This piece was commissioned by Swiss euphonium virtuoso Eich Schmidli.
Bert Appermont dug deep into Celtic music for inspiration and created a fantasy that shows off the incredible, but often overlooked, versatility of the euphonium. Charming lyrical melodies, virtuosic runs and exciting, colourful tuttis create plenty of contrast in this exciting work. The difficulty level for the soloist and band means almost any band to perform this piece and showcase their euphonium player.
Categories: Books, SOLOS - Trombone Composer: Alan Gout
Very first solos for Trombone or Euphonium.
parts in TC & BC
Contains :
1. Solemn fanfare
2. Easter Hymn
3. Hauted Waltz
4. Music Hall
5. Swansong
6. Ase's Death
7. Heroic Song
8. Canon
9. Song of Sorrow
10. Ballad
11. 14th. Century Tune
12. Blues
1. The Time Traveller
2. The Final Problem
3. The Great Race
COMPOSER’S NOTE
Playing the euphonium was something of a family tradition in the Graham household. With my father (Peter) and late grandfather (Thomas) active in their respective local Salvation Army Brass Bands, my uncle Tommy solo euphonium with the mighty Tullis Russell Mills Band and my school brass teacher Robert Sands also an aficionado of the instrument, hardly a day passed when performances and recordings by the “greats’, dough, Groom, Sullivan et al were being discussed and appraised. And so when one of the greats of today, Steven Mead, asked me to write a concerto it was with this background in mind that I set to the task.
In League with Extraordinary Gentlemen combines two of my life interests - composition and 19th century popular fiction. Each of the concerto’s three movements takes its musical inspiration from extraordinary characters who have transcended the original genre and have subsequently found mass audiences through film, television and comic book adaptations.
The first movement follows a traditional sonata form outline with one slight modification.
The order of themes in the recapitulation is reversed, mirroring a plot climax in the H.G. Wells novella The Time Machine (where the protagonist, known only as The Time Traveller, puts his machine into reverse bringing the story back full circle).
The Adventure of the Final Problem is the title of a short story published in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. This is an account of the great detective’s final struggle with his long-time adversary Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland. The music takes the form of a slowed down ländler (a Swiss/Austrian folk dance) and various acoustic and electronic echo effects call to mind the alpine landscape. The final bars pose a question paralleling that of Conan Doyle in the story — have we really seen the last of Sherlock Holmes?
The final movement, The Great Race, follows Phileas Fogg on the last stage of his epic journey
“Around the World in Eighty Days” (from the novel by Jules Verne). The moto perpetuo nature of the music gives full rein to the soloist’s technical virtuosity. As the work draws to a conclusion, the frantic scramble by Fogg to meet his deadline
at the Reform Club in Pall Mall, London, is echoed by the soloist’s increasingly demanding ascending figuration, set
against the background of Big Ben clock chimes.
The concerto is dedicated to the aforementioned family members, three “extraordinary gentlemen”, P.G. Graham, T.H.
Stewart and T. Stewart.
Fun pieces for Trombone. Parts in TC & BC.
Grades 3 - 5
Jazzin' About is a vibrant collection of original pieces in a range of contemporary styles. So take a break from the classics and get into the groove as you cruise from blues to rock to jazz.
Contains :
1. Walk Tall
2. Moonglow
3. Hot on the Line
4. Going Home
5. Are You Ready !
6. Tequila Sunrise
7. Sometime Maybe
8. Ragmuffin
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