“What can I say? I was born and grew up in West Yorkshire”
Frances Gill.
Writing for brass instruments
2016 | West Yorkshire Moorland (for Brass Band)
– experimental composition, realised in performance by Hade Edge Band, Hade Edge, Holmfirth (UK), 17th November 2016. A production called Soundmound: West Yorkshire Moorland (in B flat), from a recording of the performance, features on the digital album Sandby Borg (‘Frances Flute the Bellows Mender’).
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2003 | Ramdala (for traditional Brass Band, and Ghanaian dondo, kpanlogo, and brekete drums) SCORE, and PARTS AVAILABLE
– a composition inspired by an African drumming piece called Bintim, for an African-Western collaboration drawing together two musically-stylistic idioms in one piece with the idea being that the brass players are primarily accompanying the drummers (not the other way round). The piece was first performed by Aklowa’s Ghanaian drummers, and the English brass instrumentalists of Meltham and Meltham Mills Brass Band, in a recording at Takeley Primary School (Essex, UK), 5th - 6th July 2003, for the music album Kpoo Keke Come Let Us Unite, produced by Chris Bullen, High Barn Records (UK).
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1988 - 1989 | Trombone written for Sweet Lovelies (scored for 5 altos, piano, trombone, and two clarinets) PART AVAILABLE
– Sweet Lovelies is one of Fran’s songs.
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1985 - 1986 | Trombone written for: - Eustacia (scored for tenor voice, piano, and trombone); PART AVAIALABLE
– Eustacia is one of three songs in a series by Fran with When I woke up and Sometimes.
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