Brass Ensemble - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.808689 Composed by W. Benton Overstreet (1888-1935). Arranged by F. Leslie Smith. Graduation,Holiday,Jazz,Traditional. Score and parts. 30 pages. Sweetwater Brass Press #4331333. Published by Sweetwater Brass Press (A0.808689).      William Benton Overstreet did it all-played piano, wrote songs, led bands. Probably the accomplishment for which he’s most remembered today is his composing of There’ll Be Some Changes Made, published in 1921. Billy Higgins, popular stage comedian, wrote the lyrics, and Ethel Waters, then just 24, recorded the song on the Black Swan label. The disc quickly achieved hit status, and the song has remained popular across multiple musical platform styles ever since.     This arrangement is a happy, fun piece and includes some of the great (and familiar) Vaudeville-style ornaments and phrases. It’s a real toe-tapper.     For the most part this arrangement is up-tempo, about 140 bpm. It does slow to 92 at the first iteration of the verse and again for the final ¬6 measures of the piece. Time signature is 4/4 except for measure 89, which is 6/4. The key is B-flat throughout, and the melody weaves among all instruments.     Trumpet 1 plays B5 (B-flat trumpet’s high C) briefly at measures 4 and 35 and for two measures at the very end of the piece. Tuba plays G3 briefly several times in measures 90-93. Other than that, there are no exceptionally out-of-normal-range notes. Trumpets 1 and 2 may wish to double-tongue at measure 64.     This arrangement was completed in 2019, and performance time runs about 3 minutes, 30 seconds. The arranger, Les Smith, would be very interested in your comments; contact him at lessmith@ufl.edu. For more arrangements by Les, enter Sweetwater Brass Press (without the quotation marks) in the SheetMusicPlus search box.

Brass Ensemble - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.761052 Composed by Joe Sample and Will Jennings. Arranged by Stephen Rockey. Contemporary. Score and parts. 32 pages. Stephen Rockey #3684559. Published by Stephen Rockey (A0.761052). This is a beautiful Soprano Cornet solo with British Brass Band accompaniment. This arrangement is based on the Randy Crawford rendition. It will make a great addition to any band's solo repertoire and concert programmes. The band parts are quite easy, but the soprano part is difficult in places.

Brass Ensemble - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.831273 By Rascal Flatts. By Kim Gannon and Walter Kent. Arranged by Gary Fladmoe (ASCAP). Jazz. Score and parts. 18 pages. Gary Fladmoe #3210377. Published by Gary Fladmoe (A0.831273). A setting for brass quintet of the well-known holiday song. Duration: 2:45. Features flugelhorn lead (trumpet can be substituted). Bb and C trumpet accompaniment parts are included. Playable by intermediate musicians.

Brass Ensemble - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.767255 Composed by Claudio Monteverdi. Arranged by Mike Lyons. Baroque,Renaissance. Score and parts. 23 pages. Lyons Music Services #3121643. Published by Lyons Music Services (A0.767255). The Fifth book of madrigals starts to see much more development towards operatic style writing, with more songs being strung together to form scenas and with the addition of accompaniment on instruments. Some of these songs can be written by incorporating the accompaniment into the parts for those instruments which are resting, some will require more than a quintet. Certainly as we get into the next three books, reduction to a quintet will become increasingly more difficult, if not impossible. The penultimate song, again presents difficulties in arranging for quintet, however the sixth voice mostly alternates with the others and so with a bit of jusicious adaptation, a six-voice song becomes a quintet. E cosi a poco a poco a sei voci - Our young man has obviously been spurned (yet again) And so little by little like a butterfly simpleton I'll return to the fire in those false eyes