Cat No.JM30985 Price
£59.95 Composer: Edward Gregson Category: TEST PIECES (Major Works)
Previously used as a Championship Section Testpiece.
Set as the FIRST SECTION REST PIECE for the 2016 Brass Band Regional Championships of Great Britain.
Essay for Brass Band was specially written for the 1971 W.D. & H.O. Wills Championship Finals. It is in three movements, the btitles of which all have literary connotations.
01. DIALOGUE This movement takes the form of a conversation between the instruments, based on the opening melody ( cornets and euphoniums ). A second theme is later introduced (flugel horn solo ) and developed alongside this, thus making a Sonata form shell.
02. SOLILOQUY Dedicated to the memory of that fine musician Gilbert Vinter, this movement's lonley mood is depicted by a solo cornet, heard after an introduction. The middle section builds up to a powerful climax and the main tune of the first movement is herad again. Tranquility returns, a trombone taking the place of the cornet, and other instruments adding ornamentation - then the movement ends as it began.
03. EPIGRAM Gaeity returns. This time the rhythms are important, an melodically the rising major seventh plays an important part. The middle section has changing rhythmiic patterns bujt eventually leads back to the opening idea. A coda concludes the work.
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