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Turkey in the Straw is true hoe-down music and should be played with the energy of square dancers. The syncopated rhythms combined with the short crisp articulations make this a fun tune for both list...

This arrangement was designed for Middle School and easy High School use in situations where there are no (or few) color instruments such as oboe, bassoon, bass clarinet, tenor and baritone saxophones...

This is an ancient Welsh air that was first published in 'Relics of the Welsh Bards' in 1794. Dafydd (David) Owain was a famous Welsh bard who lived on a farm called Garreg Wen (The White Rock) in Eif...

Takehiko Inoue's 'Slam Dunk' is one of the all time best-selling Japanese manga series. It tells the story of a teenage hot-head delinquent who joins the school's basketball team in an attempt to impr...

This work was commissioned for The Berkshire Young Musicians Trust (England), who required a testing piece for the woodwind section of their concert band. The piece opens with a strong unison passage...

Microtopia' was inspired by the wondrous nature film Microcosmos, in which the insect world is magnified into large-aslife tableaux. The title of the work is a combination of the words microscopic (mi...

Questa nota miniatura del balletto La Fille Mal Gardée è danzata dalla vedova Simone (e dalle ballerine che l'accompagnano) mentre è rapita da un paio di zoccoli presentati dalla figlia. In questo all...

Rikud' means 'dance' in Hebrew. The plural ending '-im' tells us that the title means 'Dances'. Thus, Rikudim is a suite in four movements based on Jewish dances, bearing in mind, that these are not a...

The landing of the Portuguese on Madeira Island in 1419 is widely regarded as the beginning of the Discovery Age which saw European explorers of the 15th century sail across all the globe. To commemor...

oboe, corno inglese, heckelphone e fagotto

Questi due brani contrastanti, di grado 5-6 circa, sono ispirati al flusso dell'acqua. Riverside Walk è dolce e increspato, mentre Cascade, con le sue crome jazzate, suggerisce il flusso più drammatic...

Slavonica! was commissioned by the Bloomsbury Music Group for the Bloomsbury Woodwind Ensemble. The composer wanted to create a set of three modern 'Slavonic Dances', which are strongly influenced by...

De Colores, or All the Colours, is a traditional Mexican Folk tune often performed by Mariachi bands. This simple and elegant waltz has been arranged as a duet in the middle voices, while the top two...

Tre canzoni tratte dal musical di successo del 1968. In "Pick a Pocket or Two" la melodia si insinua furtivamente in tutto l'ensemble, "Where is Love?" condivide la melodia struggente con tutti gli at...

In 'Dogon', the composer Kevin Houben takes the audience on a journey to the steep slopes of the Dogon Valley in West Africa. Majestic sounds sketch the unique culture of the Malian population, who bu...

Cartoons satirize notable events or present caricatures of well-known - often political - persons. The composer felt inspired to write this work by the all humorous drawings that he encounters in his...

The instrumental music of the Yiddish-speaking Jews, especially those of Eastern Europe, is known as klezmer. This terminology was originally used in Jewish cultural life as the name of a musician who...

Weiße Strände, türkisblaues Meer und Kokospalmen: So schön ist die Südsee - doch auch so fern! Aber Du kannst mit diesem Stück musikalisch dorthin reisen. Also herzlich willkommen in der Südsee! Der e...

The Water is Wide, chiamata anche "O Waly Waly", è una canzone popolare tradizionale di origine scozzese basata su un testo che risale in parte al 1600. Molte varianti del testo sono apparse in Inghil...

The convent of St. Florian was the place of work of the upper Austrian composer Anton Bruckner. This convent, with its marvellous church, where many of Bruckner's great symphonies were composed, is si...

Golden Peak' is a concert piece that takes us deep into the world of volcanoes of the Auvergne in central France. They are dormant volcanoes whose origins date back from 7, 000 to over 65 million year...

Un pezzo davvero divertente per venti misti! Il successo di Tony Christie del 1971 è stato presentato a una nuova generazione nel 2005, quando è stato utilizzato per raccogliere fondi per Comic Relief...