SKU: BT.DHP-0950666-020

Aggression, despair, but also hope for peace can be clearly heard within this work. In Banja Luka Jan de Haan reflects aspects of the former Yugoslavia, stricken by a civil war which brought terrible suffering to the people of this area. Banja Luka was written for the International Horn Festival in Leeuwarden in the Netherlands.

Banja Luka is een stad in Bosnië-Herzegovina en kent een rijke geschiedenis, wat blijkt uit de vele bewaard gebleven bezienswaardigheden. Mede door zijn strategische ligging heeft Banja Luka achtereenvolgens onder Romeins, Turks en Oostenrijks bewindgestaan en ontwikkelde het zich in de loop van de eeuwen tot een belangrijk handelscentrum. De stad werd in 1969 door een aardbeving grotendeels verwoest en is daarna weer in moderne stijl opgebouwd. De naam BanjaLuka betekent bad van Lukas.Volgens het volksgeloof heeft de evangelist Lukas hier het beroep van arts uitgeoefend en geneeskrachtige bronnen ontdekt, die nog steeds in gebruik zijn.Deze compositie vertolkt de componist zijngevoelens ten aanzien van het in de jaren negentigdoor een burgeroorlog geteisterde voormalig Joegoslavië. Een agressieve inleiding stelt het conflict voor, waarna de saxofoonsectie het drama verklankt. Dit gedeelte mondt uitin een gebed, weergegeven door de trompet en de trombonesolist. Nadat hetconflict weer even de kop opsteekt, volgt een tamelijk lichtvoetig gedeelte, waarmee de hoop op vrede tot uitdrukking wordt gebracht. Dat deze hoop voorbarigis, blijkt uit het feit dat de heersers (uitgebeeld door de sopraan- en de altsaxofoon)anders beslissen. De strijdkrachten rukken vervolgens op en laten een spoor van dood en verderf achter. Het noodlot slaat bikkelhard toe: onschuldigemensen worden verkracht en vermoord en er vinden op grote schaal etnische zuiveringen plaats. Debevolking lijdt.

Aggression, Verzweiflung, aber auch Hoffnung - all das kann man in Banja Luka hören. In diesem Werk verarbeitet Jan de Haan seine Überlegungen über das ehemalige Yugoslawien, über das ein grausamer Bürgerkrieg hinwegfegte. Banja Luka wurde für das Internationale Horn Festival in Leeuwarden in den Niederlanden geschrieben.

SKU: AP.1-ADV9004

ISBN 9783892211297. UPC: 805095090048. English.

Concerned with how, as well as what, to play, Whole Notes is both a piano method book and, more importantly, a guidebook to accompany the reader's personal journey into music. Posture, practicing, mental and physical health, using weight and force, economy of movement, and expression are some of the topics addressed. These themes are amply explored through detailed piano arrangements of Armen Donelian's compositions, and they are clearly connected to principles of physics, anatomy, and holistic development as well as music theory, rhythm, analysis and composition. These themes and principles are of universal interest to all musicians. As a practical inquiry, Whole Notes offers many options for creatively applying and integrating them for individual use. For this reason, the needs of non-pianists are also discussed.

SKU: CL.RWS-2040-00

Written as an opener for your beginning band concert, Fanfare Fantastique is bold, exciting and aggressive work that will clearly make a strong musical statement. Active percussion combined with powerful melodic lines in the brass and woodwinds, this new contemporary classic by Robert W. Smith will make your young band sound mature and artistically accomplished. Appropriate for any concert or festival performance.

SKU: BT.GOB-000286-140

The Scottish composer, Bruce Fraser, has always devoted himself to educational music. In this composition, in which his love for Scotland can be heard, again, he has clearly considered the possibilities of the orchestra.
A delightful concert piece which can be performed well by beginning bands.

De Schotse componist Bruce Fraser heeft zich tot op dit moment altijd bijzonder ingezet voor de educatieve muziek. Ook in dit werk, waar hij zijn voorliefde voor Schotland laat horen, is er goed nagedacht over de mogelijkheden vanhet orkest.
Een prachtig concertwerk dat zeer goed speelbaar is voor de beginnende orkesten.

SKU: PR.114423360

UPC: 680160686285.

When the Newport Music Festival commissioned me for a piano trio in honor of their 2021 season, I looked for a topic that would celebrate an aspect of the Newport community. While researching the area, I was struck by the nine lighthouses situated around the island. The dual nature of lighthouses was particularly appealing to me: not only do they serve a vital role in the navigation of ships around rocks and land, but they are also a beautiful sight, particularly at night when their blinking beacons are clearly visible to the eye. It occurred to me that lighthouses link the past with the present, and will endure long into the future, with their beacons serving the same purpose for every generation.I became fascinated with the lighthouse on the property of Castle Hill Inn, located at the opening of the East Passage of the Narragansett Bay. This squat thirty-four foot granite structure was erected in 1890 on a very picturesque spot, right at the water’s edge. Its “characteristic,” the nautical term for each lighthouse’s unique light sequence that allows ships to identify the lighthouse, is to alternate on for three seconds, then off for three seconds. The lighthouse has also served as the starting and finish line for numerous high profile yacht races, as well as survived a massive hurricane in 1938, though the lighthouse keeper’s nearby residence wasn’t so lucky. American novelist Thornton Wilder wrote much of his 1973 novel Theophilus North while staying at the Castle Hill Inn; a passage from the book perfectly captures the dual nature of lighthouses:“At a later visit I was able to engage the pentagonal room in a turret above the house; from that magical room I could see at night the beacons of six lighthouses and hear the booming and chiming of as many sea buoys.”In Beacon of the Bay, we first hear the lighthouse’s characteristic as its ruby light blinks on and off. This is followed by a simple theme that represents the lighthouse performing its solitary duty. As the piece progresses, we hear waves playfully lapping around its base, then yachts gracefully floating by; this is followed by a violent storm that churns the waves with so much force that they crash against the lighthouse’s granite body. But the steadfast lighthouse holds firm to the rocks, grandly blinking its ruby light. The music quiets back down to its simple theme, with yachts sailing by once more as the piece concludes.

SKU: CL.032-5035-01

Want to help your beginning jazz band develop strong rhythmic reading skills and also teach them important lingo? Musicians sometimes refer to playing in a rest as falling in a hole, and Don’t Fall In! offers plenty of holes (rests) for students to practice avoiding. This chart also features clearly-written rhythm section parts, reasonable ranges for the woodwinds and brass, and an accessible solo section for beginning improvisers. Your students will fall in love with Don’t Fall In!