The work has a notation to be played "with dignity and strength" and it is that annotation which encapsulates the effect the composer and commissioner intended to have on both performer and listener.
Grade Level: 3 Copyright: 1993 Publisher: Brolga Music…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Ralph Hultgren
Publisher:
Brolga Music
The Incredibly Useful Series is an expandable and flexible format allowing performance by as few as four and as many as four thousand players. The first and second parts are doubles at the octave to enable the settings to be utilized as full band or orchestra…
Style:
Flex Band
Composer:
Ralph Hultgren, Gordon Collins
Publisher:
Brolga Music
The Charmer has a marked Eastern flavour- redolent of magic, deserts, camels, minarets, even snake charmers!Program NotesThe Charmer has a marked Eastern flavour- redolent of magic, deserts, camels, minarets, even snake charmers (!) or any other image you…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Lyall McDermott
Publisher:
Brolga Music
A sense of ceremony, strength and continuity was the underlying notion behind the structure and development of this work.Program NotesA sense of ceremony, strength and continuity was the underlying notion behind the structure and development of this work.…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Brian West
Publisher:
Brolga Music
A lively and colourful fanfare for all the champions who play musical instruments!Program NotesA lively and colourful fanfare for all the champions who play musical instruments! This work contains much unison work for the band, so a clear image of the…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Brian Hogg
Publisher:
Brolga Music
The work is programmatic and is written to depict the sparse, rugged iron-ore country and the port industrial centre of Port Hedland which is arguably Australia's "Iron Gate" to the world.Program NotesThe Iron Gate was commissioned in 1993 by the Hedland…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Ralph Hultgren
Publisher:
Brolga Music
All about a kookaburra in "an old gum tree", the piece is written as a "patrol" beginning with a distant "pizzicato style" pulse building to a rousing middle section which fades to a distant drum beat again with the kookaburra having the last laugh.Program…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Ralph Hultgren
Publisher:
Brolga Music
Republica embraces musical ideas found in some of the more serious folk songs and popular songs of Singapore that celebrate nationhood and a sense of community.Program NotesRepublica embraces musical ideas found in some of the more serious folk songs and…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Ralph Hultgren
Publisher:
Brolga Music
The Incredibly Useful Series is an expandable and flexible format allowing performance by as few as four and as many as four thousand players. The first and second parts are doubles at the octave to enable the settings to be utilized as full band or orchestra…
Style:
Flex Band
Composer:
Brian West, Brian Hogg
Publisher:
Brolga Music
The musical descriptors, "playful, pulsing and precise" set the scene for the interpretation of this piece.Program NotesScherzino Sinfonica was commissioned by the Extra Curricular Activities Branch of the Ministry of Education for the 1997 Singapore Youth…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Ralph Hultgren
Publisher:
Brolga Music