"Moonlight on the Nile", a charming Tin Pan Alley song composed by Julius Lenzberg, starts out in a minor key, with a decidedly exotic rhythmic background. At the chorus the rhythmic background is maintained, but the piece switches to a major key. This piece is arranged to spread the melody across all four upper voices. Arranged for brass quintet (two Bb trumpets, French horn, trombone, and tuba). Performance time is approximately 2:15. Visit our website, www.tootsuitebrasspublishing.com, for a catalog of our arrangements available through sheetmusicplus.com.

Rock of Ages (Maoz Zur) - Hanukkah song in a choral-like arrangement for brass quintet. Easy and fun.

Handel's "See the Conqu'ring Hero Comes" from the oratory Judas Maccabaeus is also used as a Hanukkah Song (Hava Narima). Festive and Joyful!

JohannChristoph Pachelbel was a German baroque composer and organist. He was anacclaimed composer and organist during his lifetime, and was also regarded asan outstanding teacher. Today Pachelbel is considered to be one of the mostimportant organ composers of the middle Baroque: he made significantcontributions to the development of chorale prelude and fugue and brought theSouthern German organ tradition to its peak. During hislifetime, Pachelbel was best known as an organ composer. He wrote more than twohundred organ pieces, both liturgical and secular, and used most of the genresthat existed at the time. His other keyboard music includes harpsichord suitesand sets of variations. Pachelbel also composed numerous vocal works: arias,Magnificat settings, motets, sacred concertos, and chamber music. As acomposer, Pachelbel apparently was most interested in variation forms andassociated techniques. Variation techniques are in many of his organ worksespecially heard in the piece presented here, his Canon for which can be hearda full set of techniques. It is the only canon he wrote, yet is one of the mostpopular ones performed today. This quintetarrangement makes a great piece to play for church services, graduations andwedding processionals. It?s stately chordal progressions, chordal tonalitiesand variations have been especially popular with audiences around the world.

This arrangement for brass quintet is the short Bourr�e from Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks written in 1749 under contract of George II of Great Britain. The Bourr�e is a French dance taken from Spain in the 17th century. The dance starts with a pickup beat into a quick double-time dance with each subsequent phrase starting on the last beat of a four bar phrase. The dance itself is pleasant and carefree tune in a major key going to minor and back to major.This arrangement for brass provides a nice pleasant up beat selection that audiences or church goers will find pleasant to listen to. It also fills in nicely as an encore piece or opener for any concert.

This regal sounding fanfare piece serves to provide an exciting contemporary work for brass quintet. The royal themes and motifs in this work should be performed in a stately manner and not rushed. The work consists of two main fanfare motifs with several development sections interspersed throughout the piece. Throughout, attacks should be precise and clean. This work is a solid choice for a bright interesting fanfare piece that has been well accepted by audiences at church services and concerts where it has been performed.