SKU: A0.924438

This is a great piece of patriotic music for all times of celebrating our freedom and our flag. The driving rhythm starts at the first measure and works its way throughout the piece to a reference of My country 'tis of thee… just before the rousing finish.

Every instrument of the brass quintet is featured with melodies, doubling, unisons and solos. For performance practice emphasis should be on ending notes as written for a crisp presentation.

Playing time is 3.5 minutes.

For more great brass quintet arrangements, just search CHOPP on SMP website.

My mostly traditional brass quintets (Bach, Bartok, Billings, Christmas, Easter, Holtz, Mussorgsky, Jewish Folksongs, and several 16th century composers) are available at MusicForBrass.com.  Again, just search CHOPP.  

Questions/comments email jmchopp@hughes.net.  

Thank you!

SKU: A0.726240

Brass Quintet version of this Keane hit Instrument options: Trumpet/Cornet x 2, Eb Horn/Horn in F, Trombone (Bass or Treble Clef),Tuba/Eb/Bb Bass plus percussion (optional).

SKU: 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 minutes

For more great brass quintets, just search CHOPP at SheetMusicPlus and MusicForBrass.com for pop and Classical respectively.  Questions/comments: jmchopp@hughes.net.  Thank you!  

SKU: A0.924441

This stirring composition was written and recorded by Lee Greenwood in 1984 and is considered to be his signature song. It has become one of America's most beloved patriotic songs, sung at most venues where patriotism is on display.

Each instrument has interesting passages throughout the piece featuring flowing sixteenth-note phrases supporting the melody. Emphasis should be focused on the many and varied dynamic contrasts, especially the softs, as the piece builds to several fortissimo climaxes.

Playing time = 3.5 minutes

For more great brass quintets, just search CHOPP at SheetMusicPlus and MusicForBrass.com for pop and classical respectively.  Thank you.  jmchopp@hughes.net

SKU: A0.924437

Most everyone likes cowboy songs, and Ghost Riders in the Sky is one of the most exciting to hear and perform.  This arrangement gives each musician in the brass quintet several solo opportunities and excellent rhythmic challenges.  The lyrics tell the frightful story of a cowboy receiving a sobering warning to change your ways, or else!  (see page two of the music.)

Stan Jones was an American songwriter and actor, primarily writing Western music. He is best remembered for writing the legendary (ghost) Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend), which has been called the #1 Western song ever written.

Playing time = 2.5 minutes

Find SMP arrangements; just search CHOPP for good quintet music.  

Music by Bach, Bartok, Billings, Holtz, Mussorgsky, Jewish Folksongs and several 16th Century composers are available at MusicForBrass.com.  Just search CHOPP.

jmchopp@hughes.net