SKU: A0.933835

Be Proud of Yourself!

This is a short and single movement piece for trombone with an accompaniment of the piano to have fun! According to the music grading chart by the American Band College, this piece can be placed between the performing levels grade 1 and grade 2 or also it can be cataloged as an early-intermediate level for those young musicians that are taking their first steps to play solo music.

SKU: A0.717480

This Little Light of Mine for Trombone in C (bass clef) and Piano

This is an upbeat gospel tune will be fun to play for younger players.

Solo and piano part included.

SKU: A0.717479

This Little Light of Mine for Trombone in Bb (treble clef) and Piano

This is an upbeat gospel tune will be fun to play for younger players.

Solo and piano part included.

SKU: A0.1157511

Mark Sweeney has arranged Three Romantic Lieder for Trombone and Piano from the pens of Schubert, Schumann and Wolf. These three songs are the epitome of expression and are suitable for even younger performers with good coaching as they are all in bass clef, but will be most appropriate for mature performers who can bring out all the details of the deep wells of expression imbedded in these Three Lieder. Schubert - Nur wer die Sehnsuckt kennt Schumann - Im wunderschonen Monat Mai from Dichterliebe Wolf - Auch kleine Dinge from Italienischesliederbuch.

SKU: A0.1268304

From the Japanese Television Series, Naruto - this beautiful melody has been arranged with piano accompaniment in an easy to perform key (c minor). Suitable to play by younger musicians this solo compliments Michael Brown’s Concert Band Arrangement of the same title.  Students will love developing breath control, phrasing and tone quality while learning to play this popular song.

SKU: A0.1362757

Niels-Ole Bo Johansen has recently discovered a hidden treasure of relatively unknown and forgotten works of Danish origin for the Trombone from the early 20th Century. This series of music will be subtitled The Danish Trombone Heritage and will be published by Cherry Classics over the next while. Below is Niels' description of Romance, Op. 13 by Joachim Bruun de Neergaard composed in 1915.

Anton Hansen's (father of the Danish School for Trombone) first meeting with Joachim Bruun de Neergaard (1877-1929) was rather a disastrous one. Hansen an extraordinary Trombonist, also a very fine pianist, was hired to play at a dinner dance at Skjoldnæsholm manor. A young man insisted on playing along with the tunes Hansen performed - on a terribly out -of-tune ocarina. Hansen writes in his memoirs that his first thought was that the young man was slightly retarded. As it turned out, he was the son of the family living in the manor, which made the situation even more awkward. That young man, Joachim Bruun de Neergaard was not the slightest bit retarded. He was on the contrary highly intelligent and managed, in addition to his composition studies, to attain a degree in law with the highest honors.

The Romance for Trombone and Orchestra, here in the version for Trombone and Piano, reveals a composer with a very fine sense of the trombone’s singing qualities.

This work is perfect for advanced intermediate performers and is almost 7 minutes in length.

Trombone soloist Johansen and his collaborator, Pianist Erik Kaltoft beautiifully perform Romance on their 2018 album The French Connection. Below is a sample of the work (available on Apple Music and as a CD).

SKU: A0.935489

First Concert Solos for the Young Player. It is easy and more enjoyable to focus on this piece of music that you can play with imagination. What advice would I give young musicians, so they will always love playing music:
1.Always try to play with ease,
2.Release any and all tension,
3.Your music will flow if your body feels free,
4.Think about breathing, and use the least amount of effort to execute a phrase,
5.Learning a musical instrument enhances these skills and uses your head, as well as your heart,
6.Making music will always enrich everything you do in life.

SKU: A0.935494

First Concert Solos for the Young Player. It is easy and more enjoyable to focus on this piece of music that you can play with imagination. What advice would I give young musicians, so they will always love playing music:
1.Always try to play with ease;
2.Release any and all tension;
3.Your music will flow if your body feels free;
4.Think about breathing, and use the least amount of effort to execute a phrase;
5.Learning a musical instrument enhances these skills and uses your head, as well as your heart;
6.Making music will always enrich everything you do in life.

SKU: A0.1118317

Scott Joplin is celebrated as the United States’ first well-known black composer, making his name as a writer of piano rags. His life was a constant struggle with adversity, and Joplin died relatively young in 1917, at the dawn of the recording age. Few remembered Joplin’s music until a revival in the 1970s brought The Entertainer and others to the world’s attention. Nowadays Scott Joplin has taken his rightful place in the gallery of great American composers.

The Rags included in this collection are, The Entertainer, The Maple Leaf Rag, The Easy Winners, The Elite Syncopations and The Favorite.

They have been arranged as solos for one Trombone with piano accompaniment, and include all sections of the original compositions. You will download one pdf file that contains both 22 pages of piano score and the 10 page solo part. These pieces are suitable for players at an intermediate and advanced intermediate level. Musicians will find these Ragtime solos ideal for formal and informal performances, light and fun, yet still a serious and vitally important part of the American musical heritage. The overall performance time for all five is around 25 minutes.

Teachers will enjoy using these arrangements as a fun way to help with phrasing, syncopated rhythms and light articulation. 

Click on the YouTube link to see and hear samples from the collection. There are many more top quality arrangements and compositions by David McKeown for you to browse at http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/david-mckeown/6203