Gottschalk was one of America's firstimportant composers. His numerous worksfor piano are mostly light. His Marche desGibaros from the Souvenir de Porto Ricotranscribed by Karl Hinterbichler is lively andbright. American born Louis MoreauGottschalk (1829-1869) was one of thegreat pianist/composers of his day. Hebegan his career in Europe but spent mostof his life touring from coast to coast in theUS, as well as South America, and theCaribbean.

He composed more than 100 works whichcombine the typical European Romanticvirtuoso style with musical traditions fromSouth America, the Caribbean, Spain andsacred and popular songs from the UnitedStates.

Originally for solo piano, Souvenir de PortoRico (op. 31), bears the subtitle Marche desGibaros, a reference to the peasants of theisland. The simple melody derives from aPuerto Rican song 'Si me dan pasteles, lesdénmelos calientes,' 'If you give me cakes,give them to me hot,' sung by strollingmusicians during the Puerto RicanChristmas season. This simple melody isthen subjected to a series of variations. Themusic depicts the sound of strollingmusicians, first heard in the distance,coming ever closer, rising to a climax andthen fading as the Gibaros march away intothe distance. The syncopated rhythmsstrongly suggest its Caribbean origins.

Instrumentation is for 2 Trumpets in Bb(Trumpet 1 doubles on Piccolo), Horn,Trombone and Tuba.

The 120 Melodious Etudes of Marco Bordogni were introduced in a three-volume set in 1928 by Trombonist Joannes Rochut and have been used for almost 100 years as pedagogical tools primarily in the low brass world. Their bel canto style, using beautiful tone and precise legato are their hallmark.

Bass Trombonist Nir Fishkin has artfully arranged 10 Melodious Etudes for Brass Quintet which are suitable for moderately advanced performers. The arrangements spread the melody around between the five parts.

The Trumpet parts are in B-flat.

The Carmen Suites are two suites of orchestral music drawn from the music of Georges Bizet's 1875 opera Carmen and compiled posthumously by his friend Ernest Guiraud. They adhere very closely to Bizet's orchestration. This arrangement includes: 1) Prélude: Act I, Prélude: "Fate" motive - 2) Aragonaise: Interlude (Entr'acte) before Act I - 3) Intermezzo: Interlude (Entr'acte) before Act III - 4) Séguedille: Act I, Seguidilla (Carmen): Près des remparts de Séville - 5) Les Dragons d'Alcala: Interlude (Entr'acte) before Act II - 6) Les Toréadors: Theme from Prelude to Act I and Procession of the Toreadors from Act IV: Les voici! voici la quadrille des Toreros!

"Jingle Bells" is one of the best-known and commonly sung American songs in the world. It was written by James Lord Pierpont (1822?1893) and published under the title "One Horse Open Sleigh" in the autumn of 1857. It has been claimed that it was originally written to be sung by a Sunday school choir; however, historians dispute this, stating that it was much too "racy" (and secular) to be sung by a children's church choir in the days it was written. Although not originally intended on having any connection to Christmas, it became associated with Christmas music and the holiday season in general decades after it was first performed on Washington Street in Boston in 1857. This jazz-swing arrangement for brass quintet includes the following parts: Bb Trumpet 1, Bb Trumpet 2, F Horn, Trombone, Tuba. There are two different keys (Bb and Ab) in the arrangement to meet all the quintet's execution capabilities.

With ten of the most popular pieces for wedding ceremonies, this intermediate-level collection is perfect for aspiring and professional musicians alike. Arranged for brass quintet.

Air on the G String
Bridal Chorus
Canon in D
Clair de Lune
The Four Seasons (Spring)
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Ode to Joy
Prelude No. 1 from the Well-Tempered Clavier Bk 1
Trumpet Voluntary
Wedding March

Includes all scores and parts.

