An arrangement of the Basque Local Anthem for Brass Quintet & optional Percussion.
The anthem lyrics were written by Sabino de Arana y Goiri while he
was in prison (May-November 1902). The text was created to be sung with
the music of the old dance ezpata-dantza (dance of spades). A few years
later, the Basque musician Cleto Zabala arranged the music. In 1905 the
Basque National Party declared the anthem as the Basque National Anthem.
The first Basque Government created during the Spanish war (1936-1939)
approved it officialy as Anthem (music and lyrics).
After 1939 with the fascist dictatorship in Spain the anthem was
forbidden. In 1983, several years after the end of dictatorship and when
the Basque Autonomy was re-established, the Basque Parliament approved
the anthem, but only the music without the lyrics so the anthem would
not be seen as tied to one particular political party or overly
religious in nature.
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If you perform this arrangement in public, make a recording or broadcast
it through any media, please notify the PRS (UK), or ASCAP
(USA), or SOCAN (Canada), or APRA (Australia) or KODA (Denmark) or the
equivalent organisation in your own country, giving the name of the
arranger as Keith Terrett.