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Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Henry Purcell Arranger: Philip Wilby
Composed by Henry Purcell for three solo instruments (violins or recorders) over a repeating bass line around the year 1680 this work shows English Contrapuntal skill at its most exhuberant.
This free transcription for brass band stands alongside Philip Wilby’s 1995 composition Revelation which uses it as a basis in tribute to Purcell’s tercentenary.
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Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Thomas Lupo Arranger: Elgar Howarth
10-piece
Duration 3.15
The English keyboard fantasia reached its peak of popularity in the late 16th and early 17th century. The music was normally based on a short musical extract that was embellished and developed. Often the music formed variations on the hexachord (a series of six notes which ascend step by step) in a polyphonic manner with a free and improvisatory nature. Ensemble fantasias gradually diminished in popularity up to around 1700, but their keyboard counterparts retained their importance. Arranger Elgar Howarth idiomatically transfers the original to the brilliant sonorities of modern brass instruments.
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: W.A. Mozart Arranger: Malcolm Sargent
Composed for the mechanical organ in 1791 by Mozart and arranged for Brass Band by Malcolm Sargent in 1946. This arrangement was commissioned for The Daily Record National Brass Band Championship Festival of Great Britain.
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Henry Wood Arranger: Philip Littlemore
Henry Wood’s medley Fantasia on British Sea Songs was arranged in 1905 to mark the centenary of the Battle of Trafalgar. For many years it has been an indispensable item at the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms concert. Wood’s arrangement comprises nine parts, although this transcription has been somewhat truncated to make it more manageable for a brass band concert.
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Henry Wood Arranger: Dennis Wright
Music for your Last Night At The Proms.
Duration 9.00
1. The Anchors Weighed 2. The Saucy Arethusa 3. Tom Bowling 4. Jack's the Lad 5. Farewell & Adieu Ye Spanish Ladies 6. Home Sweet Home 7. See The Conquering Hero Comes 8. Rule Britannia
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Henry Wood Arranger: Dennis Wright
Music for your Last Night At The Proms.
Duration 9.00
1. The Anchors Weighed 2. The Saucy Arethusa 3. Tom Bowling 4. Jack's the Lad 5. Farewell & Adieu Ye Spanish Ladies 6. Home Sweet Home 7. See The Conquering Hero Comes 8. Rule Britannia
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Alfonso Ferrabosco II Arranger: Elgar Howarth
The English keyboard fantasia reached its peak of popularity in the late 16th and early 17th century. The music was normally based on a short musical extract that was embellished and developed. Often the music formed variations on the hexachord (a series of six notes which ascend step by step) in a polyphonic manner with a free and improvisatory nature. Ensemble fantasias gradually diminished in popularity up to around 1700, but their keyboard counterparts retained their importance. Arranger Elgar Howarth idiomatically transfers the original to the brilliant sonorities of modern brass instruments.