Sea Drift for Brass Octet (arr. Richard Decker) by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Sheet Music for Brass Ensemble at Sheet Music Direct
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Sea Drift for Brass Octet (arr. Richard Decker) Digital Sheet Music
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Sea Drift for Brass Octet (arr. Richard Decker)
by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Brass Ensemble - Digital Sheet Music

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This brass octet arrangement of Coleridge-Taylor's "Sea Drif" captures the subtle textures of the composers chromatic harmonies inspired in his original vocal octet setting of a poem by T. B. Aldrich
. Born of an African father, Coleridge-Taylor was an early 20th century English composer and conductor who was an influential advocate for Black composers. Sea Drift is infused with descriptive tone-color painting highlighting the tragic story of the merchant sailor who perishes in a stormy sea to the despair of his lover onshore. The arrangement is scored for eight brass with alternate parts - three B-flat trumpets with alternate C trumpet parts , two horns with alternate flugelhorn parts, two trombones with an alternate horn part for trombone 1, and tuba. The recording is of the entire edition.

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