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Title	The Land of the Long White Cloud 'Aotearoa'
Article no.	9442116
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Contemporary Music (1945-present)
Instrumentation	Bra (brass band)
Format	PrtStm (full score and parts)
Country of publication	Netherlands (nl)
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Composer	Sparke, Philip
Difficulty level	5
Evaluation level of countries	C4 (Swiss 1st class)
Duration	12:30
Additional info/contents	Dating from 1979, "The Land of the Long White Cloud (Aotearoa") was Philip Sparke’s first test-piece. It was commissioned by the New Zealand Brass Band Association for their 1980 National Championships (their centenary year) and set for the European Brass Band Championships, the same year, at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Aotearoa was the name given to New Zealand by its Polynesian settlers whose first sight of the islands was a long, flat cloud lying low over the land. The work has no specific programme although many have seen pictures of the surging ocean in the opening bars. A faster dance-like section leads to a slow, haunting solo for soprano cornet; this is taken up by the whole band before earlier material returns. The dance-like tune is, this time, given a fugal treatment and the opening bars return to close the work. Radiotrack
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	The Land of the Long White Cloud 'Aotearoa' (brass band), full score and parts
	The Land of the Long White Cloud 'Aotearoa' (brass band), full score
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