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£57.50Smash the Windows - Robert Xavier RodrÝguez
Smash the Windows is a vigorous piece full of energy and motion. The work is based on a traditional Irish jig with the same name. Robert Xavier Rodrguez calls the piece a toccata moto perpetuo, the music gradually builds from its quiet beginning to a brilliant flourish that, with sound effects, truly befits the title. Learn more on YouTube! BandQuest, an exciting series of new music and accompanying curricula for band, is a program published by the American Composers Forum. The series was started as a response to feedback from music educators that there is a pressing need for new, fresh band music. The heart of this program is new works written by a diverse group of leading American composers who have created challenging pieces that are a true departure from standard middle school repertoire. Every BandQuest project includes a residency component in which the composer works collaboratively with a middle school as they create their new piece.Many BandQuest pieces are accompanied by an interdisciplinary curriculum designed to assist students as they learn the music and to integrate each piece with non-music studies. Visit www.bandquest.org to learn more about this innovative series, and email [email protected] to request a free downloadable audio catalog.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£71.50Aspire - Mark Lortz
This celebratory piece for younger bands uses driving percussion and rhythmic ostinatos to create an overall sense of energy and passion for excellence. Opening with a resplendent fanfare, the music gains momentum, constantly moving forward, even through a softer section of longer note values. After introducing a new syncopated motive the initial fanfare returns, this time supported by an intense rhythmic pulse to the triumphant flourish.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£104.50A Festival Celebration - Travis J. Weller
Reward your students while taking the audience on a thrilling sonic journey. Part fanfare and part overture, this work pays homage to the great works students have experienced for generations. It opens with a majestic brass fanfare complemented by colorful woodwinds and percussion. A variety of textural and stylistic presentations leads to the closing flourish that rises from the bottom of the sound canvas to the top for a final resplendent fanfare restatement.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£77.00Legacy of Honor
This piece drives from the start with bold trumpet flourishes and interjections from the rest of the band. After the exciting first section, a lyrical second theme departs to something beautiful and lush in harmonic structure. The development section is based on the opening theme, eventually leading the piece back, followed by a dynamic brass flourish in the coda. A solid choice by a known composer for contests and festivals.
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£80.00Infernal Galop (Can Can from Orpheus in the Underworld) (Flexible Ensemble - Score and Parts) - Offenbach, Jacques - VanDoren, Evan
Jacques Offenbach's Infernal Galop, or Can-Can as it is more often called, has been reimagined throughout history. From classical composers like Saint-Saens, to more modern uses in movies, television, and even video games, the timeless appeal of Offenbach's melody is without question. Evan VanDoren's new flexible instrumentation arrangement for concert band is a perfect addition to any concert. Particularly effective as a closing selection or encore, this recognizable flourish will have your audience on their feet. Highly recommended!Duration: 2.15
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£91.99March Prelude: Alnwick Town (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Sparke, Philip
March Prelude: Alnwick Town was commissioned by the Alnwick Playhouse Concert Band (with Ray Thompson as conductor) to celebrate their first 25 years. It opens majestically with answering phrases between various sections of the band, leading to a faster march-like section, its main theme echoes the rhythms of the opening material. A bridge passage featuring snippets for saxophones and trumpets leads to a new theme, more legato in nature and repeated after a change of key. The bridge passage returns to herald a restatement of the main theme before the opening material reappears to close the work with a flourish.Duration: 3.45
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£70.50In Joyous Flight (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Roszell, Patrick
Musically depicting a butterfly release, this exciting work evokes the flourish of colour and hope. A bold and dramatic piece suitable for concerts and contests throughout the school year. The piece serves beautifully as an opener or closer on concerts and contests throughout the school year. A bold and dramatic addition to the literature.Duration: 4:30
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£80.00Infernal Galop (Can Can from Orpheus in the Underworld) (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Offenbach, Jacques - VanDoren, Evan
Jacques Offenbach's "Infernal Galop", or "Can-Can" as it is more often called, has been reimagined throughout history. From classical composers such as Saint-Saens, to more modern uses in movies, television, and even video games, the timeless appeal of Offenbach's melody is without question. Evan VanDoren's arrangement for concert band is a perfect addition to any concert. Particularly effective as a closing selection or encore, this recognizable flourish will have your audience on their feet. Highly recommended! Duration: 2.15
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£60.99Wildcat Valley Fanfare (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Sweeney, Michael
The Wildcat Creek in central Indiana forms a valley connecting all schools in the Howard County area for whom this piece was written. Opening with the percussion section in a stately style, the main theme is first heard in a chorale-like setting. Designed as an extended fanfare, the piece quickly builds in intensity with each subsequent phrase, and culminates in a fast-paced and brilliant sounding ending flourish. Effective as a concert opener.Duration: 3:15
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£79.99A Brass Thing (Movement III from Serenada Schizophrana) (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Elfman, Danny - Saucedo, Richard L.
Renowned film composer Danny Elfman entered the symphonic world with a flourish with his orchestral work Serenada Schizophrana. Commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra in New York, it was premiered at Carnegie Hall in 2005. The third movement (A Brass Thing) features an eclectic blend of styles and striking sonorities and is skillfully adapted for wind band by Richard Saucedo.Duration: 5.30
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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