NOMU – the Nordic Orchestra Music Union – presents Nordic wind band repertoire
every month. We invite conductors to discover new Nordic music, showcase our composers, and inspire the continued creation of repertoire across the region. This spring, we will share exciting suggestions to bring fresh sounds and new ideas to bands everywhere – and ensure Nordic music gets the spotlight it deserves.

This time, the focus is on Norway. Explore fresh and inspiring Norwegian works
— and discover new pieces for your ensemble’s repertoire.

GRADE 1
Easy Peasy Suite, Hilde Høyvik Dahl
Durata: 6:00 – 6:30
Easy Peasy Suite – CB
Easy Peasy Suite – BB
This suite is written for beginning band at grade level 1. It consists of five short movements of
various style. You may perform the movements as single pieces. The composition consist basically of three voices to make it playable also for smaller ensembles.
Viking-Suite, Roar Minde Fagerli
Durata: 7:30 –8:00
Viking-Suite – CB
Viking-Suite – BB
«Viking-Suite» is a four movement suite of music originally composed for a summer course arranged by The Norwegian Band Federation. The composer has been inspired by Viking TV-series and films. The music is written especially for beginners.

GRADE 2
Spania, trad. Reid GIlje
Spania – CB
Spania – BB
A great chance for new beginners to perform with the band after just a few weeks of training.
This boosts motivation and encourages cooperation between the beginner group and the main (or junior) band. The simple tune uses only C–D–E, common in many training systems. The piece starts with a side theme, then the Bb instruments play the melody, followed by modulation so the Eb-instruments can repeat it (reinforced if needed).
At the end, the Eb group may rejoin on whole notes.

Read more – see more works in grade 3, 4, 5 and 6:

GRADE 3
Some kind of Deja Vu, Fredick Schjelderup
Durata 6:30-7:00
Some kind of Deja Vu – CB
”Some kind of Déjà Vu” is a continuation of the piece ”Time for Celebration”, written for Søreide & Sandsli Skolekorps’s (SSS) Junior Band in 2015. The theme and motif is based on the band’s initials ”SSS”, three similar tones (translated to the sheet music). The motif is played either separately as a signal, or as the beginning of the main melody. The title refers to the term ’Déjà Vu’, which is a feeling of having experienced something in the past (which one actually experiences for the first time). In this case, it’s the musical and thematic reference to ”Time for Celebration” that appears as the ”Déjà Vu” experience.

GRADE 4
Marsj etter Erling Kjøk, Svein H. Giske
Durata: 4.00.4.30
Marsj etter Erling Kjøk – CB
Erling Kjøk (1913-1999) was a Norwegian fidller and a strong representative of the folk music from Nord-Gudbrandsdal. This arrangement was a commission from The Staff Band of the Norwegian Armed Forces for the Norwegian Military Tatoo.

It is partially inspired by a recording by the folk music group Kvarts.

GRADE 5
Sollicitus – CB5, Fredrick Schjelderup
Durata 10.00-10.30
Sollicitus – CB5
The latin title «Sollicitus» means upset or uneasy is important in terms of the character and form of the work. The work contains several different parts, all of them based around a fanfare-like theme which is presented several times. This theme change it?s character, form, tonality,
rhytmic and tension throughout the piece which triggers the turbulence of the music. «Sollicitus» is a commission for Midtun Skoles Musikkorps and their conductor Christian Breistein for their participation in the Norwegian Championships for School Bands in 2017.

GRADE 6
Goldberg 2012 – Wind Band, Svein H. Giske
Durata: 15.00 – 20.00
Goldberg 2012 – CB
The Piece was comissioned by The Norwegian Band Federation in 2012 for the National Brass
Band Championships. It was later made for Wind  Orchestras. Both Bach’s composition and Glenn Gould’s famous 1955 recording still makes a great impression on Giske.
Before Gould recorded it at age 22, it wasn’t a highly ranked piece amongst pianists and Bach
was by many viewed as a bit old-fashioned. Theyoung Glenn Gould from Canada turned all this
around. He managed to portray Bach in a reformed way, producing fine nuances in phrasing
and making the many layers in Bach’s music more transparent than anyone before him. Thus
he plunged both himself and Bach (back) onto the international music scene.

In Goldberg 2012, the music is often constructed by several layers, which in a
way are living parallel musical lives. They are seemingly moving or floating freely, almost
unaware of each other, but bound together by the same basic pulse.

The rythms, however, are often notated on a different rythmic subdivision level than the
usual 8th- or 16th note levels. In large sections of the piece, pop/jazz is fusioned with elements
from Bach. The foundation of the piece, in addition to Bach and references from pop/jazz
music, lies also in the composition og Giske. This material, basically two chords, is heard in
it’s purest form in the 1st movement.

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Text: Rune Hannisdal (NO)

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