David Marlatt: Mittelschwere Noten

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...

This short original fanfare was originally scored for trumpet ensemble (the Markham United Trumpet Ensemble) as an opener. Contemporary yet accessible harmonies combined with the power of brass ensemb...

Based on the Newfoundland folk song the Feller From Fortune, this piece has been transformed from the original jig to become an energetic overture featuring a number of solo opportunities, interesting...

Spirituals have found their way into the standard repertoire of vocalists and instrumentalists. The lyrical tunes combined with the powerful message they tell affect us all. In this arrangement all pa...

Lyric Essay is written in a neo-romantic style. It is a slow, reflective work with much opportunity for musical expression. This piece (previously written for concert band) has been performed all thro...

Dodge City is an exuberant piece designed to take you back to the time of the old west. As the title implies, this is a work that will bring to mind stagecoaches and sagebrush, cowboys and cactus, she...

This is another great Spiritual. The arrangement opens with an unaccompanied horn, adds the trombones playing soft chords then builds through the band to create a lush, rich sound. This is an ideal en...

The idea for this march originated from a conversation that took place in the pine forests of Camp Borden, Ontario, during Basic Recruit Course with the Canadian Armed Forces. The composer listened as...

This is an exciting piece based on the Welsh hymn Cwm Rhondda. Fanfares and descants in the trumpets float over the stately tune. The melody flows throughout the band ranging from a smooth lyrical sta...

This colourful title aptly combines the basis for the piece and the person it was written for. Tenth grade trumpet player Alex McCarthy would come to brass quintet rehearsals and, rather than warming...

This beautiful hymn has been arranged to feature the horn section in a brass choir consisting of 3 trumpets, 2 horns, 2 trombones, euphonium and tuba. This arrangement opens with a short introduction...

Inveni David is an offertory and was originally set for male chorus and four trombones. This powerful work opens in F minor and gradually builds to a brilliant F major Alleluia. This setting for 4 tru...

This work contains three movements (Marianne s'en va-t-au moulin', She's like the Swallow and J'entends le moulin) based on traditional Canadian folk songs. Morley Calvert (1928-1991) originally wrote...

This Sonata features the trumpets and the trombones with the horns and tuba representing the organ. 2 piccolo trumpets are used to float their sound above the foundation set by the remainder of the en...

This beautiful hymn has been arranged to feature all the members in the ensemble. This arrangement opens with a short introduction then proceeds through several verses. Each verse is scored differentl...

Lyric Essay is written in a neo-romantic style. It is a slow, reflective work with much opportunity for musical expression. It has been arranged for 5 trumpets, 5 flugel horns and optional percussion.

La Virgin de la Macarena is a traditional bullfighting song made famous by the great trumpet virtuoso Raphael Mendez. In this version, the incredibly technical passages have been simplified without lo...

This is one of the most recognizable melodies of all time, arranged here for an interchangeable woodwind ensemble. Parts can be mixed and matched to suit the players that are available. If the instrum...

This is a famous Joplin rag which has been arranged for interchangeable woodwinds. The upper and mid voices alternate melodic sections and even the lowest part gets a section of melody. This is a fun...

Canzoni were pieces composed for a various combination of instruments and various sizes of ensembles. This is an arrangement for double sax quartet (SATB in each choir with an alternate part for alto...

Rondo alla Turca is the well-known final movement from Mozart's Piano Sonata in A Major, K. 331. This has been arranged as a showy technical piece for a woodwind ensemble. The melody alternates betwee...

Dodge City is an exuberant piece, arranged here for 13 clarinets, bass clarinet and optional percussion, designed to take you back to the time of the old west. As the title implies, this is a work tha...

Mozart would have approved! This is one of the most famous classical pieces of all time and it works great for 6 trumpets (piccolo, 2 trumpets and 3 flugel horns). All the Mozartian technical fun is i...

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...