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£242.50Labyrinth for Symphonic Band (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Aagaard-Nilsen, Torstein
I wrote Labyrinth to celebrate the 450th anniversary for the city of Fredrikstad. The Danish king Fredrik II agreed to establish a new town further down the river Glomma, to make it easier to defend from the Swedes. The piece is a network of quotations mixed with my own pitch material. My versions of the quoted melodies are not authentic, and sometimes hard to recognize. However, the different quotations give the music an aura of tonality. For example, a dance tune composed by the Flemish composer Mattheus Le Maistre (1505-1577). The melody also occurs in the first danish book of hymns written after the reformation. Since Norway for 400 years was a part of Denmark and everybody had to write and read Danish, they used much of the same music, too. I also use regular Danish hymn tunes and quote from a religious folk song from the area around Fredrikstad. The military signals I use are authentic (for example, The Old Danish March), and I am very sure they were used in the Old Town (the fortress) of Fredrikstad. The drums quote from The Downfall of Paris. This could have been heard played by professional soldiers hired by the Swedes from Scotland. This edition is a revised version made in 2020. - Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen. Duration: 23.00
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£45.95The Maya Kingdom (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Lopez, Victor
The Maya Kingdom was a culture with rich tradition and amazing skills, particularly in their artistic endeavours. This work has been intentionally created without a key signature, making it performable by ensembles at the earliest levels. Opening with a transparent clarinet melody and developing to a spirited conclusion, this piece embraces the rich Mayan tradition in a very playable and artistic form.Duration: 2:15
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£209.99Dunamis (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Waignein, Andre
Major Yvon Ducene wanted a new lush and colourful composition for his Guides military band, with Andr Waignein as its composer. Early in 1979 the composer began his assignment and in October of the same year, the finished full score was on the music stands of this prestigious military band of the Belgian Army.The introduction (Grave) mirrors an atmosphere full of serenity in which the theme, played by the oboes and the English horn is predominant and immediately holds the listener spell-bound. It is taken up again as central element of the slow movement.The Allegro breaks away from the quiet passion of the introduction. Here, the band can really show its capabilities to the full. Based on a very precise rhythm, an idiom of sudden desperation and adversity develops which, fused with a crushing aggression, culminates in a kind of eruption, soon calmed down by a Lento : peace and quiet has returned thanks to a melody by the horns and soon taken over by the clarinets. In the meantime, the saxophone - an instrument full of human emotion - express the main spatial dimension in contemporary psyche. Following a harmonic transition the brass-players take up the theme again in forte whilst the basses and the woodwinds intertwine in technical arabesques.The movings of the mind and the heart get an audible and almost touchable shape in the ensuing Allegro, a movement characterised by a rhythmic dialogue in which the whole orchestra participates and where the exposition contains a wealth of sound and technical contrasts. The Lento finally uses the central theme of the slow movement again, with some occasional references to the two allegros. The last page is of unprecedented grandeur. All the instruments display their most beautiful sound which were named by Jacques Ferschotte, when speaking about Honneger, "harmonies d'intensits" harmonies of the unmeasurable.Duration: 14:30
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£46.95The Maya Kingdom - Victor López
The Maya Kingdom was a culture with rich tradition and amazing skills, particularly in their artistic endeavors. This work has been intentionally created without a key signature, making it performable by ensembles at the earliest levels. Opening with a transparent clarinet melody and developing to a spirited conclusion, this piece embraces the rich Mayan tradition in a very playable and artistic form. This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.
Estimated dispatch 3-5 working days
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£149.40The Cardamom Song - Thorbjørn Egner
"The Cardamom song" is a very popular children's song in the Nordic countries. It's taken from the music and book "Folk og rvere i Kardemomme by" written by Thorbjrn Egner.This arrangement written in a latin style features a childrens choirwith concert band.The arrangement was written for the recording "Muntre musikanter Karius og Baktus mter dyrene I Afrika" by Forsvarets Musikkorps Nord-Norge.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£82.50Tomorrow's Celebration - Randall D. Standridge
Every day is a gift. Every tomorrow holds the promise of greater things yet to come. Tomorrows Celebration was written as a celebratory piece for concert band. It uses many world and pop rhythms to create a very definite "groove," alternating between the opening regal fanfare and the joyous dance that follows.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£140.50
Fantaia in G Major - Johann Sebastian Bach
A true wind band classic is presented here with a new recording and transcription as a refresher for experienced band directors and as an introduction to new band directors. It was made famous by Fredrick Fennell in his recordings with the Cleveland Winds, along with countless other fantastic performances and recordings over the years. Originally written for organ, this transcription stays very true to the original intent. One can practically hear the registration changes of the organ when playing this well-written standard in the wind band repertoire.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£89.99Preludio all' atto II - Giuseppe Verdi
For the first draft of the libretto of Un ballo in maschera (1859), Giuseppe Verdi drew his inspiration from the grand-opra Gustave III by Auber, an opera performed for the first time in Paris in 1833 that depicted the assassination of the King of Sweden. However, censorship, first in Naples and then in Rome, intervened and imposed heavy modifications. Perhaps because it was too demanding, Verdi showed no intransigence with the requests coming from Naples and refused to alter the libretto. On the other hand, he yielded to the requests of the Roman authorities and agreed to change the site of the action and the identity of the protagonists. Consequently, the scene movedfrom Stockholm to Boston and King Gustav became the Count of Warwick, Governor of Massachusetts.The prelude to the second act is very short and introduces the scene at the place where the scaffold stands. In only a few measures, Verdi skillfully succeeds in condensing the interior restlessness of the protagonists, alongside a prayer of hope.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£154.99Concertino for Xylophone - Jan Bosveld
This composition was commissioned by "Koningin Wilhelmina Wamel" on the occasion of its one hundred year anniversary. That it is a composition for xylophone and concertband lies in the fact that Harmony has a very talented, young percussion player in the person of Barry Jurjes. The piece is both melodically and harmonically based on four notes (C - Dflat - F - G). The structure is divided into four parts: slow - fast - slow - fast.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£94.99Christmas Day (Concert Band with Optional Choir - Score and Parts) - Holst, Gustav - Beringen, Robert van
Gustav Holst composed almost 200 works, one being a very elegant and charming fantasy on the old English Christmas carols: Good Christian Men, Rejoice; God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen; Come Ye Lofty, Come and The First Nowell. The fantasy called Christmas Day was originally written for mixed choir with orchestra or organ accompaniment. Robert van Beringen has arranged this work for concert band exactly 100 years later. His arrangement can be performed as an instrumental piece or with a choir, making it suitable for any occasion.Duration: 5:45
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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