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£375.00Facade - An Entertainment, Suite from (Concert Band with Optional Narrator - Score and Parts) - Walton, William - Noble, Paul
This Suite from Facade - An Entertainment, composed by William Walton, with poems by Dame Edith Sitwell, presents for the first time a grouping of movements selected and arranged by Paul Noble for Concert Band and optional Reciter. The original composition was written between 1921 and 1928, containing forty-three numbers. They had their origin in a new style of poetry that Edith Sitwell evolved in the early 1920s, poems that her brother Osbert later described as 'experiments in obtaining through the medium of words the rhythm and dance measures such as waltzes, polkas, foxtrots... Some of the resulting poems were sad and serious... Others were mocking and gay... All possessed a quite extraordinary and haunting fascination.' Possibly influenced by the dance references in some of the numbers, Osbert declared that the poems might be further enhanced if spoken to a musical accompaniment. The obvious choice of composer was the young man who lived and worked in an attic room of the Sitwell brothers' house in Carlyle Square W[illiam] T[urner] Walton, as he then styled himself. The now historic first performance of the Facade Entertainment took place in an L-shaped first-floor drawing-room on January 24, 1922. Accompaniments to sixteen poems and two short musical numbers were performed by an ensemble of five players. The performers were obscured from the audience by a decorated front curtain, through which a megaphone protruded for Edith to declaim her poems. This was, as she put it, 'to deprive the work of any personal quality'. The first public performance of Facade was given at the Aeolian Hall on June 12, 1923. By now, fourteen poems had been set, others revised or rejected, and an alto saxophone added to the ensemble. The occasion gave rise to widespread publicity, both pro and contra, and the name of the twenty-one year old W. T. Walton was truly launched. In the ensuing years the Facade has gone through revisions and additions, with full orchestral arrangements of selected movements being made without the Reciter. Former Band Director Robert O'Brien arranged some movements for band, again without Reciter, which are now out of print. So this 'history making' addition is the first opportunity for Concert Bands to present some movements of Facade with poems as originally intended. The luxury of electronic amplification allows the full ensemble to perform without necessarily overshadowing the Reciter. And the arrangements are written with considerable doubling so that the ensemble may play in full, or reduced in size as may be desired for proper balance. And, though not encouraged, the arrangements are written so that the band can perform the music without the Reciter. Program notes are adapted in part from those written by David Lloyd-Jones and published by Oxford University Press in the Study Score of William Walton's Facade Entertainments.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£106.99Flowerdale (from Hymn of the Highlands) (Piccolo Trumpet Solo with Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Sparke, Philip
for Bb Piccolo Trumpet or Eb Cornet/TrumpetThe seven-movement suite (originally written for brass band), Hymn of the Highlands was commissioned by David King and the Yorkshire Building Society Band and provides a series of themed movements which can act as a half-concert featuring a band's soloists. Flowerdale is one of the solo movements.Duration: 4.00
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£21.95Terra Australis (Concert Band - Score only) - Ellerby, Martin
In 2005 The Royal Marines Band Service commissioned Martin Ellerby for a Wind Band transcription of Terra Australis. Originally commissioned by the YBS Band, in consultation with their professional conductor Professor David King, for their 2005 tour of Australia, the composer has constructed this single-movement work by using three elements of Australian life. A dramatic illusion of the country's natural wonders and landscape, the spirit of Captain Cook's voyage in Endeavour and finally a salute to Australia's fallen in overseas wars.Duration: 11:30
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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Terra Australis (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Ellerby, Martin
In 2005 The Royal Marines Band Service commissioned Martin Ellerby for a Wind Band transcription of Terra Australis. Originally commissioned by the YBS Band, in consultation with their professional conductor Professor David King, for their 2005 tour of Australia, the composer has constructed this single-movement work by using three elements of Australian life. A dramatic illusion of the country's natural wonders and landscape, the spirit of Captain Cook's voyage in Endeavour and finally a salute to Australia's fallen in overseas wars.Duration: 11:30
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£87.99Old Hundredth (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Sparke, Philip
The tune Old Hundredth is one of the best-known melodies in all Christian musical traditions and first appeared in the 1551 psalter "Pseaumes Octante Trois de David", where it is used as a setting for a version of Psalm 134; it is usually attributed to the French composer Louis Bourgeois (c.1510 - c.1560). The melody was then used in 1561 by the Scots clergyman, William Kethe in Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter for his paraphrase of Psalm 100, All People that on Earth do Dwell, which is still the most familiar hymn sung to this noble tune. When Tate and Brady's "New Version of the Psalms" was published in 1696, the melody became know as the 'old' version - hence its current title. This arrangement presents three contrasting verses and is effective as a concert piece as well as an instrumental interlude as part of a church service or wedding.Duration: 2:30
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£70.00Minor Alterations (Christmas Through the Looking Glass) (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Lovrien, David
Looking for something really different for this year's Christmas concert? Here's a game of holiday hide-and-seek for your audience! Minor Alterations: Christmas Through the Looking Glass is a medley of favorite Christmas tunes, transposed from major to minor keys then disguised, layered and morphed even more. From the ominous Deck the Halls at the start to the final, frenzied Nutcracker Suite finale, each tune is lovingly twisted into something new and inventive. Duration: 6.15
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£68.00Mt. Healthy (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Fillmore, Henry - Shaffer, David
This long-lost Fillmore march was written as a bet with fellow composer John Klohr in an attempt to prove that music sold because of its merit rather than because of the composer's popularity. To camouflage its origins, Fillmore wrote the march under the fictitious name, "Gus Beans" and called it Mt. Healthy by selecting the title at random from a list of Cincinnati, Ohio suburbs. An exceptional march for mid-level bands, Mt. Healthy is pure Henry Fillmore at his very best.Duration: 2.00
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£50.00Madcap Mallet Mania (Mallet Percussion Feature with Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Shaffer, David
Feature your aspiring mallet percussion players with this cute rock tune. Can be performed as a solo, a duet or a trio and you can even double those parts to make sure everyone gets involved in the action and any mallets instruments will work. Mallet parts aren't very hard but sound very impressive. Will pay big dividends to your band program. Can't be beat!Duration: 2.00
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£168.50Harlequin (Euphonium Solo with Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Sparke, Philip
Harlequin was commissioned by, and is dedicated to, euphonium virtuoso David Childs. The piece takes as its inspiration the happy and sad masks which symbolise the Commedia dell?Arte (which features Harlequin as one of its main characters) and comprises two movements, a slow modal ballad followed by a frenetic faster movement. A fantastic showpiece for euphonium and band.Duration: 9.00
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£87.50As a Wind from the North (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Sheldon, Robert
As a Wind from the North was inspired by the writings of Byron Reece and commissioned by the Northwinds Symphonic Band of Gainesville, Georgia (Ronald J. Evans, Conductor), and was premiered at the Georgia Music Educators All-State Conference in Savannah. The piece is a fantasy based on the hymn "King of Glory" by David Charles Walker. Duration: 8.30
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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