Buglers Holiday for tuba?

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Buglers Holiday for tuba?

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This evening I was approached by the director of the community band Iam in, he said he saw somewhere on the internet a group playing Buglers Holiday by Leroy Anderson with 3 tubas playing the lead trumpet parts. If I can find the trumpet part written for tuba we would do it. We have 3 tuba players that can handle it, just need to find the 3 lead trumpet parts.
Sure sounds like fun
PLEASE HELP
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Re: Bugalurs Holiday for tuba?

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We did it in the Colorado Brass Band this past June, but the guys read the parts off of the original Bb trumpet parts playing it on 1 Eb, 1 F, and 1 C tuba. I know that's probably not the help you needed, but that's what I've got with the one time we did it on tubas. It was a lot of fun. Hope it works out for you all.
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Re: Buglurs Holiday for tuba?

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Wouldn’t Bulgur’s Holiday give a more tasty search?

Burglar’s Holiday might clean out the band room, while Bugler’s Holiday, boring as it sounds, might end up in a fruitful search. Which then would be tasty in its own right.

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Re: Buglers Holiday for tuba?

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The mentioning of F and Eb basses leads me to ask whether the tubas play the trio one or two octaves below the trumpet range?

If 3 BBb basses do the solo parts 2 octaves below the original, then it isn’t a matter of transposing, just about using trumpet fingerings.

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