La Peri Fanfare by Paul Dukas

[oldbandnerd]

I am looking for a large brass ensemble arrangement on this piece. The only on I have found so far was at Hickeys and it was not usable because the trumpet parts were in C,there wasn't a part written for euphonium and the trombone parts were in tenor clef .
Does anyone know of a publisher that has a good arrangement that includes a part for euphonium and the trumpet/trombone parts won't have to be transposed ?
I would also like some suggestions of brass ensemble pieces written so that they could be played by the brass sections from a community band. We're thinking of doing a brass feature at one of next years concert .

[tubabike]

I would check the Robert King catalog. There are hundreds of Brass Choir arrangements and many of them consist of 4-5 basic voices with optional parts that should cover all of your buddies in the community band. Not only are these arrangements very accesible but most of them are great works as well. Looking for something outside of the Robert King Genre? I might suggest the Fanfares by David Uber and John Cheetham. They are both outstanding works and I have had great success preparing them with advanced high school- aged brass choirs.

Best of Luck!

[oldbandnerd]

Thanks for the help "elephant" but I already knew all of that . The one for sale at Hickeys is a direct transcription from the original orchestral work and not usable . The need to transpose makes it too difficult for our members .

[LoyalTubist]

When I was in high school we played the orchestra version. The trombone players were taught the fine art of reading tenor and alto clefs. Actually, with the band director's instructions, they had to write their own transpositions--staff paper furnished by the band. It worked fine. Nowadays, you can use either Sibelius or Finale programs and get amazingly speedy results.

[MartyNeilan]

Nothing like standing out in the cold for an hour or so silently and having to come in on that opening high Ab. Definitely a good idea to keep humming that pitch in your head beforehand (for those of us without perfect pitch.)

[GC]

There's a brass band arrangement out there. I've played it a couple of times before. Your trumpets won't have to transpose, but your low brass instruments will all have to read treble clef (except bass trombone). And the horn parts are written for Eb tenor. The high Ab is only in the Eb tuba part.

[Highams]

Free Brass Band arrangement;

http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/sh ... reid=86327

CB

[oldbandnerd]

Thanks for this Charley . I'll look into this when I get my computer working correctly again.

[tbn.al]

Just get the Karl King-published set. It includes all the alternates you want.

Robert King maybe? The only set listed in the catalogue is for the original instrumentation, 343.01. It doesn't list any substitute parts. In 1967 my college brass choir played a Robert King version that included a Euph part. It may have been discontinued after Leduc took over. You might check with "Andy" Anders, brass chair at Ark Tech University. He was part of the 1967 group and has access to the Tech library. All said the easiest course of action may be to transpose the trumpet parts and write a euph part using the tuba part as a guide.

[tbn.al]

Right. Robert King. Didn't know catalogs listed alternate parts?!?[/quote]

Upon further review....... You may be right on this one. The pieces from the old Robert King catalogue still list alternate/substitute parts in brackets HN[TB]. This evidently is the Leduc edition added after the merge and is listed with the standard nomenclature, 343.01. No alternates listed. Dosn't mean they don't exist. You would just have to call and get them to pull the parts to look. I am pretty sure the Euph part was published in the old Robt. King edition. I had to read it one night when the euph player didn't show for rehearsal and I don't remember anything hand written, but that has been 40 years ago. However, my long term memory is better than my short term. That's part of getting old.

[jmh3412]

I am sure that June Emerson Music publish their own version which was recorded by the Phillip Jones Brass Ensemble

https://www.juneemerson.co.uk/

[oldbandnerd]

I have found the June Emerson sit and it offers two different arrangements. Can anyone decipher what the description means ? :

Dukas: FANFARE 'La Péri' set of parts ( Brass Choir A - G )
Instrumentation: 3431 Grade: D
Pub.ref: Dur
Price: £11.80

[jmh3412]

Instrumentation is 3 Trumpets 4 Horns 3 Trombones Tuba. Grade D is the difficulty grading with E being the hardest

[oldbandnerd]

Thanks for the help .

[Brassworks 4]

I have the following available from TBQ Press:

TBQ-084 Fanfare from Le Peri $15
11 piece Brass
3 Bb Tpt, 4 F Hrn, 3 Trb, Tba


It can be found half way down the page, under American Brass Band and Choirs 9+ at: http://brassworks4.com/brass_band.html

[LoyalTubist]

Just remember that if you speak to an audience about this piece that his name is pronounced Duck-***. Very important.

This is like the concert I went to here in Vietnam and they had to substitute the First Brandenburg Concerto by Joe Han Se Bis Chun Bitch.

[oldbandnerd]

Highams wrote :

Free Brass Band arrangement;

http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/sh ... reid=86327

Charley,
Thanks for this tip. I finally got my computer working right again and was able to load the needed progam to view this arrangement. This is a terrific arrangement but sad to say I can't use it . The low brass is in treble clef and it calls for instruments we don't have ,ie. flugle horn and Eb tuba . I doubt the two kids playing tuba even knows what a Eb tuba is. LOL .Not much chance of them transposeing from Eb AND treble clef at the same time . I appreciate your trying to help though .
I found an arrangement on ebay and am waiting for it arrive in the mail to see if it is going to work .

Tommy