Bravo Music Explained

Bravo Music
Industry:Music & Entertainment
Genre:Classical
Foundation:Florida, United States
Founder:Ken Murakami
Location City:Florida
Location Country:United States
Area Served:Americas, Europe, Africa and Oceania
Products:Sheet music, CD, DVD, Video, band training methods
Parent:Brain Music

Bravo Music is a concert band music publishing company, founded in 1999. Located in Deerfield Beach, Florida, it is a subsidiary of Hiroshima-based Brain Music. It is one of the few companies to offer original Japanese sheet music and recordings to America and Europe.[1]

Profile

Bravo Music is a music sales and distribution company. Brain Music, and its parent company and principal is Brain Music of Hiroshima. Bravo is involved in the sale of sheet music, CD, DVDs, the majority of which are produced in Japan. It has a large range of recordings from the All Japan Band Competition, the "world's largest music contest",[2] which represents 14,000 bands from all age levels. It also offers original works and transcriptions for wind ensembles by Japanese and international composers, such as Yasuhide Ito, Satoshi Yagisawa,[3] Toshio Mashima, Yo Goto, James Barnes, Wataru Hokoyama and Tetsunosuke Kushida.Bravo Music's sales territories include all of the North, Central and South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania and the Middle East.

History

Bravo's parent company, Brain Music, was founded in 1976 in Hiroshima, Japan. Brain is a recording/publishing company specializing in wind, classical, traditional and vocal music. Brain also cooperates with the All-Japan Band Association and other organizations to record and sell products related to their annual national band contests.Bravo was formed in 1999 as the distributor for Brain DVDs, CDs, and sheet music in addition to their own products. Their product range has increased over time, to just under 1,500 titles as of January 2013.

Titles

Instructional and Training DVDs:

Performance DVDs:

Reference CDs:

Original Works:

Arrangements/Transcriptions:

Anime Film Score Series:

Popstage:

Concert Marches:

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Article on Japanese wind music. 2012 . 17 January 2013.
  2. Hebert, D. G. (2008). Alchemy of Brass: Spirituality and Wind Music in Japan. In E. M. Richards & K. Tanosaki (Eds.), Music of Japan Today. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.236-244.
  3. Web site: Satoshi Yagisawa Homepage. 2009 . 17 January 2013.

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