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  1. 12 Easy Duets for Tuba

    Composer: Paff, John
    Instrumentation: Duet Instruments: Tuba
    Genre: Contemporary
    12 Easy Duets for Tuba is designed with young or inexperienced players in mind who may have limited or no previous experience with duets or chamber music. Rhythms, ranges and key signatures are limited in order to accommodate the player in adjusting to the concept of playing in harmony, as well as developing mutual cooperation necessary in playing a duet. The selections are in a variety of styles, while avoiding faster tempos that could add difficulty without benefit. While written to help instruct, the duets are intended to be performable. A young player can feel a great sense of accomplishment when performing a new (to the player) kind of music, and duets can feel more “safe” than a solo to a young performer. Enjoy the fun of playing duets! Learn More

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  2. 15 Very Easy Tuba Duets

    Composer: Paff, John
    Instrumentation: Duet Instruments: Tuba
    Genre: Contemporary
    15 Very Easy Tuba Duets is a collection designed to help players who might not have had much experience with duets and ensembles. The ranges are limited and rhythms are very simple or in repeated patterns. Key signatures are also within the realm of great familiarity. Intended to be used as a teaching tool for young or inexperienced players, these duets are certainly available and satisfying for performance. A variety of styles are included. Players can gain confidence and satisfaction seeing that they can perform in this type of setting Learn More

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  3. 4th Avenue Suite

    Composer: Paff, John
    Instrumentation: Sextet Instruments: Euphonium, Tuba
    Genre: Contemporary
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    4th Avenue Suite is a composition set for three euphoniums and three tubas. Its inspiration comes from a vacation at North Carolina’s Outer Banks when we were staying in a rental house on 4th Avenue. The tunes are derived from a sequence of numbers used to open the digital door lock of the house for that week. The numbers, 3 6 8 2 4 3, are employed by their numerical placement in a musical scale. I thought: “What if; these numbers could be made into a tune (or several)?” The entire suite is not confined to these notes, but the tunes in the movements have grown out of this sequence. To construct several generations from a set of notes seemed enough, so no attempt has been made to relate the movements to events or situations. The movements are subtitled as follows: I. Intrada; II. Intermezzo; III. Minuet; and IV. Finale. The challenge level is Medium to Medium Difficult. All players are utilized in important roles and the composition offers various combinations of featured players, sections with just euphoniums or just tubas, and total ensemble. Learn More

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  4. A Baker's Dozen of Christmas Carols

    Composer: Various Arranger: Joles, Bob
    Instrumentation: Brass Quintet Instruments: 2 Trumpets, Horn, Trombone and Tuba
    Genre: Christmas

    This set of 13 carols is of medium level.  It will for any CHristmas holiday season gig.

    I. Adeste Fidelis

    II. Carol of the Bells

    III. Carol of the Russian Children

    IV. Deck the Halls

    V. God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen

    VI. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

    VII. Jingle Bells!

    VIII. Joy to the World

    IX. Silent Night

    X. Wassail Song

    XI. We Wish You A Merry Christmas

    XII. Westminster Carol

    XIII. What Child is This?

     

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  5. A Caged Bird

    Composer: York, Barbara
    Instrumentation: Solo and Piano Instruments: Bass Trombone, Piano
    Genre: Contemporary

    with Piano

    This piece was not written specifically in response to either the poem by Maya Angelou or that by Paul Dunbar that both refer to “the caged bird”. However, there is no doubt that both poems have inspired my own further exploration and now musical extrapolation on the subject of being “caged” and of still “singing” in spite of this. With all due respect and admiration for Ms. Angelou and Mr. Dunbar, I have attempted here in my own concept of “cagedness” to include, beyond  racial references, also those issues that include gender, sexuality, economic status, medical/physical problems and any number of other situations that create restrictive and even imprisoning boundaries from which we and all others struggle to break free and find fully human, creative and even spiritual expression within ourselves. Even within the many bonds and restrictive boundaries that we often find ourselves, it still seems to be a fundamental part of our Nature as both human and Spiritual beings that we cannot help but “sing” in both joy and praise both from ourselves and to our own Creator despite the sometimes, even apparently insurmountable obstacles we encounter. For me, this piece is not so much an exploration as to “why the caged bird sings” as it is simply a commenting, even with some measure of wonderment, on its remarkable inevitability.

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  6. A Little Monster Music

    Composer: Raum, Elizabeth
    Instrumentation: Octet Instruments: Euphonium
    Genre: Contemporary

    8 Euphoniums; For Roger Bobo and "Stuba"

    In 4 movements:

    1. Hydra

    2. Nessie

    3. Fafner

    4. St. George and the Dragon

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  7. A Praetorious Christmas

    Composer: Praetorius, Michael Arranger: Jones, Daniel
    Instrumentation: Quartet Instruments: French Horn, Trombone, Trumpet
    Genre: Christmas

    2 Trumpets and 2 Trombones or 2 Trumpets, Horn and Trombone

    Medley of: 

    Es ist ein’ Ros’ entsprungen Goberen ist der Emanuel

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  8. A Prayer and Wings

    Composer: Zugger, Thomas
    Instrumentation: Solo Instruments: Trombone
    Genre: Contemporary
    unaccompanied

    A Prayer and Wings was composed in late fall 2008 after a trip to the outer banks of North Carolina and a visit to the Wright Brothers monument in Kitty Hawk. Seeing the memorial drew me to think of those first pioneers of flight, and the fear that they must have had to overcome to attempt to soar toward the horizon.

    The first movement, Canto, is a prayer for the airmen, lead by the cantor. It should be performed facing the open piano (full stick) with the bell pointed at the strings. The cantor sings the prayer and then the congregation replies. In this instance, the congregation is not only the more complex rhythms, symbolizing the inaccurate entrances of many people, but also the echo created by the passive piano. The performer may improvise some of the rhythms to create even more echo. The second movement, Wings, is the actual flight, and should be performed facing the audience. The eighth notes are the wind that was the catalyst. Midway through the flight, the airmen begins to recite the prayer to himself (passive piano engaged) and a very slight echo is heard in the distance. Gradually the plane descends back to the ground and mans first flight has occurred. For the pianist, Ped. signifies depressing the sustain pedal, * denotes releasing the pedal. Learn More

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  9. A Stroll Through the Mind Garden

    Composer: McMillan, Benjamin
    Instrumentation: Solo and Piano Instruments: Piano, Tuba
    Genre: Contemporary

    with Piano

    “The mind is a fertile garden – it will grow anything you wish to plant –

    beautiful flowers or weeds.” – Bruce Lee

    A Stroll Through Mind Gardens depicts an imaginary journey inwards to the

    realm of imagination, where thoughts bloom and float by like flower petals on the wind.  Connected by variations on a dance-like ‘strolling’ rhythm, the listener is taken on a colorful and vibrant tour of a vast ‘aural mind garden.’

    Written during the autumn of 2019, the work was commissioned by David Saltzman to be premiered at the Northeast Regional Tuba/Euphonium Conference (NERTEC) at Ithaca College. It’s intended to have stately-dance feel that acts as a

    musical anchor point for the changing melodies and harmonies, although this rhythm itself also undergoes several variations throughout. The sectional structure of the piece and the transitions between them are written in a way that often flow in and out of one another, similar to a typical stream of thought.

    The piece provides a moderate challenge for the performer, demanding an expressive, musical approach, and quick changes of style.

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