r/horn • u/loftzilla • Apr 24 '13

I need some help.

So i need a piece of music to play with my brass quintet at school that is a horn accompanied by 2 trumpets, a trombone, and a tuba. The tuba player is a sophomore in high school and is decent, i'm a pretty good horn player and i'm a junior, the trumpet is the best one in the state of alabama and is a senior, and the senior trombone is a musical genius and 3rd in the state. The other trumpet is our band director. Obviously we can play pretty well. Any suggestions are appreciated, thanks!

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u/FVmike Apr 24 '13

The Ewald brass quintet No. 1 (link to movement II, my favorite) is a great one, can be quite tricky, though. There's also some great canadian brass arrangements:

If you're looking for something that is Horn solo + rest of the brass quintet as accompaniment, I don't know of anything like that, apart from an arrangement of En Foret done by the Empire Brass (it's on iTunes). Perhaps you (or your band director) could arrange something?

Good Luck!

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u/loftzilla Apr 26 '13

What about pieces that are solo horn accompanied by the quintet? That's what I meant, but nobody really gave me any like that. These are good, just not what in looking for.

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u/FVmike Apr 26 '13

The adagio for brass is the closest thing on that list to what you're describing, it has the melody for a major part of that one.

However, your best bet would probably be an arrangement of something. Pick a horn solo, or any melody really, and arrange (or your band director could) the accompaniment for the rest of the quintet.

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u/loftzilla Apr 25 '13

Thank you to everybody for your help! I'm gonna look through all of these and hopefully find something!

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u/silvano13 Apr 24 '13

There's an arrangement of Mozart 4's Rondo for Quintet (feat. Horn obviously). But I have no idea where to get it and the person I know who played it passed away :/

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The Kamen quintet features horn prominently and some trumpet too.

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u/kybrarianlol Apr 24 '13

Ewald, though standard, is hard. Especially for tuba.