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Title	Ring of Brodger, The (The Stage of an Ancient Ritual)
Article no.	4040637
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Contemporary Music (1945-present)
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Format	PrtStm (full score and parts)
Country of publication	Japan (jp)
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Composer	Yagisawa, Satoshi
Difficulty level	3+
Duration	6:10
Additional info/contents	This piece was commssioned by Asia University Wind Orchestra, which gave the first performance conducted by Masato Kumoi, who is famous as a saxophone player. Orkney Islands, situated in almost 10 kilometers northward from Dunnet Head, the north end of Scotland, is said to be the ancient city of megalith. Especially, in Mainland, the biggest island, there are many remains of the prehistoric age. The largest one is The Ring of Brodgar, which is the largest stone circle in Scotland. There used to be 60 megaliths arranged in circle of 103.6 meters in diameter. The composer, Satoshi Yagisawa, had been writing series of pieces, which were on world heritage and ancient remains, and this piece is the sixth in the series. He depicts the stone circle in the land of the origin of Celt dramatically. Picc. / Fl.1-2/ Ob.1-2/ Bsn.1-2 /Cl.1-3/ B.Cl. /A.Sax.１－２/T.Sax./B.Sax/ Tp.1-3/Hn.1-4/Trb.1-3/ Euph./Tuba/St.Bass./ Timp. Perc.1-4
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	Ring of Brodger, The (The Stage of an Ancient Ritual) (concert/wind band), full score and parts
	Hymn to the Sun - With the Beat of Mother Earth, audio CD

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