Easter Suggestions for Quintet??

[Chuck Jackson]

This may or may not be any help, BUT, all the things we think of as standard Easter Tunes, Voluntary on Old 100th, Christ the Lord Has Risen Today, and the like, are more of a Protestant bent. The only reason I bring this up is that in the distant past when I booked a quintet gig at Easter in a Catholic Church and played some of these tunes, we were asked NOT to play them at the 2nd service because of their "Reformist" nature.

You would probably do well to play anything Renaissance, Gabrieli and the like, as they are, in a sense, extremely Catholic composers (think St. Marks in Venice), and they just sound cool in a big church. Good Luck.


Chuck

[djwesp]

This may or may not be any help, BUT, all the things we think of as standard Easter Tunes, Voluntary on Old 100th, Christ the Lord Has Risen Today, and the like, are more of a Protestant bent. The only reason I bring this up is that in the distant past when I booked a quintet gig at Easter in a Catholic Church and played some of these tunes, we were asked NOT to play them at the 2nd service because of their "Reformist" nature.

You would probably do well to play anything Renaissace, Gabrieli and the like, as they are, in a sense, extremely Catholic composers (tink St. Marks in Venice), and they just sound cool in a big church. Good Luck.


Chuck

Wow. What I'd give to perform to a crowd that doesn't consider VH1'S "Behind the Music" the pinnacle of Music History.

[Chuck Jackson]

Wow. What I'd give to perform to a crowd that doesn't consider VH1'S "Behind the Music" the pinnacle of Music History.

LOL. Let me give you a little provenance. This particular gig was around the same time as IBM introduced their new screaming 286DX2 machine that ran the "world changing" Windows 3.1 and Ronnie Raygun was still or CinC. The head priest asked us not to play the stuff. I went home ad wrote my Mom a letter that afternoon with *GASP* a ball point pen and that stuff called paper, ya'll remember that, dontcha?. I think you probably could get away with "Here Comes Peter Cottontail" in this day and age.

Chuck"I probably should have stressed the whole distant past thing in my first post"Jackson

[sungfw]

I'm currently arranging March Pontificale by Charles Gounod for brass quintet. (Can't get much more Catholic than the national anthem of the Vatican!) If you're interested, I'll send you a copy when it's finished.

In the meantime, take a look at Handel's "See the Conquering Hero Comes" from the oratorio Judas Maccabaeus, which is familiar to Catholics and Protestants as the tune to the Easter hymn, "Thine Be the Glory." There are several brass quintet arrangements, both with and without organ accompaniment. Ben Roundtree has a very fine arrangement for brass septet and organ that could easily be rescored for brass quintet.

I would also suggest [/i]Canzona Spiritata[/i] by Gabrieli, the Gloria from Mozart's Twelfth Mass (which was actually written by Wenzel Müller), and Gloria from Vivaldi's Gloria in D Major, RV 589 (though the Vivaldi would likely require a fair amount of rehearsal).

Finally, spend some time browsing the Werner Icking Musical Archive. There are over 100 free brass quintet arrangements of classical works by Michael Rondeau, as well as arrangements by others.

[Steve Inman]

I am interested in this version, if anyone has it. Last time I visited TubaDome, Roger Lewis also recommended it and made the same suggestion -- post a polite plea on TubeNet for a copy. [here it is: "Please?" ]

Also, our quintet has a different version of this, also with a challenging tuba part. Arranged by Robert Madeson, (c) 1993 by A.M.S.I. I don't remember where I purchased this version, but a quick Google search will provide you with many options. Our quintet really likes this version.

There's also "Alleluia" ('for brass quintet') Steve Cooper arranger, (c) 1993 by Trigram Music -- a fairly straightforward piece with a few quick trumpet passages.

Cheers,

[Z-Tuba Dude]

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