Palm Sunday

scouterbill · Post by **scouterbill** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:40 am

Our quintet just got a gig for Palm Sunday. Anybody have a suggestion for music? How about something with choir and/or organ? We have some pieces for Easter, but they donâ€™t fit for Palm Sunday.

TubaRay · Post by **TubaRay** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:38 am

Greg wrote:I have a good arrangement of "Rubber Duckie" for solo tuba with brass quintet....

Now that would seem to call not for the palm, but the back of the hand(slap).

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:49 am

Anything with the word "Hosanna" in the title.

sungfw · Post by **sungfw** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:52 am

A few suggestions:

Stephen Adams, The Holy City;
L. van Beethoven, Hallelujah Chorus from Christ on the Mount of Olives;
G. Carissimi, Plorate Filii Israel;
Jean-Baptiste Faure, The Palms;
G. F. Handel, Awake the Trumpet's Lofty Sound
______, Tochter Zion;
J. M. Neale, All Glory Laud and Honor;
Camille Saint-SÃ¤ens, Tollite Hostias
Georg Vogler, Hosianna Davids Sohn

These are all available with or without choir and/or organ.

sungfw · Post by **sungfw** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:55 am

iiipopes wrote:Anything with the word "Hosanna" in the title.

I suspect that "Sing Hosannah," aka "Give Me Oil in My Lamp[/i] would NOT be appropriate.

tbn.al · Post by **tbn.al** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:09 am

sungfw wrote:These are all available with or without choir and/or organ.

Where? Been looking for a couple of these for a while. I've got a partialy done Faure in my computer because I couldn't find one.

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:37 am

sungfw wrote:
iiipopes wrote:Anything with the word "Hosanna" in the title.
I suspect that "Sing Hosannah," aka "Give Me Oil in My Lamp[/i] would NOT be appropriate.

Well, true. Never mind.

Having to wether an ice storm home bound for two days sometimes vents in the most unexpected places.

My first comment was probably inappropriate as well.

Great selections above, however.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 12:11 pm

Greg wrote:I have a good arrangement of "Rubber Duckie" for solo tuba with brass quintet....

iiipopes wrote:Anything with the word "Hosanna" in the title.

"Hosanna Duckie", then, should be quite popular...

SplatterTone · Post by **SplatterTone** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 2:02 pm

Don't forget:
Hosusanna, Hosanna don't you cry
I come from Alabama with .....

ken k · Post by **ken k** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 2:22 pm

"Put your hand in the hand of the man....."

"I wanna hold your hand..."

or

"He's got the whole world, in his hand"

Sorry I couldn't resist.

AKBrasspress.com sells an arrangement of Faures "The Palms," which I wrote just for this occasion/purpose.

http://akbrasspress.com/osc/product_inf ... cc9e0c1355

ken k

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:19 pm

"You put your right foot in, you put your right foot out, ..."

Brassworks 4 · Post by **Brassworks 4** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 11:25 pm

The following is a new releases that includes a great chart for Palm Sunday. I've recently added this writer - VERY exciting charts.

BW564 Festival Brass: Quintets for the Easter and Christmas Seasons
Arr. Tim Carpenter
2 Bb Tpt, F Hrn, Trb, Tba
1. Palm Sunday: Hosanna Loud Hosanna (Ellecombe)
2. Easter: Up from the Grave (Christ Arose)
3. Advent: The King Shall Come (Kentucky Harmony)
4. Christmas: Good Christian Men Rejoice (In Dulci Jubilo)

Craig Garner · Post by **Craig Garner** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 9:30 am

iiipopes wrote:Anything with the word "Hosanna" in the title.

I have arranged "Hosanna!" by Berlioz for brass quintet and organ. Like you, our quintet needed music for Palm Sunday and it is hard to find. "Hosanna!" is from the Berlioz Requiem. The Hosanna theme is set as a fugue with a quiet, hymn-like Andante in the middle and then a return of the fugal Hosanna. Except for the Andante, it is bright and loud and dramatic - classic Berlioz. We have also performed this for Easter.

You can see a sample page and listen to a sample of the arrangememt at www.dorm40music.com. Just search under SCORES by title (Hosanna) or composer (Berlioz).

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:47 am

"Burn, Baby Burn"?

Dan Schultz · Post by **Dan Schultz** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:14 am

That seems sort of odd to me. I frequently do church gigs and they ALWAYS tell us what to play. Doesn't the church have some sort of 'director of music'?

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:21 am

TubaTinker wrote:I frequently do church gigs and they ALWAYS tell us what to play.

That's because they know what you "musician-types" would pick, if left to your own devices. Too Fat Hosanna Polka... They aren't taking any chances with the congregation!

ken k · Post by **ken k** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 12:03 pm

TubaTinker wrote:That seems sort of odd to me. I frequently do church gigs and they ALWAYS tell us what to play. Doesn't the church have some sort of 'director of music'?

Usually when we play a church gig, we will be asked to play 2 or 3 pieces as prelude to the service or postulde after the service or perhaps an offertory piece. For those situtations we are usually free to pick something appropriate. Someimtes they will offer suggestions as to the style or title of the piece.

The director picks the anthem which usually includes brass accompaniment or an organ and brass piece. Also the hymns of the day are picked and we will accompany them, usually reading out of the hymnal, unless there is a special arrangement the director is using.

ken k

ken k

scouterbill · Post by **scouterbill** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 8:19 pm

That seems sort of odd to me. I frequently do church gigs and they ALWAYS tell us what to play. Doesn't the church have some sort of 'director of music'?

I'll meet with the director early next week. She wanted me to bring any "Palm Sunday" stuff we had in our book. We only have a Moravian Hosanna that I arranged last year. But like any other choral work transcribed for quintet, without the text to give the music context, it is another pretty piece. I guess I could pull out any old obscure baroque piece and call it Hosanna or Triumphal Entry and go with that. I think she has some two choir hosanna type pieces that we can arrange for choir and brass. Iâ€™ll have to hunt up some of these pieces and be ready for next year. Maybe I'll find that Hosanna polka