Classical Melodies for Trombone Ensemble. 22 famous melodies arranged for Trombone Ensemble
SKU: CY.CC5006
ISBN 9790530111000. 8.5 x 11 in inches.
Nabucco is the opera which established Verdi's reputation as a great composer and even he realized its importance as he noted this is the opera with which my artistic career really begins. iTromboni alum Kenneth Pearce and Andrew Poirier have skillfully set the Overture to Nabucco to highlight the beautiful melodies and technical flare in their arrangement for trombone quintet (2 altos, 2 tenors, bass). As in the original, it all begins with a stately trombone chorale, hints at the big melody of Va, pensiero (the great chorus of the Hebrew slaves) and reaches its energetic conclusion full of gusto! This arrangement is suitable for advanced performers and can be heard on iTromboni's debut album: there goes the neighbourhood.
SKU: CY.CC2522
The highlights Richard Struass' great tone poem, Don Juan, have been arranged for 4-part Trombone ensemble by Jeremy Kempton. This brilliant masterpiece is one of the most performed works in the orchestral literature. The dashing melodies, rich harmonies and the passion of the original come through in Mr. Kempton's arrangement.
Written for advanced performers, this 4 minute work will add a wonderful climax to any program.
SKU: HL.50510337
ISBN 9790080141441. UPC: 073999536621. 9.0x12.0x0.34 inches. Hungarian, English, German.
This volume in the ABC series continues the best traditions of conventional trombone teaching on the one hand and at the same time accommodates to present-day requirements and changing tastes. In concept and subject-matter it embraces the entire material for trombone teaching at the elementary level. It proceeds as far as the 7th position and provides learners with numerous studies, scale exercises and performance pieces. The pieces include many European folk melodies, extracts from classical works well adapted for the trombone, and a number of contemporary compositions written specifically for this instrument. The textual instructions are given in three languages: German, English and Hungarian. The piano accompaniment to this volume is published separetely (14144P)The trombonist Ferenc Steiner was born in 1931. From 1960 to 1991 he was a member of the Hungarian State Opera and the Philharmonic Society as well as the Hungarian Brass Ensemble. Education played a major role in the life of Ferenc Steiner as an author and editor of numerous pedagogical editions. He began teaching at the School of Music in Pecs, then moved on to the College for Officers of the Hungarian Defense Forces and later continued his teaching activity at the Liszt Academy in Budapest until 2001. He has passed away on the 25th of March in 2011.
SKU: HL.48181416
UPC: 888680855697. 9.0x12.0x0.207 inches.
Having won many prizes at the Paris Conservatoire during the 1920s-1930s, Eugene Bozza went on to conduct the orchestra of the Opera-Comique and to become Head of the Conservatoire in Valenciennes. As a major figure on the classical music frontline, Bozza's compositions were well-received by audiences, Sonatina for Two Trumpets, 1 Cornet, 1 Trombone and 1 Tuba being no exception. This Bozza piece for brass is characteristically French, with lyrical and graceful melodies contrasted by fast, flourishing, staccato semiquaver passages. As music educationalist, Paul Griffiths has written of Bozza's compositions, his works reveal melodic fluency, elegance of structure and a consistenly sensitive concern of instrumental capabilities. Comprising four movements, Sonatina for Two Trumpets, 1 Cornet, 1 Trombone and 1 Tuba is an exciting, alternative addition to the brass ensemble repertoire..
SKU: HL.14035061
ISBN 9788759862353. English-Danish.
Winter Cantata / Vinterkantate (1976) by Per Norgard for a variable ensemble of soloist, mixed choir and instruments (minimum: vocalist and organ). Programme Note: When in 1975 I had finished composing my 3rd Symphony (begun in 1973), I wrote three simple melodies for two psalm texts by Ole Sarvig: The Year and Choral Hymn. These three tunes were derived from the same material as the second movement of the 3rd Symphony and could be harmonized together in several different tempo relationships at the same time - like fractals - which inspired me to write several choral and instrumental works in the following decade based on these melodies: Frost Psalm, Winter Cantata, Winter Hymn, Cantica and others. One of these 'Sarvig melodies' is now included in the new Danish Hymnbook, under the title Aret(The Year). Ole Sarvig's poem Aret (The Year) is Danish, perhaps Scandinavian in character, but its symbolic atmosphere is global (now snow is covering the whole earth). The basic composition of this cantata - based on Sarvig's many verses - was done by letting soloist, choir and instruments change in feelings and moods: from the almost silent, inward-looking beginning (I: Chorale dolorosa) to a dancelike and happy optimism (II: A heaven germ on winged foot thrust deep into the earth its root), followed by nightmarish tone rows as the year-wheel of fortune is turning (III: Sacrifice - The Year) and the temptations of the snake (IV: In Paradiso) - to the allegorical fights between egoism and altruism (V:The Cycle - Autumn. Purgatory) before the waiting for a disaster- atmosphere at the end of this choral Odysse. Winter Cantata was from the beginning (1976) designed as an open work, to be arranged by different combinations of soloists, choir and (different) instruments. The printed version by Per Norgard and Ivan hansen for soloist, mixed choir and instruments (obo, violin, trombone, vibraphone/percussion and organ) is from 1990. The work is available in both the (original) Danish version (Vinterkantate) and an English version (Winter Cantata), translated by Helen and Ole Sarvig. (Per Norgard).
