Spartiti Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen per banda

'Who can Sail without the Wind' is an old folk tune from Aland in Finland. I believe the song was one of the first one I learnt to sing and play on the guitar. The melancholic character of the song i...

Quando ero studente di musica a Bergen, alla fine degli anni Ottanta, il direttore d'orchestra, arrangiatore ed educatore Tom Brevik mi commissionò due suite di melodie popolari per tutte le giovani b...

Quando ero studente di musica a Bergen, alla fine degli anni Ottanta, il direttore d'orchestra, arrangiatore ed educatore Tom Brevik mi commissionò due suite di melodie popolari per tutte le giovani b...

Le melodie popolari sono state raccolte come parte della costruzione della Norvegia come paese indipendente. Violinisti e cantanti folk impararono gli uni dagli altri. All'inizio del XIX secolo le reg...

Brout è stato commissionato da Jane Westervik e dalla Krohnengen Brass Band per KBB Ung. In questo divertente brano viene utilizzata una famosa melodia popolare norvegese. Parla di un caprone che è s...

Poco Loco è stato commissionato dalla Krohnengen Brass Band per la KBB Ung. L'idea era che i musicisti più esperti potessero suonare insieme a quelli più giovani. Il brano è costruito attorno a un rif...

Arctic Funk might just as well have been a flashing sequel to a scene from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story. Popular music but with a difference, as indicated by the title. The work's quiet section...

Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen's (1964) way of composing can be described as: uncompromising, wilful and contemporary. It is not surprising, therefore, that this occasionally causes a stir. In the middle of...

Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen's (1964) way of composing can be described as: uncompromising, wilful and contemporary. It is not surprising, therefore, that this occasionally causes a stir. In the middle of...

The composer: A short concert-opener where I use Norwegian folk-tunes. I wanted to create a short musical picture of the Vikings running from the seashore towards some people they wanted to fight down...

The Cock was originally written as an arrangement for brassband for Norwegian band Eikanger-Bjorsvik Musikklag and their CD-release 'Light' in 1989. I chose the Norwegian tune 'Hanen stend pa stabburs...

Night is a calm, slow piece of music. Almost like an ancient chant.

The old Norwegian name Ljodgata means the main road. This road (or path) has existed since the iron age. In 12 century christians walked from Oslo to Nidaros (Trondheim) to visit the Cathedral contain...

Commissioned by the Military Band of Bergen for their 200-years Anniversary Concert in 1992 This edition represent an extended instrumentation of the original version for wind ensemble. Added parts ar...

This piece was commissioned by Borge Brass Band with support from Borge Sparebank in 1997. They suggested some folk tunes from Lofoten for the composer, from which he chose two of them. The two folk s...

'Introduction' is a short concert opener. I quote a couple of Norwegian Folk Tunes to make a musical picture of the Vikings running from the seashore to face a battle. They used to drink something mad...

In November 2014, the conductor Peter Szilvay, on behalf of Christiania Wind Ensemble (Oslo), commissioned a piece from me. He was looking for a quite short piece of music, effective, intense and danc...

Arctic Funk might just as well have been a flashing sequel to a scene from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story. Popular music but with a difference, as indicated by the title. The work's quiet section...

A good friend of mine, trombonist and professor Jesper Juul Windahl commissioned me a trombone quartet. I then wrote Four Nordic Folk Pops. The last of the four is a Norwegian tune called Havard Hedde...

I was made aware of this beautiful wedding march in connection with a wedding in Lofoten, up north in Norway as I made an arrangement for quintet and altosax soloist. Later, I wrote an arrangement for...

Grand March by Ole Bull only existed as a piano arrangement of the three first parts. In 2010, when Ole Bulls two hundred years anniversary was celebrated in Norway, I made a reconstruction of the who...

Be Thou My Vision' is the eldest religious song from Irland used in Norway. The lyrics was originally written in Old Irish and translated to English in 1905 and versified in 1912. The text from 1912 i...

Hymn of Lofoten is composed by Dag Kajander from Kabelvag in Lofoten, a part of Northern Norway. Kajander is composer, singer and author of books for children. Hymn from Lofoten was written in 1979. T...

Lead, Kindly Light is composed by the English composer Charles Henry Purday (1799-1885). This arrangement was originally written for Brass Band to Norwegian band Hj(o/rungav(aog Brass. Purday was appo...