What can be more fun than playing Christmas Carols during the festive season?

David Mathie has arranged 25 Christmas Carol Favorites for Tuba Quartet (2 Euph & 2 Tubas) in easily played keys, all in bass clef, in hymnal style, perfect for sing-alongs. Your congregation/audience will join in to help you fill the room or the great outdoors with the glorious sounds of Christmas.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Angels We Have Heard on High

2. Away in a Manger

3. Bring a Torch

4. Coventry Carol

5. Deck the Halls

6. The First Noel

7. God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen

8. Good King Wenceslas

9. Good Christian Men, Rejoice

10. Hark! the Herald Angels Sing

11. The Holly and the Ivy

12. I Saw Three Ships

13. It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

14. Joy to the World

15. Lo, How a Rose E?er Blooming

16. O Come, All Ye Faithful

17. O Little Town of Bethlehem

18. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

19. Silent Night

20. Sussex Carol

21. Wassail Song

22. We Wish You a Merry Christmas

23. We Three Kings

24. What Child Is This?

25. While Shepherds Watched

You can't have any more fun "Low Down" than playing the "Tuba Blues 2".

Tuba Blues 2 is a new work in a ?jazzy blues/swing? style for Tuba Quartet (2 Euphoniums and 2 Tubas) plus a Drum Set.

This work follows the great success of the first Tuba Blues by Henry Wolking.

About 5 1/2 minutes in length for advanced performers. Euph 1 & 2 have improvised solos and all the other parts get their share of the limelight in other ways. There is a set of parts for 1st and 2nd Euphonium parts with the solos written out for those needing a bit of help with improvising. An optional drum kit part fills in for a wonderful character piece on your next concert.

Anton Bruckner's Virga Jesse, Motet W.A.B. 52, for 4-part Tuba Ensemble was written in 1885 as a tribute to Jesse, the father of King David. The text is based on Isaiah 11 establishing Jesus in the lineage of King David.

The music is symphonic in breadth, but also harkens back to Gregorian Chant and Renaissance polyphony. As with so much of Bruckner's music, long phrases begin softly and mysteriously, building to giant ecstatic climaxes.

Robert Coulter has beautifully arranged this work of 4 minutes in length for performers at a moderately advanced level. Parts are all in bass clef for 2 Euphoniums and 2 Tubas.

Ciacona (original key of F minor for organ) has been beautifully arranged for Tuba/Euphonium Quartet in G minor by Mark LaFratta. It is likely Pachelbel?s second most famous work, after the Kanon in D. As is typical for a Ciacona (Chaconne), there is a short simple tune in triple meter over a repeating bass ostinato that provides a vehicle for variation, ornamentation, and melodic invention and is somewhat similar to a passacaglia. There is a passage or two that even have hints of Bach's great Passacaglia, which didn't appear for many years in the future.

Pachelbel's Ciacona states an opening theme followed by 22 variations, the last of which is an almost exact repeat of the opening theme.

This fantastic 8-minute arrangement is appropriate for advanced performers and is scored for 2 Euphoniums and 2 Tubas.

Gabrieli's music has been a staple of brass repertoire for years. The low brass quartet gives this music a warm, robust character that other combinations lack.