/ Divers
SKU: HL.49030396
ISBN 9790220122743. 9.0x12.0x0.067 inches. Vocalise.
No traditional tunes of any kind are made use of in this piece, in which I have wished to express my personal feelings about my own country (Australia) and people, and also to voice a certain kind of emotion that seems to me not untypical of native-born Colonials in general.Perhaps it is not unnatural that people living more or less lonelily in vast virgin countries and struggling against natural and climatic hardships (rather than against the more actively and dramaticly exciting counter wills of their fellow men, as in more thickly populated lands) should run largely to that patiently yearning, inactive sentimental wistfulness that we find so touchingly expressed in much American art; for instance in Mark Twains Huckleberry Finn, and Stephen C. Foster's adorable songs, My Old Kentucky Home, Old Folks at Home, etc. I have also noticed curious, almost Italian-like, musical tendencies in brass band performances and ways of singing in Australia (such as a preference for richness and intensity of tone and soulful breadth of phrasing over more subtly and sensitively varied delicacies of expression) which are also reflected here.Percy Aldridge Grainger.
SKU: HL.4003881
UPC: 888680010089. 9x12 inches.
Depicting three contrasting and intriguing settings from early American lore, Rick Kirby masterfully brings these images to life in this suite for band. The first movement tells the legend of The Phantom Drummer with unique orchestrational effects. The second movement, The Lady's Lament, mourns the loss of loved ones in the Revolutionary War, and the suite concludes with the lively dance Virginia Two-Step. Rich in stylistic and tonal variety, this is an appealing work for concert or festival use. Duration: 8:00.
SKU: CF.CFD2
ISBN 9780825845611. UPC: 806896101223.
SKU: GI.G-656
The GIA Composer's Collection seeks to bring together into one place the master works by some of the most respected Wind Symphony composers of all time. Stunningly performed by the North Texas Wind Symphony under the direction of Eugene Corporon, this series also includes extensive liner notes about the composer and their contribution to the Wind Band. CONTENTS: Children’s March: “Over the Hills and Far Away†- Irish Tune from Country Derry - Shepherd’s Hey - Colonial Song - The Immovable Do - Prelude in the Dorian Mode - Themes from “Green Bushes†- Down Longford Way - Sussex Mummers’ Christmas Carol - Ye Banks and Braes o’Bonnie Doon - Six Dukes Went A-Fishin’ - Early One Morning - Lincolnshire Posy - “Lads of Wamphray†March - Irish Tune - Molly on the Shore - Australian Up-Country Tune - Handel in the Strand - O Mensch bewein’ dein’ Sunde gross - Country Gardens - Shenandoah - The “Gumsuckers†March - Harvest Hymn - The Warriors.
