Music for Concert Band - Volume 23: Concert Band: CD

Comprehensive Band Method-This is a comprehensive band method in 3 parts by Bruce Pearson which combines a strong performance-centred approach with music theory music history ear training listening composition improvisation and interdisciplinary andmulticultural studies. With full colour drawings and colour-coding of important text the series helps to motivate and inform across the full range of band instruments. Includes sections on individual sectional and fullband playing. This volume is the second book for Drums And Mallet Percussion and contains all the fundamentals exercises melodies and lessons designed specifically for these instruments.

for Flute Clarinet or Alto Saxophone and Concert Band-En 2008 Philip Sparke publiait ses Super Solos troisième et dernier volume d?une collection de solos instrumentaux (pour Flûte Clarinette Saxophone Alto Trompette Cor Trombone et Euphonium) plébiscités par les jeunes musiciens du monde entier et plus particulièrement par le jeune flûtiste allemand Meinhard Drescher. À la demande du père de ce dernier Philip Sparke a extrait trois pièces du recueil - Little Overture ? Berceuse ? Moto Perpetuo - pour en faire un « mini-concerto » pour Flûte traversière et Orchestre d?Harmonie. Meinhard Drescher reçut ce concerto comme cadeau pour son seizième anniversaire. Il en assura la création le 18 octobre2009.Concertino Classico est structuré selon le schéma classique du concerto : vif - lent - vif. La partie solo peut également être confiée à la Clarinette ou au Saxophone Alto.

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896). Par BRUCKNER ANTON. Anton Bruckner (b. 4.9.1824, Ansfelden, d. 11.10.1896, Vienna) didn’t have it easy. Throughout his life, the Austrian composer was plagued by self-doubt. Anton Bruckner came from a simple, rural background. After the death of his father, he was accepted as a choirboy at the monastery of Sankt Florian in 1837. After several years as a school assistant and his own organ and piano studies, he first worked as organist in St. Florian, then from 1855 as cathedral organist in Linz. Introduced to music theory and instrumentation by Simon Sechter and Otto Kitzler, he discovered Richard Wagner as an artistic role model, whom he admired throughout his life and also visited several times in Bayreuth. In 1868 Anton Bruckner became professor of basso continuo, counterpoint and organ at the Vienna Conservatory; ten years later court organist; and in 1891 finally honorary doctor of the University of Vienna. He was considered an important organ virtuoso of his era, but had to wait a long time for recognition as a composer. It was not until Symphony No.7 in E major, composed between 1881 and 1883, with the famous Adagio written under the effects of Wagner's death, that he achieved the recognition he had hoped for, even if he was reluctant to accept it given his inclination towards scepticism and self-criticism. Anton Bruckner was a loner who did not want to follow a particular school or doctrine. He composed numerous sacred vocal works, such as his three masses, the Missa Solemnis in B flat minor (1854), the Te Deum (1881-84) and numerous motets. As a symphonic composer, he wrote a total of nine symphonies and many symphonic studies from 1863 onwards, tending to revise completed versions several times over. Bruckner's orchestral works were long considered unplayable, but in fact were merely exceptionally bold for the tonal language of their time, uniting traditions from Beethoven through Wagner to folk music, on the threshold between late Romanticism and Modernism. Anton Bruckner composed about 40 motets during his lifetime, the earliest a setting of Pange lingua around 1835, and the last, Vexilla regis, in 1892. Thomas Doss has compiled some of these motets in this volume for symphonic wind orchestra. These motets show many characteristics of personal expression, especially Bruckner's colourful harmony in the earlier works, which is in places aligned with Franz Schubert (changes between major and minor; and movements in thirds). Later works are characterised by many components which, in addition to the expanded stature of the movements, include above all a sense of the instrumentation as an outward phenomenon and the harmony as a compositional feature that works more internally. Some aspects of Bruckner's work are the result of his long period of study, which familiarised him not only with the tradition of his craft, but also gave him insights into the 'modernity' of his time in such composers as Wagner, Liszt and Berlioz. From this developed his personal standpoint, which always pursues the connection between the old and the new. / Date parution : 2023-07-31/ Répertoire / Concert Band/Harmonie

Composed nearly 50 years ago (1957) this masterpiece from the late Alfred Reed displays his characteristic style and total command of wind band orchestration. Composed using a single theme and two fanfare figures that are woventhroughout this concise work stands out as a true classic in the repertoire. (4:30)This recording used with permission from the Klavier Music Productions CD K 11130. “Alfred Reed Live! Volume 4 –Acclamation!” by the Otonowa Wind Symphonica – Toro Ito conductor

The lively dance style of the Paso Doble (double-step) is inherent in Spanish culture and claims its roots from the excitement and drama of the bullfight arena. Here in one of the most famous Paso Dobles can be heard theanticipation and pageantry as the matadors majestically enter the ring. John Krance's classic 1966 setting is a distinctive and important work for band. (Grade 4) Dur: 4:00Recorded by the Texas A&M University WindSymphony – Timothy Rhea conductorFrom Mark Records “Wind Band Masterworks Volume V” 8515-MCD – Used with permission.