(Fanfare and Allegro)-Commissioned for the 100th anniversary of the Calgary Stampede Showband of Calgary Alberta Samuel Hazo has created a stunning and inspired work for mature players. The title (taken from the Latin phrase “JubilateDeo”) is indicative ofthe pervading sense of ceremony and jubilation. Bookended with a broad and powerful fanfare the exuberant allegro section features a spirited pulse with mixed meters and soaring melodies. Adynamic percussion score is inherent throughout thework all the way to the dramatic finish. Dur: 5:00

from Symphony No. 1-« Vingt ans de réflexion quatorze années de création et l?attente d?une vie ». C?est ainsi que l?on peut résumer la Symphonie n° 1 qui eut une gestation particulièrement longue. Commencée en 1854 peu après la rencontre de Brahms avec Schumann elle ne sera reprise et menée à bien qu?à l?automne 1876. Elle se compose de quatre mouvements de construction classique. Andrew Watkin a réalisé un arrangement de l?Allegro extrait du premier mouvement. Le climat est sombre mais d?une grande profondeur sonore. Les courbes sont fluides et souples. Du grand classique à la portée des plus jeunes !

from Symphony No. 1-« Vingt ans de réflexion quatorze années de création et l?attente d?une vie ». C?est ainsi que l?on peut résumer la Symphonie n° 1 qui eut une gestation particulièrement longue. Commencée en 1854 peu après la rencontre de Brahms avec Schumann elle ne sera reprise et menée à bien qu?à l?automne 1876. Elle se compose de quatre mouvements de construction classique. Andrew Watkin a réalisé un arrangement de l?Allegro extrait du premier mouvement. Le climat est sombre mais d?une grande profondeur sonore. Les courbes sont fluides et souples. Du grand classique à la portée des plus jeunes !

from Symphony No. 1-« Vingt ans de réflexion quatorze années de création et l?attente d?une vie ». C?est ainsi que l?on peut résumer la Symphonie n° 1 qui eut une gestation particulièrement longue. Commencée en 1854 peu après la rencontre de Brahms avec Schumann elle ne sera reprise et menée à bien qu?à l?automne 1876. Elle se compose de quatre mouvements de construction classique. Andrew Watkin a réalisé un arrangement de l?Allegro extrait du premier mouvement. Le climat est sombre mais d?une grande profondeur sonore. Les courbes sont fluides et souples. Du grand classique à la portée des plus jeunes !

Major Yvon Ducene wanted a new lush and colourful composition for his Guides military band with André Waignein as its composer. Early in 1979 the composer began his assignement and in October of the same year the finished full score was on the music stands of this prestigious military band of the Belgian Army.The introduction (Grave) mirrors an atmosphere full of serenity in which the theme played by the oboes and the English horn is predominant and immediately holds the listener spell-bound. It is taken up again as central element of the slow movement.The Allegro breaks away from the quiet passion of the introduction. Here the band can really show its capabilities to thefull. Based on a very precise rythm an idiom of sudden desperation and adversity develops which fused with a crushing agression culminates in a kind of eruption soom calmed down by a Lento : peace and quiet has returned thanks to a melody by the horns and soon taken over by the clarinets. In the meantime the saxophone - an instrument full of human emotion - express the main spatial dimension in contemporary psyche. Following a harmonic transition the brass-players take up the theme again in forte whilst the basses and the woodwinds interwine in technical arabesques.The movings of the mind and the heart get an audible and almost touchable shape in the ensuing Allegro a movement characterized by a rhythmic dialogue in which the whole orchestra participates and where the exposition contains a wealth of sound and technical contrasts. The Lento finally uses the central theme of the slow movement again with some occasional references to the two allegros. The last page is of unprecedented grandeur. All the instruments display their most beautiful sound which were named by Jacques Ferschotte when speaking about Honneger 'harmonies d'intensités' harmonies of the unmeasurable.

