Usher Abell

For years, trumpet players have aligned themselves with solo singers, especially sopranos, to perform the great Baroque repertoire for trumpet and voice. Organ reductions were created to replace the s...

For years, trumpet players have aligned themselves with solo singers, especially sopranos, to perform the great Baroque repertoire for trumpet and voice. Organ reductions were created to replace the s...

This famous trumpet solo is presented here, unaltered, for solo trumpet and brass quintet. A guest soloist needs to be invited to be accompanied not by strings, but by a brass quintet. The trumpet pla...

This is a terrific feature for the trombone player in a brass quintet setting. Originally, this piece was for trombone and piano and published in 1958 by Rubank, Inc. It has been played by countless h...

Danse Macabre (Dance of Death) was inspired by a poem of Henri Cazalis: Zig, zig, zig, Death in a cadence, Striking with his heel a tomb, Death at midnight plays a dance-tune, Zig, zig, zig, on his vi...

A karesansui is a Japanese rock garden which is an enclosed shallow sandbox containing sand, gravel, rocks, and occasionally grass or other natural elements. The main elements of karesansui are rocks...

This tune is a fun piece for brass quintet and optional high hat built upon simple jazz backgrounds gradually layering more and more voices. It is not too difficult and would require a minimum of rehe...

The Odyssey is an ancient Greek epic poem, dated around 600 BC, by the poet Homer. It tells of the events that befall the Greek hero Odysseus in his long journeys after the fall of Troy and when he, a...

The Girl With The Flaxen Hair and Golliwog's Cakewalk are two of Claude Debussy's most popular piano works. It has been said that The Girl With The Flaxen Hair, with its impressionistic and progressiv...

This is the most popular and often performed setting by Bruckner. When this work was written Bruckner had just finished a five year course of contrapuntal study during which he was forbidden to write...

The Golden Age is a piece written in the carefree style of the music written in North America at the turn of the Twentieth Century. The concerts in bandshells throughout Canada and the United States c...

Antonio Vivaldi wrote this work for two natural trumpets and strings and it has become the most popular double concerto for trumpets. The music is simple and elegant, utilizing the non-chromatic capab...

The Girl With The Flaxen Hair and Golliwog's Cakewalk are two of Claude Debussy's most popular piano works. It has been said that The Girl With The Flaxen Hair, with its impressionistic and progressiv...

This is a lesser known Christmas piece dating from around 1550. It is rhythmic and colorful with melody in several voices. The opening is a call and response between the trombone and the remainder of...

This peaceful carol is beautiful in its simplicity and elegance. Melody is found in all voices and some interplay between the pair of trumpets and horn/trombone rounds out a good arrangement.

Rustiques is one of the most popular contemporary works for trumpet and piano. It has been performed and recorded by countless soloists ranging from college and university students to the top professi...

Queen Anne's Revenge was the final ship sailed by Edward Thatch, also known as the pirate, Blackbeard. To give the 'Pirate-like' feeling to the music, it has been composed in 6/8 time, as have many pi...

This is some international flavor for brass quintet. This piece was inspired by the traditional classical music of South India, carnatic music. Using a South Indian scale as the bass, the trumpets and...

This popular piece is commonly used during wedding ceremonies. It is quite short and can be repeated as many times as required to facilitate timing considerations such as the bridal party coming down...

Earthscape is a lyrical piece inspired by the view of our planet from space. In the silent, black vacuum of space exists this bright blue planet, slowly rotating, giving astronauts a serene and breath...

This is a collection of popular pieces of Classical music that are commonly used during wedding ceremonies. These pieces can be used as Processionals, Recessionals, the Signing of the Register or simp...

Windscape is in four sections. It opens with 'The Winds from the North.' The driving bass line combined with the punctuated shots represent the bitter winds that blow. This moves into 'The Winds of Ch...

The Dragon King, China's first emperor, was crowned in 221 BC. He unified the various states throughout the country and led with an iron hand. Some of the massive projects he ordered were the construc...

This is a fun and rhythmic South African folk song that has been arranged for a standard brass quintet. Sections could also be repeated as many times as desired to allow for extensive hand drumming by...

George Frederic Handel wrote his most famous oratorio, Messiah, in a little over three weeks. There is little doubt that this work is one of the most famous and often performed choral pieces in histor...