A Quintet of Carols

This is a collection of Three Christmas Carols which have been arranged for Woodwind Quintet by Ralph Martino. Including Jingle Bells What Child Is This? and The Wassail Song. Score and Parts edition.

Like many of Davies’s smaller works this is in a relatively lucid modal style midway between the clarity of his carols and the complications of his symphonies: the opening is in a kind of B flat minor and the close is triumphantly in G flat major. What happens in between -- always in 4/4 march time but usually with exuberant syncopations and cross-rhythms - is a sequence of transformations of the theme heard first from the second trumpet on the top line at the start; it will be heard again from the horn and from the first trumpet in upward-moving inversion with brilliant climaxes to punctuate. An ebullient piece in a simplified yet still very distinctive harmonic andrhythmic style and surely destined to make a rousing encore item. Arranged for brass quintet.

Carl Rütti's choral music is 'sensuous and exuberant by turns combining dazzling rhythms and soaring melodies with distinctively lush harmonies' (Choir and Organ Magazine).The composer writes: 'The Three Carols were initiated in 1996 by my friend Stephen Jackson (conductor of the BBC Symphony Chorus) for a Carol concert by the Wooburn Singers to whom they are also dedicated. They were originally written for brass quintet and choir. I picked three texts out of the enormous choice of traditional Carols which could form three parts: Andante - Adagio - Presto.'The three carols are: I Wonder as I Wander (Andante) O Little Town of Bethlehem(Adagio) and Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day (Presto).

The music is based on a tune suggested by the melodies and rhythms of sixteenth-century carols and lullabies. The strings are treated as a separate concertante unit.

15 Easy Arrangements-15 easy arrangements for brass quartet or brass quintet with flexible instrumentation with optional keyboard accompaniment. Ideal accompaniments for congregational singing in churches or other groups. Also great for performancesby brass only. Includes two versions of each carol: a standard version found in hymnals in the common key and a “variation verse ” with a free and interesting arrangement. Includes: Angels We Have Heard on High •The First Noel • Go Tell It on the Mountain • Hark! the Herald Angels Sing • Joy to the World • What Child Is This? • and more.

15 Easy Arrangements-15 easy arrangements for brass quartet or brass quintet with flexible instrumentation with optional keyboard accompaniment. Ideal accompaniments for congregational singing in churches or other groups. Also great for performancesby brass only. Include two versions of each carol: a standard version found in hymnals in the common key and a “variation verse ” with a free and interesting arrangement. Includes: Angels We Have Heard on High •The First Noel • Go Tell It on the Mountain • Hark! the Herald Angels Sing • Joy to the World • What Child Is This? • and more.

15 Easy Arrangements-15 easy arrangements for brass quartet or brass quintet with flexible instrumentation with optional keyboard accompaniment. Ideal accompaniments for congregational singing in churches or other groups. Also great for performancesby brass only. Include two versions of each carol: a standard version found in hymnals in the common key and a “variation verse ” with a free and interesting arrangement. Includes: Angels We Have Heard on High •The First Noel • Go Tell It on the Mountain • Hark! the Herald Angels Sing • Joy to the World • What Child Is This? • and more.

Junior Just Brass No. 3-Edited by Philip Jones & Elgar Howarth. The Just Brass series is regarded by brass players worldwide as the most important brass ensemble series available. There are more than 100 titles subdivided into Just Brass (mainstream) Junior Just Brass Just Brass Lollipops and Giant Just Brass. Supplied as score and parts together. Junior titles have been specifically chosen and edited for young players. The pieces are scored for four or five players and insome there are optional percussion parts. A large number of alternate parts are given allowing for maximum flexibility in instruments required.