Category: FILM MUSIC & MUSICALS Composer: Henry Mancini Material: Mark Freeh
A Touch of Mancini celebrates the music of Henry Mancini (1924-1994), the Academy Award winning American composer, conductor and arranger best remembered as a composer of film and television scores.
Includes :
1."Pink Panther" 2."Moon River" 3."Days of Wine Roses" 4."Peter Gunn".
Brass Band Grade 4
Duration: 4 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):
Category: FILM MUSIC & MUSICALS Composer: Mark Mancina Material: Darrol Barry
Music from the film.
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Duration 3.01
If you enjoyed listening to this audio extract, you can purchase the full CD recording in the CD section of this site. The recording is SCREEN BLOCKBUSTERS with The Black Dyke Band conducted by Nicholas J. Childs.
Category: FILM MUSIC & MUSICALS Composer: Alan Menken Arranger: Jerry Nowak
Duration 2.20 Grade 3.0
Taken from the original 1989 Disney production ‘The Little Mermaid’, Under The Sea will get a smile on anyone’s face! It’s fun to play and not too difficult - easy playable by fourth section bands upwards.
Categories: FILM MUSIC & MUSICALS, Howard Snell Music Composer: Richard Rodney Bennett Arranger: Howard Snell
An irrestible concert piece, colourful, full of lively melody.
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Howard Snell writes: An attractive extract from one of Richard Bennett's film scores. Richard, with whom I was a student at the Royal Academy of Music many years ago, and who wrote some extremely demanding solo trumpet works for me, is one of the world's most truly multi-talented musicians.
Categories: FILM MUSIC & MUSICALS, NEW & RECENT Publications Composer: Nino Rota Material: Andreas Røe
Grade 3.0
Duration 3.12
The Godfather” made in 1972 is regarded as one of the best movies of all times.
The lone trumpet during the opening sequence brings us deep into an epic drama. During the film, Don Corleone - played by the great Marlon Brando shows us the life and work of the New York-mafia in the aftermath of the second world war.
Nino Rota´s fantastic music gives “The Godfather” an extra dimension
Categories: FILM MUSIC & MUSICALS, ANNUAL SPRING SALE 2023 Composer: Vince DiCola Arranger: Alan Fernie
From the film "ROCKY IV" Duration 2.58
Normally £46.00 - ONLY £39.00 in our SALE - Limited stock.
If you enjoyed listening to this audio extract, you can purchase the full CD recording in the CD section of this site. The recording is SCREEN BLOCKBUSTERS with The Black Dyke Band conducted by Nicholas J. Childs.
Category: FILM MUSIC & MUSICALS Composer: Marvin Hamlish Arranger: Christopher Wormald
from A Chorus Line
A Chorus Line is an American musical with music composed by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics written by Edward Kleban and the story based on the book by James Kirkwood jr. and Nicholas Dante. The plot centres around Broadway dancers auditioning for places in a chorus line, with the entire musical set on the bare stage of a Broadway theatre during auditions. A Chorus Line provides a glimpse into the personalities of individual performers and the production’s choreographer as they describe the events which have shaped their lives and decisions to dance professionally.
Following several workshops and a highly successful off-Broadway production, A Chorus Line opened on Broadway in ]uly 1975, directed and choreographed by Michael Bennett. The production was an unprecedented box office success and acclaimed critical hit, with the musical receiving twelve Tony Award nominations, of which it won nine, and the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
The original Broadway production ran for a previously unprecedented 6,137 performances, so becoming the longest-running production in Broadway history at that time, until it was finally surpassed for the first time some twenty two years later, in 1997. A Chorus Line remains one of the longest running Broadway shows ever staged and its success has spawned many successful stage productions worldwide ever since.
In 1985, a decade after the stage show opened to such success on Broadway, A Chorus Line was made into a Hollywood film directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Michael Douglas as the choreographer. The film was released in December 1985 by Columbia Pictures but proved not to be as popular or successful as the award winning stage show on which it was based.
Category: FILM MUSIC & MUSICALS Composer: Zimmer / Badelt / Gire / Sponsler Arranger: Stephen Roberts
From Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest
Difficulty: 4 Duration: 4m19s
The audio extract with this publication is taken from the CD 'Arabian Nights - The Music of Stephen Roberts' by Black Dkye Band, also available to buy from this site. Please click here for more details.
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