Welcome to The Music Company - Publishers Who Are Passionate About Making Music We're publishers and retailers of books and music for Brass Band, Training Band, Junior Band, Concert Band, Brass Ensembles and Brass Instrumentalists, written by both new and established writers. The Music Company (UK) Ltd is an ideal starting point for the inspiration you need to formulate your brass band, concert band or wind band concert and contest programmes, including music for brass instrumentalists, brass quintets and larger brass ensembles. We're the official music publishers for Brass Band Aid, sponsors of The Bone Blow 2009 trombone event, the official sponsors of The European Brass Band Championships 2006, 2007 and 2008 and official partners for The Big Blow 2007 world record attempt. Featured Christmas Titles The Music Company (UK) Ltd are delighted to highlight a collection of new and featured music to brighten up your Christmas concert programmes. Two latest releases include 'SANTA BABY' - a great new arrangement by Lucy Pankhurst for Eb Tenor Horn solo of this pop favourite and 'IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTERr' a beautiful and refreshing new approach by Gregor Beattie to this classic carol. Take a look in our New Releases and Featured Titles section to see our current highlights. A New Talent Joins The Music Company Gregor Beattie is one of the latest new talents to join the family of writers at The Music Company (UK) Ltd. Gregor is currently studying a BMus Hons course at RSAMD in Glasgow with trumpet as his first study, and having studied composition under Tom David Wilson. This is also supplemented by additional studies in band orchestration, where his natural ability to score for brass band have already been developed to an extremely promising level. The Music Company (UK) Ltd are delighted to offer Gregor's first published work in the form of his beautiful and passionate arrangement of 'In The Bleak Midwinter' for brass band - a refreshing and inspirational version which brings a wonderful new dynamic to this traditional item on every band's Christmas concert programme. Lucy Pankhurst Featured at BIC 2009 The Music Company (UK) Ltd wishes to offer their congratulations to Lucy Pankhurst for the premier of her new composition 'Wired' at the Brass In Concert 2009 competition in Gateshead on 15th November. The piece was included as the opening item in the innovative programme performed by The Leyland Band. The live comments from 4BarsRest.com offer a little insight in summarising the general feel of the work and how successfully it was received by the audience: "Leyland wired and firing on all cylinders to start. Great thumping backbeat . . . You crazy guys, Leyland!" NEW CONTACT NUMBERS! As of 26 August 2009, our contact telephone numbers have changed! Please make sure your address books are updated - we can now been reached as follows: Telephone: 0845 68 08452 Facsimile: 0845 68 08453 All other contact information (email, website, shop and postal address) remains the same. David Hext - A New Member of The Music Comjpany Family The Music Company family is expanding again! We are extremely pleased to welcome David Hext as another new writer to the fold. During his musical career, David has played trumpet, cornet, euphonium and tuba before settling for percussion. He is now Section Principal of the world-famous, Manchester-based Hallé Orchestra, and has had a strong brass banding background having played with Bedford Town Band, Luton Band and GUS amongst many others. We welcome his debut composition for brass band, entitled 'Breakout Fanfare and Romance'. This is an ideal concert item which initially grabs the audience's attention and offers a beautifully scored slow section for the Romance section. An original composition which is a must-have for band concert programmes. Meet Us in Person at Harrogate on 26th & 27th September We are delighted to be attending the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain for Section 1 - 4, being held on 26th and 27th September 2009 in Harrogate. Our tradestand will be at the end of the main tradeshow hall. We'll be pleased to introduce you to our catalogue, offer you sample scores to assess and help wherever we can with your wishlist of concert and contest pieces. We will also be offering a special offer at the show for band sets of 'Hebridean Suite' - the 1st Section test piece at the 2010 Butlins Mineworkers Brass Band Championships. The Music Company Welcomes Lucy Pankhurst The Music Company (UK) Ltd are delighted to welcome Lucy Pankhurst as one of their new writers and contributors to their music catalogue. Lucy is currently the composer-in-residence with the Wingates band, where she also plays solo horn. She has composed a number of pieces for the ensemble, including 'Wicked' and 'Dance, Dance' for the 2008 Great Northern Brass Festival at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. As a tenor horn player, Lucy is very keen to promote new music for the 'endangered species' of brass instruments and as a result has written works for Owen Farr, Tubalatè, Scherzo Brass and, most recently, the internationally renowned soloist, Katrina Marzella and 2008 Young Musician of the Year; trombonist Peter Moore. Lucy feels particularly influenced by folk music and particularly enjoys the challenge of composing for unusual instrumentation or subject matter, welcoming both contemporary and traditional ideas in her music. Her other musical influences are very diverse, ranging from