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£94.95An Age of Kings (Mezzo-Soprano Solo with Brass Band and optional choir - Score and Parts) - Gregson, Edward
The origins of this work date back to 1988, when I was commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company to write the music for The Plantagenets trilogy, directed by Adrian Noble in Stratford-upon-Avon. These plays take us from the death of Henry V to the death of Richard III. Later, in 1991, I wrote the music for Henry IV parts 1 and 2, again in Stratford. All of these plays are concerned with the struggle for the throne, and they portray one of the most turbulent periods in the history of the British monarchy.Much of the music used in these productions was adapted into two large symphonic suites for wind band - The Sword and the Crown (1991) and The Kings Go Forth (1996). An Age of Kings is a new version for brass band incorporating music from both the symphonic suites for wind band. It was specially composed for a recording made by the Black Dyke Band, conducted by Nicholas Childs, in 2004.An Age of Kings is music on a large-scale canvas, scored for augmented brass band, with the addition of harp, piano, mezzo-soprano solo, male chorus, as well as two off-stage trumpets. The music is also organized on a large-scale structure, in three movements, which play without a break - "Church and State", "At the Welsh Court", and "Battle Music and Hymn of Thanksgiving".The first movement, "Church and State", opens with a brief fanfare for two antiphonal trumpets (off-stage), but this only acts as a preface to a Requiem aeternam (the death of Henry V) before changing mood to the English army on the march to France; this subsides into a French victory march, but with the English army music returning in counterpoint. A brief reminder of the Requiem music leads to the triumphal music for Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, father of Edward IV and Richard III (the opening fanfare transformed). However, the mood changes dramatically once again, with the horrors of war being portrayed in the darkly-drawn Dies Irae and Dance of Death, leading to the final section of the first movement, a funeral march for Henry VI.The second movement, "At the Welsh Court", takes music from the Welsh Court in Henry IV part 1 with a simple Welsh folk tune sung by mezzo-soprano to the inevitable accompaniment of a harp. This love song is interrupted by distant fanfares, forewarning of battles to come. However, the folk song returns with variation in the musical fabric. The movement ends as it began with off-stage horn and gentle percussion.The final movement, "Battle Music and Hymn of Thanksgiving", starts with two sets of antiphonally placed timpani, drums and tam-tam, portraying the 'war machine' and savagery of battle. Trumpet fanfares and horn calls herald an heroic battle theme which, by the end of the movement, transforms itself into a triumphant hymn for Henry IV's defeat of the rebellious forces.- Edward GregsonDuration - 22'00"Optional TTBB available separately.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£54.20AMERCIAN TRILOGY, An (Brass Band) - Richards, Goff
Medium Includes: Oh, I Wish I Was Dixie; The Battle Hymn Of The Republic; Hush, Little Baby, Don't You Cry.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£44.95COLE PORTER FOR BRASS (Brass Band) - Duro, Stephen
A medley of Cole Porter classics including: Another Op'nin', Another Show; C'est Magnifique; Wunderbar; I Love Paris; True Love; I Love You, Samantha.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£58.60
FAMOUS MUSICAL MELODIES (Vocal Solo (Soprano) with Brass Band) - Fernie & Lorriman
Three Movements including: Memory from Cats; I Don't Know How to Love Him from Jesus Christ Superstar; I Could Have Danced All Night from My Fair Lady. Grade: Medium.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£90.10
MARY POPPINS Selection (Brass Band) - Sherman & Sherman - Wormald, Christopher
Grade: Medium. Includes: Feed the Birds; The Life I Lead; The Perfect Nanny; A Spoonful Of Sugar; Jolly Holiday; Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious; Stay Awake; I Love To Laugh; Chim Chim Cher-ee; Step In Time; Let's Go Fly A Kite. Recorded on Obrasso CD954 Forever Shining (Black Dyke Band conducted by Nicholas J Childs)
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£86.80
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, The (Brass Band) - Lloyd Webber, Andrew - Wormald, Christopher
Grade: Medium. Includes: The Phantom Of The Opera; Masquerade; Think Of Me; Angel Of Music; The Phantom Of The Opera (Reprise); The Music Of The Night; Prima Donna; All I Ask Of You; Masquerade (Reprise); Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again; The Point Of No Return; All I Ask Of You (Reprise); The Phantom Of The Opera. Recorded on Obrasso CD954 Forever Shining (Black Dyke Band conducted by Nicholas J Childs)
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£58.60
PORTRAIT OF RAY CHARLES, A (Brass Band) - Charles, Ray - Smith, Sandy
Grade: Medium. Includes: Hallelujah I Love Her So; Georgia on My Mind; Hit the Road Jack; I Just Can't Stop Loving You.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£74.95Radio City (Trombone Solo with Brass Band - Score and Parts) - Graham, Peter
As youngsters growing up on the west coast of Scotland, my brother and I fell heir to an old valved radiogram which provided us with our first experiences of radio broadcasts. On the short wave signal, and through the static, we could pick up a whole range of programmes from across the Atlantic. I particularly recall the baseball games, the American accents of the announcers providing a window to a evocative world far removed from our small Ayrshire town. These memories form the basis of Radio City.The work is set in three movements, each introduced by a pastiche radio announcer narrative written by Philip Coutts. The first, City Noir, is a nod towards Raymond Chandler's eponymous private eye Philip Marlow and the dark cityscape of 1940s California.Movement two, Cafe Rouge, takes its title from the main restaurant in New York's famous Hotel Pennsylvania. Two of the most famous band leaders of the 1940s, trombonists Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey, broadcast live from the cafe on numerous occasions and the movement echoes with a collage of imagined sounds from the period.The finale, Two-Minute Mile, derives from an event dubbed in the USA as "the most exciting two minutes in sport", namely the Kentucky Derby. The virtuoso soloist figurations have their roots in Kentucky bluegrass fiddle music, with the galloping bluegrass clog-dancing rhythms providing the backdrop.- Peter Graham, Cheshire, January 2013
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£30.00665 - The Neighbour of the Beast - Jock McKenzie
Stay with me on this !I had a dream....I lived on a terraced street in number 665.
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£30.00Black Bottom Stomp - Jelly Roll Morton
Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe, professionally known as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer who started his career in New Orleans, Louisiana. Widely recognised as a pivotal figure in early jazz, Morton is perhaps most notable as jazz's first arranger, proving that a genre rooted in improvisation could retain its essential spirit and characteristics when notated. His composition "Jelly Roll Blues" was the first published jazz composition in 1915. Morton is also notable for writing such standards as "King Porter Stomp", "Wolverine Blues", "Black Bottom Stomp", and "I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say". Notorious for his arrogance and self-promotion, Morton claimed to have invented jazz outright in 1902, much to the derision of fellow musicians and the critics. At the age of fourteen, Morton began working as a piano player in a brothel (or, as it was referred to back then, a sporting house). In that atmosphere, he often sang smutty lyrics and took the nickname "Jelly Roll". While working there, he was living with his religious, church-going great-grandmother; who he convinced that he worked as a night watchman in a barrel factory. After Morton's grandmother found out that he was playing jazz in a local brothel, she kicked him out of her house and told him that "devil music" would surely bring about his downfall. Born in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana, his exact birth date differs depending to whichever source you want to believe; his half-sisters claimed he was born in September 1885, but his World War 1 draft card showed September 1884 and his California death certificate listed his birth as September 1889. He died in 1941 in Los Angeles.
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