Cat No. JM68385
Price £94.95
Composer: Jan Van Der Roost
Category: TEST PIECES (Major Works)

Grade 4
Duration 11:40


This work has been selected as D Grade set work for the 2022 Australian Brass Band Championships.

Commissioned for the 2012 Dutch National Brass Band Championsips as the set test piece for the fourth section.

Since most of the bands competing in the 4th Section of the Dutch National Championships have many young players, this piece is stylistically youthful— especially in the opening and closing sections. An arpeggio pattern appears numerous times in all registers and is the basic musical element of the main melody, alternating with a second theme that has a slightly different melodic character. The middle section is conceived like a chorale, introduced and developed stepwise: firstly with short patterns and gradually in increasingly long snippets, until it’s played in its glorious entirety at measure 216. No real solo passages are included but rather small chamber combinations, thus offering the opportunity to various players to display their technical and performance skills. The finale recaptures musical material from the first section of the piece and provides a majestic conclusion.