Grade 5

The music from ‘Lieutenant Kijé’ was Prokofiev’s first attempt at composing film music. In 1933 he was commissioned by the Soviet Union to compose music for a film of the same name and he later...

Stephen Bulla's overture The Proclamation of Christmas is an extended work that features a number of popular Christmas tunes, including Hark The Herald Angels Sing, Ding Dong Merrily on High, and The First Nowell. Its...

Originally conceived as a brass band tone poem, A Psalm of Praise was inspired by words from scripture, speciically from Psalm 100. Musically, it is based on the well-known hymn tune Praise My Soul the King of Heaven, with...

Sinfonietta is a challenging, extended work for symphonic wind band. It is in three movements: Dance with the Devil, A Glimpse of Paradise and Reyes Magos. Sinfonietta is technically and expressively demanding but is written...

Time to Shine sets out to capture the spirit and fun of a theatrical stage-dance routine. Many will be familiar with the children's song Jesus bids us shine on which it is based. The piece is very light-hearted in character,...

Toccata - Oh the blessed Lord was first conceived as a brass sextet and remained in that form until the early 1970s when it was amplified to full brass band instrumentation. Now its further amplification to Wind Band it is...

The theme is a noble hymn tune by Sir Hubert H. Parry, associated with the words ‘O praise ye the Lord’. There are seven contrasting variations that will provide much interest to the player as well as the...

World Dances, by Stephen Roberts, is a suite of four dances, each with a distinctive rhythmic character. It is designed to be easy, but enjoyable, to play and was originally commissioned by the National Schools Band...