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Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Martin Ellerby
Celebratory Prelude - duration 2.59
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If you enjoyed listening to this excerpt and want to listen to a full performance, you can purchase the CD recording on this site. The CD is "OVATION !" with The Flowers Band conducted by Philip Harper. QPRL 229CD
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Paul Lovatt-Cooper
Commissioned by the National Youth Brass Band of Scotland Duration 4.20
Programme Notes
Overdrive was commissioned by the National Youth Brass Band of Scotland for their intermediate Band.
This fast paced piece is composed in a pop-jazz style. Opening with big chords in the cornets and trombones and being driven on by the percussion; the trombones then play the main theme. This is the replicated by the rest of the ensemble before the percussion takes us to the ’drop’ where the pulse is halved. The lower brass the drive the drop with clapping from the rest of the ensemble.
Chord stabs at rehearsal figure F punctuate the syncopated melodic lines in the cornets and horns. We then double the tempo to feature the cornet section in a flowing melodic line that is then joined by the euphoniums.
The syncopated lines and rhythmic ’stabs’ return with a bridge section that reintroduces the opening big chords that lead us to the close.
This piece needs to be performed with lots of pace and energy to make it as exciting as possible.
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Carlos Franzetti Arranger: Mark Freeh
From symphonies to big band jazz, and from chamber works to Latin American music and film scores, the music of Argentian-born composer and arranger Carlos Franzetti (b.1948) has won many prestigious awards. This exciting six minute overture, Overture for Brass, was arranged by Mark Freeh and has been recorded by the GUS Band, conducted by Bramwell Tovey.
Brass Band Grade 4: Advanced Youth and 3rd Section
Duration: 6 minutes
Overture for Brass, arranged by Mark Freeh, is available on the CD 'Freeh-Way' by The GUS Band, conducted by Bramwell Tovey.
Grade equivalents for Brass Band test-pieces where there is considerable overlap at the higher levels, depending on the level of competition (local, regional or national):
Categories: NEW & RECENT Publications, LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Richard Wagner Arranger: David Twitchings
Tannhäuser is an opera in three acts with music and text by Richard Wagner. It is based on the two Germanic legends of Tannhäuser and the song contest at Wartburg. The story centres on the struggle between sacred and profane love and redemption through love, a theme which runs through almost all of Wagner's mature work.
This abridged arrangement for brass band of the exciting overture has been expertly crafted by David Twitchings.
Categories: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC, NEW & RECENT Publications Composer: Jonathan Bates
Duration 3.30
This Overture is based on the patriotic American song America (My Country 'Tis of Thee). It is very much a ‘messed up' take on the song, and goes as wildly different from the well-known original as possible.
Much of the piece is written in a deep ethereal funk in 13/16, before a heavy, grungy half-time feel section featuring the euphonium and baritone - with the tune still dominating the harmonic structure of the accompaniment.
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