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£24.50Sospiri - Elgar - Max Stannard
Originally scored for string orchestra, harp and organ, this Adagio was composed by Sir Edward Elgar shortly before the outbreak of the First World War and you can perhaps hear the gathering storm clouds of war in the music which became a bleak adagio that would not be out of place as the slow movement of an Elgar symphony. The work was dedicated to the leader of the London Symphony orchestra W.H. (Billy) Reed.
In stock: Estimated dispatch 1-3 days
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£27.50
Bank Holiday - H. Snell
A busy, fairground-style piece, this is a very active 'opener' to start a programme or to provide some relief after serious repertoire.
Estimated dispatch 5-7 working days
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£22.50
Beethoven's Beano - Full Band - H. Snell
Peter Warlock's Beethoven's Binge was the starting place for this lengthened version, with Mahler, Kurt Weill and Elise herself toting a trombone, and taking a somewhat drunken bow. Not quite the well-mannered young lady Beethoven made her out to be (or not to be).
Estimated dispatch 5-7 working days
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£27.50
Black Ven: Concert March - H. Snell
Written for the Lyme Regis Town Band to play, this celebrates the composer's solving a long-standing mystery concerning his family's connection with Lyme Regis. Not only that but to equally celebrate the building of a special Pilot Gig racing boat built there. The title is the name of a notable local landmark.In order that as many bands as possible can enjoy what is frankly a fun piece of band music, the technical level demanded is reasonably within the grasp of most bands. It is in the long tradition of English ceremonial marches that started with Elgar and has continued to this day.Duration: 5 minutes
Estimated dispatch 5-7 working days
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£27.50
Burlesque - H. Snell
Fast, furious, showy opener, from the heyday of the Granada TV Entertainment Contest. All over in two and half minutes, it is exciting to play and listen to.
Estimated dispatch 5-7 working days
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£22.50
Champions! (Concert Prelude) - H. Snell
Based on the sporting chant of 'We Are the Champions!' this Prelude is short and to the point, when you have won a contest!
Estimated dispatch 5-7 working days
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£27.50
Exhibition Can-Can - Full Band - H. Snell
Having played many performances of 'Pictures at an Exhibition' (in different arrangements) in the LSO, then having taken part in the premiere recording of the brass version, I felt an irresistible urge to take the mickey. Exhibition Can-Can was the result.
Estimated dispatch 5-7 working days
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£12.00
Gallery Study Score - H. Snell
Produced for the British Brass Band Championship Section Final on October 14th, at the Royal Albert Hall in London, this study score in A4 size, includes all the seating and background detail necessary for understanding the set piece a" GALLERY by Howard Snell.Other products you may be interested in...TitleComposer/AuthorCategory/ScoringPriceDaphnis & Chlo Suite 2: (Study Score ONLY)...Ravel, M.�10.00
Estimated dispatch 5-7 working days
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£34.50
Hungarian March (from The Damnation of Faust) - Berlioz, H.
Included at the last minute in a performance of Faust conducted by the composer in Budapest, The Hungarian March caused a sensation in the politically charged atmosphere of the Hungary of the time. It was encored time and time again. The clever build-up to a stunning climax shows the professional composer scoring a bull's-eye. In fact the opera has nothing whatsoever to do with Hungary : Berlioz' placing the scene 'on a plain in Hungary' was the merest cover up for trying to be sure of a triumph in his concert-tour in that country. Success on the cheap ! In the right circumstances artistic integrity is (a little) negotiable.
Estimated dispatch 5-7 working days
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£119.00
Images of the Millennium - Full 2 Band Version - H. Snell
Richard Evans' request was that the work should mirror aspects of the history of banding while also looking forward. 1. FANFARE. In this movement the work is introduced.2. TOCCATA: CONTEST DAY. The gathering together of players and audience for a contest day is treated in a busy, sometimes jazzy manner.3. PASTORALE: 'A GREEN AND PLEASANT LAND'. Looking back to the third and fourth decades of the nineteenth century and the rapid birth of brass bands and banding, this short Intermezzo invokes the popular picture postcard view of the past. Images of warfare appear briefly as a reminiscence of Britain's continuing military domination of the world, with Trafalgar and Waterloo still echoing on the horizon.4. MUSIC FOR A SILENT FILM: AN OLD MAN REMEMBERS PETERLOO. The reality of 'England's green and pleasant land' was somewhat different. On August 19th 1819 the Stalybridge Band was playing at a political meeting in St Peter's Fields in Manchester, later to become the site of the Free Trade Hall. The local Magistrate, sent in the cavalry. Shots were fired into the crowd, 11 people were killed and 500 injured. I present the scenes as followsthe holiday crowd in St Peter's Field entertained by the Band the unprovoked attack by the militia the flight from St Peter's Fieldthe funeral wake the lament5. SCHERZO: THE CRYSTAL PALACE. Only a few decades later brass bands were regular visitors to the greatest concert halls in the country. I see the Bands and their followers descending on London in trains and charabancs. 6. DREAM-NOCTURNE. As if in a trance, an unending musical line is passed around the ensemble to celebrate the players who possessed, and still possess, the sound and phrasing to enthrall the listener.7. ODYSSEY. The way forward now beckons. The music passes through conflict, struggle and turmoil on its way to release, resolution and finally to triumph.
Estimated dispatch 5-7 working days
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