SKU: CY.CC2517

Johann Wanhal (Vanhal) was an important classical composer from Bohemian/Czech heritage (1739-1813). His main living was as an organist and choirmaster, however Wanhal's musical output as a composer includes over a dozen concerti, many symphonies, chamber music, operas and much sacred music including 58 masses.

Wanhal is rumored to have played chamber music with Mozart, Haydn and Dittersdorf, with Wanhal on the cello.

In the 1770's Wanhal met the contrabassist Johannes Matthias Sperger and wrote a double bass concerto for him. The Concerto is in the key of E-Flat (original key of D for the double bass) in three movements and has been expertly arranged for Tuba and Piano by Ms. Janet Yarbrough of Duke University.

This work is available for solo Tuba with Wind Ensemble.

SKU: CY.CC2882

The ever-popular jazz standard That's A Plenty, composed by Lew Pollack in 1914 is a ragtime composition most often performed in the Dixieland style.
Keith Terrett has artfully arranged this 3-minute jazz favorite for Brass Quintet of advanced performers.

SKU: CY.CC2996

ISBN 9790530058152.

Here is a description of the music by the composer, Henry Wolking.
Mannequin Challenge is a work for brass quintet inspired by the participatory video fad in which a group of people are shown posing stock-still for the camera while music is playing in the background. It became a social media participating video fad in November 2016 (with the hashtag #mannequinChallenge). Since then it has had become a world-wide phenomena, sort of like the Ice-Bucket Challenge, which I considered writing about, but then got cold feet. This work inverts the mannequin challenge sequence in that the music plays first, and then the musicians freeze in brief silence. Though the freezes are only in 3/8 in between the particularly beguiling musical interludes, they may be extended to any length. Long live social media and brass quintet mannequin challenges!
This piece is scored for traditional brass quintet with Trumpets in B-flat and for advanced performers of about 2+ minutes in length.

SKU: CY.CC2351

Scenes From Childhood (Kinderscenen), Opus 15 is a set of 13 pieces of music that Schumann wrote for Piano in 1838. They are his reminiscences of childhood and have been beautifully scored for Brass Quintet by Keith Terrett. The most well known of the movements is Traumerei (Dreaming) and has been used in movies to portray love scenes because of its tenderness and beauty. The music is for advanced performers and the collection contains close to 20 minutes of some very sublime & poetic music. Any of these pieces can be inserted into a recital program. Trumpet parts are in B-flat.

SKU: CY.CC2862

Swanee is a popular song written by George Gershwin in 1919, most often associated with the singer Al Jolson. Supposedly written in 10 minutes, it is partly a parody of Stephen Foster's Old Folks at Home. Once Jolson added it to his show Sinbad the song took off and became a hit, the biggest of Gershwin's career.
Dave Machell, a top UK arranger and composer has cleverly arranged this 4-minute brass quintet work for advanced performers.

SKU: CY.CC3049

ISBN 9790530110249. 8.5 x 11 in inches.

Sousa's most famous march The Stars and Stripes Forever is now beautifully arranged for Brass Quintet by Dan Ogren. It was composed on Christmas Day in 1896 and following an Act of Congress in 1987, it was officially adopted as the national march of the United States of America. Instrumentation is for Piccolo Trumpet, B-flat Trumpet, Horn, Trombone and Tuba. The music is appropriate for advanced performers and is sure to entertain your audience.

SKU: CY.CC2954

ISBN 9790530057735.

Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (Our God is a secure fortress), BWV 80 is a church cantata based on Martin Luther's hymn that Bach composed for Reformation Day around the year 1723.
This movement Aria and Chorale is the second movement of the cantata. The Euphonium/Trombone part performs the bass solo and the Trumpet 1 part performs the Soprano/Oboe solo which is the Chorale itself in an embellished style of the melody.
Justin Bland has done a superb job of arranging this beautiful movement of about 4.5 minutes in length for moderately advanced performers.
Instrumentation is: Trumpet 1 (C & B-flat parts are provided), Trumpet 2/Flugelhorn in B-flat, Horn, Euphonium/Trombone in bass clef & Tuba.

SKU: CY.CC2906

Jim Pugh's original Suite Aviariations for Brass Quartet is in 3 bird themed movements totaling about 9 minutes in length:

1. One Good Tern...
2. No Egrets
3. Toucan Danse

The play on words carries through in his music which is full of musical humor, irony and drama.