It?s the Christmas holiday season, and brass quintets throughout Christendom get ready to serenade congregations in churches, shoppers in malls, and party goers at festive receptions. Here is Volume II, with 18 more of the best known carols for the Christmas season. The quintet include two trumpets, French horn, trombone, and tuba. ?Parts are available for trumpets in both C and B-flat, and a Baritone Horn (TC) is included as a substitute for Trombone. Volume II contains the following carols: 23. Jingle Bells 24. Jolly Old Saint Nicholas 25. Joy to the World 26. Lo, How a Rose E?er Blooming 27. Lullay, Thou Little Tiny Child (The Coventry Carol) 28. O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste, Fideles) 29. O Come, Little Children 30. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel 31. O, Little Town of Bethlehem (American) 32. O, Little Town of Bethlehem (British) 33. O Sactissima 34. O Tannenbaum 35. Silent Night 36. Up on the House Top 37. A Virgin Unspotted 38. We Three Kings of Orient Are 39. We Wish You a Merry Christmas 40. What Child Is This?

This is a mega-bundle of brass quintet repertoire, totalling 34 pieces and over 500 pages of music. Full scores and parts are provided for all pieces, covering weddings, Christmas music, slow melodies, traditional Welsh melodies and baroque classics. The hymns include freshly-composed descants and there are some pieces which aren't in the 'usual' brass repertoire such as the Mozart Variations and the extract from Borghild's Dream. This is the full list: 1. Wedding March (from A Midsummer Night?s Dream) (Mendelssohn) 2. Wedding March (Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin) (RichardWagner) 3. 9 Popular Hymn Tunes 4. Amazing Grace (Newton) 5. Triumphal March (Karg-Elert) 6. Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 (Bach) 7. Prelude in C (Bach) 8. Canon (Pachelbel) 9. Let The Bright Seraphim from ?Samson? (Handel) 10. Fanfarefrom ?Water Music? (Handel) 11. LaRéjouissance from ?Music for the Royal Fireworks? (Handel) 12. Rondofrom ?Abdelazer? (Purcell) 13. Largofrom ?Xerxes? (Handel) 14. ArLan y Môr (Welsh trad.) 15. Davidof the White Rock (Welsh trad.) 16. Myfanwy(Welsh trad.) 17. SuoGan (Welsh trad.) 18. PianoSonata No.8 Op.13 ?Pathétique? - 2nd mvt. (Beethoven) 19. 12Variations on ?Twinkle Twinkle Little Star? (Mozart) 20. Borghild?sDream from ?Sigurd Jorsalfar? (Grieg) 21. Pizzicatifrom ?Sylvia? (Delibes) 22. Preludein C minor (Chopin) 23. Concerto for Mandolin and Strings - 1st mvt. (Ugolino) 24. GymnopédieNo.1 (Satie) 25. GnossienneNo.1 (Satie) 26. AmericanPatrol (Meacham) 27. HappyBirthday 28. 15Christmas Carols 29. DeckThe Halls With Catchy Rhythms! (Welsh trad.) 30. DingDong Bing Bong! (French trad.) 31. JingleThose Bells! (Pierpoint) 32. OChristmas Tree 33. SilentNight (Gruber) 34. JoyTo The World (Mason) This pack represents a huge saving over the individually priced music, which would cost over $150.

27 November 1860 - 16 April 1935

Ewald was a Russian composer of music, mainly for conical brass instruments.He was born in Saint Petersburg and died in Leningrad. He also collected andpublished Russian folk songs. Ewald?s professional life, like that of many of his musicalcontemporaries, was in an entirely different field; that of a civil engineer, in which heexcelled, being appointed in 1900 as professor and manager of the Faculty ofConstruction Materials at the Institute of Civil Engineers. Brass players however areindebted to him for something very different ? a series of quintets which have becomea staple of the repertoire and which represent almost the only, and certainly the mostextended examples of original literature in the Romantic style. Ewald?s formal musicaltraining began in 1872 when he enrolled at the St Petersburg Conservatory at the ageof twelve. Founded in 1861 by Anton Rubenstein, this institution was the first of itskind in Russia and it was here that Ewald received lessons in cornet, piano, horn,cello, harmony and composition.As an adult he worked alongside fellow musicalnationalists known collectively as the Mighty Handful?Borodin, Mily Balakirev,

