Like many of Davies?s smaller works, this is in a relatively lucid modal style, midway between the clarity of his carols and the complications of his symphonies: the opening is in a kind of B flat minor, and the close is triumphantly in G flat major. What happens in between -- always in 4/4 march time but usually with exuberant syncopations and cross-rhythms - is a sequence of transformations of the theme heard first from the second trumpet on the top line at the start; it will be heard again from the horn, and from the first trumpet in upward-moving inversion, with brilliant climaxes to punctuate. An ebullient piece, in a simplified yet still very distinctive harmonic and rhythmic style, and surely destined to make a rousing encore item.
Arranged for brass quintet.
Arranged for brass quintet.
March On The Pole Star [Davies, Peter Maxwell]
| Instrument | Brass Ensemble, Trombone, Trompet, Tuba, Valthorn |
| Genre (Fx Pop, Rock, Barn m.m.) | Post-1900 |
| Typ (fx Lärobok, samling m.m.) | Instrumental Arbete |
| Sidor | 24 |
| Media | Noter |
| Publisher/Producent | Chester Music |
| Bidragsgivare | Maxwell Davies, Peter (Artist) |
| Språk | Engelska |