Philip Sparke
Watch Your Step!
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Philip Sparke
Watch Your Step!
- Instrumentation Concert Band
- Composer Philip Sparke
- Series Ceremonial Series
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- Edition Score
- Publisher Anglo Music
- Order no. DH-AMP462-140
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Description:
Watch Your Step! was commissioned by Stadtmusik Biel from Switzerland and is dedicated to the mayor of Biel/Bienne, Erich Fehr. The title was chosen to represent Biel as the watch-making capital of Switzerland. Watch Your Step! is one part of a series of 'up tempo' Sparke marches such as Slipstream, The Bandwagon and Jubiloso. After a bright opening, a syncopated first theme is played, firstly by clarinets and saxophones, and then by the full band. A 'bass strain' is followed by a contrasting second subject, which is played twice. The bass melody returns to herald a truncated version of the main theme, before the opening fanfarereappears as a coda.