Prelude to a Pageant Philip Sparke

Titel / Title: Prelude to a Pageant
Herausgeber / Publisher: Anglo Music Press
Instrumentation: Concert Band/Harmonie
Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen
Serie / Series: Anglo Music Midway Series
Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen
Sprache / Language: English-German-French-Dutch
Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2016
ISMN: 9790570299980

Prelude to a Pageant was commissioned by Woodley Concert Band to celebrate their 40th anniversary in 2014. Celebratory in nature, Prelude to a Pageant includes a famous musical link to The Reading Rota (Sumer is icumen in), a manuscript dating from around 1240, discovered nearby Reading Abbey. This lively tune appears early in the work, after an arresting, rhythmic opening and expressive slower section, and also forms the final climax.