David Marlatt: Mittelschwere Noten

This is the beautiful slow movement from the famous Trumpet Concerto by Telemann. In this movement the oboes, replaced here by trumpets, play an elegant duet over a simple wandering continuo line. Thi...

This incredibly famous Trumpet Voluntary (often attributed to Henry Purcell) is one of the most often requested wedding pieces of all times. This arrangement, transposed into Bb, for brass quintet and...

The tuba has the chance at some melody in this arrangement with the other voices accompanying. The trumpets and horn/trombone also have some nice exchanges between them. Cup mutes are used in the trum...

Deep River has been arranged here to feature the smooth sound of the flugel horn. This famous melody is supported by an interesting accompaniment with jazz harmonies and rhythmic pulse. Spirituals are...

Henry Purcell was the first English composer to write multiple works for the trumpet. His orchestral writings are filled with interesting trumpet parts but no work is more famous to trumpeters than th...

Henry Purcell was the first English composer to write multiple works for the trumpet. His orchestral writings are filled with interesting trumpet parts but no work is more famous to trumpeters than th...

This beautiful Scottish folk song opens with unaccompanied trombone. The melody then flows through the ensemble including a section of tune for the tuba player. The arrangement climaxes to a full ense...

This fun light piece is a great showpiece for the cornet. It is named after the sight-seeing boats for tourists in Niagara Falls. Set as a polka, there is much opportunity for the soloist to display q...

This is a tuba feature top to bottom. The flashy scalar line demonstrates the technical skills of the tuba player.

This piece was originally written for string orchestra and voices as a school song for Unionville Meadows Public School in Markham, Canada. The theme of the school grand opening was the students were...

This arrangement is a movement from the Cello Sonata in G. It has been set for a trumpet solo with the remainder of the quintet in a supporting role. Flashy sounding scales (in an easy key) make this...

This is a standard piece in solo trumpet repertoire that is used on countless festivals and competitions. The beautiful opening weaves its way through several key centers leading to the March where fa...

This suite was created from, what was then (1674), an instructional book on the art of Spanish guitar playing. It is a wonderful collection of short pieces in many tempos and styles. The shifting 6/8...

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 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...

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 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...

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.

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...

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...