SKU: A0.940334

A trumpet/brass arrangement of Leaning on the Everlasting Arms, with some fun counter melody thrown in.

SKU: A0.784059

The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) - arranged for TRIO: Trumpet, Alto Sax, Trombone

Score and Parts Included.

SKU: A0.1032582

Arrangement of „Old town road for a little brass band resp. „Posaunenchor consisting of at least three trumpets, one Trombone and one Tuba. The arrangement contains the whole song „Old town road where each instrument plays a part of the melody at least once – it should thus be interesting to play for all participants. (Recommended playing with two tubas one in the higher and one in the lower octave – from the verse on they mimic the beat of the song.)

SKU: A0.1283434

SEXTET No. 3 by Dauprat offers advancing brass musicians several challenges: interesting rhythms in different meters requiring careful articulations, intonation in minor keys and contrasting melodic passages.  SEXTET No. 3 is suitable for festivals, concerts, recitals, and other special occasions. It will also work nicely with one of the other SEXTETS by Dauprat, e.g. No. 2 Minuetto.

SKU: A0.808676

    Marvin Hamlisch’s score for the 1973 movie The Sting revived interest in ragtime music. Ragtime, of course, is music, often in march-time, that features syncopation, a ragged beat. It originated in African-American districts of large cities and first flourished during the period, 1895-1918. One of the most successful ragtime composers was Scott Joplin, known as the King of Ragtime. Hamlisch used several Joplin compositions as background music for the George Roy Hill-directed film, and one of those was this beautiful and contemplative 1909 composition, Solace: A Mexican Serenade.  
   In All Music Guide to Classical Music: The Definitive Guide to Classical Music (Woodstra et al., ed., CMP Books: 2005), Blair Johnston called Solace a musical hybrid neither authentically Mexican nor authentic ragtime. It is, instead, a habanera, but also a very lovely piece of Americana.
    This brass quintet arrangement of Solace was adapted from the Joplin piano score. Like the score, this arrangement is in 2/4 time and contains a lot of 16th notes. Joplin’s tempo instruction, however, is Very slow march time, and the metronome marking suggests 96 eighth notes a minute, so in reality the actual tempo is an andante 4/8. Trumpet 1 has some B-above-the-staff notes in the last section, Trumpet 2 has a few interesting rhythmic figures in section B; Trombone has 3 or 4 F-above-the-staff notes, and Tuba plays a couple of top-of-the-staff A’s in section D and at the very end. Plus, of course, the piece is syncopated.
    Completed in 2017, this arrangement runs about 6 minutes, 10 seconds. Contact the arranger, Les Smith, at lessmith@ufl.edu; he would be delighted to hear from you. For more arrangements by Les, enter Sweetwater Brass Press (without the quotation marks) in the SheetMusicPlus search box.