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i am trying to organize a couple of ensembles in my high school but i have no clue on what music to purchase. what are a couple of good pieces for tuba-euphonium quartet and brass quintet? all of us are reasonably advanced high school players.

Also available at "TubaEuphoniumpress" is 'Loch Lomond', arr. by Michael Forbes. Nice melody that moves around to all four parts (starts on tuba-1). "...you take the high road and I'll take the low road..."

There was a topic about brass quintet music a little while ago:

viewtopic.php?t=3756

I can add to it a new discovery that I'm a big fan of, "Raise the Roof" by Gwyneth Walker, available through the publisher, MMB Music. It features a challenging and really cool tuba solo in the middle.

Tuba 4tet -
many good pieces at www.tubaeuphoniumpress.com
Valeri Strukow - Tuba quartet

5tet
Ewald - Quintet #1
(has a nice tuba solo to start it off)

Jeff Keller
University of Kentucky

Another neat littel brass quintet piece similar to the Chetham Scherao is Wilke Renwick's "Dance" Of course you must get the Sonata from Die Bankelsangerlieder, A. Nonymous, ed. King

Tuba /Euph quartet, my alltime fave is John Fletcher's Sleeping Beauty Waltz.

Anything by Lennie Niehaus

There is also a fun little arr. of Pink Panther, i think it is by Frackenpohl?
k

Thanks, Rick F, for nominating my Loch Lomond arrangement. Unfortunately, you can't get it from tuba-euphonium press--I published it as a "freebee" in the ITEA Journal (spring 2004, I think--or perhaps it was the one before that) as part of the GEM series.

Beyond copying it out of that Journal (as so many folks have done--which, by the way, I think is great), I'm probably going to put it up on Sotto Voce's website as a free PDF download.

Also, daktx2, please check out http://www.tubaquartet.com and go to the repertoire page. If there is something there that interests you, email me, and we can talk about whether or not it would be good for high schoolers, etc. Hope that helps.

All the best,
Mike

Hi Mike,

I thought for sure I saw "Loch Lomond" listed on "Tubaeuphoniumpress". Sorry about that.

I did copy it from the ITEA magazine a few months ago. Very nice arrangement BTW. We hope to play that piece (only as 3 euphs and 1 tuba) sometime later this year as a feature with our community band. St. Patrick's Day concert perhaps. Thanks Mike for making it available for the masses. You can hear the Capriccioso Brass (Charley Brighton's group) play it here:

http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?so ... 204&t=9848

Highams Capriccio Low Brass Quartet had some pretty good stuff out on C.D.
http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?songs=25320&t=9848
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