For Snare Drums And Band. Par BORODINE ALEXANDER. Les Danses polovtsiennes offrent l’exemple le plus spectaculaire de l’exotisme musical russe, d’une sensualité âpre, sauvage, et d’une rare virtuosité orchestrale. Ce divertissement dansé et chanté en plusieurs épisodes, quintessence de l'opéra Le Prince Igor (1879), contient tout ce qui suscita la faveur de l'Europe fin XIXe : désir d'ailleurs, at…

Solo for Cornet or Euphonium. Par DEBONS EDDY. / Niveau : Avancé / Répertoire / Cornet et Brass Band

Par MOREN BERTRAND. / Niveau : Avancé / Répertoire / Euphonium et Brass Band

on Santueri Castle. Par HOUBEN KEVIN. Dance into the sun du compositeur Kevin Houben a été commandé par la Banda de Musica de Felanitx (Majorque, Espagne), à l'occasion de son bicentenaire en 2020. Felanitx est une communauté de la province espagnole des Baléares (sur l'île de Majorque) qui est célèbre pour son vin. La composition fait partie d'un grand projet dans lequel les commanditaires ont vo…

Sverddansen. Par ROGERS SCOTT. The sword dance is a tradition in many cultures. The Scottish sword dances date back to the 15th century. This traditional melody captures all the excitement and energy of the sword dance through insistent rhythms, variation in dynamics and a big accelerando at the end. Articulations should be clear and crisp, and the accelerando at the end should be as fast as you d…

Par COURT DOUGLAS. Young bands love to play rhythmic music. Audiences love to tap their feet. Directors want to keep BOTH the young players and their listeners happy. What better way than a BARN DANCE to bring people together?! Carefully scoring gives first and second year players the thrill of performing energetic and joyful music. Let's step back to a simpler time. Put on your best overalls! It'…

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. Jan Van der Roost composed Dances of Innocence to commemorate a girl who passed away at the tender age of 14. In contrast to the sombre, joyless tone such a memory usually invokes, it is a rather cheerful work that reflects the innocence and light heartedness of a child. It does open in a serious mood, but quickly becomes more energetic and turns into a dance. Dances of Inno…

Par CURNOW JAMES. Throughout the colonial period in America, country dancing was the principal recreation of all social classes. Americans had inherited this tendency from Elizabethan England, and many continental Europeans also took up English country dancing as their own. Four Colonial Country Dances feature country dance tunes that were indigenous to New England and particularly to the Boston a…