The work was written for the Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble in 2002.

Instrumentation is for 2 Trumpets (parts for C & B-flat), Horn and Trombone and can be performed by advanced musicians.

SKU: CY.CC2683

J. S. Bach's massive work, The Art of Fugue, is a summation of his powers as a composer of contrapuntal music. Each fugue is a masterpiece in its own right.

Number 15 is an unfinished four-voice, quadruple fugue. Only the first three subjects are introduced, the third being a chromatic subject built from the letters of Bach's name—B (B-flat), A, C, H (B-natural). Just at the point where all three subjects are combined, the manuscript breaks off, and C. P. E. Bach wrote in the score that the composer has died. Bach clearly intended that the original Art of Fugue theme was to be the final subject and all four themes would combine in a glorious climax. Whether he intended to finish the work or leave it up to others to complete is conjecture. About 8 minutes in length.

SKU: CY.CC3042

ISBN 9790530110164. 8.5 x 11 in inches.

This Prelude No. 7 is an early work and one of Bach's best known of what is now known as Book 1 of the Well-Tempered Clavier. There is much in this little work actually, the most extended in Book 1. Mr. Denroche's arrangement works perfectly for Brass Quintet and is transposed down to the key of C from the original e-flat. The range is modest and most moderately advanced groups can perform it. C & B-flat parts are supplied for the Trumpets.

SKU: CY.CC2680

J. S. Bach's massive work, The Art of Fugue, is a summation of his powers as a composer of contrapuntal music. Each fugue is a masterpiece in its own right.

Number Twelve is a four-voice, mirror fugue in 3/2 meter—the only fugue in this meter. It uses the original Art of Fugue theme in the Rectus and then all the voices are turned upside down in the Inversus. About 5 minutes in length.

SKU: CY.CC2914

Eubie Blake composed the Charleston Rag in 1899 for Piano under the title Sounds of Africa while working at Aggie Shelton's Bawdy House in Baltimore as a precocious 12 year old.
Geoffrey Bergler has arranged Eubie's Ragtime classic of about 4 minutes in length for Brass Quintet of advanced performers.
Trumpet parts are in B-flat.

SKU: CY.CC3002

ISBN 9790530058220.

Symphony No. 1 for Brass Quintet
by C. P. E. Bach, arranged by Justin Bland
C. P. E. Bach was an innovator as an early Classical era composer, helping to develop the sonata form that was refined by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. Like his father, Carl Phillip Emanuel was prolific and showed signs of true genius.

Symphony No. 1, in three movements (fast-slow-fast), originally in D major, has been transposed down a step to C by arranger Justin Bland.

This very fine arrangement (the entire work) of about 12 minutes in length is appropriate for advanced performers and can be the cornerstone of a recital program.

Instrumentation: Trumpets (parts in C and B-flat), Horn in F, Trombone and Tuba.

SKU: CY.CC2268

Mozart's famous 12 Twinkle Variations for Piano K. 265 have been brilliantly arranged for Brass Quintet by Tuba legend, Roger Bobo. The work is for advanced performers & the instrumentation is for Bb Trumpet/Piccolo, 2nd Bb Trumpet, Horn, Trombone & Tuba.

SKU: CY.CC2845

Cornet solos are an important part of the American Brass tradition. The Southern Cross is one of Clarke's most well known Cornet solos and was written in 1911, dedicated to the Australians and first recorded by the composer with Orchestra the next year for Victor Records.
During 1911, Clarke was the solo Cornetist of the Sousa Band while the band was on a world tour that included visits to South Africa, Tazmania and Australia from March through to August.
Below is a photo of the Sousa band from their 1911 tour. Clarke is sitting in the front row 5th in from the right with his moustache and his Cornet on his lap. He assuredly composed this solo to perform on that tour. The Southern Cross is a constellation that is only seen from the southern hemisphere and features the five stars of the Cross from the 1901 design of the Australian flag.

This 5-minute virtuosic arrangement by Geoffrey Bergler features not only the Cornet, but a bit of all the other four members of the Brass Quintet.
Instrumentation is for:
2 Trumpets in B-flat (Trumpet 1 solo, Trumpet 2 also plays Piccolo)
Horn,
Trombone
Tuba/Bass Trombone
The sound track below features Mr. Bergler from his student days as Cornet soloist