Italian Folksongs Medley is a collection of six popular traditional Italian and Neapolitan folksongs arranged for Brass Quintet. The Titles Include: 1. Bella Ciao 2. Funiculi, Funicula, 3. O Sole Mio, 4. Torna a Surriento (Come Back to Sorrento), 5. Santa Lucia and 6. Tarantella. The piece can be played as a medley with repeats as desired or as individual pieces. This advanced intermediate level arrangement is suitable for a variety of performance application to include general performance, Weddings and other Italian celebrations. The approximate playing time for all songs is 9:30 with repeats and 5:00 without. To view and listen to this piece in its entirety as well hundreds of other arrangement and transcriptions by Kenneth Abeling at the lowest prices available please visit: https://lincolnmusicpublications.com/

Bernard Scherr has arranged six lovely Portuguese Folksongs for Brass Quintet entitled:

1. Mourisca do Santo João de Braga (Moorish architechture of Saint John of Braga) as a march

2. A Pastorinha (The Shepherdess) - a lovely andantino

3. O Xi-Xi (Wee-wee) - a silly song

4. O ai, o linda! (Oh, the beauty!) - a lyrical romance

5. Coradinha (The blushing one) - a dance-like jaunt

6. Carro amaricano (American Car) - driving around in the auto

These movements are of contrasting styles and will make a lovely addition to your program.

Instrumentation is for 2 Trumpets in B-flat, Horn, Trombone & Tuba.

For advanced performers.

Perform this masterful medley/mash-up for Brass Quintet that includes Happy Birthday as the main theme with For He's a Jolly Good Fellow and The Old Gray Mare. Expertly arranged by French Hornist, Daniel Kelley. www.lastresortmusic.comThe following parts are included in the set:Part 1 for TrumpetPart 2 for TrumpetPart 3 for French HornPart 4 for TrombonePart 5 for TubaScore.

"Bella ciao" is an Italian popular song that was adopted
as an anthem of the anti-fascist resistance.
The Spanish series La casa de papel, made the song remarkably
popular as it is used in several episodes.
Arrangement for brass quintet.

"Down to the River to Pray" (also known as "Down in the River to Pray," "Down in the Valley to Pray," and "The Good Old Way") is a 19th-century American folk hymn variously attributed as an African-American spiritual/slave song, Appalachian song, and gospel song. In recent years, it was popularized in the 2000 motion picture, "O Brother, Where Art Thou," and by folk/bluegrass performer Alison Kraus.

In this arrangement, the first three presentations, or verses, of the pentatonic tune employ simple, traditional harmony and limited instrumentation, evoking the simplicity of folk-singing style. Verse 4 is characterized by a direct key change up a fourth (from concert Eb to Ab) and more active harmonies. After a short, two-bar modulation up one more step to Bb major, the final verse begins with rising parallel harmonies under the melody in trumpet 1, and continues with more contemporary harmonies. The piece concludes with a simple "Amen"-like ending.

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One of the best-loved gospel songs worldwide, ?How Great Thou Art? began as a nine-stanza hymn of praise, ?O Store Gud? (?O Great God?), written in 1885 by Swedish poet and lay minister Carl Gustav Boberg (1859?1940). In 1891 Boberg published the poem, accompanied by a Swedish folk melody, in Sanningsvittnet (Witness for the Truth), a weekly Christian journal of which he was editor. Today, the tune is commonly named ?Sanningsvittnet? in hymnals. From its Swedish origins, the text was translated to German in 1907, then to Russian in 1912. The Russian text became the basis for a translation to English by Stuart W. K. Hine (1899?1989), a British Methodist missionary who discovered it in 1931 while on mission in the Ukraine. Hine's work commonly contains four verses: the first two being a relatively close translation of stanzas by Boberg, and the latter two being original verses by Hine. Published in 1949, ?How Great Thou Art? gained great popularity in North America after George Beverly Shea began singing it in the Billy Graham evangelistic crusades in 1955. It has been named the #1 favorite hymn by respondents to various polls in both the United States and United Kingdom. ©Copyright 2013 Todd Marchand / ConSpiritoMusic.com