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Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Mario Burki
Urchigs Terbil
Törbel, a small village in the mountain region of Wallis (CH) lives from its fertile landscape and numerous small water mills. Mario Bürki has transcribed the life and landscape of this region in his composition in a wonderfully delightful manner.
Grade B
Duration 6:00
This publisher rates grade difficulty as follows:
A = very easy B = easy C = medium D = difficult E = very difficult
Categories: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC, SUMMER 2020 SALE TITLES Composer: Stephen Bulla
Three contrasting movements dedicated to Sir Dean Goffin, and is modeled after his Rhapsody in Brass.
Normally £87.00 - only £79.95 in our SALE - limited stock.
This music was commissioned by Southwestern Michigan College (Jonathan Korzun Director of Bands) honoring the thirtieth anniversary of the college’s first graduating class.
In three distinct movements, the work is dedicated to the late Sir Dean Coffin and is modeled after the overall structure of his Rhapsody In Brass. The music develops from and mirrors the earlier work, but with more modern tonal outlines and original melodic material.
The first movement opens with several fanfare-like figures, which recurs at various times in different instrumental combinations. With development, this music takes on a carnival-like atmosphere before concluding with an upward flourish.
Following a solitary sustained note, the second movement commences quietly with a slower theme shared by several solo instruments. The music here develops intb an extended study on The Water is Wide - an American title for a folk song which seems to have its beginnings in the United Kingdom as 0 Wa!ey, Waley.
The third movement reverts to the rhapsodic format with a lively theme marked ‘in a playful manner’. As a reference to Coffin’s roots, the music incorporates a happy Maori (native New Zealand) melody known as Shout the Sound. Following the majestic recapitulation of the movement’s opening, the entire work is brought to a close with a showcase of exciting ensemble techniques.
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: George Frideric Handel Arranger: Phillip Littlemore
Duration: 3.45
Completed in 1940, the set of Symphonic Dances was Sergei Rachmaninov's last composition. The work is fully representative of the composer’s late style with its curious, shifting harmonies, the almost Prokofiev-like grotesquerie of the outer movements and the focus on individual instrumental tone colours throughout. Rachmaninov composed the Symphonic Dances four years after his Third Symphony, mostly at the Honeyman Estate, ‘Orchard Point’, in Centerport, New York, overlooking Long Island Sound. The three-movement work’s original name was Fantastic Dances, with movement titles of ‘Noon’, ‘Twilight’ and ‘Midnight’. When the composer wrote to the conductor Eugene Ormandy in late August, he said that the piece was finished and needed only to be orchestrated, but the manuscript for the full score actually bears completion dates of September and October 1940. It was premiered by Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra, to whom it is dedicated, on 3rd January, 1941. This arrangement is of the last dance and is a kind of struggle between the Dies Iraetheme, representing Death, and a quotation from Rachmaninov’s own Vespers (also known as the All-night Vigil, 1915), representing Resurrection. The Resurrection theme proves victorious in the end as the composer actually wrote the word ‘Hallelujah’ at the relevant place the score (one bar after Fig. 16 in this arrangement).
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Schubert Arranger: J. A. Greenwood
Please note that there is no full score published for this work - traditionally, conductors have used a cued solo cornet part to rehearse and perform with.
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