Brass Ensemble - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.977901 Composed by Bill Anderton. 20th Century,Concert,Contemporary,World. Score and parts. 15 pages. Bill Anderton Music #4810657. Published by Bill Anderton Music (A0.977901). This atmospheric piece, The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls is inspired by a poem by Longfellow. It is one of a series of bagatelles for brass quintet, Whispers of the Garden. Additional parts have been included for transposing instruments: baritone, trombone, bass and tuba. Length, approximately five minutes.

Brass Ensemble - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.755300 By Man Of La Mancha. By Joe Darion and Mitch Leigh. Arranged by Sy Brandon. Contemporary. Score and parts. 19 pages. Sy Brandon #6213993. Published by Sy Brandon (A0.755300). This arrangement has solos for each instrument.

Composed by Lewis Edson. Arranged by Dana F. Everson. Traditional. Sacred instrumental music. Score and parts. Composed 2016. 15 pages. Duration 2 minutes, 15 seconds. Published by David E. Smith (DX.145925). - score and parts - Sacred instrumental music - David E. Smith

Brass Ensemble - Digital Download SKU: A0.1028133 Composed by Arwyn Bailey. Christian,Gospel,Jewish,Sacred,Spiritual. Score and parts. 113 pages. Galactic Publishers Limited #3382201. Published by Galactic Publishers Limited (A0.1028133). Hope PrevailsThe composition consists of six movements and is for a Brass Quintet with guest instrumentalists of Oboe, Violin, Viola and Soprano voice.The piece explores the moods that many encounter as they go through life from loneliness through to elation. the composers brother experienced these extreme emotions and it resulted in him taking his own life. This piece is dedicated to his memory.The MP3 contains a very short extract from each movement that is a direct download from computer composition software and is therefore not of great quality.The composer is looking for a group to record this piece. Please get in touch if you wish to be part fo a collaborative project perhaps as a school, college, university or other group.The Struggle of the night - 4:09 in length:The first movement commences with sonorous chord sequences and quickly moves to a lively section. The piece incorporates the tune of the Welsh National Anthem along with the hymn tune Cwm Rhondda. The movement moves between the despair and loneliness of the night that one can feel, even when sleeping next to a close partner, and the racing desperation of the mind, whereby patriotic affiliations will calm the soul at these times.  the movement finishes with the tune of Land of my father's resonating but even this is of no comfort, and the troubled mind lies awake and the movement finishes with a flurry of discord.The Solitude - 5.34 in length:The movement begins with a haunting melody led by the Oboe. the Horn soon joins in as do other instruments of the quintet. A simple Gregorian type rhythm and chant passes through the quintet with the Oboe leading the movement.Crescendos and attacked notes give the piece a rise and fall showing the mood of the soul that alternates between a calm and a peak of mood as sleep is hard to come by and a restless state is invoked.It appears that the oboe will be leading the soul into peace yet, at the last moment, the quintet joins in with chords of attack and crescendo followed by a sharp diminuendo to end the piece.The soul has sought solace, yet, all they find is loneliness.Brad's Broadcast - 3:01 in length:The restless soul awakes after a restless night.  The world is full of voices, advice, motivation and answers.In this lively movement, the soul searches for solace and finds sense from some sources, yet, the cacophony of contrary advice and the nature of some disciples of business and life coaches becomes confusing. there are some real gems of advice available, but, the noise of others drowns out the sense and sanity.The soul manages to find some humour in the forums and media, they smile, but the relief is short lived.The movement ends with all voices descending away in a glissando and silence is restored.By His Own Hand - 4:26 in length:This movement reflects the desperation of the soul. they have sought solace, humour has passed them by, they do not feel that they can continue to live.The piece starts with a cadenza played by a viola.  A violin soon duets in this Jewish styled lament.Throughout the movement the brass are spartan, reflecting the confusion of the soul. The ability to cling onto the world and to continue living is a losing battle.The waves of the lament increase in their presence, but not velocity, for the depressed souul is reaching the point of no return and of no choice.They will soon depart from the world by their own hand. The end ofthe movement is a descent and a unifying discordant sound as the soul leaves.Dreaming of Heaven - 2:31 in length:The soul is now rising and an ancient Celtic tune accompanies the soul in the form of a Soprano voice singing words of hope and light.The soul's path is lit and the ancient bell of.

