Music for a Festival

Festival Bells is a fast-paced and demanding opening work. The uplifting mood of the piece describes the anticipation of a festival in Austria. Within the middle section the Upper Austrian anthem is incorporated into the music.This composition was commissioned by the Upper Austrian regional music directorate on the occasion of the Upper Austrian regional music festival and was premièred at the Brucknerhaus in Linz by the Salzkammergut Bläserphilharmonia under the direction of the composer.A festive cheerful and spectacular piece of music!

Bright and festive SPRING FESTIVAL OVERTURE is perfect for your Spring concert or music festival and also works beautifully as a preliminary overture for the graduation ceremony. With thrilling fanfares and heart lifting themes this triumphant overture is a real jewel. This piece on your Spring concert will nicely counterbalance any ?heavier? piece you may choose to programme. SPRING FESTIVAL OVERTURE makes people feel good and what can be wrong with that?

This songbook contains over 50 massive festival anthems, arranged especially for guitar with full lyrics and chord boxes, ideal for outdoor festival or campfire strumming! / Niveau : Facile / Recueil / Mélodie, Chant et Guitare

Commissioned by Christina Jennings and Bright Music of OK. Performed at over 50 different venues and ensembles. Notable performances include The Left Bank at the Kennedy Center for the Arts and Contemporary Music Forum at the Corcoran Gallery of Art Wash. D.C Florida State University New Music Festival The Empyrean Ensemble and Left Coast Ensemble in SanFrancisco The American Modern Ensemble at the Times Center The New Millennium Ensemble at the Princeton Center for Advanced Study Eighth Blackbird at Contempo Series in Chicago Orion Ensemble (arranged for clarinet violin cello and piano) Chicago Ganz Hall Chicago Delfians Project Cal State Fresno New MusicFestival Juventus New Music Aspen Ensemble at University of Baltimore Talis Festival in Switzerland. And many more. On Centaur CD: High Wire Acts CRC 3098

Return Of The Nightingales by Sadie Harrison is for solo Piano and Nightingale.This score is prefaced by the following Persian Sufi text:'Ajab tarana e sar karda am darin golshan Khoda konad ke na sazad falak khamush mara' - which translates in English to 'I have started to sing a wonderful song in this flower-garden like a nightingale. I hope the movement of the stars (destiny) does not make me silent again.'It is used as a direct reference to the devastation of Afghan culture during the period of the Taliban when musicians were silenced many exiled or fleeing and to their re-emergence following the Taliban’sexpulsion from 2001. The piece is dedicated to John Baily who together with his wife Veronica Doubleday has worked tirelessly to preserve Afghan music. His video documentary Return of the Nightingales (2012) celebrates the fabulous work undertaken by the Afghanistan National Institute for Music.Its mottos are:BUILD LIVES THROUGH MUSICREVIVE AND PRESERVE AFGHAN MUSICTRAIN FUTURE MUSIC EDUCATORSESTABLISH INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUEASSURE MUSICAL RIGHTSReturn Of The Nightingales was commissioned by Late Music Festival with funds from the Performing Rights Society.It was premiered by Ian Pace on 3 August 2013 at the Unitarian Chapel York.

Exam boards: Edexcel AQA OCR WJECLThis workbook has been specifically written to improve theory comprehension among students requiring a basic knowledge of the subject.Starting with the fundamentals of pitch and rhythm this workbook steadily progresses to a range of applications including key signatures scales chords and modulation.There are a number of tasks in each chapter including practical aural and written exercises based on rock pop jazz and classical music. Many of the exercises can also be explored using music technology software.This workbook is aimed at students wanting a firm grounding in music theory to GCSE level and alsocandidates preparing for early grade exams in music theory.Rebecca Berkley is a freelance writer and musician and is a music education consultant. She has taught percussion to students of all ages both as a private teacher and as a workshop leader and published percussion music. She is also a choral conductor running several choirs and directing music festivals with her husband. After starting her career as a music teacher in secondary schools she became a lecturer in music education at the University of Southampton and the Institute of Education University of London. Her PhD thesis focused on how GCSE students learn to compose and how best to teach them. She is the co-author of Rhinegold???s Edexcel GCSE Music Listening Tests (Book 3) and contributes as a freelance writer to Classroom Music Magazine.

For Flute Clarinet Violin Cello and Piano.Published 2001.Commissioned by Bath International Music Festival and South West Arts with funds from Foundation for Sport and the Arts.First performance: 1st June 2001 BathFestival New Music Players.

Par MOORE DAVID W.. Filled with rhythmic and harmonic interest as well as memorable melodies, MISSOURI RIVER FESTIVAL is an energetic and enjoyable piece that gives every section in the band an opportunity to shine. Moods of the river are artistically represented in the interplay between Maestoso, Allegro spiritoso and Andante mysterioso sections. Artistic exploration of thematic material is a hallmark of David W. Moore’s writing, and you’ll find plenty of it here. There is an added practical advantage, too. All brass parts are dynamic, interesting and fun to play, but there is plenty of brass “resting time” carefully interspersed throughout the piece. You can use MISSOURI RIVERFESTIVAL at virtually any time during in your program without fear of over-taxing the brasses. Outstanding! / Niveau : 3 / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

Mallet Percussion-Playing in a variety of ensembles is an important component in the complete education of young instrumentalists. Festival Ensembles Book 1 presents a collection of 15 flexibly scored Grade 1-1.5 ensemble pieces perfect forfestivals concerts summer camps and variety chamber practice throughout the year.

