Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.540668

By Ray Thompson Music. By Leopold Mozart. Arranged by Ray Thompson. Classical. 28 pages. RayThompsonMusic #150801. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.540668).

Original written for a string orchestra of 2 viola, 2 celli and bass/bassoon, I have arranged it for standard wind quintet and transposed it from G to Eb I have written a natural horn part in Eb and Bb basso (Hn in F also provided)Leo The “Sinfonia Burlesca� is a vehicle for the presentation of comedic characters. It demonstrates Leopold Mozart’s predilection for laconic musical genre-painting: he dedicates a minuet to “Hanswurst� (literally “John-Sausage�) familiar from traditional Salzburg street theatre; “Signor Pantalone�, the commedia dell’arte’s wealthy, aged and vainglorious womanizer gets his own conceited Andante. Harlequin, the mercurial and mischievous trickster in the chequered costume, gets the last word, mocking and bamboozling his upper-class audience. .

Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Bassoon,Clarinet,Flute,Oboe - Digital Download

SKU: A0.504005

Composed by Piae Cantiones. Arranged by Ray Thompson. Baroque,Christmas,Classical,Pop. 9 pages. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.504005).

Gaudete rejoice [ye] is a sacred Christmas carol, thought to have been composed in the 16th century. It was published in Piae Cantiones, a collection of Finnish/Swedish sacred songs published in 1581. No music is given for the verses, but the standard tune comes from older liturgical books. It is sometimes entitled Gaudete, Christus est Natus. British folk rock group Steeleye Span had a hit in 1973 (No. 14, UK singles chart) with an a cappella recording of the song. Guitarist Bob Johnson had heard the song when he attended a folk-carol service with his father-in-law in Cambridge, and brought it to the attention of the rest of the band. (Unlike the album version which fades up slowly and fades down slowly, the single was at the same volume for the entire length of the song.) This single is one of only three top 50 British hits to be sung fully in Latin.

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

SKU: A0.911692

By The Beatles. By John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Arranged by Ray Thompson. Rock. 10 pages. RayThompsonMusic #517676. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.911692).

Arranged standard wind quintet

Come Together is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written primarily by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney.
The song is the opening track on their 1969 album Abbey Road and was also released as a single coupled with Something.

The song reached the top of the charts in the United States and peaked at No. 4 in the United Kingdom.

Also a hit for Aerosmith.

YouTube Link is my brass quintet version.

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

SKU: A0.1429221

By The Beatles. By George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and Richard Starkey. Arranged by Ray Thompson. 21st Century,Chamber,Pop. 11 pages. RayThompsonMusic #1009977. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.1429221).

Now and Then is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 2 November 2023. Dubbed the last Beatles song, it appeared on a double A-side single, paired with a new stereo remix of the band's first single, Love Me Do (1962), with the two serving as bookends to the band's history.

Now and Then is a psychedelic soft rock balladthat John Lennon wrote and recorded around 1977 as a solo home demo but left unfinished.

After Lennon's death in 1980, the song was considered as a potential third Beatles reunion single for their 1995–1996 retrospective project The Beatles Anthology, following Free as a Bird and Real Love, both based on two other Lennon demos of the same names.

Instead, it was shelved for nearly three decades, until it was completed by his surviving bandmates Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, using overdubs and guitar tracks by George Harrison (who died in 2001) from the abandoned 1995 sessions.

Arranged here for wind quintet, the oboe takes most of the melody

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

SKU: A0.912070

By The Beatles. By John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Arranged by Ray Thompson. 20th Century,Broadway,Musical/Show,Pop. 11 pages. RayThompsonMusic #518001. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.912070).

Arranged standard wind quintet

Your Mother Should Know is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1967 EP and LP Magical Mystery Tour.

