Results
-
£44.95Masquerade (Score Only)
The first performance took place on the 4th. September 1993 at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester during the British Open Brass Band Championships.Note by Philip Wilby:Masquerade is a centenary tribute to Verdi's last opera Falstaff and takes its final scene as the basis for my own piece. Thus I have used some of Verdi's music, and some of Shalespeare's plot, and woven them into a fabric with highly demanding music of my own to produce a work in the great tradition of operatically-based brass band pieces. Such scores date from the very beginnings of band repertory and are often not direct arrangements in the established sense but new compositions produced in homage to a past master. They may still offer performers and audience alike something familiar interwoven with something new. My own piece reuses some elements from the original story: . .Falstaff has been caught in a web of his own lies by the ladies of the town, who propose to teach him a lesson. The story opens at night in Windsor Great Park. The plotters, variously disguised in Hallowe'en fashion (as fairies,elves hobgoblins etc!) assemble in the park to await Falstaff's arrival (musicologists will, perhaps, note a rare use of 'large bottle in F' being used during this scene of suppressed alcoholic revelry!). Falstaff's companions, Bardolph,Piston and Robin, enter (represented here by the three trombones!), and are variously abused by the masqueraders. At the height of the Tout an alarm sounds and Falstaff (euphonium cadenza) enters as Midnight strikes. From a safe hiding place he watches as the disguised Nanetta (principal comet) sings a serene solo as the moon appcars above the trees. With sudden force the others seize him and drag him from his hiding place. As in the traditional game 'Blind Man's Buff', he is roughly turned seven times (a sequence of solo accelerandi) until, at last, he recognizes his assailants as his sometime friends. Far from complaining, Verdi's character concludes the opera with a good-humoured fugue on the words.... 'All the World's a Joke... Every mortal laughs at the others, But he laughs best who has the final laugh. Philip Wilby.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
-
£37.95Nativity for Brass
Includes: I Saw Three Ships; O Little Town of Bethlehem.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
-
£44.95Santa Claus-Trophobia
Includes: Santa Claus is Comin' to Town; Here Comes Santa Claus; I Saw Mummy Kissing Santa Claus; Theme from Santa Claus, the Movie; When Santa Got Stuck Up the Chimney; A Rootin' Tootin' Santa Claus.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
-
£39.95Sing with the Band Medley No.1
Includes: Part 1: Tavern in the Town; My Grandfather's Clock; Little Brown Jug. Part 2: Cockles and Mussels; A Farmer's Boy; Loch Lomond; John Brown's Body. Word Sheet included
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
-
£24.50St Louis
St Louis Christmas melody featuring O Little Town of Bethlehem
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
-
£39.95Through the 30's Medley
Includes: Tip Toe Thro' the Tulips; For You; Young and Healthy; In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town; Painting the Clouds with Sunshine.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
-
£40.00Yule Dance (Score and Parts)
Remember the impact of Riverdance? Well, Philip Harper has given the same treatment to this stunning arrangement he's called Yule Dance. Featuring:O Little Town of BethlehemIn Dulci JubiloI Saw Three ShipsSussex Carol
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days