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, TEST PIECES (Major Works) Composer: Dan Price
Currently overstocked on this title - Normally £65.00 - £58.95 in our SALE - limited stock.
Set as the Fourth Section Test Piece for the 2020 National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain.
A suite for Brass Band Chosen for the 4th. Section of the Swiss National Brass Band Championships in 2007 and the Pontins Brass band Championships in 2008.
1. Introduction - Hollybush Hill 2. Elegy - Broadheath 3. March - Worcester Cathedral
To commemorate the 15Oth. Anniversary of the birth of Sir Eward Elgar
The suite is in three movements; Introduction, Elegy and March, each of which have been inspired by three of Elgar’s most celebrated works; Chanson de Matin, Nimrod (Variation IX from the Enigma Variations) and Pomp and Circumstance No.1.
1. Introduction — Hollybush Hill Hollybush Hill is the name of one of the peaks of the Malvem Hills in Worcestershire. The Malverns were a favourite walking area for Elgar and his wife and their panoramic views inspired much of Elgar’s music.
2. Elegy — Broadheath Broadheath is the small village at the foot of the Malvern Hills where Elgar was born (and lived at various times throughout his life). Elgar is buried not far from Broadheath at St Wuistan’s in Little Malvem
3. March — Worcester Cathedral Many of the Worcestershire ensembles and music festivals played an important role in Elgar’s early musical education. He was heavily involved in The Three Choirs Festival and either conducted or played in many of the light orchestras and vocal groups that performed at venues across Worcester. A statue of Elgar overlooks the Cathedral at the end of Worcester High Street.
An Elgar Portrait has been used regularly as an own-choice test-piece for Section 4 bands, and was also selected as the set work for the Swiss National Championships in 2007 as well as the Pontins Championships in 2008.
The composer has slightly reworked this piece for the Section 4 Final of the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain 2020 and it’s this version that should be performed at the contest. If bands currently have an older version in their libraries, please contact Kirklees Music directly for more information.
Seven humorous portraits of eccentric characters from the journals of seventeenth century gossip John Aubrey. Mock Tudor in style; every piece tells a story. An Eb trumpet is needed but none of the parts are virtuosic.
Categories: SUMMER 2020 SALE TITLES, TEST PIECES (Major Works) Composer: Ray Stedman- Allen
Grab a bargain - normal selling price £50.00 - SALE PRICE £20.00
Previously set as a Championship Section Testpiece.
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"For centuries hilltop beacon fires blazed across the land signals of important happenings or warnings of invasion. This music tells no specific story but the titles of the four thematically related sections are a guide to the idea: The Beacons; Far Horizons; The Invaders; Celebration.
The first movement has something of the character of the march and the fanfare; spirited and tightly driving, it promises most of the thematic material of the work. The second is largelt tranquil and is thinly scores with solo passages. The third has the most dramatic potential; its energy and conflict subsides to a lament and a tolling bell before a vigorous rounding off. Appropriately, the fourth movement is in a merry-making mood, and the jubilant music concludes with fragment statements of the main themes.
The Beacons was first performed by IMI Yorkshire Imperial Band (James Scott) at the ‘Concert of the Century’, celebrating the Centenary of the British Bandsman, at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, on 5 September 1987."
Categories: SUMMER 2020 SALE TITLES, LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Paul Lovatt-Cooper
Beyond Heaven’s Gates was commissioned by Derwent Brass and their Musical Director Keith Leonard to celebrate the bands 25th anniversary. Circa 8’30” Section: 2
Categories: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC, SUMMER 2020 SALE TITLES Composer: James Curnow
Normally £78.00 - only £69.95 in our SALE - limited stock.
This is a set of four minatures :
1. Fanfare 2. Ballad 3. Pseudo - Blues 4. Fanfare March
Brass Miniatures features four contrasting sections, each linked by the fact they are based on the same interval. The opening is an exciting fanfare which leads into a lovely ballad, introduced by a solo cornet. The third section is a playful pseudo-blues and the work comes to a thrilling close with fanfare and march.
Categories: TEST PIECES (Major Works), SUMMER 2020 SALE TITLES Composer / arranger: Andrew Jackman
Was 82.95 - SALE price £30.00
Duration approx.13mins.
Broadland Day was composed to celebrate Andrew Jackman's move to Norfolk in 1980. The music is an evocation of dawn till dusk on a day in high summer and is an attempt to write a piece of music of genuine symphonic breadth and depth for brass band.
The stillness of the broad in the opening bars slowly gives way as the sun rises over the reeds , awakening the birds, animals and insects. The flugelhorn solo leads into the second more active section where the pace of life on the broad gathers momentum as the day advances. The trombone solo signals the return of the opening music as dusk quickly deepens into nightfall. Stillness returns.
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