Low brass quintets?

[timayer]

Is there good literature out there for four trombones and one tuba? I have a lot of literature for trios, quartets, sextets, and octets, but I've never run across quintet literature. It might be feasible to do quartets with doubled bottom voices or combine voices in sextets to write it down to five players, but it would be much easier to use already-existing quintets if they exist.

[BVD Press]

We only have a few over at Cimarron for low brass quartet in general. I am not sure why, but maybe there is just not an outlet for 5 parts for low brass.

You can find a few here:

http://www.cimarronmusic.com/brass/tuba ... ba-quintet

but not trombone and tuba.

[timayer]

Those guys will either post or send you a private message. I'll send this thread to at least one of them for you...

Thank you!

...or (maybe, since there are so many more QUARtets) you could just be a "listener".

I had thought of something similar: Perform the sextets and randomly pick the voice to omit. We could call ourselves "Awkward Silence."

[timayer]

BVD - Thank you. I'll give them a look.