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- Brass Band, ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS
- Sketches of Shetland
- £40.00 – £50.00
- Here is a five-movement, continuous twenty-minute piece depicting these beautiful islands. We first went there in 2008, and standing at the very top of Britain, at Hermaness, in freezing rain, watching the furious sea crashing on the rocks and the cliffs round the lighthouse, the gulls and terns whizzing around above the water, I knew this would be great for…
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- Big Band Ensemble, ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS
- Speedbird
- £15.00 – £20.00
- I’d had this tune going on for years, scribbled on a piece of paper somewhere. I showed it to Amos one time and said I’d never known what to do with it. He suggested his group, the Big Buzzard Boogie Band. Speedbird is a punchy piece, always driving forward, propelled by a ‘push’ in every bar. The featured solo is…
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- Orchestral Works, ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS
- SRI
- £150.00 – £160.00
- This is the first of 2 pieces in the style of Steve Reich. SRI is Sacro Romano Impero, the Holy Roman Empire, which of course was the First Reich. Har bleedin’ har. But I liked the title enough to keep it, because 3 stark capitals are a bit mechanical, as this sort of music is, and there’s also more than…
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- ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, Piano Pieces
- Suite in Compound Time
- £15.00 – £20.00
- See above, Orchestral Woodwind Section. I wrote this piece at college when I could sort of play the piano a little bit. There are 5 short movements, I think the whole piece is under 10 minutes. They are in increasingly long compound times, and are 1. Rushing Water (3/8); 2. Gaudy Tune in A major (5/8); Tombs (7/4); On The…
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- Brass Band, ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS
- Tail-enders. Books One, Two and Three.
- £20.00 – £25.00
- Three books of five short pieces to round off a brass band rehearsal in a cheery way! Many of us start rehearsals with the old faithful hymn books. Here are fifteen pieces with which to end rehearsals, fifteen lively and catchy little numbers to end the night on. All are about a minute long, a simple blow to send us…
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- ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, Trombone & Piano
- The Beautiful Ghosts
- £6.00 – £11.00
- This piece follows straight on from the relentless Giants in the Rain, and is therefore a quiet, ethereal contrast. Giants started with a long piano introduction, Ghosts has the solo trombone softly laying out the theme, a recitative-like chant based on the most recurrent motif of the recital, a 5-note snippet going up or down towards the end. The piano…
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- Brass Band, ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS
- The British Summer
- £20.00 – £25.00
- It would help to describe this piece if I gave one of (!) its original titles, which was Fanfare, Theme, Ghosts and Hoedown. This is a melange of a piece, in those implied moods, written as a thankyou to Duncan Wilson and Kidlington Concert Brass for performing Sketches of Shetland, which I must say they did brilliantly. When I couldn’t…
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- ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, Vocal Ensemble
- The Death of Beauty
- £90.00 – £100.00
- The lyrics are below, depicting a serene world, an ancient untouched world of nature and music. But along came Man...
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- ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, Solo Trombone
- The Gowacomeres Waltz.
- £10.00 – £15.00
- An old Scottish bandmaster used to refer to the trombone section as Gwackomeres. After years of this, I asked him why he did it. So in his Scottish accent, and miming a trombone slide going in and out, he said ‘Go awa, come ‘ere, go awa, come ‘ere’. This is my guess at a correct spelling! The piece is very…
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- ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, Solo Trombone
- The NEW Lafosse Dozen
- £24.00 – £30.00
- Trombonists reading this will all know of Andre Lafosse, who wrote 2 study manuals in 1921. In 1946 he wrote a third, and all 3 are regarded as excellent material on which to learn the entire range of trombone technique. In the third book there is a set of 12 studies, often used as exam and audition pieces to this…
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- Orchestral Works, ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS
- The Red Shoe
- £50.00 – £60.00
- Written after a visit to a Concentration Camp in East Poland (see also the ‘Pieces of Writing’ section). If you want a moment of utter gravity within your orchestral concert, this is it.
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