The NEW 2020 ANNUAL SPRING/ SUMMER SALE During June & July we will be adding new titles each weekday. MORE THAN 600 GREAT TITLES ON SALE TO EASE YOU OUT OF LOCKDOWN. This is your chance to get some great bargains - but sale stock is limited on each title, once it's gone, it's gone !
Categories: OPENERS, SUMMER 2020 SALE TITLES Composer: Philip Sparke
Grade = 5.0 Duration 4.15
Normally £74.95 - only £54.95 in our SALE - limited stock.
A Midwest Fanfare was commissioned by the Brass Band of Battle Creek and premiered by them during their appearance at the Midwest Clinic in Chicago on 20th December 2017 where this fanfare was the opening piece of the entire event. This piece is designed to be played with the cornets split into two teams either side of the band. It opens with the two groups answering each other antiphonally over a repeated figure in the lower band. A calmer central section introduces a euphonium solo which is then taken up by the whole ensemble. This leads back to a repeat of the opening fanfares over a rhythmic accompaniment and a short coda which brings the work to a close.
Categories: SUMMER 2020 SALE TITLES, TEST PIECES (Major Works) Composer: Kenneth Downie
The First Section Testpiece for the National Brass Band Regional Championships 2000 - and First Section Testpiece for the 2007 Butlin's Contest.
Normally £55.00 - only £35.00 in our Spring Sale
MUSIC FOR THE COMMON MAN
(In memory of Theodore Cooney)
Commissioned by the Swiss Brass Band Association and the Music Association of Norway for their National Brass Band Championships.
The theme, stated at the outset, is largely reflective in mood, albeit with underlying moments of tension. Fragments of it re-emerge between the fast section which all derive from the
opening material. The theme returns triumphantly near the end, and after a series of changing moods, serenity and repose are re-established.
The title has a three-way aptness. it indicates the unpretentious nature of music, it alludes to a universally known fanfare and symphony, and it makes a fitting tribute to my uncle who died while I was writing the music, and who did much to encourage me as a composer.
This set includes additional parts for horn in Eb, trombones in treble clef and Eb bass.
An arrangement of grand ceremonial music that will be enhanced by the use of timpani. The ensemble is arranged in two choirs. The use of Bb trumpets make this ideal for school use.
... Prelude du Carousel de la Grande Ecurie • Minuet • Gavotte • Gigue • Premier Air des Combattants • Deuxième Air (Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme)
Categories: SUMMER 2020 SALE TITLES, Music of BRUCE FRASER, SOLOS - Euphonium, LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Arranger: Bruce Fraser
You can view the Solo Euphonium part as a PDF image of this work on your computer, by clicking on the "MORE DETAILS" button on the right - this will reveal the PDF image for you to sample.
"When I set out to arrange these traditional Christmas carols I was determined that they should not be yet another run-of-the-mill, strophic, verse-by-verse version of our Christmas musical heritage.
Scored for Brass Ensemble, Organ and Percussion, I have tried to treat each carol as the basis for a "Petite Fantasie" - a continuous, single-movement of variations on the original tune. To what extent I have been successful is for the listener to decide.
Of course, the carol is heard in its traditional form at some point during the arrangement but hopefully the appeal of the carol is enhanced without destroying the traditional concept.
Such treatment obviously involves a considerable amount of original composition. Ding Dong Merrily and In Dulci Jubilo(à 7) both have fugal counterpoint in the middle sections. There is a flavour of monastic plainsong in O Come Emmanuel which is in sharp contrast to the variation featuring Bongos, which immediately follows! Hark the Herald starts with a majestic introduction and ends with a French-style organ toccata. Good King Wenceslas gets the spiky/witty treatment. O Come all Ye Faithful and the First Noel both end in Baroque splendour. The Holly and the Ivy has a Polonaise/Beguine-like section, Jingle Bells an intricate, cross-rhythm against the tune. White Christmas, Silent Night and the middle sections of Hark the Herald and Christmas is Coming have the soft "lush" treatment. Christmas is Coming has a humorous opening and a "Noblimente" end. The Twelve Days of Christmas depicts each "day" with its own theme, e.g. Seven Swans a'Swimming misquotes "The Swan" of Saint Saens. I Saw Three Ships becomes a Gigue while the Coventry Carol and Veni, Veni, Emmanuel inevitably are modal. All in all, a delightful mixture of musical styles through the ages."
