For Two French Horns

Write for a horn section!
In this book, you will learn how to add saxophones and brass to a rhythm section ensemble. You will learn the capabilities and characteristics of the most common instruments, and how to order them effectively. You will also learn the different roles that a horn section can serve in your ensemble. Online audio tracks demonstrate the key concepts, as exemplified in a complete score.
You will learn to:
Write for alto, tenor, and baritone saxophone, as well as trumpet and trombone
Construct common voicings, such as unisons, octave unisons, two- to five-part soli, and open voicings
Expand your harmony by using jazz chords
Use brass mutes
Compose many textures, including melodies, solis, fills, pads, comping parts, background lines, and others
Score advanced harmonic techniques characteristic of brass sections, such as chromatic approach chords, four- and five-part voicings, tension substitutions, and more
?An amazing book that opens your mind for new horn arranging techniques. Horns on steroids!?
?Hassan El Shafei, Artist/Record Producer
?Arranging for Horns is the one-stop-shop the young arranger can make to explore the techniques, applications, and context for contemporary horn arranging. Jerry Gates masterfully compiled three decades of experience?both in classroom and in professional writing?into an organized and concise 80-page text. Highly recommended!?
?Adi Yeshaya, Composer, Arranger (Prince, Aretha Franklin, The Voice)
?An insightful and valuable resource for all arrangers. Jerry?s explanations are very clear and concise. Highly recommended!?
?Mark Harrison, Keyboardist/Composer, Music Educator, and Author
?Jerry is a devoted musician and educator who has written yet another clear and concise book! This time Jerry guides the reader through a direct and useful approach to writing horn arrangements. Included are rhythm section considerations, notations, and a valuable mention about contour shaping as the blueprint for a successful arrangement. This book demystifies arranging for horns and inspires us to dive right in. There are great tools included and distilled from Jerry?s many years of experience and education. I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to get quick and positive results without excess theory to weigh the creative process down.?
?David Goldblatt, Composer, Pianist, and Music Director (for national television programs, world tours, and varied media)
?Jerry Gates? Arranging for Horns is a concise yet thorough guide to horn arranging in jazz and popular styles. The book progresses through each vital instrument, offering writing techniques for them as individuals and as a group. Arranging for Horns goes one step further than many treatments of this topic, looking at how an arrangement can vary throughout a song?changing the intensity of the music. This added consideration gives arrangers a powerful tool for adding shape and contour to their songs. Recommended for all arrangers and songwriters.?
?Ben Newhouse, Composer and Educator
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Volume Two picks up with more great hits as rendered by the Pacific Coast Horns! Here they present nine great tunes for you to listen to then join the band as the horn soloist. Songs: Fascinatin' Rhythm · Music Man Medley · A String of Pearls · Minnie the Moocher · Sabre Dance · and more. This deluxe edition includes a printed solo part as well as 2 CDs with complete reference versions and accompaniments minus you! The CDs also contain -12% and -25% slow practice tempo tracks.

Adagio and Allegro is one of the first works of major importance written for the valve Horn. The original title was Romance and Allegro. It was composed during the first few months of 1849 a period when Schumann also composed solo works for Oboe and Piano Clarinet and Piano as well as the Konzertstucke for four Horns and Orchestra. Edited for French Horn and Piano by Barry Tuckwell.

C. Paul Herfurth and Vernon R. Miller. The famous instructional guide for beginner musicians. Suitable for F Bb and Eb horns.

Vioolsleutel In F!!!-Version for Horns in F. Versatile music and VERY EASY wherein each of the five short pieces sounds good in two OR three OR four parts.Grade: 0 - 4

10 Original Duets for Horn. Par SCHWARZ OTTO M.. The “Stay Tuned - Swinging Christmas” duets stem from another collaboration with the trumpeter Thomas Gansch. These duets are not only available for trumpets, however. The pop & jazz duets are also available for trumpet with trombone, two trombones, two horns, two saxophones at the same pitch, two flutes and two clarinets. / Date parution : 2021-12-09/ Recueil / 2 Cors

Par HOSAY JAMES L.. Now your band can boldly go where no band has gone before, and bring the “final frontier” to your concert band stage! Here’s James L. Hosay’s imaginative new tone poem SPACE PROBE. Since the 1970's, NASA has been launching long-range, solar-powered probes into space. Over the past 30 years, the Voyager, Pioneer, and Galileo series’ probes have sent back incredible photographs. The data sent to Earth by these probes, along with recent photos and information gathered by the orbital telescope, Hubble, has helped astronomers chart the ever-expanding universe all the way back to its origins. This composition provides excellent opportunities for cross-curriculum teaching withscience. A scintillating musical spacescape ushers in the bold thematic statement in the Trumpets and Alto Saxophones. French Horns join in thrilling variation. A boundless contrasting espressivo theme soars through to the reprise of the initial ideas. Explore SPACE PROBE with your band this year. Inspiring! / Niveau : 2.5 / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

For high school and community choirs the text describes beautifully the hopes and longings of those families with near ones in harm's way. In addition to the setting with snare drum and piano accompaniment you can add optional flutes French horns string ensemble and bass drum all according to the performance resources at hand. Duration: ca. 3:45.

Stabat Mater Hob.XX bisOratorio (funeral music) versions from 1767 and 1803The new scholarly critical edition of Joseph Haydn's Stabat Mater (1767) is published in Henle's complete edition of Haydn's works. This edition is the first to come as close as possible to the lost original and has been compiled using all currently available sources. The score has been fully amended in its original orchestration for two oboes or English horn strings and organ.At a later performance of this work probably in 1803 Haydn attempted to accommodate the intervening changes in musical taste. According to the composer's request and under his supervision SigismundNeukomm enlarged the wind orchestration by adding a flute two clarinets two bassoons two French horns trumpets and timpani.Urtext from the Haydn Complete EditionHaydn’s Stabat Mater in both its original scoring as well as Neukomm's scoring.Full score performance material (BA4642) vocal score (BA4642-90) available for sale