Brass Ensemble - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.933756 Composed by Shawn Gurk. Contemporary,Standards. Score and parts. 10 pages. Shawn Gurk #4414691. Published by Shawn Gurk (A0.933756). Pronounced, Cheen-kway (which means Five in Italian), this piece contains light, yet deep melodic lines and enjoyable surprises in tonality. Cinque provides important parts for every instrument that makes a young ensemble sound mature. It requires each player to perform in multiple styles and and gain experience in a key that looks more difficult than it is.

Brass Ensemble - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.792628 Composed by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky. Arranged by Elliot Chasanov. 20th Century,Concert,Romantic Period,World. Score and parts. 42 pages. Gordon Cherry #5041001. Published by Gordon Cherry (A0.792628). Mussorgsky’s iconic tone poem Night on Bald Mountain, completed by Rimsky-Korsakov, inspired by Russian folk literature and legend, conjures up spirits, witches, demons and monsters, but concludes with a happy sunrise ending. The composition was immortalized by Leopold Stokowski’s arrangement of it in the 1940 Walt Disney film Fantasia. Elliot Chasanov has deftly scored the work for 9-part Brass Ensemble in an 8-minute arrangement for advanced performers. Instrumentation is for: Piccolo Trumpet in B-flat 2 Trumpets in B-flat Horn 3 Trombones Euphonium and Tuba

Brass Ensemble - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.808709 By Eldridge/Gillespie. By Leo Mosley, Mary Lou Williams, William Luther Johnson, and William Willie Johnson. Arranged by F. Leslie Smith. Contemporary. Score and parts. 28 pages. Sweetwater Brass Press #6433397. Published by Sweetwater Brass Press (A0.808709).     Mary Lou Williams learned to play piano on her own at age 3. By age 6 she was playing piano to help support her large family. At age 15, she turned professional, and by the time she was 20, she had made a name for herself nationally not only as a jazz musician but also as an arranger and composer. In 1943, she wrote a piece titled Satchel Mouth Baby, which she recorded the next year with her group, Mary Lou and her Chosen Five. Three years later, Bill Johnson and His Musical Notes recorded Williams’ song after he and Leo Snub Mosley had worked on the lyrics and changed the title to Pretty Eyed Baby. Others would go on to record Pretty Eyed Baby, among them: Frankie Laine and Jo Stafford, Jane Turzy, Johnnie Ray, Peggy Lee and Roy Eldridge.    This arrangement skips along at about 120 bpm. It contains common swing rhythmic figures, and all notes are well within the normal playing range of most brass musicians. Horn in F and Trombone carry the melodic load, but all instruments get a turn at playing lead. This is a fun piece, so don’t be surprised if your audience starts clapping along while you’re playing.    Completed in 2021, performance time for Pretty Eyed Baby runs about 3 minutes,9 seconds. The arranger, Les Smith, will be happy to provide substitute parts (for example, treble clef baritone for trombone) at no charge; contact him directly at lessmith61@bellsouth.net. For more arrangements by Les, enter Sweetwater Brass Press (without the quotation marks) in the SheetMusicPlus search box.

Brass Ensemble - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.808706 Composed by Fred Fisher. Arranged by F. Leslie Smith. Folk,Holiday,Jazz,Patriotic,Traditional. Score and parts. 40 pages. Sweetwater Brass Press #6215233. Published by Sweetwater Brass Press (A0.808706).      Orville and Wilbur Wright made their famous flight in late 1903; this song was published seven years later: Fred Fisher’s music with Alfred Bryan’s lyrics. The words form a narrative of a young man attempting to get his girlfriend to go up with him in his flying machine. And, that would take much more daring on her part than one might realize today. The year 1910 was still early days for aviation; most airplanes were still made of wood, wire and fabric and looked liked giant gliders. Supposedly, the Josephine of the song was Josephine Sarah Magner, reputed to be America’s first female parachutist. Magner married Leslie Burt Haddock, whose aviation career started in balloons, and made her first jump in 1905. During the next dozen years, she made more than 500 jumps. Pretty daring!     This arrangement is quirky and an absolute delight to play (and to listen to)! The first half is set in the song’s native ¾ time. The takeoff is the introduction, followed by the chorus, then the verse and again the chorus as the melody loops, rolls and spins through the five instruments. A middle section briefly quotes two other aerialist tunes-He flies through the air with the greatest of ease and Up in the air Junior Birdmen-and serves as a transition to cut time. A swing version of the chorus brings us in for a landing and final fade.     The arrangement begins in the key of C major and changes to G major during the transitional section. Suggested tempo is 76 bpm throughout. The arrangement comprises 202 measures: Horn in F plays the most notes, followed by Trombone and Tuba, while Trumpets get off relatively lightly. All notes are well within the normal playing range of the instruments; Trumpet 1 does, however, play A above its staff several times.     Completed in 2021, performance time for Come, Josephine in My Flying Machine runs about 3 minutes, 45 seconds. The arranger, Les Smith, will be happy to provide substitute parts (for example, treble clef baritone for trombone) at no charge; contact him directly at lessmith61@bellsouth.net. For more arrangements by Les, enter Sweetwater Brass Press (without the quotation marks) in the search box. (Also, purchase of this piece entitles you to your choice of another of his arrangements at no charge; send a copy of your purchase receipt directly to him at lessmith61@bellsouth.net.)

