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- Brass Tentet, ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS
- 6/8 The Sequel
- £25.00 – £35.00
- This is a 10-minute run around Gilbert and Sullivan. All the big hits are here, dotted with quotes from even more. Doing D’Oyly Carte Opera in the 1980s and early 90s, I once asked a friend to cover some shows for me. On the phone, as he wrote in his diary, he had a mental blank when it came to…
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- Brass Band, ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS
- 6845815
- £35.00 – £45.00
- A contemporary work about the Hiroshima bomb. The title is the date and time of the explosion. The first half of the piece is utterly innocent, a busy early morning street scene building up. But the plane is heard overhead, and after that it’s pandemonium, musical Chaos. Not without form though, and I hope that the recurring sequence, on which…
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- ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, Trombone & Piano
- A Thali for Trombone
- £20.00 – £25.00
- A Thali for Trombone is an Indian meal of four short movements served within two very short outer movements called Silver Pots, which is after all what thalis are often served in. The trombone imitates a sitar in 'Dall and Dosa', while the piano plays tabla (Indian drums). The remaining 'dishes' are Lamb Bhuna, Bombay Aloo, and Pickles and Pops,…
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- ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, Solo Guitar
- A Year and a Day
- £15.00 – £20.00
- My favourite guitarist Jo Satriani has a lovely finger-tapping piece on his 3rd album called Day at the Beach. As so often happens, I was inspired to write a piece in similar vein. When he and Steve Vai came to Tower Records many years ago to sign CDs, I was there in the queue, clutching an A4 envelope with my…
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- ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, Trombone & Piano
- Above The Clouds
- £15.00 – £25.00
- This is a light tune. Light in style, floaty in feel, the trombone plays fairly high throughout, and is very much in the old-fashioned solo mode. You can hear it live in the Virtual Venue.
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- ARRANGEMENTS, Brass Band
- Agnus Dei
- £25.00 – £30.00
- The last movement of Byrd’s Mass for Five Voices has one of the most beautiful endings I know.
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- ARRANGEMENTS, Trombone Quartet
- Air Moving
- £20.00 – £25.00
- Air Moving. This is simply one of the most beautiful tunes I’ve ever heard, by Kathryn Tickell, the brilliant Northumbrian pipes player. She gave me permission to arrange it for trombone quartet so here it is. The original tune is published by Not Them Again/Purple Patch publications.
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- ARRANGEMENTS, Trombone & Piano
- Air Moving
- £20.00 – £25.00
- Here is the trombone and piano version of Air Moving, also arranged for trombone quartet elsewhere on this site. To do both versions I acquired the kind permission of the composer, Kathryn Tickell, who wrote it for her renowned band of Northumbrian pipes, violin, accordian and guitar.
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- ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, Solo Trombone
- And Another Thing
- £10.00 – £15.00
- Encores are too long. This one is a minute and a half but there are a lot of notes. Mostly in 5, it’s a bombastic zoom up and down various arpeggios, always tongue-in-cheek (which makes it a lot harder to play). For use as the encore to the recital for which it was written (as is the case here), before…
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- Brass Quintet, ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS
- Assembly Lines
- £30.00 – £40.00
- A Theme and Variations for Brass Quintet. Grade VIII and above.
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- Brass Band, ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS
- Blue Forest
- £30.00 – £40.00
- Blue Forest This is based on a series of photos I took on my phone, of the eerie scenery near a remote cabin in the woods, in the north of Scotland,
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- ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, Trombone & Piano
- Bombasticity
- £15.00 – £20.00
- So Bombasticity it is. It is a feeble, trombone-like made up word, it doesn’t say Love and Peace, and it doesn’t mean what I thought it might have done even if it was a word! But it has the hook, and if I made it up, it means what I want it to: just a bit of a swashbuckle.
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- Brass Band, ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS
- Bravo! March
- £25.00 – £30.00
- The hook here, and hence the title, is two repeated notes, with which the whole band joins in several times, and maybe the audience/street-liners after the end as well.
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- ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, Trombone Quartet
- Chant of the Plains
- £15.00 – £20.00
- This was originally a ‘chops break’ piece for Bones Apart, a simple tune that would be sparing on the embouchure and would therefore be a valuable asset in a concert programme. But though it’s short (3 minutes) and has only simple slow notes in it, I discovered having finished it that the ideal chops break is in fact called a…
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- ARRANGEMENTS, Trombone & Piano
- Czardas
- £15.00 – £20.00
- For two trombones and piano, to be precise. The famous gypsy violin solo starts on tenor trombone but switches to alto. Not for the faint hearted!
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- ARRANGEMENTS, Trombone Quartet
- Czardas
- £20.00 – £25.00
- For Trombone quartet, or rather featuring one of the group as soloist on tenor and alto trombone. Don't be late for this rehearsal.
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- ARRANGEMENTS, Brass Quintet
- Dance of the Miller.
- £20.00 – £25.00
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