SKU: A0.808686

    This is one of the most beautifully arranged short pieces in the Sweetwater Brass Press catalog.
   Jean-Paul-Égide Martini wrote Plaisir d'amour in 1784. He took the words from a poem that appears in Célestine, a short novel by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian. The poem begins, Plaisir d'amour ne dure qu'un moment (The pleasure of love lasts only a moment). Over the years, Martini’s melody has proved popular with other composers, including Hector Berlioz and Louis van Waefelghem. Two relatively recent songs that made use of the plaintiff refrain are the Christian hymn, My God Loves Me and the song Can't Help Falling in Love, which was performed by Elvis Presley in the film, Blue Hawaii.
   This arrangement is not technically difficult, but it does require discipline and interpretation. As in the original, there are two key changes, F to A-flat and then back to F.  The time signature has been changed from Martini’s 6/8 to ¾ but retains all relative note values. Trumpet 1 plays the melody with occasional harmony from Trumpet 2. Horn in F provides arpeggio accompaniment throughout most of the song, with some help from Tuba and Trombone. With respect to high and low notes: Trumpet 1 has one A5 grace note (to a G5 quarter note); Trumpet 2 has three above-staff quarter notes in a row, A5, B5 and A5; Trombone has one F4; and Tuba has a number of F1 notes and one section of octave jumps involving F2 to F3 and A2 to A3.
   This arrangement was completed in 2018, and performance time runs about 3 minutes, 51 seconds. The arranger, Les Smith, would be very interested in your comments; contact him at lessmith@ufl.edu or leave a review on the SheetMusicPlus website. For more arrangements by Les, enter Sweetwater Brass Press (without the quotation marks) in the SheetMusicPlus search box.

SKU: A0.932244

Bach's Toccata, from Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, is arranged as a French Horn Duet, by a horn player for horn players.  At tempo, the 1st horn part is probably a level 5; the 2nd horn part about a 3+.

SKU: A0.954885

Marche Funebre d'un Marionette (Funeral March of a Marionette) was originally written for solo piano in 1872 and orchestrated in 1879, and is perhaps best known as the theme music for the television program Alfred Hitchcock Presents. This would be a welcome addition to add to a Hallowe'en program or any concert of a popular nature. If time is short many of the repeated sections can be played once only. .

SKU: A0.805282

Arr. for Brass Quartet.