A New Edition Revised and Edited by the Composer. Par VILLA-LOBOS HEITOR. An exciting assortment of Piano works that are musically and technically rewarding as study pieces, and appealing in recital. The music is on a level with that of the 18th and 19th century masters. This edition has been edited by the composer. Contents: ALMA BRASILEIRA - CHOROS NO.5 BACHIANAS BRASILEIRAS NO.4 - Suite 1. Preludio - Introdução - (Prelude) 2. Coral - Canto Do Sertão (Song of the Jungle) 3. Aria - Cantiga (Song) 4. Dansa - Miudinho (Dance) CAIXINHA DE MUSICA QUEBRADA (The Broken Little Music Box) CARNAVAL DAS CRIANCAS BRASILEIRAS - Suite 1. A Manhã Da Pierrete (Pierrette's Hands) 2. O Chicote Do Diabinho (The Devil's Whip) CICLO BRASILEIRO - Suite 1. Plantio Do Caboclo (Native Planting Songs) 2. Impressões Seresteiras (Mistrel Impressions) 3. Festa No Sertão (Jungle Festival) 4. Dansa Do Indio Branco (Dance of the White Indian) GUIA PRATICO - Album 1 - Five Pieces 1. Acordei De Madrugada (Dawn) 2. A Maré Encheu (Full Tide) 3. A Roseira (The Rose-Bush) 4. Manquinha (Little Lame Girl) 5. Na Corda Da Vióla (On the Strings of a Viola) GUIA PRATICO - Album 8 - Seven Pieces 1. O Limão (Oh, Lemon) 2. Carambola (Goodness!) 3. Pobre Céga (Poor Blind Woman) 4. Pai Francisco (Father Francisco) 5. Xô Passarinho! (Fly! Little Bird) 6. Sinh' Aninha (Farmers' Daughters) 7. Vestidinho Branco (Little White Dress) GUIA PRATICO - Album 9 - Six Pieces 1. Laranjeira Pequenina (The Little Orange Tree) 2. Pombinha, Rolinha (Little Dove, Tiny Dove) 3. O Ciranda, O Cirandinha (Circle Dance) 4. A Velha Que Tinha Nove Filhas (The Old Woman That Had Nine Daughters) 5. Constante (Constant) 6. O Castelo (The Castle) POEMA SINGELO (Simple Song) PROLE DO BEBE - #1 - Suite 1. Moreninha (The Little Paper Doll) 2. Mulatinha (The Little Rubber Doll) 3. O Polichinelo (Clown) SIMPLES COLETANEA - Three Pieces 1. Valsa Mistica (Valse Mystique) 2. Em Um Berço Encantado (Dans Un Berçeau Féerique) 3. Rhodante (Circle Dance) SUITE FLORAL - Op.97 - Three Pieces 1. Idilio Na Rede (Summer Idyll) 2. Uma Camponeza Cantadeira (A Singing Country Girl) 3. Alegria Na Horta (Joy In The Garden) / Niveau : Intermédiaire à Avancé / Répertoire / Piano

Par SPARKE PHILIP. The Hanover Wind Symphony, New Jersey, USA was founded in 1984 by its conductor Peter Boor. He commissioned HANOVER FESTIVAL to celebrate the band’s 15th Birthday and the first performance took place on October 27th 1999. The piece starts with a solemn brass fanfare. Woodwinds join in and the music subsides into an expressive chorale. A climax is reached and the fanfare returns. Trumpets introduce an explosive vivo section, characterised by an energetic theme from the horns and low clarinets. A bridge passage with strong brass chords leads to a playful section that introduces a legato central theme under woodwind figures. This is taken up by the full band, the playfulmusic returns and the original horn tune is reintroduced. Finally the opening fanfare returns, this time accompanied by music from the vivo section, until a fast and furious coda closes the work. / Niveau : 4 / Pièce de concert / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

Vienna Festival Music est une pièce d?ouverture d?Otto M. Schwarz qui s?inscrit dans l?univers sonore typique de ses grandes fresques musicales inspirées de drames historiques tels que Nostradamus Man in the Ice (?L?Homme des Glaces?) et The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo). Vienna Festival Music est une oeuvre de commande pour la Ville de Vienne en Autriche. Pour la réalisation de cette composition Otto M. Schwarz a obtenu la prestigieuse Bourse des Wiener Symphoniker.

Journey of the Lone Wolf tells the story of the hungarian composer Béla Bartók. It was commissioned by Dr. Nicholas Childs for Black Dyke Band who gave the first performance on Sunday 26 January 2014 at the Bridgewater Hall Manchester as part of the Royal Northern College of Music Festival of Brass. The composer's programme notes for each movement: 1. Capturing the Peasants SongAfter the upheaval of moving to Budapest the young Béla Bartók meets Zoltán Kodály and the pair embark on summertime adventures throughout the Hungarian countryside to collect and catalogue theastonishing variety (both harmonically and rhythmically) of gypsy and folk music heard in the Balkans. The arrival of WW1 plunges Bartók's beloved Hungary into chaos.2. Night MusicBartók was at times a cold man aloof and lonely. The odd moments of tenderness he showed are portrayed here in a series of evocative solos. His brief but intense affairs speak of a love he could only long for. Jazz is my night music and here there are hints of what Bartók may have heard in the USA later in his life.3. Flight and FightHaving been forced by the world's evils to leave his homeland of Hungary for America Bartók the anti-fascist felt isolated and angry. In this movement we hear his longing for a simpler time of gypsy folk dances as well as his maturity and depth as a composer finally exploring deeper colours and darker themes.