Brass Ensemble - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.944156 By Glenn Miller. By J. Winner and R. Eastburn. Arranged by Stuart Quinlan. Jazz. Score and parts. 29 pages. Stuart Quinlan #5733785. Published by Stuart Quinlan (A0.944156). An arrangement scored for Brass Band, playable with reduced numbers, or with a large Brass Ensemble.

Choral Choir (4-Part) - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.835430 Composed by Stuart Brown. Sacred. Octavo. 20 pages. Stuart Brown Music #31853. Published by Stuart Brown Music (A0.835430). A superb arrangement of this heart-rendingly beautiful setting of George Matheson's O Love that wilt not let me go, aimed at groups that require a full orchestral version with choir. Relatively easy to sing, as was demonstrated by the choir of Park City High School in Utah in April 2015. The composer, Stuart Brown, can be contacted on themusicman55@gmail.com. Performing rights apply in the UK and USA (PRS for Music). The composer's website is at stuartbrownmusic.com.

High Voice,Vocal Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.835449 Composed by Stuart Brown. 20th Century,Contemporary,Spiritual. 37 pages. Stuart Brown Music #4285583. Published by Stuart Brown Music (A0.835449). If you are looking for a genuinely beautiful and rewarding work for solo voice and piano, to fill a 20-minute time slot, then Idylls is for you. It provides an opportunity for both singer and pianist to demonstrate an ability to communicate a wide range of emotions. It is particularly satisfying for the pianist, whose part is anything but subservient to the vocal line and provides an opportunity to shine. At notated tempo the work lasts just under 18 minutes; the concert première performance (in January 2019) lasted just short of 20 minutes because of the slower tempo at which the performers chose to take the fourth song.While intended primarily for the concert platform, Idylls contains some profoundly Christian themes that may make it suitable also for church use in an appropriate context.Although intended for professional use, Idylls may be within the technical capability of advanced high school students, noting that the third song ('Of old sat Freedom on the heights') has a piano part that was described as 'challenging' by the professional pianist who first performed it in public (Jonathan Ellis, January 12th, 2019).As noted above, Idylls can work for church services in various contexts, although not all of the songs are necessarily appropriate to the same context. The lyrics themselves provide the best guidance in this respect.From observing the rehearsal sessions of the two professionals who first performed the work (Chen Wang and Jonathan Ellis), the composer suggests that none of the songs - however apparently straightforward - should be taken for granted. There are nuances in all of them that require careful attention to timing and pitch. The vocal entries in the opening song require careful attention to pitch. In the second song concentrate on the timing and making it sound as light and dance-like as possible. The third song requires the singer to keep an E-flat in mind at all times (in order to pitch entries) and to sing to strict meter regardless of what the pianist is playing. The fourth song requires both grace and intensity. Pitch is the main issue, particularly some of the B-natural entries; pay special attention to timing in the first verse. The fifth and final song is melodically straightforward; pay attention to timing in the second verse.Stuart Brown composed Idylls in early 2015 specifically for the London-based Chinese soprano Chen Wang. She performed it in public for the first time, accompanied by Manchester-based pianist Jonathan Ellis, at a concert in the southwest of England in January 2019.Performing rights are handled in the UK by PRS for Music, in Canada by SOCAN, in the USA by ASCAP, BMI and SESAC. The full list of arrangements can be found at www.prsformusic.com/our-global-network/partnersAll contact and other information (including lyrics) can be found on the composer's website at https://stuartbrownmusic.com/discover-11.html

Choral Choir (4-Part) - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.835433 Composed by Stuart Brown. Sacred. Octavo. 67 pages. Stuart Brown Music #31855. Published by Stuart Brown Music (A0.835433). A superb arrangement of this heart-rendingly beautiful setting of George Matheson's O Love that wilt not let me go, aimed at groups that require a full orchestral version with choir. Relatively easy to sing, as was demonstrated by the choir of Park City High School in Utah in April 2015. This pack comprises: 2 x piccolo plus flute, 1 x oboe, 1 x Uilleann pipes (or second oboe), 2 x trumpet, 2 x trombone, 1 x piano, 10 x first violin, 10 x second violin, 8 x viola, 10 x cello and 6 x double bass. The composer, Stuart Brown, can be contacted on themusicman55@gmail.com. Performing rights apply in the UK and USA (PRS for Music). The composer's website is at stuartbrownmusic.com.

Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.835450 Composed by Stuart Brown. Concert,Contemporary. Score. 12 pages. Stuart Brown Music #2859967. Published by Stuart Brown Music (A0.835450). This is not your typical nocturne. This is night as it really is for many people: a time of restlessness, of anxiety, in which you lie awake or even feel the need to get out of the house for a while. This music is for all of those nights when you wonder what on earth is happening to the world around you, when you feel troubled by the contradictions between you and the world, when you dread the morning news of the results of an election or referendum; when you just want to shout at the world, I'm out of here ... imagine a night in which you need to step outside to gather your thoughts. You feel the chill of the night air as you stand gazing up at the sky. As clouds move above, you turn over in your mind the things that are troubling you. Gradually you begin to see more clearly the difference between the things you cannot change and those that you can; and with that realisation comes serenity and finally you are able to sleep.The composer, who is a passionate believer in unity rather than division, wrote this music three days after Britain's 2016 referendum on its continued membership of the European Union, reflecting his feelings about the outcome. This is, therefore, as deeply personal a piece of music as you'll get. Include it in a program and it will help to put the rest of the program into perspective.The music itself demonstrates that nonatonic and octatonic modes of limited transposition can be used to create melodies and harmonic progressions that combine tension with great beauty. At notated tempi the work lasts just under ten minutes. It is of advanced intermediate difficulty, the main challenges for the player being the complex modality and the shifting rhythms. The sound file provided here is the composer's own live performance, recorded on Saturday, September 10th, 2016. It is possibly appropriate for high school performance: students who are interested are welcome to get in touch with the composer via www.facebook.com/StuartBrownComposer/

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.835452 Composed by Stuart Brown. 20th Century,Contemporary,World. Octavo. 211 pages. Stuart Brown Music #5990681. Published by Stuart Brown Music (A0.835452). A fantastic offer price for the full score and all parts! ... Looking for something to add a sense of oriental exoticism to your amateur orchestral/choral concert? This may be what you're looking for! This charming little suite of six dances lasts about 15½ minutes. It consists of a Pavane, Bourée, Sarabande, Allemande, Basse Danse and Galliard, which vary widely in character. As a whole the suite provides some interesting challenges for both performers and listeners. Apart from conventional strings, flute and harp (which can be either pedal or lever) you will need:- One or maybe two Arabian ouds. The parts are playable also on a fretless acoustic guitar. (Needs to be fretless because of the quarter-tones in some of the Arabic modes used.)- A cimbalom (the part can be played on a piano also, with slight modification). You might get away with using a hammered dulcimer but you'd need to make a number of compromises.- A doumbek and a djembe. These beautiful drums are a must for Middle-Eastern or African music. They're fairly easy to find, though finding somebody who can play them properly may take a bit more doing!- Finger cymbals and a gong. These are regular western instruments.- A wind-chime. Anything that produces a nice shimmering spangle of sound will probably do!- A group of singers (SATB). Nothing particularly challenging but see below.The primary oud part, the strings and the singers need to have sufficiently good intonation to pitch quarter tones. These are the exception rather than the rule, but nevertheless play an important part in the character of the music. Apart from this, the music is relatively straightforward and probably playable by any reasonably competent amateur or high school orchestra.In the spring of 2020 I wrote a set of short music tracks for a charity of which I'm a trustee. In order to protect my intellectual property rights in the music, I decided to bring it together into an attractive if not intellectually challenging little suite, hence An Omani Dance Suite. Originally the dances were all in Arabic quarter-tone temperament, but obviously quarter-tones cannot be played easily (if at all) on the flute, harp and cimbalom. So I have made some adjustments but retained the Arabic temperament wherever reasonably possible. I had thought initially of using a santur instead of a cimbalom, but the santur lacks the range and the dynamic capability to be used with a string chamber orchestra. The cimbalom doesn't need to be a concert grand model; in fact it doesn't even need to have dampers.The Omani was something of an afterthought: a musician friend of mine had worked in Oman and commented on how authentically Omani the Basse Danse sounded. The period of composition coincided with a time when I was really missing friends in Vietnam and Romania, so somehow influences from those countries found their way into the music.I'm not bothering with performing rights for this - just go away and enjoy the music! ... but if it inspires you find out more about the charity work that inspires me, feel free to get in touch!https://www.facebook.com/stuartbrownmusic/

Choral Choir,Choral,SATB Chorus - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1412170 By Stuart Brown. By Stuart Brown. Arranged by Stuart Brown. 21st Century,A Cappella,Christian,Easter. 8 pages. Stuart Brown Music #994410. Published by Stuart Brown Music (A0.1412170). A beautifully light and joyful original setting, in neo-Elizabethan style, of well-known words translated in 1708 by John Baptist Walsh from the hymn 'Surrexit Christus Hodie'. Ideally to be sung by four soloists (SATB) but would work when sung by any competent mixed choir. The composer writes: It was on Easter Sunday morning in 2024 that the idea of writing a new setting of these words came into my mind, as if fully formed. The actual composition took me no more than one hour ... and immediately it felt *right*. Certainly it puts a smile on my face every time I hear it!.

