Cat No. JM48703
Price £102.95
Composer: Kevin Houben
Category: TEST PIECES (Major Works)

Grade 4.0
Duration 11.15

Set as the THIRD SECTION test piece for the 2016 Finals of the British Brass Band Championships.

The travels of the Aztec people as they headed south through North America looking for a new home, acted as Kevin Houben’s inspiration for Lake of the Moon. The composition contains small fragments of Oriental music and South American rhythms and occasionally, Russian Cossacks seem to raise their heads. The journey from North to South is not without danger, which is represented by threatening sounds within the music. The composer takes us along to the Texcoco Lake, which the Aztecs called the lake of the moon. Bring a little bit of South American history to your concert with Lake of the Moon.

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