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Title	Festival Prelude 'Ad Excel'
Article no.	3213325
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Overture (original composition)
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Format	PrtStm (full score and parts)
Country of publication	United Kingdom (uk)
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Series title	Midway Series
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Year of publication	2017
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Composer	Sparke, Philip
Difficulty level	4
Evaluation level of countries	D4 (German upper level)
Duration	5:00
Additional info/contents	Festival Prelude ‘Ad Excel’ was commissioned by the AD Concert Band, from Solihull in the UK, to celebrate their 40th Anniversary in 2016. The title, "Ad Excel", is a play on words: it is Latin for ‘to excel’ but also celebrates the band’s anniversary as XL is 40 in Roman numerals. The work opens with a bright fanfare with frequent changes of meter. This leads to a playful main subject, played first by woodwinds, followed by full band. A bridge passage leads to a legato second subject, played twice. The bridge passage returns to introduce the both main melodies in new keys and instrumentations before a coda, derived from the opening fanfare, brings the work to a close. Prt PicFlt Flt 1,2 Ob 1,2 Fag 1,2 Clr 1,2,3 BClr ASax 1,2 TSax BSax Trp 1,2,3 Hrn in F 1,2,3,4 Trb in C 1,2,3 Brt/Euph in C Tub in C WltStm: -Hrn in Eb 1,2,3,4 -Trb in Bb 1,2,3 (BC+TC) -Brt/Euph in Bb (BC+TC) -EsTub (BC+TC) -BTub (BC+TC) KB Tmp Perc 1,2,3
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