Choral Choir,Choral - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1182872 By Stuart Richard Brown. By Stuart Richard Brown. Arranged by Stuart Richard Brown. Christian,Easter,Praise & Worship,Religious,Sacred. 1 pages. Stuart Brown Music #782621. Published by Stuart Brown Music (A0.1182872). The accompanying score and a choral bundle are also available from this website.The composer writes: 'On That Cross' is a powerful reflection on the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. I came up with the lyrics at around 3am in the morning of 3rd December 2014 sitting at a desk in room 703 of the De Syloia Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam. Often I find that my periods of working abroad give me the space to think of things in new ways. This song is a good example of that.One look at the first page of the score of 'On That Cross' is all you need to realize that this is not a case of a choir singing with a piano accompaniment. I put the piano part above the choir in order to dispel that misconception. So if it's not that, what is it? I wanted to demonstrate that it is possible to approach a subject from two completely different points of view, without either point of view being compromised by the other, and yet the result can nevertheless be a beautiful synergy. That is what the pianist and the choir are doing here. Each is meditating upon the cross of Christ, but from two totally unrelated points of view and yet somehow combining in a way that is almost hypnotically beautifully. There is little obvious relationship between the choir's and the piano's music; and yet each is reconciled to the other ... and there's a very good reason why I wanted the music to speak of such reconciliation.In late 2014 people in Iraq were being beheaded, crucified and generally killed in the most brutal and sadistic manner possible. Their only ‘crime’ was to dare to call themselves Christians. You can say what you like but in my book nobody has the right to tell anybody else what they should believe, much less murder them on religious grounds. The thing that incensed me almost to the point of incandescence was that the perpetrators of this unspeakable evil dared to justify their actions by claiming that they were acting on behalf of their god. So in such frame of mind I started to write the lyrics to 'On That Cross'.The first words that came into my mind were “Oh men who dare to call on gods to justify your hatred – of this be sure …� and I wanted to follow that with threats of eternal damnation, torture in hellfire and so on. Except that the words that flowed out of my fingers onto my computer screen were not like that at all. “Of this be sure – I love you still, my cross your salvation from all the sin of man.�It doesn’t get much more powerful than that. I may be incapable of loving the people of ISIS, ISIL, DAESH or whatever one calls them, but my God isn’t. He created them, he sent his Son to die for them … and he is even now ready to save them, as he is you and me. That’s grace.A small group of us sang this at a Good Friday united service in 2016. We sang it unannounced, at the end of the service, when one would have expected people to start getting up from their seats and leaving the church. Nobody did. Not one single person moved while we sang..

Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1273678 By Paul M Harvey and Stuart Brown. By Paul M Harvey. Arranged by Stuart Brown. Advent,Celtic,Christian,Christmas,Irish,Religious. Score. 16 pages. Stuart Brown Music #865822. Published by Stuart Brown Music (A0.1273678). A beautiful, lilting and easily singable song for Christmas, telling the Christmas story in a way that is both appealing and Bible-based. The sheet music here provides the piano accompaniment that forms that basis of the band arrangement featured in the mp3 and the video. The band arrangement is available separately as a backing track, in high-quality stereo mp3 format, item 865918.The singer, Paul M Harvey, and the arranger, Stuart Brown, have known one another for many years. They are both Christians and involved actively in Christian work. The instrumental backing is interesting in that it features an Irish Bodhrán drum and a Romanian concert grand cimbalom, emblematic of the relevance of the Gospel to people everywhere.

Choral 4-Part Chorus,Choir,Choral - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1468420 By Stuart Brown. By Stuart Brown. Arranged by Stuart Brown. 21st Century,Celtic,Christian,Irish,Multicultural,World. 18 pages. Stuart Brown Music #1046738. Published by Stuart Brown Music (A0.1468420). For an mp3 backing track, see item number 1046741.I wrote this for Trinity Evangelical Church in Larnaca, Cyprus. It's a multiethnic church, hence the mixture of Greek, African and western sounds for which I scored it. However I'm realistic enough to provide also a backing track. People who have heard this sung tell me it blesses them. I can't really comment but even as its composer I will admit that it has reduced me to tears at times. You will need four pretty special singers, but I leave that to you.

Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1468422 By Stuart Brown. By Stuart Brown. Arranged by Stuart Brown. 21st Century,Celtic,Christian,Irish,Multicultural,World. Accompaniment. Duration 218. Stuart Brown Music #1046741. Published by Stuart Brown Music (A0.1468422). For a vocal score, see item number 1046738.I wrote this for Trinity Evangelical Church in Larnaca, Cyprus. It's a multiethnic church, hence the mixture of Greek, African and western sounds for which I scored it. However I'm realistic enough to provide also this backing track and a reduced score mainly for the singers. People who have heard this sung tell me it blesses them. I can't really comment but even as its composer I will admit that it has reduced me to tears at times. You will need four pretty special singers, but I leave that to you.

