Dieu et Mon Droit (God and My Right) is a concert opener written to honour the passing of Queen Elizabeth II and the coronation of the new regent, King Charles III.
The title is the motto of the British monarchy, appearing on the Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom.
The French saying implies that the monarch has a divine right to rule over the United Kingdom.
The piece opens with a triumphant fanfare. After a short transition, the music becomes more solemn and melodic in style with sudden bursts of energy. In order to represent the challenges faced by the British monarchy, the piece gradually builds to a victorious style and then becomes playful with a growing dark undertone, once again with sudden bursts of energy.
The heroic motif returns, building to an anticlimax, before drastically changing style to a light repeated ostinato with elements of the opening motifs returning.
This ostinato builds to the grand moment of the piece; the culmination of both the energetic bursts and solemn melodic lines, in a much more joyous and ferocious manner. After a final resurgence of the heroic motif across the ensemble, the piece concludes with the energetic motif, signalling new beginnings with the upcoming coronation.

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Daniel Hall is a British multi award-winning composer & arranger whose works have been performed by some of the country’s leading ensembles, including the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, A4 Brass Quartet, Tredegar Town Band, Orchestra of Opera North and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.
His music has been performed and recorded internationally by soloists and ensembles such as: Lode Violet & Brass Band Willebroek (BEL), Brass Band Öberösterreich (AUT), Fabian Bloch & Liberty Brass Band (CHE), Atlantic Brass Band (USA), Brass Band Treize Etoiles (CHE), Gilles Rocha & the European Youth Brass Band, as well as many more.
Daniel graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama with First Class Honours in Contemporary Composition. Whilst studying, Daniel wrote “Smoke Sketches” and “Sanctuary!”, the set test for the National Youth Brass Band Championships of Great Britain and European Youth Brass Band Championships respectively. In 2019, Daniel won the seventh European Composers Competition in Montreux, Switzerland, for his brass band composition “A Dialogue of Transmogrified Souls…”.  He was asked to compose two fanfares for RWCMD. The first was in honour of the college’s principal, Dame Hilary Boulding, and the second for the college’s president, King Charles III, to mark his 70th birthday, which Daniel conducted. 
Recently, Daniel worked with Brass Band Treize Etoiles (CHE) on a new major composition for the 2021 Swiss Nationals, “Gl!tch”, premiered in the Auditorium Stravinski on his 25th Birthday. In 2022, Daniel worked with Stavanger Brass Band in order to create their entire twenty five minute set, “United We Stand, Divided We Fall”, for which the ensemble was awarded second place at SIDDIS Brass Band Entertainment Contest.

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