Small Ensemble Bass Clef Instrument,Bass Trombone,Bass Voice,Drum Set,Guitar,Keyboard,Tenor Trombone - Digital Download SKU: A0.1135132 Composed by Irving Berlin. Arranged by Robert Coil. 20th Century,Jazz,Pop,Standards. Score and parts. 38 pages. Polished Brass #735175. Published by Polished Brass (A0.1135132). This arrangement is for trombone quintet, with the option to utilize a vocalist on the lead who also plays trombone, or the vocalist and first trombone can take turns. The rhythm section is also optional. Irving Berlin emigrated to the United States in 1893 at the age of 5, with his parents, fleeing Jewish persecution in Russia. He died in 1989 with over 1500 songs to his credit. The published version of the song, A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody, was an excerpt from a longer version used in the Ziegfeld Follies. It was the hit song of the 1919 Follies and became the theme song. It was also used frequently in Miss America pageants prior to 1955. Berlin believed this song was in the top 5 of the hundreds of songs he wrote. The arranger, Bob Coil, is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of music, where he studied bass trombone with Betty Glover. Dr. Coil is the leader of the Bones of Cincinnatus trombone ensemble in Cincinnati, OH.
