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John Rimmer  

Agincourt

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 2002
March for Brass Band

David Farquhar  

Birthday Fanfare

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1965, r. 1994
for two trumpets and two horns

  • Instrumentation
    2 trumpets in C, 2 horns in F
  • Programme Note

    This is the first piece from Three Horn Duos and has been arranged for two trumpets and two horns.

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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Ross Harris  

Eight Duets for French Horns

 Year: 2003
based on Hungarian folksongs

John Ritchie  

Fanfare For John Paul II

Duration: 01' 00" Year: 1986
for brass band

Dorothy Buchanan  

Fanfare for Two Trumpets

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1972

Ronald Tremain  

Flourish

 Year: 1989
for brass ensemble

John Ritchie  

Flourish for an occasion

Duration: 00' 30" Year: 1972
for brass band

John Ritchie  

N.Z.A.B. 25

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1988
Jubilee Celebration for brass band

Philip Norman  

On Entering the Temple of Hymen

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1980
a wedding piece for trumpet and organ