Christmas Tuba Quartet: Seeking Charts

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Christmas Tuba Quartet: Seeking Charts

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The hoiliday season is approaching. I hate to be posting this early, but I'm looking for some fun, challenging Christmas charts for a tuba quartet.

Any and all recommendations would be helpful.

Thanks!
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If all else fails, pull out a hymnal, and play the SATB parts. It tends to work quite nicely.
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Check with Cimarron Music. They have my book, called Good Cheer, but I think that is simpler than you want. But our Coast Guard quartet got good mileage out of Gary Buttery's arrangements of Greensleeves ("What Child Is This") and An English Folk Christmas (medley, and lots of fun for all 4).
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If you have two euphoniums that read Bb treble clef (British brass band style), buy the Mary Rassmussen Christmas carol books that Robert King published and use the trumpet 1 & 2 books plus the trombone substitute for horn and the baritone/tuba book and you will have all four parts covered.

Otherwise, get a set of Tuba Christmas book from the Harvey Phillips Foundation.
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Pm the elephant on here. He has a fantastic arrangement of a ton of music that in the past he has been most generous about sharing.
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3 verses. Choose bass line for bass or contrabass tuba. Available for free via the link in my signature. More Christmas related stuff there.

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Besides the Alec WIlder stuff, I did Tubachristmas last year here in Orlando. Some of those charts are absolutely brutal on the chops!

Most of the stuff was written by Gail Robertson, and I think Paul Weikle did a lot of them, too.
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How about just playing the tuba christmas book, one per part?
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CimmaronMusic also has my arrangement of 6 movements from The Nutcracker Suite, as well as The Parade of the Wooden Tubas, all played successfully at the Connecticut and other Tuba Christmases. If you are interested in Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals, reply privately.
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