Journey of the Lone Wolf (Brass Band - Score Only)

Journey of the Lone Wolf (Brass Band - Score Only)
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Championship Section Test Piece for the 2016 National Finals of the British Brass Band Championship.

The Lone Wolf of the title is the great Hungarian composer and folklorist Béla Bartok. Bartok's journey took him from the hills of the Balkans to the heart of the new world. His singular vision may have meant a life out in the cold, a life without warmth and love, a life without true happiness, a death mourned by a few in a strange land.

The first of the three linked movements is capturing the Peasants' Song and follows the young Bartok and fellow composer Zoltan Kolday as they embark on Summertime adventures through the Hungarian countryside to collect and catalogue the astonishing variety of Gypsy and folk music heard in the Balkan hills. The arrival of WW1 plunges Bartok's beloved Hungary into chaos.

Bartok was at times a cold man, aloof and lonely. The occasional moments of tenderness he showed are portrayed in Night Music. His brief but intense affairs speak of a love he could only long for. Jazz is my night music and here there are hints of what Bartok may have heard in the USA later in his life.

Having been forced by the world's evils to leave his homeland of Hungary for America Bartok, the anti-fascist, felt isolated and angry. In the finale, Flight and Fight, we hear his longing for a simpler time of Gypsy folk dances as well as his maturity and depth as a composer finally exploring deeper colours and darker themes.

Duration: 15.00

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Code:  RSFAB571468
Product type  Sheet Music
Series  Faber Brass Band
Publisher  Faber Music
Difficulty  Advanced
Code  571571468
Grade  5

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