A swing style interpretation of the Christmas classic for two intermediate tubas.

Robert Coulter's arrangement of Eight Duets for Euphonium and Tuba or Two Tubas by Handel is a great way to get together to play or even record yourself and play back over the track. The music can be performed by Euphonium (mostly middle register) and Tuba or with two tubas with an F Tuba on the top part.

These Eight Duets are perfect for a recital, the teaching studio, or just for fun, appropriate for intermediate to moderately advanced performers, and total about 15 minutes of great music.

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.

The famous Little fugue in G minor originally for organ
arranged for Tuba Quartet by Dr. Tak Chiu Wong
2 Euphoniums, 2 Tubas

Score and Parts

Everyone knows Charlie Brown's "Christmas Time is Here", making this Tuba Quartet (2 Euphoniums and 2 Tubas) perfect for your Christmas concert. Your students will really enjoy playing this.

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.

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.

The Traditional Christmas Carol Joy to the World has been cleverly arranged in a jazz style for 6-part Tuba Ensemble (3 Euphoniums and 3 Tubas) by Los Angeles studio Trombonist, composer and arranger Randy Aldcroft. The arrangement was commissioned by Jim Self for his recent Christmas album, Tis The Season Tuba Jolly on Basset Hound Records.

The music includes a lush jazz-chorded introduction followed by a jazz waltz. This 4-minute arrangement is perfect for moderately advanced performers.

Bass and Treble parts are included for the Euphonium parts.

Below is a beautiful audio sample of the arrangement by Jim Self and colleagues from his Christmas album (CD is available for sale on Amazon®).

A hallmark of this American TV series is each episode's opening scene, in which Briggs or Phelps receives his instructions from a faceless voice, delivered on a recording which then self-destructs; this is immediately followed by the theme music, composed by Lalo Schifrin. This music is presented here in an exciting arrangement for tuba quartet with optional drum kit; it works as a great opener to a concert.