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Gavin Higgins: Alarms for Solo B♭ Trumpet / Flugelhorn and Harp [Printed Music]
£10.99
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Catalogue Number
NMP1332
For Solo B♭ Trumpet / Flugelhorn and Harp
8-page A4 saddle-stitched Trumpet / Flugelhorn Score & 4-page A4 saddle-stitched Harp Part
Duration: c.6 mins
ISMN No: 979-0-708219-82-8
Alarms was written in 2001 for the 2002 Brass Final of the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition. The piece is a response to the Manchester bombing of 1996. I moved to Manchester in 1999 and experience the aftermath of the bomb and witnessed the rebuilding of the city centre. Friends who were in the city when the bomb went off told me that in the days after the explosion all that could be heard across the city was the constant ringing of shop and car alarms. Therefore Alarms is an elegy in three sections – harmon-mute no tube; harmon- mute with tube; flugel horn – that centres around a constant ‘ringing’ note –F expanding into declamatory fanfares and expressive lines before the player leaves the stage and fades into the distance. Trumpet: The player should move offstage at bar 71. They should then change to flugelhorn and play the remainder of the piece from offstage, fading out with the harp. Harp: The harp should be positioned offstage and start playing at bar 68. The player should then continue to repeat the pattern, fading out with the flugelhorn at the end of the work. If there is no harp available this can be played on piano.
A PDF Version of this score is available upon request.
Manufacturer: Wyastone Estate Limited, Wyastone Leys, Monmouth, NP25 3SR
Email: sales@wyastone.co.uk