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Brass Quartet...trumpet, horn, trombone, tuba

our brass quintet is being put to rest until we get another trumpet player on board... but we still have plenty of gigs lined up...and this is what we have to work with for now...

i was wondering if maybe some of you know of a place to buy music for this setup... or if anyone has something original or something they have arranged...

thanks for your time,

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Have a look at Robert King's quartet selections--and don't overlook the Ramsoe quartets, some of which can do with the instrumentation you've got.

I hope things are going well out there, even though you're down to four.

BTW, I'm posting this with my new signature to test this out. I hope this works.

Hooray! My signature works!

A couple months ago our quintet found ourselves in a difficult situation, a gig the following day and a trumpet player suddenly became unavailable. I looked around, and I found this:

http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/us ... rl=jharvey

Check out the music under "Flexible Brass Quartet."

Now, they are sorta all "the same" in style and era, but they are really good arrangements. Quite sightreadable, and FREE which is especially good for you considering it seems to be a temporary situation you are in.

You need to open each piece seperately. There are no individual parts, players must read off the score... but it's not that bad as each score is usually only 2 pages.

For the trumpet player... print the score that shows up when you open up the piece. That score is in Bb. The trumpet player reads the TOP LINE.

For the horn player... scroll down to the "Instrumental parts" section of the page and select "Fhorns&tuba." That score puts the top three parts in F. The horn player reads the SECOND LINE.

For the trombone player... scroll down to the "Instrumental parts" section of the page and select "C Score." That puts all the parts in concert pitch. The trombone player reads the THIRD LINE (which is in bass clef).

For the tuba player... use the same score that you would use for trombone or horn. Play the bottom part (will be in bass clef). It says euphonium quite often, but is easily in tuba range (it is a bass part). If you're feeling frisky, play that part on euph!

Of course, there are alternates. You could give the trumpet player the C score, so he/she could play that on a C trumpet. If you or the trombone player like reading Bb treble clef, play off the Bb score.

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What sort of music are you looking for? Classical, jazz, pop...?

everything!

Try: Solid Brass Music Company
http://www.sldbrass.com/

You're right - you can't go wrong with Ramsoe quartets

Your format is not the one I have specialised into, but my project (address in my signature) has flexibility as an inherent main parameter due to my career as a teacher/conductor/manager in areas, where one never knew which instruments would be available.

What will be relevant to you from my index mostly will be church related. Some of it, like my Danish hymn project, obviously can be detected as being in four parts.

But then the compilation of settings of "All People that on Earth do dwell" also will go with 4 players. And it has some very interesting bass lines.

A musical highlight is the Russian Liturgical music. Only you should be aware, that it differs from the Western chorale tradition in so far, that the bass line cannot be taken down an octave. So if you play a contrabass instrument, you better have a strong embouchure (which I trust you to have).

There also is an edition of a very original (not mine) setting of "Deep River". You may get away with it by letting the trumpet play one of the clarinet parts. Preferably the 2nd clarinet, as the piece will be a beautiful feature for the horn (may take a few pencilled shuffling of notes in certain chords).

Cannot provide a full repertory, but hopefully a contribution. If you had been 5, my selections had been more varied.

Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre