Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Bassoon,Clarinet,Flute,Horn,Oboe - Level 2 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1323763

Composed by Gustav Holst. Arranged by Ray Thompson. 20th Century,Christmas,Religious. 10 pages. RayThompsonMusic #911949. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.1323763).

Lullay, mine liking is a Middle English lyric poem or carol of the 15th century which frames a narrative describing an encounter of the Nativity with a song sung by the Virgin Mary to the infant Christ. The refrain is an early example of an English lullaby; the term lullaby is thought to originate with the lu lu or la la sound made by mothers or nurses to calm children, and by or bye bye, another lulling sound (for example in the similarly ancient Coventry Carol)

There are a number of surviving medieval English verses associated with the birth of Jesus which take the form of a lullaby, of which this is probably the most famous example. Written by an anonymous hand, the text is found uniquely in Sloane MS 2593, a collection of medieval lyrics now held in the British Library.

My arrangement is transcribed from Gustav Holst's setting of the text, which he calls Lullay, My Liking.
It is number 2 from Holst's 4 Carols for Unaccompanied Choir Op.34

Arranged wind quintet

The solo verses are played by oboe, flute, clarinet,oboe and bassoon together and finally horn.
The refrain has been arranged in a differnt instrumental line up each time it is played.

Small Ensemble Bassoon,Clarinet,Flute,Horn,Oboe - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.784344

Composed by Joshua Hauser. Instructional. Score and parts. 182 pages. Slide Ride #5288695. Published by Slide Ride (A0.784344).

1 Octave Scale Studies in 15+ keys for 4-part ensembles of like or mixed instruments

If this is your first exposure to these scale studies, you are in for a treat! Donuts, if you make a mistake!

The initial incarnation of these studies were written for trombone quartet and we would play them in the Tennessee Tech Trombone Choir with the challenge that whomever made the first mistake had to buy donuts for the rest of the ensemble. Since then I have brought that version to several clinics and warm up sessions. One time before I got to explain the title, a fellow trombone professor said, Oh, I get it! Don’t step in the holes!

I only wish I had thought of that myself... Since we have one of the best donut shops in TN here in Cookeville, treating the studio to sugar coated goodies was always my intent.

As with those initial exercises, you can vary these as much as you’d like.

·     Choose a tempo.

·     Choose a dynamic.

·     Choose an articulation/style.

One way I like to play these is to have one person be the model, playing the entire scale over and over while everyone else plays the fragmented versions. That helps everyone to keep on track and stay in time. Double or triple up the parts for ensemble cohesion with a larger group.

Practice one key, gradually speeding it up to improve fluidity, or choose a variation and take it through all keys, playing version A, B, C, or D then skipping to play the same set in a new key.

If you want an additional challenge, play them in different octaves or change the key. Play the F Major set in f minor (all forms), different modes, etc. Players really have to be on their toes to remember if they are playing melodic minor in the ascending or descending form! For jazz players, try swinging them in dorian or mixolydian modes.

The variations are endless!

If you are using these with transposing instruments, 1) is F Major in Concert Pitch, 2) is Bb Major in Concert pitch, and so on. When you reach a scale that is enharmonic for another key (Db/C#, Gb/F#, or Cb/B), they are presented in both keys for each instrument so Trumpets can play in Eb while the Flutes are playing in C# with similar examples for all keys.

All Donut Etudes with the same volume number are compatible so you can play them in mixed quartets or large ensembles with one or more instruments/people on part 1 and a different instrument on part 2, etc. Since the quartets are all identical, conductors/coaches can use any of the scores to tell which part should be playing at what time. Once you have played a scale with one set of parts, everyone can rotate to a different part and play the same scales again!

Enjoy!

Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Bassoon,Clarinet,Flute,Horn,Oboe - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1139860

Composed by Antonin Dvorak. Arranged by Ray Thompson. Folk,Romantic Period. 19 pages. RayThompsonMusic #740132. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.1139860).

