Par BROWN CHRISTINE. Score and Parts Standard: Elementary Christine Brown is a highly respected teacher and composer for young people, and in her Chandos Suite for violin, cello and piano she marries her wealth of practical experience in coaching elementary players in the art of chamber music with her distinctively tuneful way of writing for the three instruments. A wistful Prelude precedes a myst…

Par BLOW JOHN. Selected from Musica Britannica Volume 73. Edited by Robert Klakowich. Amateur and professional players with an interest in Baroque repertoire will welcome this generous selection of 25 harpsichord pieces by John Blow (1649-1708). Blow stands as the dominant figure of English harpsichord composition in the late seventeenth century, the master of an individual school that merged cont…

Bredon Hill (C - G)Is my team ploughing? (E flat - E flat)Lads in their hundreds, The (C sharp - E)Look not in my eyes (C - F)Loveliest of trees (C sharp- F)O fair enough are sky and plain (B flat - E flat)On the idle hill of summer (C sharp - F)Think no more, lad (C sharp - E)When I was one and twenty (D - E)When the lad for longing sighs (D - E)With rue my heart is laden (C sharp - E) / Soprano…

Par BAIGENT BERTIE. The composer was drawn to the beautiful stillness and sadness of the poem by Christina Rossetti, which transcends its rigid sonnet structure, and allude via the epigraph to the mysterious Willow-Wood cycle by Christina's brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The music suggests a division of the poem into three stanzas, alternating with tranquil interludes (using the opening melody) r…

Arr. Jan De Haan. Par STAINER JOHN. / Niveau : 2 / Musique pour célébration / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie ou Fanfare ou Brass Band

Par FLIGHT JAMES. A Short Sonata is a work written at around Grade 8 standard for Euphonium and Piano. In each of the work's three movements, different qualities of the instrument are utilised and explored. In the first movement, an Allegro in 6/8 time, these qualities are the instrument's general agility, and its ability to play fast-moveing melodies in a way that drives the music forward. Throug…

Arr. Jan De Haan. Par STAINER JOHN. / Niveau : 2 / Musique pour célébration / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie ou Fanfare

Publication of the complete English sacred music of George Jeffreys (c.1610–1685) opens a window on the achievement of one of the few pre-Commonwealth composers wholeheartedly committed to the contemporary Italianate stile nuovo. Besides a quantity of sacred works in Latin, there are 26 surviving English anthems and devotional pieces, plus three settings from the Communion Service, an impressive …