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Dorothy Freed  

Aquarius March for Brass Band

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1971
for brass band

  • Instrumentation
    1 E flat cornet, 5 B flat cornets, 1 B flat repiano cornet, 1 B flat flugelhorn, 2 B flat 2nd cornets, 2 B flat 3rd cornets, 3 E flat tenor horns, 2 B flat baritones, 2 B flat euphoniums, 2 B flat tenor trombones, 1 G bass trombone, 2 E flat bass, 2 B flat bass, snare drum, bass drum, cymbal.
  • Programme Note

    Scored for full brass band (about 27 players) this work was originally written for a brass band competition.

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John Rimmer  

Arioso-Spiritoso

Duration: 06' 00"
for flugelhorn and piano

Neville Hall  

beasts like shadows in glass

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2003
for solo horn

Leonie Holmes  

Chorale

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1997
for brass sextet

John Rimmer  

Composition 1

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1968
for horn and electronic sounds

Ross Harris  

Contours

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1988
for horn and piano

Dorothy Freed  

Diversion for Ten Brass Instruments

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1967
for concert brass

David Farquhar  

Divertimento

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1960
for brass ensemble (11 players)

Anthony Ritchie  

Down in the Brunner Mine

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1995
for brass band

  • Instrumentation
    E flat sop crnt, 4 solo B flat crnts, repiano crnt in B flat, 2nd & 3rd B flat crnts, B flat flugel hn, solo E flat hn, 1st & 2nd E flat hns, 1st & 2nd B flat baritones, Euphonium in B flat (2), 1st & 2nd B flat trbn, bass trbn, E flat Bass (2), B flat Bass (2), 3 perc, timp, bass drm, side drm, tenor drm, tamtam, clash cymb, susp cymb.
  • Programme Note

    Down in the Brunner Mine was commissioned by The Onslow Brass Band in Wellington and first performed and broadcast in 1996. It is a short set of variations based on a New Zealand folk song called ‘Down in the Brunner Mine’. The folk song describes the coal mine on the West Coast, near Greymouth, and tells of the disaster that occured there in the 1890s when about 60 men were killed in a mine collapse. Here is the first stanza: We worked in the heat and the thick black dust, Sticks to your skin like a burnt pie crust, We rue each day the miner must Go down in the Brunner Mine. The folksong tune is announced by the cornets at the beginning, playing in their low register, accompanied by heavy chords in the low brass. Variation 1 features a horn solo, and the cornets return for Variation 2, playing in fourths. Variations 3 and 4 are strident in character and feature short flourishes. The snare drum enters at the start of Variation 5 and the cornets play a punchy idea using repeated notes. This idea returns in contrapuntal form in Variation 7, while the 6th variation inbetween features little fragments of the theme on various instruments. Variation 8 is powerful and buffeting, and uses the theme in canon. Variations 9-11 make use of the theme’s arpeggio outline and the music builds to a climax. Following this, the music gradually winds down in Variation 12, with the theme appearing in inversion against a repeated bass pattern. After a reflective silence, the short chorale-like coda rounds off the work, and is marked “in memoriam”.

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Hugh Dixon  

Dream Odyssey (horn quartet version)

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1997
for horn quartet