Brass Ensemble - Digital Download SKU: A0.1147708 Composed by Wenzel Lambel. Arranged by Paul Kajzar. Romantic Period. Score and parts. 5 pages. Paul Kajzar, Gyllcott Music #747926. Published by Paul Kajzar, Gyllcott Music (A0.1147708). An arrangement for three horns in F of one of the many equali (equal instruments) that Austrian composer, Wenzel Lambel, wrote for three trombones. It is similar in style to those composed by Beethoven and Bruckner. The set comprises full score and parts, including treble and bass clef parts for horn 3. Difficulty level : Intermediate.

Brass Ensemble - Digital Download SKU: A0.1146480 Composed by Anton Bruckner. Arranged by Paul Kajzar. Romantic Period. Score and parts. 5 pages. Paul Kajzar, Gyllcott Music #746535. Published by Paul Kajzar, Gyllcott Music (A0.1146480). An arrangement for three horns in F of the first of a pair of equali (equal instruments) that Bruckner composed in 1847, originally for three trombones. It follows the model established by Beethoven and Wenzel Lambel in their works of similar name and form. This Aequale has strong harmonies and dramatic moments. The set comprises full score and parts, including treble and bass clef parts for horn 3. Difficulty level : Intermediate.

Brass Ensemble - Digital Download SKU: A0.1169448 Composed by Ignaz von Seyfried. Arranged by Paul Kajzar. Classical,Romantic Period. Score and parts. 5 pages. Paul Kajzar, Gyllcott Music #769805. Published by Paul Kajzar, Gyllcott Music (A0.1169448). An arrangement for three horns in F of an equale (equal instruments) composed by Ignaz von Seyfried (1776-1841), originally for three trombones. It follows the model established by Beethoven, Bruckner and Wenzel Lambel in their works of similar name and form. The set comprises full score and parts, including treble and bass clef parts for horn 3. Difficulty level : Intermediate.

Brass Ensemble - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.924442 By Ray Charles. By Hoagy Carmichael. Arranged by Joseph M. Chopp. R & B,Soul. Score and parts. 16 pages. JOSEPH M CHOPP #4582363. Published by JOSEPH M CHOPP (A0.924442).  Georgia on My Mind is a 1930 song written by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell.  It is one of the most-recorded American songs of all time.Every instrument has a solo part of the melody with a fun/surprise entrance of Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho from the trombone that fits in perfectly.  The flowing harmonies offer the ensemble the opportunity to really listen and blend everything together.  Both players and the audience will hear, maybe for the first time, the actual introduction that Carmichael wrote for the main melody we all know as Georgia On My Mind.Playing time = 2.5 minutesFor more great brass quintets, just search CHOPP at SheetMusicPlus and MusicForBrass.com for pop and Classical respectively.  Questions/comments: jmchopp@hughes.net.  Thank you!  