It was written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney.
Titled after a line in the 1961 film A Taste of Honey, its lyrical premise centres on the history of hit songs across generations.
McCartney said he wrote it as a plea for generational understanding and respect for a mother's life experience.
In the Magical Mystery Tour television film, the song serves as a big production number in the style of a 1930s Hollywood musical. Some commentators view the sequence as cultural satire, as the Beatles are seen dancing and dressed in white evening tails. Your Mother Should Know is in the music hall style, further to McCartney's earlier composition When I'm Sixty-Four.
He first offered it as the Beatles' contribution to the Our World satellite broadcast in June 1967, but the band favoured John Lennon's All You Need Is Love for its social significance.

The initial sessions for the song took place at Chappell Recording Studios in London towards the end of August. The group were visited there by their manager, Brian Epstein, a visit that marked the last time he joined them in the studio before his death on 27 August.

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

SKU: A0.1273254

By The Beatles. By John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Arranged by Ray Thompson. 20th Century,Pop. 10 pages. RayThompsonMusic #865399. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.1273254).

Arranged wind quintet: fl, ob, clt, hn and bsn

In My Life is a song by the English rock band the Beatles. It appeared on their 1965 album Rubber Soul. Its lyrics were written primarily by John Lennon, credited to Lennon–McCartney. George Martin contributed the  solo bridge passage.

The song was recorded on 18 October 1965, and was complete except for the instrumental bridge. At that time, Lennon had not decided what instrument to use, but he subsequently asked George Martin to play a piano solo, suggesting something Baroque-sounding. Martin wrote a Bach-influenced piece that he found he could not play at the song's tempo. On 22 October, the solo was recorded with the tape running at half speed, so when played back at normal pace the piano was twice as fast and an octave higher, solving the performance challenge and also giving the solo a unique timbre, reminiscent of a harpsichord.

According to Lennon, In My Life was his first real major piece of work because it was the first time he wrote about his own life.

In 2000, Mojo named In My Life the best song of all time. Rolling Stone ranked it number 23 on its 2004 list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and number 98 on the 2021 revised list, as well as fifth on its list of the Beatles' 100 Greatest Songs.

i have given 1st verse to oboe, and the 2nd verse to the clarinet.

The mp3 excerpt is the end of the clarinet verse going into the bridge.

By The Beatles. By John Winston Lennon, Paul James Mccartney, John Lennon, and Paul McCartney. Arranged by Ray Thompson. Rock. 14 pages. RayThompsonMusic #6499563. Published by RayThompsonMusic

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

SKU: A0.1272143

By The Beatles. By John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Arranged by Ray Thompson. 20th Century,Pop,Standards. 10 pages. RayThompsonMusic #864474. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.1272143).

Arranged standard wind quintet.

Taken from the album The Beatles known as the White Album. 

 It was written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney, and performed as a solo piece by McCartney with solo acoustic guitar.

McCartney explained on Chaos and Creation at Abbey Road, aired in 2005, that the guitar accompaniment for Blackbird was inspired by Johann Sebastian Bach's Bourrée in E minor, a well-known lute piece, often played on the classical guitar.
As teenagers, he and George Harrison tried to learn Bourrée as a show off piece. The Bourrée is distinguished by melody and bass notes played simultaneously on the upper and lower strings.

McCartney adapted a segment of the Bourrée (reharmonised into the original's relative major key of G) as the opening of Blackbird, and carried the musical idea throughout the song.

My arrangement gives the vocal solo to the oboe.

The horn sustains throughout.

The vid link is of my wind quartet arrangement.

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

SKU: A0.898514

By The Beatles. By John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Arranged by Ray Thompson. Pop,Wedding. 10 pages. RayThompsonMusic #504825. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.898514).

And I Love Her is a song recorded by English rock band the Beatles, written primarily by Paul McCartney and credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership.
It is the fifth track of their third UK album A Hard Day's Night and was released 20 July 1964, along with If I Fell, as a single release by Capitol Records in the United States, reaching No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The Beatles performed And I Love Her just once outside EMI Studios; on 14 July 1964 they played it for an edition of the BBC's Top Gear radio show, which was broadcast two days later.

And I Love Her has been covered by a variety of artists, including Esther Phillips, Kurt Cobain and Cliff Richard.

The melody in both the verse and the chorus is shared.

Arranged standard wind quintet
Flute plays the arpeggio figure.

Other quartets: All you need is love,
And I love her,
Here comes the sun,
Hey Jude,
I am the walrus,
If I fell,
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,
Maxwell’s Silver Hammer,
She’s Leaving Home,
Strawberry Fields Forever,
When I’m sixty-four,
Yesterday

YouTube Link  is clarinet quartet version.

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

SKU: A0.893581

By The Beatles. By John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Arranged by Ray Thompson. Pop. 9 pages. RayThompsonMusic #499877. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.893581).

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles.

Released on 26 May 1967, it spent 27 weeks at number one on the Record Retailer chart in the United Kingdom and 15 weeks at number one on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the United States. It was lauded by critics for its innovations in songwriting, production and graphic design, for bridging a cultural divide between popular music and high art, and for reflecting the interests of contemporary youth and the counterculture.

Its release was a defining moment in 1960s pop culture, heralding the Summer of Love, while the album's reception achieved full cultural legitimisation for pop music and recognition for the medium as a genuine art form.

This is my arrangement of the opening track for standard wind quintet fl, ob, cl, hn and bsn.
It's In the original key of G.
I have created a new ending for those wind quintets who wish to play the piece on it's own, but also included the original fade away ending which seques into the next track...with a little help.(which is available on this site.

YouTube Vid is my brass quartet arrangement.

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

SKU: A0.841010

By The Beatles. By John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Arranged by Ray Thompson. Pop. 11 pages. RayThompsonMusic #447688. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.841010).

Arranged standard wind quintet.

Opening piano solo arr. clt and bsn, then melody is taken by oboe, chorus by flute.
Fun for everyone.

Martha My Dear is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 eponymous double album The Beatles (also known as the White Album).
Credited to Lennon–McCartney, the song was written solely by Paul McCartney about his Old English Sheepdog, Martha. It has been covered by several artists, including Slade, Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, Phish, World Party, and Les Boréades de Montréal.

The song incorporates elements from pop rock music; it also features a music hall-inspired piano line that recurs throughout the piece, as well as a brass section. The song modulates through several keys The song is notated mainly in the key of Eâ™­ major, showing up embellished chords with jazzy sprinkled dissonances. The verse is a syncopated replicate of the first melodic section adding two extra beats, a technique similar to that used later by McCartney in Two of Us. Though the bridge is in the key of F major, the manner in which it abruptly sets in and exits makes it sound more out-of-the-way than it really is.

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

SKU: A0.1271201

By The Beatles. By John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Arranged by Ray Thompson. 20th Century,Pop,Standards,Wedding. 9 pages. RayThompsonMusic #863596. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.1271201).

Arranged standard wind quintet

Yesterday is a song by English rock band the Beatles written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon–McCartney) first released on the album Help! in the United Kingdom in August 1965.

Yesterday, with the B-side Act Naturally, was released as a single in the United States in September 1965. While it topped the American chart in October the song also hit the British top 10 in a cover version by Matt Monro.

The song also appeared on the UK EP Yesterday in March 1966 and the Beatles' US album Yesterday and Today released in June 1966.

McCartney's vocal and acoustic guitar, together with a string quartet, essentially made for the first solo performance of the band. It remains popular today with more than 2,200 cover versions and is one of the most covered songs in the history of recorded music.

My arrangement differs from others you may find.
Rather than giving the tune to one player, I have given it in turn to oboe, horn, flute and tutti.
The flute enters after the 1st verse.
The accompaning parts are not simply block chords, but are varied and full of interest to each player.

The chorus section is treat as a chorale, with all the players playing.

This is the wind quintet version you need!