Vaughn-Williams to Ligeti, Stevie Wonder to Radiohead, Muse, E.L.O. and even the film scores of Danny Elfman. We are extremely pleased to be publishing so many of Lucy's works through The Music Company, all of which can now be found in our 'Products' section (simply search for Lucy Pankhurst). We have also highlighted a number of recent additions in our 'New Releases and Featured Titles' section. A Hebridean Suite - Butlins 2010 1st Section Test Piece A HEBRIDEAN SUITE, composed by Andrew Duncan, is available to purchase through The Music Company (UK) Ltd. Purchase Now Of the test pieces selected for the 2010 Butlins Mineworkers Brass Band Festival, organiser Brian Eggleshaw commented: "We have chosen these works as our tribute to the younger composers and arrangers in the banding movement today. We believe that there is such a great amount of talent and quality out there that Butlins has a duty to encourage and promote the very best of what we have to offer." SPECIAL LIMITED TIME OPTION - SAVE ON POSTAGE COSTS! As a special option for those bands competing at Butlins 2009, if you pre-order your band set for 'A Hebridean Suite' by Monday 14 September, you can collect the music in person at the contest - your postage costs (charged at time of online ordering) will then be refunded to you upon collection of the music. Purchase Now New Works for the Learning and Developing Player Furthering our commitment to offering music to the developing player and band, The Music Company (UK) Ltd are delighted to feature some new titles which are targetted at the learning and developing player. One of our newer writers, Steve Robson, has brought to our catalogue a variety of works which cater for younger bands and soloists alike. These recent additions include 'Vindolanda' - Two Miniatures for Bb Cornet and Piano, 'Music Through the Ages' - a flexible 7 movement piece for youth band offering an imaginary journey through 2000 years of music with narration (playable as a complete work or as individual movements, with or without narration), and 'Ballad from Slidin Songs for Milly' - a simple but effective trombone solo with piano accompaniment. Soundfiles and sample scores are available by selecting the options for the individual pieces - simply use the Quicksearch to find the titles and enjoy these exciting new works for yourself. We are also delighted to draw your attention to Steve Robson's other works for more developed soloists, bands and ensembles, including 'St Thomas Suite' (quartet), 'Pioneers' (brass band), 'Bonny at Mourn' (trombone solo), 'One Wish' (Eb Bass solo) and 'BA Rock' (brass band). All these are available to purchase through The Music Company online shop. The Flexi-Collection - A Complete Feast of Popular Classics The Flexi-Collection Series for Training and Junior Brass Bands/Groups. This refreshing and thoughtful new flexible range of music is playable by 6-600 brass instrumentalists. Sympathetically arranged by Andrew Duncan, the current Popular Classics Series presents eight titles from the great classical composers, offering a fun and interesting range of musical styles. The Flexi-Collection is targeted at Training and Junior Brass Bands and school brass groups, but also lends itself well to bands of all standards that may require music for flexible instrumentation. Incorporating Andrew's own experience with the training/junior level player, each piece in the series provides clarity both in presentation and explanation. Each part includes rudimentary theory help on the reverse, all musical terminology is given a translation, playing range and rhythms are adjusted to maintain the style of the composer whilst ensuring they are appropriate for the level of ability of the player; world parts are supplied by default; each piece also incorporate optional percussion and a very easy Bb part to make the sets as inclusive as possible. To offer full flexibility to our customers, we have also introduced 'The Flexi-Collection Album' which offers a complete set of the series of eight titles with a saving of over 20% off the normal individual titles. [View available titles ...] The Music Company on YouTube.com Not only does The Music Company offer score samples and soundfiles for many of their titles, but they have now located a number of appearances on YouTube.com. You can now watch and listen to performances of Andrew Duncan's 'Freyja's Call' (concert band) and Tim Paton's "My Little Welsh Home", "Rachmaninoff Prelude" and "Meditation" (all brass band) by visiting www.YouTube.com and searching for the pieces, or follow the links we've already set up for you with the item entry in our Brass Band Titles section. We'd also love to hear from any other bands who have YouTube.com performances of any of our pieces. So, please email us at: youtube@TheMusicCompanyShop.com if you can provide more links to help promote our customers and our music. Lewis Music Press Merges with The Music Company Lewis Music Press merges with The Music Company (UK) Ltd. An exciting business development has meant that these two publishing houses have now joined forces to bring their customers a comprehensive catalogue of music to enjoy. [Read more ...] Composition Commission Service Many of our writers and others with whom we have strong links would be delighted to accept commissions to write bespoke pieces for customers. If you enjoy the style and approach of a particular composer, we will be delighted to introduce your project to them and help turn your ideas into a reality. [Find Out More ...]