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

Maurer's 12 Kleine Stücke (12 Little Pieces) for five brass were published posthumously in 1881 and were written for two cornets in B?, two horns in E?, and one bass trombone. They are important works for brass in that they are some of the earliest pieces of brass chamber music existing; with Anton Simon?s Quartuor en forme de sonatine, Alexander Glazinov?s In modo religioso and Wilhelm Ramsøe?s five Quartets they remain some of the handful of original brass works from the nineteenth century. This edition is taken from the first version published by A. Büttner of St. Petersburg, Russia. In order to make it more accessible for a modern brass quintet the second horn part is transposed for trombone, and the lowest part may be performed on either tuba or bass trombone. I have tried to resolve the many contradictions in articulations found in the original score while keeping this edition as close to the original as possible. Many brass players may be unfamiliar with the complete version of this piece; I encourage them to perform the entire work as Maurer originally intended.