Christmas Songs for Brass Quintet – Brass Quintet

Christmas Songs for Brass Quintet includes arrangements of seven of your favorite carols: Angels We Have Heard On High, Deck the Halls, God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing!, It Came Upon A Midnight Clear, O Christmas Tree and O Little Town of Bethlehem. Each carol has a touch of the unexpected that will delight your audience.

The mp3 excerpt (used with permission) features the Southern California Brass Quintet playing Deck the Halls.

The score is oriented in landscape and the parts, portrait.

Composer: Scott Ninmer
Instrumentation: 2 Bb Trumpets, F Horn, Trombone & Tuba
Duration/# of Pages: ca. 12:00 / 64 pages, 8.5″ x 11″
Key: N/A

Continental Christmas, A – Brass Quintet

This European Christmas tour begins simply with the piccolo trumpet and trumpet introducing the Basque carol Khanta Zagum (Companions All Sing Loudly). Next is the German carol O Tannenbaum. Last is the Neapolitan carol Canzone d’i Zampognari (When Christ Our Lord Was Born).

Add a continental flair to your next Christmas concert.

Composer: Anne McGinty
Instrumentation: 2 Bb Trumpets, F Horn, Trombone & Tuba
Duration/# of Pages: ca. 2:30 / 13 pages, 8.5″ x 11″
Key: Bb min / Eb

Coventry Carol – Brass Quintet

Coventry Carol is an English carol written in the 16th century. The earliest known manuscript was from 1534. In those times there were local pageants, called “mystery plays,” in which the common folk performed dramatized stories from the Bible. This carol was part of the Pageant of the Shearmen and Taylors held in Coventry. It is the emotional climax of this long play and its plaintive melody is most effective.

This poignant carol is known for the use of the Picardy third, which adds a major chord at the cadence in a piece that is minor or modal.

Excerpt recorded by the Sine Nomine Brass Quintet.

Composer: Anne McGinty
Instrumentation: 2 Bb Trumpets, F Horn, Trombone & Tuba
Duration/# of Pages: ca. 2:10 / 11 pages, 8.5″ x 11″
Key: G min