25 selected Christmas Duets for Trumpet/Cornet or Trombone/Euphonium treble clef - VOL.2.
Easy for beginner - intermediate, comfortable range and keys.
Contents titles: Adeste Fideles - As Lately We Watched -Auld Lang Syne - Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabelle - Children, Go Where I Send Thee - Coventry Carol, The - Ding Dong Merrily on High - Friendly Beasts, The - Go Tell it on the Mountain - Good King Wenceslas - Holly and the Ivy, The - I saw three ships - In Notte Placida - It Came Upon the Midnight Clear - Joy to The World - Lullaby - O Sanctissima - Once in Royal David's City - Patapan - Ring Out, Wild Bells - Sans Day Carol - Tu scendi dalle stelle - Up on the Housetop - We Wish you a Merry Christmas - Winter's Snow.

25 selected Christmas Duets for Trumpet/Cornet or Trombone/Euphonium treble clef - VOL.1.
Easy for beginner - intermediate, comfortable range and keys.
Contents titles: Adeste Fideles - As Lately We Watched -Auld Lang Syne - Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabelle - Children, Go Where I Send Thee - Coventry Carol, The - Ding Dong Merrily on High - Friendly Beasts, The - Go Tell it on the Mountain - Good King Wenceslas - Holly and the Ivy, The - I saw three ships - In Notte Placida - It Came Upon the Midnight Clear - Joy to The World - Lullaby - O Sanctissima - Once in Royal David's City - Patapan - Ring Out, Wild Bells - Sans Day Carol - Tu scendi dalle stelle - Up on the Housetop - We Wish you a Merry Christmas - Winter's Snow.

This accessible and appropriate Christmas collection of duets for Bb-Trumpet or C-Trumpet with Piano accompaniment. All songs are either arranged or composed by Stephen DeCesare. The accompaniment Contents are: "Over The River And Through The Woods", "Wexford Carol", "Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle", "Silent Night", "In The Bleak Midwinter with Silent Night" and "What Child Is This".

This is a book of popular pieces arranged for duet; it comprises both volumes from the '15 Duets for Fun' series, plus the '21 Christmas Duets for Fun' as well, making a total of 51 duets in this set. The difficulty levels range from early-intermediate to advanced, and should provide something for everyone to enjoy. The pieces have been arranged so that both parts are interesting throughout - they often interweave and take on many roles within the music. A duet score is provided for each piece, and the repertoire covers wedding music, slow melodies, traditional Welsh melodies, baroque classics, famous symphonic melodies, piano works, Christmas classics and other popular pieces. This is the full list:


1. Jingle Bells v1
2. Jingle Bells v2
3. Ding Dong Merrily On High v1
4. Ding Dong Merrily On High v2
5. Ding Dong Merrily On High v3
6. Joy To The World v1
7. Joy To The World v2
8. Joy To The World v3
9. Deck The Halls v1
10. Deck The Halls v2
11. Deck The Halls v3
12. O Christmas Tree v1
13. O Christmas Tree v2
14. Silent Night v1
15. Silent Night v2
16. Silent Night v3
17. O Little Town Of Bethlehem v1
18. O Little Town Of Bethlehem v2
19. O Little Town Of Bethlehem v3
20. God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen v1
21. God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen v2
22. All Through The Night (Welsh trad.)
23. Amazing Grace (Newton)
24. American Patrol (Meacham)
25. David of the White Rock (Welsh trad.)
26. Fanfare from ?Water Music? (Handel)
27. Happy Birthday
28. Largo from ?Xerxes? (Handel)
29. Myfanwy (Welsh trad.)
30. Pizzicati from ?Sylvia? (Delibes)
31. Prelude in C (Bach)
32. La Réjouissance from ?Music for the Royal Fireworks? (Handel)
33. Rondo from ?Abdelazer? (Purcell)
34. Scherzo from Symphony No. 2 (Beethoven)
35. Suo Gan (Welsh trad.)
36. Concerto for Mandolin and Strings (Ugolino)
37. The Entertainer (Scott Joplin)
38. Highlights from Rhapsody In Blue (Gershwin)
39. The Blue Danube Waltz (Johann Strauss II)
40. Six Christmas Pieces, No.5 (Mendelssohn)
41. Für Elise (Beethoven)
42. In The Hall Of The Mountain King (Grieg)
43. Trumpet Voluntary (Jeremiah Clarke)
44. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik No.1 (Mozart)
45. The Londonderry Air / Danny Boy (trad.)
46. Symphony No.5, Mvt.1 (Beethoven)
47. Rondo Alla Turca (Mozart)
48. ?Autumn? from ?The Four Seasons? (Vivaldi)
49. ?Ode to Joy? from Symphony No.9 (Beethoven)
50. March of the Toy Soldiers from ?The Nutcracker? (Tchaikovsky)
51. Prelude from ?Te Deum? (Charpentier)

This accessible and appropriate Christmas collection of duets for Trumpet (depending on the piece - either Bb-Trumpet or C-Trumpet) with Piano accompaniment. All songs have been arranged by Stephen DeCesare. The accompaniment Contents are: "O Holy Night", "Gesu Bambino", "In The Bleak Midwinter", "The Birthday of a King", "Away In A Manger", and "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel with O Come, Divine Messiah".

Trumpet Pro Pentatonic Tonalization
Introduction
Pro Pentatonics is a new book from the constantly growing Total Tonalization Series. It is book number five in the pentatonic series.

Technique in the form of pentatonic scales is most enthusiastically sought after by jazz musicians. Although the scale and its compositional uses are not limited to jazz, the practice of those scales is almost exclusively a "jazz thing." Not only is the pentatonic scale the root of the blues scale, but it is also used to varied degrees by most modern jazz musicians.

That said, there are certain benefits to practicing pentatonic scales that apply to all musicianship. For example, I believe that the best way to begin to learn and understand quartal harmony is via practicing the pentatonic scales. Pentatonic scales are constructed in perfect fourths. Let's look at the C pentatonic as an example:

E - A - D - G - C

Five notes a fourth apart from each other, beginning on E, produces all of the notes of the C pentatonic scale:

C - D - E - G - A

For this reason, the traditional scale patterns come alive with the sound of perfect fourths when applied to the pentatonic scale.

Quartal harmony is not limited to jazz compositions or improvisation. Many musicians since the early twentieth century have written compositions utilizing quartal harmony, and I believe that the first step to understanding those compositions and performing them is in practicing the pentatonic scales.

Aside from the theoretical applications of the pentatonic scale, there are also technical reasons to practice them. The removal of the fourth and seventh scale degrees (the tritone) creates a scale and inherent patterns which become far clumsier to perform than the traditional major scales. The agility and flexibility required offer the diligent practicer an edge over those who do not practice such things.