SKU: A0.922191

INTRADA for Brass Quintet.  A short, exciting and sprightly short Intrada, useful for recital and service postludes. Traditional, accessible harmonies.

SKU: A0.806814

PIETA, SIGNORE (Lord, Hear My Cry) for BRASS QUINTET (unaccompanied)
154 measures.  Performance Time approx 5:45.  Medium Difficult (Gr 4-). Key: D minor.  Meter: 3/4.
Instrument Ranges (C4=middle C):
Trumpet 1 E4 - B5 (written).   Trumpet 2 C4 - G5 (written).   Horn in F B3 - D5 (written).
Trombone A2 - G4.   Tuba C2 - G3.

SKU: A0.1126746

Christmas in the European Tradition is a collection of 12 carols arranged for Brass Quintet by Ran Whitley. These gorgeous settings contain a wonderful range of colors and emotions: joyful, bright, serious, religious, touching, wondrous, angelic and much more. These are traditional carols sung in England, France, Germany, Poland, Austria and Ireland. Below is a list of the 12 carols which are appropriate for advanced intermediate to moderately advanced performers. This collection contains almost 30 minutes of music. O SING A SONG OF BETHLEHEM • LET ALL MORTAL FLESH KEEP SILENCE • OH, COME, LITTLE CHILDREN • HOW GREAT OUR JOY • CHILD IN A MANGER • SING HOSANNAS! • INFANT HOLY, INFANT LOWLY • HE IS BORN • SING WE NOW OF CHRISTMAS • BREAK FORTH, O BEAUTEOUS HEAVENLY LIGHT • STILL, STILL, STILL • GOOD KING WENCESLAS.

SKU: A0.1495808

BANKS AND BRAES (O' BONNY DOON). AKA and see “Bonnie Doon,” Lost is My Quiet, Caledonian Hunt's Delight (The), Ye Banks and Braes. Scottish, Air and Waltz (6/8 or 3/4 time). The antiquarian William Chappell claims the tune is English on the strength of its being included in a Collection of English Songs by Dale (who published about 1780-1794) under the title Lost is my quiet. However, the collector John Glen (1891) relates a delightful story of the tune's origins involving the famous Scots poet, Robert Burns (1759-1796), who wrote to publisher George Thomson in 1794:

Do you known the history of the air? It is curious enough. A good many years ago, Mr. James Miller, writer in your good own (Edinburgh), a gentleman whom, possibly, you know, was in company with our good friend Clarke; and taling of Scottish music, Miller expressed an ardent ambition to be able to compose a Scots air. Mr. Clarke, partly by way of a joke, told him to keep to the black keys of the harpsichord, and preserve some kind of rhythm, and he would infallibly compose a Scots air. Certain it is, that, in a few days, Mr. Miller produced the rudiments of an air which Mr. Clarke, with some touches and corrections, fashioned into the tune in question. Ritson, you know, has the same story of the black keys; but this account which I have just given you, Mr. Clarke informed me of several years ago.
Miller's tune was first published under the title Caledonian Hunt's Delight (The) in Gow's 2nd Collection (1788), but Glen concludes that it is more likely that Lost is my quiet is a poor adaptation and nothing else. He also notes there is a tune having a supposed resemblance in Playford's Appollo's Banquet (1690) entitled Scotch Tune (A) (No. 68), but in the end he believes that neither Chappell's arguments nor facts are strong enough to deprive Mr. Miller of his claim. The Caledonian Hunt's Delight appears also in George Thomson's A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs for the Voice (Edinburgh, 1793-1797), arranged by Kozeluch. A rondo on the air was composed by Domenico Corri (1746-1825) under the title Favourite Irish Air (which, of course, it is not).

SKU: A0.1463068