Mancunian Fanfare

Mancunian Fanfare (PDF)

£100.00

Mancunian Fanfare appears in two versions — originally for brass sextet and later this arrangement for full brass band. While the musical material remains identical, the sextet version is more intimate and austere, in contrast to the weightier and more colourful sonority of the full band setting.

All profits from the sale of this music will be donated equally to the charities chosen by the composer, Robin Stevens during his lifetime. In purchasing this music, you are not only supporting the art he loved, but continuing a legacy of generosity that defined him.

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Mancunian Fanfare appears in two versions — originally for brass sextet and later this arrangement for full brass band. While the musical material remains identical, the sextet version is more intimate and austere, in contrast to the weightier and more colourful sonority of the full band setting.

The fanfare opens with two dissonant gestures — effectively a collective clearing of the throat — followed by three ideas that form the basis of the entire piece: a two-phrase chorale, first played on solo cornet; a single phrase in contrary motion, introduced by cornet and trombone; and a rapid, more extended passage involving the whole ensemble.

The remainder of the composition continually reorders and develops these ideas, building a considerable head of momentum before, in the closing bars, the chorale takes centre stage and the fanfare concludes in a triumphant C major chord.

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Difficulty

A – Advanced

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