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Looking to buy, or a heads up where a quintet arrangement might be available. Thanks.

I always get interested when music I am not really aware of is mentioned. So I went to IMSLP for a score and to YouTube for performances.

The first performance (not to be mentioned) sort of confirmed my impression from eying the score: that this music is very static with too little drama to make it worthwhile. Especially the opening is downright boring. Anyway it would be very hard for a quintet to represent as well the 6 choir parts as whatever figurations that are written in the instrumental parts.

The second YT performance I heard was with the organ and the choristers from Westminster Abbey. That performance was way better done, even if the highlights of the music still all appear being in the 3rd part after the return to 4/4 from 3/4.

I you haven’t found a commercial edition for brass quintet, then as hinted this fact would be small surprise to me.

If you need to perform this music, there might be a couple of reasonable ways to do so depending of the location. If you are performing in a church or in a concert hall, you could distribute the choir parts to the quintet members. The two vocal bass lines appear being quite similar, so they possibly could be covered by the tubist after some edition. And then leave it to the organ or to a grand piano to play the keyboard transcription of the instrumental parts.

Klaus

Took another look at the score available to me:

http://petrucci.mus.auth.gr/imglnks/usi ... and_14.pdf

Only the 3rd section in 4/4 has the vocal bass divided in two. Basso I & II are unisono for so long that I wondered about the purpose of writing them separately. But then there came a fast passage in Basso I. Yet, this passage only doubles the tenors so that there really only are 5 vocal parts all the way through.

Klaus