César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky and the most famous of all, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

All of these men had ?day jobs? in non-musical fields.
Ewald?s contributions as a composer reflected an abiding love for brass

instruments for which he wrote his quintets scored originally for two cornets, altohorn, baritone horn and tuba.

I've edited these four quartets using Ewald's original instrumentation, but thereare also separate substitute parts for the modern brass quintet (2 trumpets, horn in F,trombone and tuba).

The lush and lyrical Easter Hymn from the operaCavalleria Rusticana is sung as the villagers process into church on Easter morning. Perfect for a concert or a church service, especially an Easter service! This arrangement is fun to play and it's a unique addition to your current library of Easter music. Includes B-flat and C Trumpet parts. Performance time, 5:30. Published by Dorm 40 Music, www.dorm40music.com .

The third and most famous movement ofDebussy's Suite Bergamasque, "Clair de Lune" was writtenin about 1890, originally under the title "Promenade sentimentale".However, it went under a number of revisions prior to its publication in 1905,including changing its name to the French for moonlight. The name comes from apoem by Paul Verlaine of the same name; in fact it is the first stanza of thispoem that give the suite of pieces its name. This arrangement includes alternative parts for tenor horn, treble-clefeuphonium and tuba.

Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka, Op. 214, is a polka written by Johann Strauss II in 1858 after a successful tour of Russia where he performed in the summer concert season at Pavlovsk, Saint Petersburg. The title may be interpreted as "Chit-chat" and may refer to the Viennese passion for gossip. Strauss may also have been referencing the single act burlesque "Der Tritsch-tratsch" (with music by Adolf Müller, Sr.) by the famous Austrian dramatist and actor Johann Nestroy, which premiered in 1833 and was still in the stage repertoire when the polka was written. Many point out that the title may also have meant his first wife's (Henrietta Treffz) poodle, also named Tritsch-tratsch, but this etymology remains unsubstantiated as well. The mood of the piece is jaunty and high-spirited, as were many of Strauss' polkas. This arrangement for brass quintet includes the following parts: Bb Trumpet 1, Bb Trumpet 2, F Horn, Trombone, Tuba.

The Symphony No. 8 has been called more of a Slavonic rhapsody than a symphony. The folk-song character of this symphony is evident throughout, which makes so much fun to play. All four movements have been carefully abridged to retain all of the charm and lyricism of the original. This arrangement sounds so good, you might think Dvorak originally composed it for brass quintet! A great addition to your recital, concert or Pops program. Play one movement or play them all. Includes alternate C Trumpet parts. Performance time, 22:00. Published by Dorm 40 Music, www.dorm40music.com. Audio sample by the amazing Boston-based Triton Brass Quintet, performing live at Tanglewood.

This suite includes settings of "The Battle Cry of Freedom", "The Bonny Blue Flag", "Hard Crackers" combined with "Tenting on the Old Campground", and "When Johnny Comes Marching Home".?

Some of the most popular and beloved compositions by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Chopin and more are included in this collection of twenty classical themes. Arranged for brass quintet: two B-flat trumpets, french horn, trombone, and tuba. A range of early to late intermediate levels. Includes scores and individual parts.

Air on the G String, Ave Maria, Brahm's Lullaby, Canon in D, Dido's Lament, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Funeral March, Fur Elise, Hallelujah Chorus, In the Hall of the Mountain King, Jupiter, Largo, Ode to Joy, Pavane, Pomp and Circumstance, Sleeping Beauty, Spring, Blue Danube, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Trumpet Voluntary.