The NEW 2020 ANNUAL SPRING/ SUMMER SALE During June & July we will be adding new titles each weekday. MORE THAN 600 GREAT TITLES ON SALE TO EASE YOU OUT OF LOCKDOWN. This is your chance to get some great bargains - but sale stock is limited on each title, once it's gone, it's gone !
Categories: SUMMER 2020 SALE TITLES, LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Arranger: Elgar Howarth
Normally £24.95 - only £20.95 in our SALE.
This evocative arrangement from the pen of Elgar Howarth cleverly interweaves four popular folk tunes;
1.Shenandoah (USA), 2.Barbara Allen (England), 3.Come Rest in this Bosom (Ireland), 4.Londonderry Air (Ireland).
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With possible origins in Virginia, Shenandoah originated as a river shanty and then became popular with sea-going crews in the early 1800s. The author of Barbara Allan is unknown, but there are dozens of settings of the words to music. The earliest known mention of the song is in Samuel Pepys’ diary of January 2 1666 where he refers to the “little Scotch song of ‘Barbary Allen”. Here, Elgar Howarth has used a traditional English version.
The words to Come Rest in this Bosom are those of the Irish Poet Thomas Moore. Moore was also a balladeer, and it is possible that he also wrote the tune, although it is also likely to be of traditional Irish origin. Londondeay Air was first published by the Society for the Preservation and Publication of the Melodies of Ireland in the 1855 book The Ancient Music of Ireland. The tune was listed as an anonymous air, with a note attributing its collection to Jane Ross of Londonderry. This led to the descriptive title “Londonderry Air’ being used for the piece.
Normally £44.00 - only £38.95 in our SALE - Limited stock.
Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika combine to form a new Russia.
This composition by Dizzy Stratford symbolises the birth of the new Russia in the time of Mikhail Gorbachev with its new openness in public affairs (glasnost) accompanied by political and economic reform (perestroika). Glasnost is a work offering a modern vision of Russian music. Dizzy Stratford has chosen to combine the national hymn of the Soviet Union with two traditional melodies which, with a steady, energetic rhythm portray the wind of change and freedom in Russian society.
Categories: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC, SUMMER 2020 SALE TITLES Composer: Hermann Pallhuber
Grade 3 1/2 Duration 8:00
Normally £78.00 - only £70.95 in our SALE - Limited stock.
A homage to the "King of the Skies", commissioned by the Landeck Brass Band Festival.
The eagle has always held a high symbolic value. It stands for freedom, dignity and pride in one’s own country. In Hermann Pallhuber’s Golden Eagle, the music describes the flight of the eagle along the Tyrolean Mountains, gazing down from on high at the breathtaking landscape below. Let your imagination run free and come fly with us!
"When I set out to arrange these traditional Christmas carols I was determined that they should not be yet another run-of-the-mill, strophic, verse-by-verse version of our Christmas musical heritage.
Scored for Brass Ensemble, Organ and Percussion, I have tried to treat each carol as the basis for a "Petite Fantasie" - a continuous, single-movement of variations on the original tune. To what extent I have been successful is for the listener to decide.
Of course, the carol is heard in its traditional form at some point during the arrangement but hopefully the appeal of the carol is enhanced without destroying the traditional concept.
Such treatment obviously involves a considerable amount of original composition. Ding Dong Merrily and In Dulci Jubilo(à 7) both have fugal counterpoint in the middle sections. There is a flavour of monastic plainsong in O Come Emmanuel which is in sharp contrast to the variation featuring Bongos, which immediately follows! Hark the Herald starts with a majestic introduction and ends with a French-style organ toccata. Good King Wenceslas gets the spiky/witty treatment. O Come all Ye Faithful and the First Noel both end in Baroque splendour. The Holly and the Ivy has a Polonaise/Beguine-like section, Jingle Bells an intricate, cross-rhythm against the tune. White Christmas, Silent Night and the middle sections of Hark the Herald and Christmas is Coming have the soft "lush" treatment. Christmas is Coming has a humorous opening and a "Noblimente" end. The Twelve Days of Christmas depicts each "day" with its own theme, e.g. Seven Swans a'Swimming misquotes "The Swan" of Saint Saens. I Saw Three Ships becomes a Gigue while the Coventry Carol and Veni, Veni, Emmanuel inevitably are modal. All in all, a delightful mixture of musical styles through the ages."
Categories: Hymn Tunes, SUMMER 2020 SALE TITLES Composer / arranger: William Stalman
Duration 4.53 Grade 2.5
Normally £44.00 - only £39.95 in our SALE - Limited stock.
The chorale Glory to God on High is one of todays most often sung hymns. The words are an expression of praise to God and gratefulness for his mercy. The internationally familiar melody of this chorale forms the basis for Wim Stalman’s Grace and Glory, in which the elements of praise and thanks are shown by means of both festive and more subdued melodies and harmonies. The choir parts allow the work to be performed by brass band with mixed choir.
Categories: SUMMER 2020 SALE TITLES, London Brass Series Composer / arranger: Laura arr. Richard Bissell
Ten part brass. Grade 8.
Normally £35.75 - only £30.50 in our SALE.
Brilliant kaleidoscopic arrangement. Music doesn’t get more Spanish than this. One high trumpet part and optional percussion.
Reviewed 'Music Teacher'
Scored for symphonic ten part brass - 4 trumpets, French Horn, 4 Trombones and tuba. Optional Percussion parts. Additional alternative parts for Eb. Horn & TC Trombone.
Categories: SUMMER 2020 SALE TITLES, MARCHES Composer: Phil Lawrence
Duration: 5:45
Normally £34.95 - only £26.95 in our SALE - limited stock.
Having played nearly all the great marches both in the brass band and orchestral repertoire, I was keen to create a cross between the best of brass band marches, and two of the great English orchestral composers of grand marches, Elgar and Walton.
It was the slower 2nd subject sections of Elgar and Walton's marches in particular which I wanted to replicate and here is the result.
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