No Time To Die, the main theme from the 2021 James Bond film of the same name, was written by Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas O'Connell, and was released to critical acclaim. This arrangement for french horn quartet captures the excitement of the original song, and is challenging yet rewarding. The first horn part requires a top C.

The PDF download includes a full score and all four horn parts

Like Robert Schumann who often favoured the horn, Sir Michael Tippett who died on 8 January 1998 makes full use of the instrument&lsquo.s tonal possibilities in this work. He translated the Romantic genre of horn quartet into a modern tonal language: ".All movements contain characteristic calls and triad arpeggios. Sometimes the call itself is the theme, as in the fugue. Sometimes the calls are the accompaniment to a solo, such as in the nocturne.". (Tippett)

The forms of the four movements, however, are traditional. The structure of the fist movement is reminiscent of the form of a strophic song. The second movement is an allegro, the slow third a nocturne in the traditional ABA form. And fially the last movement is a capricious fugue.