SKU: CY.CC2760

--The Wassailing Song is a secular holiday song dating back to the 12th Century.

--It is traditionally sung at Christmas, but actually does not celebrate the nativity, rather the New Year!

--The word Wassail is an olde English word for a spiced wine or ale. It was common to go door-to-door toasting to one's Good Health.

--Ron Babcock's lively arrangement of about 5 minutes is inspired by Ralph Vaughan Williams and is for intermediate to advanced performers.

SKU: CY.CC2889

Ryan Diefenderfer's clever arrangement of the Traditional Christmas carol God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen for Trombone Quartet begins as a Bass Trombone feature ballad with accompanying jazz chords. Then it ramps up to a jazz waltz giving all parts a good workout.
This almost 4-minute work is appropriate for advanced performers.
The sound track below is a rough digital example of the arrangement.

SKU: CY.CC2475

Equali were works written for equal, or similar, instruments; in the eighteenth century they were almost always used for funeral services and usually employed a quartet of trombones. The most famous of these were the three Beethoven wrote for the Linz Cathedral in Austria on All Soul's Day 1812. Two of these were adapted later for male voices and were sung at Beethoven's funeral.

These pieces are some of the most famous works for trombones, no doubt due to the fact that they were composed by Beethoven. They were commissioned by Franz Xaver Gloggl, Kappelmeister of the city of Linz, while Beethoven was visiting his brother. According to later accounts by Gloggl's son, although his father had a complete collection of trombones (soprano, alto, tenor, bass or quart) the three Equali were performed by a traditional quartet of alto, tenor and bass trombones.

This edition offers a compromise: the original score and parts are given exactly as written in the complete works, and a version designed for the less experienced players: the three movements are transposed down one step, edited with minor musical suggestions, and all four parts are written in bass clef.

Dr. Mathie has done the Trombone world a great service in bringing this great work in its two forms to publication.

SKU: CY.CC2980

ISBN 9790530057995.

Wayne Groves has arranged five beautiful Christmas carols for Trombone Quartet:
1. Once in Royal David's City by Gauntlett
2. In the Bleak Midwinter by Holst
3. Huron Carol by St. Jean de Brebeuf
4. Divinum Misterium (Plainsong chant)
5. O Come, O Come Emmanuel (Advent Hymn)
These pieces are of medium difficulty and all in bass clef making them perfect for any group of performers.