By Stuart Brown. By Stuart Brown. Arranged by Stuart Brown. 21st Century, Advent, Christian, Christmas. Octavo. 8 pages. Stuart Brown Music #859177. Published by Stuart Brown Music

Choral Choir,Choral - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1182868 By Stuart Richard Brown. By Stuart Richard Brown. Arranged by Stuart Richard Brown. Christian,Easter,Praise and Worship,Religious,Sacred. 12 pages. Stuart Brown Music #782616. Published by Stuart Brown Music (A0.1182868). Re-published specially for Easter 2023, this is a profoundly beautiful piece for 6-part choir and piano. The composer writes:'On That Cross' is a powerful reflection on the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. I came up with the lyrics at around 3am in the morning of 3rd December 2014 sitting at a desk in room 703 of the De Syloia Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam. Often I find that my periods of working abroad give me the space to think of things in new ways. This song is a good example of that. One look at the first page of the score of 'On That Cross' is all you need to realize that this is not a case of a choir singing with a piano accompaniment. I put the piano part above the choir in order to dispel that misconception. So if it's not that, what is it? I wanted to demonstrate that it is possible to approach a subject from two completely different points of view, without either point of view being compromised by the other, and yet the result can nevertheless be a beautiful synergy. That is what the pianist and the choir are doing here. Each is meditating upon the cross of Christ, but from two totally unrelated points of view and yet somehow combining in a way that is almost hypnotically beautifully. There is little obvious relationship between the choir's and the piano's music; and yet each is reconciled to the other ... and there's a very good reason why I wanted the music to speak of such reconciliation.In late 2014 people in Iraq were being beheaded, crucified and generally killed in the most brutal and sadistic manner possible. Their only â??crimeâ?? was to dare to call themselves Christians. You can say what you like but in my book nobody has the right to tell anybody else what they should believe, much less murder them on religious grounds. The thing that incensed me almost to the point of incandescence was that the perpetrators of this unspeakable evil dared to justify their actions by claiming that they were acting on behalf of their god. So in such frame of mind I started to write the lyrics to 'On That Cross'.The first words that came into my mind were â??Oh men who dare to call on gods to justify your hatred â?? of this be sure â?¦â?� and I wanted to follow that with threats of eternal damnation, torture in hellfire and so on. Except that the words that flowed out of my fingers onto my computer screen were not like that at all. â??Of this be sure â?? I love you still, my cross your salvation from all the sin of man.â?�It doesnâ??t get much more powerful than that. I may be incapable of loving the people of ISIS, ISIL, DAESH or whatever one calls them, but my God isnâ??t. He created them, he sent his Son to die for them â?¦ and he is even now ready to save them, as he is you and me. Thatâ??s grace.A small group of us sang this at a Good Friday united service in 2016. We sang it unannounced, at the end of the service, when one would have expected people to start getting up from their seats and leaving the church. Nobody did. Not one single person moved while we sang..

Full Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.835443 Composed by Stuart Brown. Concert,Contemporary,Film/TV. Score and parts. 856 pages. Stuart Brown Music #1892609. Published by Stuart Brown Music (A0.835443). ** ADVISORY NOTE: This composition was written for a professional clarinettist, who has performed it twice (once in UK, once in Australia). As regards level of difficulty, it is on a par with Richard Strauss's oboe concerto, i.e. one of the most challenging solo works available for the instrument. Purchase only if you feel up to the challenge! ** Copyright © Stuart Brown, July 13th 2015, All rights reserved Performing rights apply (administered by PRS for Music in the UK and the USA) For a description of this work, please refer to A Himalaya Concerto (full score) (item number S0.103467, THIS MUST BE PURCHASED SEPARATELY. For a complete bundled product that gives you the maximum flexibility please refer to the composer's own website, search for Stuart Brown Music shop bundles.) This pack contains: 1 solo clarinet; 1 solo cimbalom; 1 piccolo; 3 flutes; 2 oboes; 1 cor anglais; 2 bassoons; 2 double bassoons; 4 horns; 2 trumpets; 2 tenor trombones; 2 bass trombones; 1 tuba; 1 timpani; 1 tubular bells; 16 first violins; 14 second violins; 12 violas; 10 cellos; 8 double basses.

Guitar,Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1294154 By Paul M Harvey / Stuart Brown. By Paul M Harvey / Stuart Brown. Arranged by Stuart Brown. Advent,Children,Christian,Christmas,Contemporary. Score. 8 pages. Stuart Brown Music #884578. Published by Stuart Brown Music (A0.1294154). A beautiful and catchy song, with Bible-based lyrics, which tells the story of the visit to Mary by the angel Gabriel and Mary's subsequent revelation to Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist. Although intended primarily for children in the age range 8 to 12, it works perfectly well also for older children and adults. An mp3 backing track is available also.