Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral
Title | Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Classic Band |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1995-05 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780757932625 |
Lucien Cailliet's concert band arrangement for Richard Wagner's Elsa'a Procession to the Cathedral maintains the timeless elegance that has made this piece a standard. (5: 57)
First Suite in E-flat, Op. 28 No. 1
Title | First Suite in E-flat, Op. 28 No. 1 PDF eBook |
Author | Gustav Holst |
Publisher | Serenissima Music |
Pages | 46 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9781608740512 |
Gustav Holst's first excursion into music for band (known as "military band" at the time) was composed in 1909. Despite there being very little standardization of the instruments and number of players used in such ensembles, Holst managed to score his three-movement work in a very flexible way so that the work could be played by an ensemble with as few as 19 wind and brass players, plus percussion. Although the occasion and ensemble which motivated the work's creation remain obscure, the First Suite became tremendously popular in the years after its first publication in 1921. With the advent of public school bands in the USA, the original publisher added numerous parts for instruments not found in the original manuscript and provided substitutes for some originally designated instruments which had become obsolete over the years, producing a bloated full score in 1948. Richard W. Sargeant Jr's newly engraved edition goes back to Holst's small band concept, with substitutions made to match the parts disposition and timbre of original score. Now available at an affordable price in a convenient format, this score will be welcomed by bands, wind ensembles and devoted fans of a work which is now part of the core repertoire worldwide. IMSLP page Wikipedia article
The Violin Conspiracy
Title | The Violin Conspiracy PDF eBook |
Author | Brendan Slocumb |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2022-02-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 059331543X |
GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK! • Ray McMillian is a Black classical musician on the rise—undeterred by the pressure and prejudice of the classical music world—when a shocking theft sends him on a desperate quest to recover his great-great-grandfather’s heirloom violin on the eve of the most prestigious musical competition in the world. “I loved The Violin Conspiracy for exactly the same reasons I loved The Queen’s Gambit: a surprising, beautifully rendered underdog hero I cared about deeply and a fascinating, cutthroat world I knew nothing about—in this case, classical music.” —Chris Bohjalian, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant and Hour of the Witch Growing up Black in rural North Carolina, Ray McMillian’s life is already mapped out. But Ray has a gift and a dream—he’s determined to become a world-class professional violinist, and nothing will stand in his way. Not his mother, who wants him to stop making such a racket; not the fact that he can’t afford a violin suitable to his talents; not even the racism inherent in the world of classical music. When he discovers that his beat-up, family fiddle is actually a priceless Stradivarius, all his dreams suddenly seem within reach, and together, Ray and his violin take the world by storm. But on the eve of the renowned and cutthroat Tchaikovsky Competition—the Olympics of classical music—the violin is stolen, a ransom note for five million dollars left in its place. Without it, Ray feels like he's lost a piece of himself. As the competition approaches, Ray must not only reclaim his precious violin, but prove to himself—and the world—that no matter the outcome, there has always been a truly great musician within him.
Second Suite in F
Title | Second Suite in F PDF eBook |
Author | Colin Matthews |
Publisher | Boosey & Hawkes Incorporated |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2004-06 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9781476899718 |
Concert Band Music Levels 5-6
Teaching Music Through Performance in Band
Title | Teaching Music Through Performance in Band PDF eBook |
Author | Larry Blocher |
Publisher | |
Pages | 950 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
Recordings of works composed for band and suitable for grades 2-5.
First Suite in E-Flat, Op. 28 No. 1
Title | First Suite in E-Flat, Op. 28 No. 1 PDF eBook |
Author | Gustav Holst |
Publisher | |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 2015-05-25 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781608741878 |
English Folk Songs
Title | English Folk Songs PDF eBook |
Author | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2009-04-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0141190922 |
This collection is filled with songs that tell of the pleasures and pains of love, the patterns of the countryside and the lives of ordinary people. Here are unfaithful soldiers, ghostly lovers, whalers on stormy seas, cuckolds and tricksters. By turns funny, plain-speaking and melancholic, these songs evoke a lost world and, with their melodies provided, record a vital musical tradition. Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside � but it has profoundly shaped us too.It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians and people who live and work on the land � as well as those who are travelling through it.English Journeys celebrates this long tradition with a series of twenty books on all aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man�s relationship with nature and songs celebrating the patterns of the countryside (as well as ghosts and love-struck soldiers).