This piece was commissioned by the ‘Concert Band Vlamertinge’ and is a plea for peace: the title translates as ‘Peace on Earth’. This is expressed by means of the vocal contribution expected from the performers. In various places of the piece you can recognize the words ‘Et In Terra Pax’ - an appeal for peace - at first jumbled together but later more rhythmically structured developing into synchronized massed voices.The work starts with a pentatonic theme based on the notes D E G A and C (taken from ‘ConCErtbAnD VlAmErtinGE’ and the name of the conductor NiCk VAnDEnDriessChe). A somewhat sad melody is developed during an orchestral climax which leads to the firstexplosion of sound (measure 62 onwards). Suddenly the opening measures are recaptured albeit with a differently colored sound: the words ‘Et In Terra Pax’ bring the first movement to a close. A restless Allegro follows which abruptly stops and is replaced by a calming cho-rale-like passage. A narrator reads aloud the poem ‘Sonnet’ by the young poet Charles Hamilton Sorley who was killed during World War I. This poem fittingly puts into words the cruelty and senselessness of war. After the expanded recapitulation of the allegro the broad almost infinite atmosphere of the beginning returns. Clarinet and English horn play the pentatonic opening theme once more this time broadly while the words ‘Et In Terra... Pax’ are repeated again and again by the rest of the orchestra.The composer has purposely avoided all forms of aggression and bombastic sounds regularly used in works about war. Fear of violence and destruction can be heard and felt during the allegro passages. The charged opening makes way in the end for hope: May peacefulness replace cruelty in everyday life too.

The 'Admiral Spirit' is the pride of the Navy. The ship is at sea there is no wind the sun is shining. The crew are busy piloting the ship into port in prime condition. The admiral himself will inspect the vessel. The first movement (Allegro Con Spirito) gives musical expression to the majestic ship and its toiling crew. In the second movement (Andante) the ship sails into port. It has been polished and technically everything is in order. The admiral will be proud when he inspects the ship. Third movement (Allegro Molto): the captain and his crew are nervous (modulations) while working at the 'finishing touch'. The Navy Band is ready to receive the admiral !. Hemay be proud of his flagship. De bemanning van het marineschip Admiral Spirit is druk bezig om het schip in optimale conditie de haven binnen te loodsen de admiraal gaat namelijk het schip zelf inspecteren. In het eerste deel (Allegro con spirito) horen we een verklanking van het majestueuze schip en de zwoegende bemanning. Hoe beeldend zijn de emmertjes water welke overboord gaan (trombones). In het tweede deel (Andante) vaart het schip de haven binnen. Het schip is gepoetst en technisch is alles in orde. Derde deel (Allegro molto): De kapitein en zijn bemanning zijn nerveus (modulaties) en er wordt aan de finishing touch gewerkt. De Navy Band staat klaar om de admiraal te ontvangen! De admiraal kan trots zijn op het vlaggenschip. Een schitterend speelwerk voor de lagere afdelingen! Dit werk is opgenomen in het Klein repertorium harmonie - 5e divisie

for Soloist and Concert Band-Little Concerto (?Petit Concerto?) est une œuvre pour Soliste et Orchestre d?Harmonie. La tonalité et la tessiture de la partie soliste sont adaptées à divers instruments - de la flûte traversière au baryton. Little Concerto est constitué de trois mouvements : un Allegro de style classique où les discours en tutti alternent avec des passages en soli ; un second mouvement plus lent de caractère qui dévoile la richesse de la palette sonore de l?instrument soliste. Enfin un Allegro giocoso qui s?articule autour d?un dialogue complice entre l?accompagnement et le soliste. Cette pièce relativement simple de structure permet à de jeunes solistes(ou un peu plus expérimentés) de dévoiler leurs qualités artistiques.

Arr. James Curnow. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Le motet a revêtu différentes formes au cours de son évolution et a joué un rôle important dans le développement de la musique polyphonique vocale entre les XIIIe et XVIIIe siècles. En janvier 1773, Mozart séjourne à Milan en compagnie de son père et y écrit une oeuvre originale pour le castrat Venanzio Rauzzini : le motet Exultate, Jubilate KV 165. Cette oeuvre sacrée en trois parties rappelle une véritable 'sinfonia' italienne : la pièce suit l’ordonnancement logique Allegro - Andante - Allegro final qui se termine par l’ Alleluia, somptueux témoignage de virtuosité vocale. / Niveau : 2.5 / Pièce de concert / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

This CD features the Canadian Brass performing 21 tracks as conducted by Cameron Walter including the award-winning composition Fantasies for Anna by Christopher Dedrick.Contents: Just a Closer Walk with Thee• Little Fugue in G Minor • Canzona per Sonare No. 4 • La Virgen de la Macarena • Beale Street Blues • Pachelbel's Canon • Fantasies for Anna (Musette in D Minor; Minuet in G Major; Minuet in D Minor;March) • That's a Plenty • Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring • Suite from the Water Music (Allegro; Air; Hornpipe; Allegro Maestro) • Red White and Brass • Bill Bailey • Nearer My God to Thee • TubaTiger Rag • The Saints' Hallelujah.

Les Marteaux de La Marine was composed in 1999 as a commission by the Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy. The composition contains three static elements which interchange. Static in this case means that development of the material isnot pursued (by the composer). The first element with which the piece begins is tranquil and colourful. The second element is sharp and incisive while the third expresses energy. In all elements a repeated tone is the starting point whichexplains the hammers in the works title.The instrumentation is richly variegated with a harp also determining the palette of colours in the slower movements. The composition opens with an atmospheric Larghetto containing fine harmonies in thesoft and subtly moving wood-winds. The introduction breathes an impressionistic atmosphere in which expressive cantilenas and soloistic agile motifs stand out. A strong setting is followed by an Allegro virtuoso containing fast motifs contrasted withshort and rhythmic stars of the various instrumental sections. Trumpets and horns add a virtuoso bugle-call motif. After a short stringendosection the transparent Larghetto returns with a varied setting of the opening elements. The beautifulleading roles in this section are reserved for cornet (trumpet) and horn. Subsequently the flashing Vivo starts with continuous movements in triplets from both wood-winds and brass. Next the opening Allegro re-appears once again and thus LesMarteaux de la Marine ends with a fast and virtuoso climax. Les Marteaux de La Marine was selected as a compulsory grade 6 contest piece for symphonic bands in the Netherlands.

Les Marteaux de La Marine was composed in 1999 as a commission by the Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy. The composition contains three static elements which interchange. Static in this case means that development of the material isnot pursued (by the composer). The first element with which the piece begins is tranquil and colourful. The second element is sharp and incisive while the third expresses energy. In all elements a repeated tone is the starting point whichexplains the hammers in the works title.The instrumentation is richly variegated with a harp also determining the palette of colours in the slower movements. The composition opens with an atmospheric Larghetto containing fine harmonies in thesoft and subtly moving wood-winds. The introduction breathes an impressionistic atmosphere in which expressive cantilenas and soloistic agile motifs stand out. A strong setting is followed by an Allegro virtuoso containing fast motifs contrasted withshort and rhythmic stars of the various instrumental sections. Trumpets and horns add a virtuoso bugle-call motif. After a short stringendosection the transparent Larghetto returns with a varied setting of the opening elements. The beautifulleading roles in this section are reserved for cornet (trumpet) and horn. Subsequently the flashing Vivo starts with continuous movements in triplets from both wood-winds and brass. Next the opening Allegro re-appears once again and thus LesMarteaux de la Marine ends with a fast and virtuoso climax. Les Marteaux de La Marine was selected as a compulsory grade 6 contest piece for symphonic bands in the Netherlands.

Thirty easy level sight reading pieces for first- and second-year bands.- Time signatures: 4/4 3/4 2/4 cut time- Keys: Concert F Concert Bb Concert Eb- Note/rest values: Whole half quarter eighth dotted half- Tempi: Moderato Allegro Andante Allegretto March Tempo Adagio- Dynamics/expressions etc: mf f mp pesante D.C. al Fine D.S. al Fine