Categories: TEST PIECES (Major Works), SUMMER 2020 SALE TITLES Composer: Kevin Norbury
Normally £44.95 - only £39.95 in our SALE - Limited stock
Set as the Championship Section Test piece for the 2018 Regional Brass Band Championships of Great Britain.
Duration 12.30
This piece was inspired by the ancient Celtic hymn Be Thou My Vision and Dante’s Inferno. Some may think this a strange combination - perhaps it is, but these two sources will help in understanding the thinking behind the work. I have tried to portray the imaginary journey of a human soul from the ‘darkness’ of the earthbound situation to the ‘light’ of spiritual union with God. The inspiration of the hymn places this imaginaryjourney in a specifically Christian context since the focus of the vision is the Trinity.
The mood of the music at its commencement is brooding and troubled, with angular melodic lines, dissonant harmonies and pounding rhythms. While looking at this piece again, I have noticed how the interval of a 4th. emerges as a fundamental element in its melodic and harmonic construction. The piece undergoes a number of stylistic changes in the course of its progress - from the seriousness of the opening to exuberance and triumph at the end. I know that when I was writing the piece, I was working with a very specific imaginary program in mind - to explain that would require a lengthy and tedious analysis. l will feel happier if players and listeners are able to comprehend something meaningful for themselves and reach their own conclusions about the content of the piece.
The melody usually associated with the hymn is also of Celtic origin and is called Slane in most hymnals. A slightly altered version of this melody appears toward the middle of the piece as a martial "leitmotif" propelling the pilgrim onward toward the light. That however, is the only appearance of the melody. After that, the music becomes my own interpretation of the hymn, because the remainder of the piece is based on my own choral setting of the words — the melody of which is heard in its entirety as the cornet solo at the commencement of the slow section (Bar 232). You will hear the melody once more towards the end of the piece in a tranquil but joyous setting, marked ‘Flying’ in the score (Bar 296). The music ends triumphantly as the soul is united with the Creator.
Kevin Norbury’s powerful major work was selected as the Championship Section test piece of the 1999 European Brass Band Championships held in Munich. The piece was inspired by the ancient Celtic hymn “Be Thou My Vision” and Dante’s Inferno. The mood of the music at its commencement is brooding and troubled, with angular melodic lines, dissonant harmonies and pounding rhythms. The work undergoes a number of stylistic changes in the course of its progress — from the seriousness of the opening to exuberance and triumph at the end.
Kevin Norbury is currently employed by The Salvation Army USA Eastern Territory as Music Editor, a position previously occupied by, among others, Erik Leidzen, Peter Graham, Brian Bowen and James Curnow. He moved to the United States at the beginning of 1998 having previously been Senior Editor in the SA’s Music Editorial Department based in London for nearly five years. An active Salvationist, he attends the Montclair Citadel Corps just outside New York City in New Jersey. He is a faculty member of the famed Star Lake Musicarnp and is frequently invited as an instructor to other music camps ~ he enjoys working with young musicians.
Kevin has had a large number of brass and vocal compositions published by The Salvation Army and is now beginning to have music published in the wider musical world. Having started composing relatively late, he still feels he has a lot to learn from the more experienced and established composers and is always open to new influences. His real musical loves are choral music (both as a participant and conductor) and being an accompanist. He has no favorite composer but admires and reveres J.S. Bach and Mozart above all others. His hobbies are reading, walking, birdwatching and listening to all kinds of music.
As a composer of works for brass band he is also well known outside the UK. His work Odyssey was chosen as a mandatory work for the European Brass Band Championships in Munich in 1999. In 2005, he received the assignment of the North American Brass Band Association to write the honorary section of the North American Brass Band Championships . He is the Composer of the Army of the Salvation International Staff Band and works as a publisher of the Army of the Army in London , New York City and Toronto .
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