Brass Ensemble - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.808695 Composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908). Arranged by F. Leslie Smith. Holiday,Patriotic,Romantic Period. Score and parts. 44 pages. Sweetwater Brass Press #4819845. Published by Sweetwater Brass Press (A0.808695).     Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov composed his third opera, The Snow Maiden, during the period 1880-1881. Based on Alexander Ostrovsky’s play of the same name, The Snow Maiden uses fairy-tale characters to portray the opposing forces of nature, winter versus summer. Act 3 contains the Dance of the Skomorokhi.  Skomorokhi were traveling performers in old Russia and, in connection with this composition, the term is usually translated as tumblers or clowns. Rimsky-Korsakov also included this selection as one of four movements he compiled into a concert suite based on the opera. Dance of the Tumblers has become one of his most frequently performed and best known pieces.    Light and uplifting, Dance of the Tumblers is vibrant, energetic and addictive. It takes the form of, as one commenter wrote, a classical sonata-structure, complete with development section, invigoratingly intensified reprise, and a veritable whirlwind of a coda. This brass quintet arrangement retains the original key signature of C but adjusts register to make the melodies accessible and playable. As a result, most notes are well within the normal playing range of the five brass instruments. Trumpet 1’s highest note is its A above the staff. At measures 132 and 133, Trumpet 2 has the option of playing some high notes (including one C above its staff) an octave down. Tuba plays mostly in the lowest register, with quite a few low F notes and one low E. Most instruments have some octave jumps, but all have a lot of notes to play in a very short time: many, many sixteenth notes. The score is marked Vivace, and the audio sample moves along at a pretty fast clip. But of course, the speed at which performers actually play the piece is up to them, a matter of interpretation.     This arrangement was completed in 2019, and performance time runs about 3 minutes, 38 seconds. The arranger, Les Smith, will be happy to provide substitute parts (for example, treble clef baritone for trombone) at no charge; contact him directly at lessmith61@bellsouth.net. For more arrangements by Les, enter Sweetwater Brass Press (without the quotation marks) in the search box. (Also, purchase of this piece entitles you to your choice of another of his arrangements at no charge; send a copy of your purchase receipt directly to him at lessmith61@bellsouth.net.)

Brass Ensemble - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.808698 Composed by Frank Loesser. Arranged by F. Leslie Smith. Contemporary. Score and parts. 26 pages. Sweetwater Brass Press #5290545. Published by Sweetwater Brass Press (A0.808698).     Brandon Thomas’ three-act farce, Charley’s Aunt, opened in London in 1892 and was a huge success. It has since been performed and adapted many times. One such adaptation was Where’s Charley? a 1948 Broadway version with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser. Ray Bolger played the starring role as Charley, and its most memorable number was the second act’s Once In Love With Amy. Every night Bolger would perform the number, then turn to the audience and invite them to sing along with him. They loved it, and Bolger would continue to perform it as his signature act for years even after the play closed.    The rhythmic and melodic nature of Once In Love With Amy seems to lend itself to performance by a brass group. And that’s what inspired this arrangement. All play the eight-measure introduction, while the verse-I caught you, sir, having a look at her as she went strolling by-features Trumpets, Horn and Trombone playing melody while tuba provides tempo and pulse. Then comes the familiar chorus, Once in love with Amy, always in love with Amy. The first time through, Tuba plays melody with the other instruments providing accompaniment. On the second time through, for the first half, Trombone and Tuba play an intricate counterpoint while Trumpets and Horn do a rather smooth swing version of the melody; for the second half, Trombone and Tuba take the melody and Trumpets provide the counterpoint. Then comes the surprise ending in which all three participate.    Most players will have little trouble. The arrangement consists of 77 measures in 4/4 time. There are several tempo changes; the fastest is quarter note equals 108. Key signature is G, changing to F at measure 44. All notes for should be within normal playing range.    Sweetwater Brass Press also offers a similar version of Once In Love With Amy arranged for tuba trio.     This arrangement was completed in 2020, and performance time runs about 2 minutes, 58 seconds. The arranger, Les Smith, will be happy to provide substitute parts (for example, treble clef baritone for trombone) at no charge; contact him directly at lessmith61@bellsouth.net. For more arrangements by Les, enter Sweetwater Brass Press (without the quotation marks) in the SheetMusicPlus search box.

Brass Ensemble - Digital Download SKU: A0.802411 By Andrea Bocelli. By Francesco Sartori. Arranged by C Strommen, Peet du Toit, and U Bye & A Fernie. Contemporary. Score and parts. 12 pages. Peet du Toit #5708527. Published by Peet du Toit (A0.802411). This powerful song sound exceptionally good on brass instruments because of the clear contrast in dynamics, moods and expression. A smash hit as an epilogue or reprise for your concerts and recordings. Enjoy!