Sheet Music for Brass Ensemble

Dialogues III for horn and tuba, was composed in 1987, funded by a grant from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School. It is one of a series of duets for tuba and other brass instruments....

I composed Dreamsuite during a lazy, hazy hot summer in New York between June 29th and July 3rd, 2003. The work was inspired by an odd set of unrelated dreams about a group of composers gathered in th...

2 trumpets, 2 trombones (alternative parts: trumpet in Bb and C, horn in F and Eb, baritone Bb, trombone, euphonium in Bb) Pierre Attaignant (1494-1551(2?), the inventor of a new process for printing...

Six Miniatures was composed in May 2006 and premiered by the Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble the following July, at the Usdan Center for the Performing Arts on Long Island, NY. The six short movements ar...

This is a piece for brass quintet featuring the horn in the solo role. With ample phrases and its distinctively rich sound, the horn truly reveals the noble, wistful and slightly romantic character of...

This collection originally appeared in print under the title '22 PETITS MORCEAUX D'ENSEMBLE pour instruments de cuivre ... PAR ANT. SIMON. Op. 26'. In those days, brass pieces were generally performed...

This collection originally appeared in print under the title '22 PETITS MORCEAUX D'ENSEMBLE pour instruments de cuivre ... PAR ANT. SIMON. Op. 26'. In those days, brass pieces were generally performed...

This collection originally appeared in print under the title '22 PETITS MORCEAUX D'ENSEMBLE pour instruments de cuivre ... PAR ANT. SIMON. Op. 26'. In those days, brass pieces were generally performed...

This collection originally appeared in print under the title '22 PETITS MORCEAUX D'ENSEMBLE pour instruments de cuivre ... PAR ANT. SIMON. Op. 26'. In those days, brass pieces were generally performed...

3 trumpets, horn, 3 trombones, tuba, organ and timpani Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881), one of the Russian composers known as the Five, was an innovator of Russian music. He strove to achieve...

3 trumpets, horn, 3 trombones, tuba, organ and timpani Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881), one of the Russian composers known as the Five, was an innovator of Russian music. He strove to achieve...

large brass ensemble, timpani and percussion Dance Music was composed in 1976 at the request of the late Sidney Ellison, professor of trumpet at the Royal Academy of Music, London. The work is in one...

2 trumpets, 2 trombones (alternative parts: trumpet in Bb and C, horn in F and Eb, baritone Bb, trombone, euphonium in Bb) