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Hey,
a friend of mine needs a copy of My Spirit Be Joyful", by J.S. Bach, for brass quintet. The arranger is Harry Herforth. I own it, but the parts are with the guys (and girl) in my quintet. Can anyone send me a PDF. He needs it tonight for tomorrow.
Thanks,
Bill

Is that the arrangement in D major? Your friend better not be sight-reading it on the gig. The middle section is an iron-clad beeyotche. I have nightmares about that, still.

yep,
we've both played it a bunch, we just don't have all the parts on hand.
Bill

I'm glad Tom thinks it's a tough part too.I thought i was just a girly man...

Tom Holtz wrote:Is that the arrangement in D major? Your friend better not be sight-reading it on the gig. The middle section is an iron-clad beeyotche. I have nightmares about that, still.

I refer to this piece in quintet as "My Chops be Painful".

Greg wrote:There is a "Sunshine Brass" arrangement in Eb just like you want. I can't remember who arranged it but it is very good. My quintet has used both and even the trumpet players like the Eb edition better as it lays under the fingers better.

Where's my wallet...

I played the Eb arrangement of this yesterday with a quintet for an Easter service. I didn't find it too bad, but we didn't take it at too fast a tempo. I can imagine that this would be a lot tougher in D. Playing it in Eb on an Eb horn made it seem to fit well. It doesn't go very high, only to a C, and the runs are all pretty straightforward.

On the version in D,the minor section is a real finger/brain buster for me...I either need a few practice sessions before playing it or i use my"veto" powers

Lew wrote:I played the Eb arrangement of this yesterday with a quintet for an Easter service. I didn't find it too bad, but we didn't take it at too fast a tempo.

I've only played the D version and we never took it very fast either. I think in my case it has something to do with the quality of the players . Not counting the 1st trumpet player, Harry Herforth, who at 90+ years and counting is still a trumpet stud! I never heard him miss a note in either practice or rehearsal until about 4 years ago.

We've done it a bunch; it lies pretty well on a CC, IMO. But it's come up at a few weddings and graduations where all I had was my Eb. Sacre merde! My eyeballs popped out and rolled around unattached. Now I reconfirm the day of the gig - are we doing My Spirit Be Joyful??

Make sure you get a "veto" clause in every brass quintet charter you sign 1 veto per member per gig...

So I definitely sight-read this piece on Sunday for Easter.. We played it fairly briskly, and I think that I did pretty well. It was actually quite fun, I've only played part of this before for an audition, and that had been several years ago, so I'd still consider it sight-reading. It was exciting, to say the least!

I don't understand why you guys are all complaining about this piece - thie is of of the BEST tuba parts for quintet out there, the range sits comfortable on either a contrabass or bass tuba, and all those impressive sounding runs - just scales. Have fun tearin' it up, just don't tear it down!

Oops, I never meant to diss the piece or the arrangement. I would never veto My Spirit Be Joyful, but I wouldn't want to suffer inordinately trying to play it on my Eb - nor have to hunt around for my eyeballs afterwards.

And I didn't mean to diss blind folks either - merely pay some tribute to Tex Avery.

I sight-read it on my F on a gig. No, wait, that's giving myself far too much credit. Okay, I attempted to sight-read it on my F on a gig. I might as well have been chewing broken glass. Oh, the humanity...

I can't find my copy, and I need a new one. I've only worked it up on the F, and that was a long time ago. If that thing rears it's ugly head while I'm holding the Eb, I'm screwed.

I really like the part.I just need a little notice each time I'm asked to play it.

Hi all,

I've done a version for quintet in E flat that we have used for years (including a performance for the opening of the Boulder Bach Festival).

I've just posted a sample of the score on the Boulder Brass website:

http://www.boulderbrass.org

Click on Quintets and then scroll down to My Spirit and click.

If you contact me directly through the website - I'll send you a free copy of the part - it's very fun!

Cheers