Clarinet Solo and Wind Band SKU: IS.WE6180EM Composed by Malcolm Arnold. ...(+)
Clarinet Solo and Wind
Band
SKU:
IS.WE6180EM
Composed
by Malcolm Arnold.
Arranged by Alex Steurs.
Ensembles - Wind Band.
Metropolis Music
Publishers #WE6180EM.
Published by Metropolis
Music Publishers
(IS.WE6180EM).
ISBN
9790365061808.
Engl
ish composer Malcolm
Arnold wrote this compact
sonatina in 1951 and it
has since become one of
his most popular
instrumental works. As
always with Arnold, it is
impeccably crafted: the
first movement, with it's
wide leaps, the
occasional incursion of a
six-eight bar into the
prevailing four-four, and
the lightest of jazzy
touches, lives up to its
marking of Allegro con
brio; while the second
demonstates Arnold's love
at this period of a
gentle cantabile style
where no shadows yet
lurk. The finale is a
wild dance in three-four
time marked Furioso, and
it is a distant cousin of
the Czech Furiant. With
its vigorous rhythms and
cascading semiquavers, it
has something of the
open-air quality of
Dvorak at his most
buccolic - not a frequent
influence on Malcolm
Arnold, but a highly
appropriate one in this
charming (and
challenging) little work.
This version for clarinet
solo with wind band has
been arranged by
saxophone player Alex
Steurs.
In Nomine Orchestre d'harmonie - Intermédiaire/avancé Hal Leonard
Score and Parts Concert Band (Score & Parts) - Grade 4 SKU: HL.4008005 (+)
Score and Parts Concert
Band (Score & Parts) -
Grade 4
SKU:
HL.4008005
For
Concert Band, Grade 4
11:20 Score and
Parts. Composed by
Otto M. Schwarz. Concert.
Softcover. Duration 680
seconds. Hal Leonard
#SDP1022202. Published by
Hal Leonard (HL.4008005).
How often has
something been justified
by, declared to be, or
blessed as “in the
name of†some cause
or other? How can it be
that opposing armies and
the use of weapons are
ever “in the name
ofâ€...? This is a
common thread in the
history of different
faiths. Good was created
but evil was committed
and all “in the
name of...†This
thread is also found in
the history of the
Premonstratensian Abbey
at Wadgassen. The abbey
was built in the 12th
century on unfertile,
desolate moorland, which
later evolved into the
most powerful religious
community in the
Saarland. The history of
the abbey records quite
astounding achievements
under the motto desertum
florebit quasi lilium
(“the desert will
bloom like a
lilyâ€); but also
the harsh treatment of
delinquents. The order
had its own school, in
which children were
taught the seven liberal
arts (which included
music as well as
geography and astronomy),
but the poor were left to
starve outside the abbey
walls and were only
allowed to eat from the
members' on feast days.
The medieval witch trials
demanded their pound of
flesh, and one group that
fell victim were ecstatic
dancers who moved wildly
to music--which was
interpreted as the
devil's work. The result:
a show trial that
sentenced the dancers to
death by fire. All in the
name of... The year is
1789: Abbot Bordier is in
the tenth year of his
command. He does not yet
know that he is to be the
last abbot of an almost
700-year-tradition. Not
far from the abbey is the
French border, which has
long been making itself
felt with the sound of
gunfire, and the brothers
continue to keep a
nervous eye on it. The
first portents of the
French Revolution loom,
but no one wants to
believe it--that is,
until the French pound
the door down, storm the
abbey and come right into
the brothers' chambers.
In a blind fury, all the
pipes of the abbey organ
are torn out, icons
beheaded with swords and
brothers beaten death
while numerous buildings
are set on fire. The
abbey church is in
flames. A frantic and
desperate escape begins.
Abbot Bordier and a
handful of brothers make
their getaway via the
River Saar, adjacent to
the abbey, to the
neighbouring village of
Bous. They survive, but
their life--the
Premonstratensian
abbey--is destroyed.
While they flee towards
Prague and the sanctuary
of the Strahov Monastery,
the abbey at Wadgassen is
razed to the ground and
becomes a stone quarry.
The desert blooms once
more, however. A few
short decades later, a
glasswork arises from the
foundations of the abbey.
As peace returns to the
region, it brings jobs
and a new vision for its
people.
In Nomine Orchestre d'harmonie - Intermédiaire/avancé Hal Leonard
Concert Band (Score) - Grade 4 SKU: HL.4008004 For Concert Band, Grade...(+)
Concert Band (Score) -
Grade 4
SKU:
HL.4008004
For
Concert Band, Grade 4
11:20 Score. Composed
by Otto M. Schwarz.
Concert. Softcover. 60
pages. Duration 680
seconds. Hal Leonard
#SDP1022201. Published by
Hal Leonard (HL.4008004).
How often has
something been justified
by, declared to be, or
blessed as “in the
name of†some cause
or other? How can it be
that opposing armies and
the use of weapons are
ever “in the name
ofâ€...? This is a
common thread in the
history of different
faiths. Good was created
but evil was committed
and all “in the
name of...†This
thread is also found in
the history of the
Premonstratensian Abbey
at Wadgassen. The abbey
was built in the 12th
century on unfertile,
desolate moorland, which
later evolved into the
most powerful religious
community in the
Saarland. The history of
the abbey records quite
astounding achievements
under the motto desertum
florebit quasi lilium
(“the desert will
bloom like a
lilyâ€); but also
the harsh treatment of
delinquents. The order
had its own school, in
which children were
taught the seven liberal
arts (which included
music as well as
geography and astronomy),
but the poor were left to
starve outside the abbey
walls and were only
allowed to eat from the
members' on feast days.
The medieval witch trials
demanded their pound of
flesh, and one group that
fell victim were ecstatic
dancers who moved wildly
to music--which was
interpreted as the
devil's work. The result:
a show trial that
sentenced the dancers to
death by fire. All in the
name of... The year is
1789: Abbot Bordier is in
the tenth year of his
command. He does not yet
know that he is to be the
last abbot of an almost
700-year-tradition. Not
far from the abbey is the
French border, which has
long been making itself
felt with the sound of
gunfire, and the brothers
continue to keep a
nervous eye on it. The
first portents of the
French Revolution loom,
but no one wants to
believe it--that is,
until the French pound
the door down, storm the
abbey and come right into
the brothers' chambers.
In a blind fury, all the
pipes of the abbey organ
are torn out, icons
beheaded with swords and
brothers beaten death
while numerous buildings
are set on fire. The
abbey church is in
flames. A frantic and
desperate escape begins.
Abbot Bordier and a
handful of brothers make
their getaway via the
River Saar, adjacent to
the abbey, to the
neighbouring village of
Bous. They survive, but
their life--the
Premonstratensian
abbey--is destroyed.
While they flee towards
Prague and the sanctuary
of the Strahov Monastery,
the abbey at Wadgassen is
razed to the ground and
becomes a stone quarry.
The desert blooms once
more, however. A few
short decades later, a
glasswork arises from the
foundations of the abbey.
As peace returns to the
region, it brings jobs
and a new vision for its
people.
