Dark Arteries was commissioned by Rambert Dance Company and first performed in May 2015 with the Tredegar Town Band sharing the stage with Rambert dancers. Dark Arteries is a personal and at times highly wrought response to the Miners’ Strike and its aftermath. It is in three movements the first and last are expansive with widely contrasting sound worlds from dark brooding melodies and the haunting sounds of solo flugel horn to wild syncopations on cornets suggestive of an imposing but often bleak mining landscape.In 2016 Higgins re-worked Dark Arteries into a virtuoso concert suite which captures the essence of the work in three connected movements.Dark Arteries Suite was premiered by the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain conducted by Bramwell Tovey at the Barbican Centre London 22 April 2017.

Anders Brødsgaard's Arachne (2011) - for five instruments. Programme Note: A melodic ”thread” runs through the 14 minute piece sometimes smooth and unisone sometimes harmonized or even ”flossed up” into smaller threads. The title might make you think in terms of spiders (lat.: Arachnida) but Arachne is also the name of a weaver in roman mythology who dared to compete with the goddess Minerva in the art of weaving and was transformed into a spider as punishment (Ovid). The name is also close to that of another mythical female figure Ariadne who span her thread to help Theseus find his way out ofthe labyrinth. Biology and myth weaved together. The title is pure association though as it turned up after the piece was finished.

Part for the optional Antique Cymbals from Paul Mealor's A Prayer Of King Henry VI.

Dark Arteries was commissioned by Rambert Dance Company and first performed in May 2015 with the Tredegar Town Band sharing the stage with Rambert dancers. Dark Arteries is a personal and at times highly wrought response to the Miners’ Strike and its aftermath. It is in three movements the first and last are expansive with widely contrasting sound worlds from dark brooding melodies and the haunting sounds of solo flugel horn to wild syncopations on cornets suggestive of an imposing but often bleak mining landscape.   In 2016 Higgins re-worked Dark Arteries into a virtuoso concert suite which captures the essence of the work in threeconnected movements. Dark Arteries Suite was premiered by the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain conducted by Bramwell Tovey at the Barbican Centre London 22 April 2017.

A Selkie Tale is a short music-theatre work (duration about 25 minutes) designed for performance by seven- to eleven-year-olds year olds. Four solo roles and several separate chorus groups give scope for the participation of a large number of children of all ability levels.The story is a humorous version of the Orkney folk-tale of an islander kidnapping a Selkie wife - a creature who is a seal in the sea and a woman on the land. Things go hilariously wrong with the Selkie wife escaping to rejoin her companions in the sea and Mansie the islander facing a most uncongenial alliance with his cousin and housekeeper Miss Trowie-Tattibogle.Xylophone part.Thisis a special item which is made to order. Please e-mail our Mail Order Department for further information.

Description Inspire your students to make some noise with Teach and Play African Drums ! The six pieces in this book represent an exciting and varied selection of music from across the African continent, from traditional djembe drumming and gumboot dancing to a Senegalese pop song. Each piece is broken down into clear and simple steps that show you how to build up the music gradually with your class. Combined with the accompanying DVD ? which contains over 60 short clips of the author and a group of KS3 students demonstrating all of the instruments and patterns to each piece ? teaching and learning world music has never been so easy or enjoyable. The six pieces are supplemented with valuable background information about the music and culture, cross-curricular projects, composing ideas, advice on assessment and guidance on teaching whole-class world-music ensembles. The material has been designed primarily for use with KS2 and KS3 classes, but the addition of higher-ability parts for each piece means the book can be tailored easily to KS4 as well. It is not necessary to own authentic instruments to get the most out of this book as classroom alternatives are suggested and demonstrated. ?This series has been written by a genuine expert who has thorough knowledge of his subject and shares this with the reader in a lively, enthusiastic and passionate way. I have never found any books before that are so clear in explaining the fundamentals of these world-music genres, and doing so in a format based around practical, relevant and achievable tasks is even more remarkable. I can see these books becoming one of those series that every music teacher will have either read or heard about in years to come.? Matt Allen, Head of Music, Chessington Community College, Kingston

10 morceaux d'ensemble spécialement arrangés pour tous les instruments et idéal pour des joueurs de 9 à 13 ans. <br> <br>De la flûte à la guitare, du glockenspiel au pipeau tout le monde pourra prendre part à ce moment magique. / [Classroom Jam - Classical Pieces] / Classique / Barrie Carson Turner / Partition /

Taper des pieds, frapper des mains, c'est ce que Slap Happy! conseille pour se familiariser avec les rythmes africains et afro-carabéens. Une mine de jeux de frappés, seul, à deux ou en groupe - en famille, en milieu scolaire ou de loisirs, pour découvrir le Kuku de Guinée, Le Sunguru Bani du Mali, la Bomba de Porto Rico ou la Conga de Cuba. Et tout cela, rien qu'avec son corps! Un CD inclus expose les séquences rythmiques et soutient musicalement la progression.