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A Downland Suite is a 1932 composition for brass band in four movements by John Ireland.It has also been arranged for string orchestra and various other instruments.. The English composer John Ireland wrote the work in 1932 for the National Brass Band Championship of Great Britain at a time when original pieces were regularly commissioned for major contests.
A Moorside Suite (H.173) is a work for brass band by the English composer Gustav Holst. It was commissioned by the BBC and the National Brass Band Festival Committee in 1927 for the final of the 1928 National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain at Crystal Palace. [1] The suite comprises three movements - Scherzo, Nocturne and March.
The first folk tune is heard in the form of a traditional British brass band march using the morris-dance tune "Glorishears". [2] After a brief climax, the second strain begins with a solo euphonium playing the second folk tune in the suite, "Swansea Town". [2] The theme is repeated by the full band before the trio.
This is a list of online digital musical document libraries. Each source listed below offers access to collections of digitized music documents (typically originating from printed or manuscript musical sources). They may contain scanned images, fully encoded scores, or encodings designed for music playback (e.g., via MIDI).
Factory. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band is an American brass band based in New Orleans, Louisiana. [1] The ensemble was established in 1977, by Benny Jones and members of the Tornado Brass Band. The Dirty Dozen incorporated funk and bebop into the traditional New Orleans jazz style, and has since been a major influence on local music.
Eric Ball (composer) Eric Walter John Ball OBE (31 October 1903 – 1 October 1989) was a British composer, arranger and conductor of brass band music, described as "one of the most prolific writers and influential figures in the brass band and choral world". [1]
In Britain, a brass band (known regionally as a silver band or colliery band) is a musical ensemble comprising a standardized range of brass and percussion instruments.The modern form of the brass band in the United Kingdom dates back to the 19th century, with a vibrant tradition of competition based around communities and local industry, with colliery bands being particularly notable.
All six pieces are scored for torviseitsikko [] (in Swedish: hornseptett), a "specifically Finnish" kind of brass septet [1] that originated in 1870 [b] when the Finnish composer, music arranger, and military band leader Adolf Leander [] founded the first torviseitsikko within the Guards' Band, [c] the premiere ensemble of the Finnish Defense Forces (then in service to the Russian tsar ...