Category: SOLOS - Euphonium Composer: Hermann Pallhuber
Grade 3.0 Duration 7.45
Euphonium and Brass Band Beriato Solo Works Series. product type Set (Score & Parts). A product from Beriato Music Publishing
For a Flower is a very melodic and virtuosic solo work for euphonium and brass band. It opens with a gentle solo introduction on euphonium, which develops into a grand hymnal theme. Following this comes a faster and more virtuosic section in a traditional Irish style, with a varied dialogue between the band and the soloist. The work closes triumphantly with the hymnal theme of the opening. For a Flower showcases both the musical and technical capabilities of this wonderful instrument. The euphonium soloist must naturally master both skills: lyrical playing and virtuoso playing. For a Flower was commissioned by the Dutch euphonium virtuoso Robbert Vos and is dedicated to his wife, Evi.
Categories: SOLOS - Euphonium, Howard Snell Music Composer: Howard Snell
1.Refrains and Choruses 2.Ballad 3.Improvisation 4.Galop
Howard Snell writes :
These four pieces were written for Gordon Higginbottom and the Tenor Horn Society, but are equally at home on the Euphonium. While they are essentially playful – “Bagatelle – a trifle, a light piece of verse or music” – two of the movements (2 and 3) tip the cap, with due reverence, to Brahms (including some quotation) and Bach. The third movement, in fact, requires the player to join in creating the piece by choosing a significant number of factors: the tempo, the articulation, and the overall characterisation. Above all, these little pieces require a very wide range of response, both musical and technical: in Nr. 1, for example, the mood varies from light and elegant to raucous and jazzy, while in Nr. 4, helter-skelter is the key. Both contain a certain amount of bad-tempered conflict between the soloist and the pianist.
Categories: SOLOS - B♭. Cornet & Band, SOLOS - Euphonium, SOLOS - Trombone Composer: Frank Sinatra Arranger: Mark Freeh
Mark Freeh’s fine arrangement brings together three classic Sinatra songs in a suite for solo instruments and band: I’ve Got You Under My Skin (flugel solo), All the Way (trombone solo) and New York, New York (cornet or euphonium solo).
Brass Band Grade 4
Duration: 5 minutes.
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):
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