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Categories: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC, MARCHES Composer: Paul Lovatt-Cooper
This work was written for the Wardle High School Junior Brass Band as part of their programme at the National Festival of Music for Youth and first performed by them in Birmingham's Symphony Hall on 10th July 2006. Duration: c. 2' 00" The piece is ideal for youth bands to perform. In the style of a circus piece, it is just over two minutes in length and fun to play. The Big Top is simple, short and easy to play and should provide enjoyment for both the player and listener.
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer / arranger: Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen
Grade 4.0 Duration 12.45
This piece was commissioned by Nordhordland Brass Seminar in 1990 and written for a youth band.
The title referes to a story from norse mythology.
“The Binding of the Wolf” is not a programmatic piece of music, but I felt that there was a kind of coherence between the music and the dramatic story:
“...The wolf Fenrir was one of the demonic offspring of Loki, and as he grew up in Asgard among the gods, he became so huge and fierce that only Tyr was willing to feed him. It was decided that he must be bound, and Odin in his wisdom caused the cunning dwarfs to forge a chain which could not be broken.
It was made from the invisible and yet potent powers of the world, such as the roots of a mountain, the noise of a moving cat, the breath of a fish.
When completed, this chain seemed to be no more than a silken cord, but the wolf refused to let it be laid upon him unless one of the gods would put a hand between his jaws as a pledge that it was harmless.
Only Tyr was prepared to do this, and when the wolf found that the chain was unbreakable, the gods rejoiced, but Tyr lost his hand.
The binding of the wolf may be seen as a means of protecting the world of men, as well as that of the gods, from destruction.
The story of the god losing his hand appears to be one of the fundamental myths of nothern Europe...”
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer / arranger: Zawinul arr. Philip Sparke
Weather Report and Maynard Ferguson had hits with this salute to Charlie Parker. Philip Sparkes driving arrangement is approachable by bands of all grades.
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: William Walton
Duration: 0:40
This miniature fanfare was written as a 70th birthday present for Karl-Friedrich Still, the Waltons’ next-door neighbour in Ischia. The autograph is just nine bars long, but in a separate note Walton writes, ‘After a quick look at K’s fanfare it seems a bit short. I suggest if there is time to make the adjustment in the parts that it should read thus: at the 9th [recte 8th] bar the 8th [recte 7th] bar should be repeated making 10 bars in all.’ He adds a music example making it clear that the seventh bar is to be repeated. The fanfare was scored for three trumpets, four horns, and percussion, and was performed at Dr Still’s guest-house, ‘Wengerner Mühle’, in Recklinghausen on 10 October 1981. At some point the fanfare was scored for seven trumpets and percussion and it was first heard in this form on 7 June 1982 at the Royal Albert Hall, London, played by the trumpeters of the Royal Military School, Kneller Hall, conducted by Lt-Col G. E. Evans. Oxford University Press published this version, rather than the original, in 1983.
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Arranger: Martin Ellerby
Duration: 2:10 Grade: 3.0 - should be playable by 4th. section bands upwards.
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Birthday Honours was premiered in 2007 to celebrate the 70th birthday of British composer Guy Woolfenden and makes a perfect piece to mark any anniversary or as a surprise on someone’s actual birthday.
Full Recording on the CD - THE GREEN HILL - DHR 03-057-3
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