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Low brass quintets?

Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 6:08 pm
by 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.

Re: Low brass quintets?

Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 9:01 pm
by 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.

Re: Low brass quintets?

Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 11:36 am
by timayer
bloke wrote: 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!
bloke wrote:
...or (maybe, since there are so many more QUARtets) you could just be a "listener". :P :wink:
I had thought of something similar: Perform the sextets and randomly pick the voice to omit. We could call ourselves "Awkward Silence."

Re: Low brass quintets?

Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 11:37 am
by timayer
BVD - Thank you. I'll give them a look.