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Title	The Land of the Long White Cloud 'Aotearoa', The
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Contemporary Wind Music (1945-present)
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Format	PrtStm (full score and parts)
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Price	129.50 EUR (incl. 10 % Austrian VAT)
Composer	Sparke, Philip
Difficulty level	5
Evaluation level of countries	C4 (Swiss 1st class)
Duration	12:00
Additional info/contents	Dating from 1979, "The Land of the Long White Cloud (Aotearoa") was Philip Sparke’s first test-piece. It was commissioned by the New Zealand Brass Band Association for their 1980 National Championships (their centenary year) and set for the European Brass Band Championships, the same year, at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Aotearoa was the name given to New Zealand by its Polynesian settlers whose first sight of the islands was a long, flat cloud lying low over the land. The work has no specific programme although many have seen pictures of the surging ocean in the opening bars. A faster dance-like section leads to a slow, haunting solo for soprano cornet; this is taken up by the whole band before earlier material returns. The dance-like tune is, this time, given a fugal treatment and the opening bars return to close the work. Prt PicFlt Flt 1,2 Ob 1,2 Fag 1,2 EsClr Clr 1,2,3 AClr BClr ASax 1,2 TSax BSax Cnt 1,2,3 Trp 1,2 Hrn in F 1,2,3,4 Trb in C 1,2,3 Euph in C Tub in C KB Tmp Mlt: -Xyl -Glsp Perc: -BD -SD -Wispi -MCym -SuCym -TDr
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	Format	EUR
	The Land of the Long White Cloud 'Aotearoa', The (concert/wind band), full score and parts	129.50
	The Land of the Long White Cloud 'Aotearoa' (concert/wind band), full score	39.90

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