FIFTH SUITE FOR BAND CB

FIFTH SUITE FOR BAND CBMaster composer Alfred Reed's newest work is yet another display of his skilled hand in the wind band medium. He has selected four styles and used each in a short movement that captures a distinctive folk dance style. The result has produced an exquisitely orchestrated and musically rewarding work for bands who demand high quality literature. I. Hoe Down (American) II. Sarabande (French) III. Yamabushi Kagura (Japanese) IV. Hora (Romanian Israeli).

Each volume contains a great selection of well-known themes

lyrics and chords for C instruments

and second to the sharp report of the whipcrack through the piece

major and pure minor scale

Brian demonstrates various right-hand techniques along withmodal and interval concepts

in which he treats famous themes from Bizet's opera into an extremely effective concert piece

singing harmony

In earlier days

reproducible puzzles

(Mozart himself later added the F major Rondo K 494 as a third mov ement for this sonata)

Chilcott skilfully uses bothmetred and unmetered sung and spoken lines to highlight the text's envi ronmental message

– Joel Whitburn