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It's been done in the UK as a solo for E flat soprano cornet/ tenor horn with brass band or piano;

http://www.kirkleesmusic.co.uk/SoloItems.html

www.euph9.freeserve.co.uk

It is an aria from Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute." The aria is published separately by Kalmus

http://www.kalmus-music.com/

and is listed in their orchestra catalog: catalog #A2944.

wtuba

I laughed my *** off when I first heard that disk and transcibed a few of the arias for my recitals when I was an undergrad at OU. I don't think my transcriptions survived the fire a few years ago, but you can simply pull them out of the scores at your local music library. Enjoy!! Oh, I forget the name, but the duet Sam & Tom did works really well for Tuba & Euphonium. Clay Johnson and I did that one at OU, too.

wtuba wrote:It is an aria from Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute." The aria is published separately by Kalmus

http://www.kalmus-music.com/

and is listed in their orchestra catalog: catalog #A2944.

wtuba

Or you can get it legally and free of charge here:
http://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/ma ... r=MozartWA
I believe it's Aria nr.14

LarryR wrote:Wow!! That is a way cool site to know about. If you liked that piece, try Sarastro's Aria (O, Isis and Osiris) from the same opera. The Magic Flute is my favorite opera by far.....

Here's a few more of those sites.

Mostly classical, public domain:
http://www.cpdl.org/
http://icking-music-archive.org/
http://www.sheetmusicarchive.net/
http://www.mab.jpn.org/musictex/index_en.html
Lots more links on these sites as well.

A lot of the medieval and renaissance stuff is very easy to adapt for brass quintet/quartet. Even better, a lot of the stuff is available in formats letting you alter and transpose the parts!

Commercial, but with lots of free stuff:
http://www.8notes.com/
http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/

If you play in a brass quintet and want to feature the Tuba player, I have a version arranged by Dave Kosmyna on on my site:

http://www.bvdpress.com/

Search for "queen" or "kosmyna". It is a fun chart!!

I posted the whole score in .pdf format if anyone is interested.

Wishing everyone well,

LarryR wrote:Wow!! That is a way cool site to know about. If you liked that piece, try Sarastro's Aria (O, Isis and Osiris) from the same opera. The Magic Flute is my favorite opera by far.

I have a book of solos and exerpts called, strangely enough, "solos for the Tuba player" And the first tune in that book is O Isis and Osiris.

Of course, the recording to which all other versions of Queen of the Night must be compared is Florence Foster-Jenkins:
http://www.txpiggy.com/ffjenkins-queenofnight.ram
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Joe Baker, who thinks there's just nobody around these days who sings like Florence did...

I've also got the quintet version that used to be distributed free on the Capital Brass (UK) website. It's a ZIP-ed PDF with all parts.

Drop me a PM with your email and I'll send it on.

Joe Baker wrote:...who thinks there's just nobody around these days who sings like Florence did...

Sure there is. They are just smart enough not to rent Carnegie Hall and do it publicly. I suspect her singing skills are repeated in showers all across America.

On the other hand, she did sell out concerts, as I recall. Perhaps she was laughing all the way to the bank. And I'm sure everyone left thinking they'd gotten their money's worth in pure entertainment.

Rick "who knows that Madam Jenkins didn't need the money" Denney