Arranged wind quintet

Mvt III Molto vivace

The String Quartet in F major, Op. 96, nicknamed the American Quartet, is the 12th string quartet composed by Antonín Dvořák. It was written in 1893, during Dvořák's time in the United States of America. The quartet is one of the most popular in the chamber music repertoire.

For the London premiere of his New World symphony, Dvořák wrote: As to my opinion I think that the influence of this country (it means the folk songs)) is to be seen, and that this and all other works (written in America) differ very much from my other works as well as in colour as in character,.

A characteristic, unifying element throughout the quartet is the use of the pentatonic scale. This scale gives the whole quartet its open, simple character, a character that is frequently identified with American folk music. However, the pentatonic scale is common in many ethnic musics worldwide, and Dvořák had composed pentatonic music, being familiar with such Slavonic folk music examples, before coming to America

Specific American influences have been doubted: In fact the only American thing about the work is that it was written there, writes Paul Griffiths.[21] The specific American qualities of the so-called American Quartet are not easily identifiable, writes Lucy Miller, ...Better to look upon the subtitle as simply one assigned because of its composition during Dvořák's American tour.

Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Bassoon,Clarinet,Flute,Horn,Oboe - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1314757

Composed by Gustav Holst. Arranged by Ray Thompson. 20th Century,Chamber,Patriotic. 8 pages. RayThompsonMusic #903534. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.1314757).

Arranged  wind quintet.

I Vow to Thee, My Country is a British patriotic hymn, created in 1921, when music by Gustav Holst had a poem by Sir Cecil Spring Rice set to it. 

The music originated as a wordless melody, which Holst later named Thaxted, taken from the Jupiter movement of Holst's 1917 suite The Planets. 

The tune is used forWorld in Union – the anthem with lyrics by Charlie Skarbek, introduced at the 1991 Rugby World Cup.

It has been used for many other Christian Hymns.

Notable examples are:

O God Beyond All Praising – Michael Perry, 1982.

We Praise You and Acknowledge You, O God – a paraphrase of the Te Deum Laudamus by Stephen P. Starke in the 2006 Lutheran Service Book

The Answer – song with lyrics by Corrinne May, which appears on her fourth album, The Gift.

For the Splendor of Creation – a hymn sung at Harvard Universitycommencement ceremonies.

Building the Kingdom – a recessional hymn sung at St Aloysius College.

O Spirit All-Embracing – Delores Dufner, 1995.

This is my arrangement for wind quintet of Gustav Holst's orchestral arrangement.
It has an opening section, before the melody begins.

Check out my other Holst arrangements.

Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Bassoon,Clarinet,Flute,Horn,Oboe - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1451644

Composed by Francois Couperin. Arranged by James Haynor. Baroque. 24 pages. James Haynor #1030947. Published by James Haynor (A0.1451644).

François Couperin was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was known as Couperin le Grand to distinguish him from other members of the musically talented Couperin family.

Scored here for Woodwind Quintet are two pieces originally written for keyboard. They are : “ Les Baricades Misterieuses “ and “ Les Moissonneurs “. Lovely examples of Baroque writing.

Duration - 4:55.

Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Bassoon,Clarinet,Flute,Horn,Oboe - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1127691

Composed by Antonin Dvorak. Arranged by Ray Thompson. Romantic Period,Spiritual. 16 pages. RayThompsonMusic #728293. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.1127691).

2nd mvt Lento - Arranged wind quintet

The String Quartet in F major, Op. 96, nicknamed the American Quartet, is the 12th string quartet composed by Antonín Dvořák. It was written in 1893, during Dvořák's time in the United States of America. The quartet is one of the most popular in the chamber music repertoire.

For the London premiere of his New World symphony, Dvořák wrote: As to my opinion I think that the influence of this country (it means the folk songs)) is to be seen, and that this and all other works (written in America) differ very much from my other works as well as in colour as in character,.

