting beginning to the dark heroic melody with the ostinato skillfully written in a seamless fashion. Beautiful color is brought to the melody with the joining of the baritones, flutes, and clarinets. The lyrical section involves a chorale-like clarinet choir accompanying a beautiful oboe solo. The rousing finale brings built upon a driving pulse carried by the low voices as this work races to a close. "Silver Winds" is exciting to conduct and to prepare.
Estimated dispatch 3-5 working days
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£45.95Antiphonal Celebration - Timothy Loest
This stunning chorale prelude, based on the tune Llanfair by Welsh composer Robert Williams, offers a wonderful change of pace for any concert, festival, or contest setting. Expressive and reverent, this work opens with a dialogue between trumpets and band followed by a dark, fiery exposition. The work concludes with a bold and glorious rendition of one of the most celebrated hymns of all time. Excellent for teaching phrasing, major and minor tonality, and theme and variation.
Estimated dispatch 3-5 working days
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£80.95On the Third Day - Patrick Roszell
Opening with floating woodwinds and an exuberant fanfare in the brass, this work celebrates the renewal of life that we experience each spring at Easter. Festive, dark, and ultimately inspiring, this new piece for concert band will be an uplifting experience for your students and audience. (4:45)
Estimated dispatch 3-5 working days
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£170.00Second Symphony - Alfred Reed
Commissioned in the late Fall of 1975, work on the SECOND SYMPHONY was not begun until the Summer of 1977, when the score was completed in sketch form in three months, July through September. The instrumentation was begun in the late Winter of that same year and the Full Score completed on March 27th, 1978. The first performance took place in Fairchild Auditorium on the campus of Michigan State University on May 6th, 1978, by the Michigan State University Symphonic Band under the direction of Kenneth G. Bloomquist. The symphony is a single-movement work embracing three distinct sections. The first, marked is a freely constructed passacaglia built on a flowing theme derived from the tone row that underlies the entire score: Bb-F-E-Ab-G-D-Db-C-Cb-Gb-Eb-A, and which is developed in alternating variations leading to a powerful climax at its close. The second section is, in reality, a tense, hard-driving double fugue characterized by a constant march-like rhythm underlying the further development of the original theme and its countersubject in both duple and triple meters. This section, marked also ends in an overwhelming climax and then dies away, preparing for the third and final section. This final portion of the music, marked is based upon two long, lyric themes, also derived from the row, that alternate with occasional reminders of some of the thematic material from the second section, now transformed into a rich, glowing and relaxed tonal tapestry woven together from the myriad of tonal colors available in contemporary scoring practice for the winds. At the very end, after a fortissimo re-statement of the theme in its original form as derived from the row, there is a gradual ebbing of the flood of tone from the full ensemble as the various choirs drop out one by one, leaving only a dark, warm color of low Clarinets, Baritone and Tuba, hinting at the opening of the symphony, together with a last reminder of the original motif in the Bells and Vibraphone, suggesting, for the work as a whole, an arch-form.
Estimated dispatch 3-5 working days
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£62.95Legion - Bruce W. Tippette
In the key of D minor, this piece features a dark and militaristic-sounding melody coupled with a brighter countermelody. Strong accents, rhythmic syncopations, and bold chords shape these melodies into several iterations, leading to a rousing coda.
Estimated dispatch 3-5 working days
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