Categories: SOLOS - Euphonium, Howard Snell Music Composer: Howard Snell
Sleeping is for ever a mysterious activity, that may never be fully understood. The quiet progression of this piece... originally a movement from Images of the Millennium for Brass Band... mirrors a passage of half-sleep in which the sleeper imagines an unbroken, gentle, hypnotic melodic line played by equally dream-like musicians.
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Categories: SOLOS - B♭. Cornet/Trumpet with Piano, Howard Snell Music Composer: Howard Snell
Sleeping is for ever a mysterious activity, that may never be fully understood. The quiet progression of this piece... originally a movement from Images of the Millennium for Brass Band... mirrors a passage of half-sleep in which the sleeper imagines an unbroken, gentle, hypnotic melodic line played by equally dream-like musicians.
Category: SOLOS - Trombone Composer: Philip Sparke
duration 3.30 Grade 5.0
Short and showy solo written for Brett Baker.
Capriccio for Trombone was commissioned by Brett Baker, trombone soloist and member of the famous Black Dyke Band. It is a tribute to the late Mike Moor, close friend and colleague of both Brett and the composer. The piece aims to capture Mike’s good humour, his love for brass band music and the irrepressible, enthusiastic energy he involved in all things he did in his life.
Categories: SOLOS - B♭. Cornet/Trumpet with Piano, SALVATIONIST MUSIC Composer: Webb Arranger: Ivor Bosanko
This is a double number and includes PRAYER of MY CHILDHOOD for Bb. Cornet and piano.
Solo for Bb. Cornet - duration 4.39
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Major Joy Webb’s contributions to The Salvation Army’s vocal repertoire have blessed and inspired both performers and listeners alike. Bandmaster Ivor Bosanko of the USA Western Territory has written this transcription of one of Major Webb’s most poignant compositions.
The melodic line lies comfortably for Cornet, and provides scope for much expression. Soloists not familiar with the lyrics would do well to refer to the original song, which can be found in The Musical Salvationist, July 1987.
If you enjoyed listening to this extract and want to hear the full recording, you can buy the CD on this website in the CD Section. The CD is "PATRONS CHOICE II" Fodens Band conducted by Michael Fowles.
Category: SOLOS - ANY B♭. Inst. Arranger: Peter Lawrance
53 Well Known Tunes
Learn your scales with the help of 53 well know tunes - suitable for ANY Treble Clef Brass Band instrument.
Each page in the first part of this book starts with a scale and its arpeggio. The rest of the page is full of tunes that use that scale and arpeggio. As you play the tunes, you will find out why learning scales and arpeggios can help to make you a better player. If you have’nt guessed already, this is because most tunes are made up of little more than parts of scales and arpeggios. Some of these have been marked with an * Try and spot the others.
The Scales :
C Major one octave A Minor one octave Bb Major one octave D Major one octave D Minor one octave Eb Major one octave E Major one octave A Major a twelfth C Minor one octave E Minor one octave Chromatic one octave WholeTone one octave
The FACTS ! It is guaranteed, written in stone, as certain as night follows day, that you will be asked to play scales in your exam. The examiner wont forget. wont be kind and just let you off, wont fall asleep, wont take a bribe, wont have a cup of tea instead or take pity on you if your valves miraculously stick or the bell falls off — so learn your scales.
The BENEFITS :
You may be learning scales just because you are going to take an exam, Fair enough but at the same time your tone and tuning will improve.
Your sight-reading skills will improve as you learn to spot bits of scales and arpeggios in the pieces that you play and to recognise key signatures.
You will develop a really good finger technique. You won’t worry about using your 2nd. and 3rd. fingers when necessary. And let’s not forget the exam, because if you know your scales really well — You will definitely get a much better mark than if you don’t. You will enter the exam much more confidently — you don’t want to be dreading the moment when you are asked to perform A Major.
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