A characteristic, unifying element throughout the quartet is the use of the pentatonic scale. This scale gives the whole quartet its open, simple character, a character that is frequently identified with American folk music. However, the pentatonic scale is common in many ethnic musics worldwide, and Dvořák had composed pentatonic music, being familiar with such Slavonic folk music examples, before coming to America

Specific American influences have been doubted: In fact the only American thing about the work is that it was written there, writes Paul Griffiths.[21] The specific American qualities of the so-called American Quartet are not easily identifiable, writes Lucy Miller, ...Better to look upon the subtitle as simply one assigned because of its composition during Dvořák's American tour.

I have NOT simply copied the string parts across to the winds, as other have done. Rather, I have arranged the piece as though it had been written for wind quintet, so have given the horn repeated notes , in the same way as the slow movement of the slow movement Dvorak's wind serenade., and used the horn to sustain. Some of the arpeggio figures remain, but in a simplified form.and are shared between clarinet and bassoon.

Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.845657

Composed by Luigi Cherubini. Arranged by Robert Newth. Classical,Romantic Period. 8 pages. Robert Newth #4351295. Published by Robert Newth (A0.845657).

The two Cherubini Horn Sonatas are excellent examples of short pieces from the late classical era. This arrangement of the shorter first sonata preserves the solo horn part, and is accompanied by the other four woodwind quintet instruments. The flute part is quite low but this is to make sure the focus is always on the horn soloist.

The PDF download contains a full score and all five parts: Flute, Oboe, Clarinet in Bb, Solo Horn in F, and Bassoon.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rChvP-P0LUA

Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.973148

Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Arranged by Larry Wesley. Concert,Instructional,Standards. 75 pages. Larry Wesley #5303361. Published by Larry Wesley (A0.973148).

Set of variations on Haibel's opera Le nozze features the Menuet a la Vigano.
The variations are lively, brilliant, dark, serious, full of contrast, tempo changes, fine examples of canonic writing, etc.  It is Beethoven after all.

Feedback always welcomed at: WesleyStudio80@gmail.com

    

Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet - Level 2 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1126702

Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Arranged by Ander. Classical,Film/TV,Instructional,March,Romantic Period. 16 pages. Woods Only, Arrangements #727346. Published by Woods Only, Arrangements (A0.1126702).

This arrangement adapted for woodwind quintet was written keeping the characteristics of the original work, in order to be performed by young music students who want to enter the symphonic music. Besides, it can also be used by professional musicians, for recitals, repertoire, academic presentations and didactic material. As much as it is a funeral march, it is well suited for any musical performance occasion. The transcription is faithful to the structure, with only one change of key, so that it is comfortable for all the instruments in the formation, as well as for use in ensemble practice between musicians of different traditions. Ludwig van Beethoven began concentrated work on his Symphony No. 7 in A major Op. 92 in 1811, it was completed in 1812, and was dedicated to Count Moritz von Fries, and premiered in Vienna on December 8, 1813. It is considered a remarkable example of the more ebullient side of Beethoven's compositional personality and evidence that even after the onset of deafness, he still found cause for musical optimism. The second movement Allegretto is a funeral march in everything but name. Often several contrasting melodic ideas are made to coexist, as if Beethoven were imagining several processions converging on the cemetery at the same time. As he was working on this symphony during the years of the Napoleonic Wars, this experience was probably within his experience. It was also used as the soundtrack to the film Knowing, by director Alex Proyas and starring Nicolas Cage, where it is used in the final scene of the film. Beethoven called Symphony No. 7 his most excellent symphony, and a music critic of the time reported, this symphony is the most melodically rich and the most pleasing and comprehensible of all Beethoven's symphonies..

Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Bassoon,Clarinet,Flute,Horn,Oboe - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.546775

By EnsembleSheetMusic. By Strauss, Johan jr. Arranged by Sjoerd van der Veen. Classical,Romantic Period. 18 pages. Sjoerd van der Veen #156708. Published by Sjoerd van der Veen (A0.546775).

In musical terms, theEgyptian March has been described as a representative example of an alla turcacomposition... characterised by melodic arabesques and metric syncopations. Arranged for woodwind quintet Flute - Oboe - Clarinet - French Horn - Bassoon If you have any questions or requests, please email info@ensemblesheetmusic.com.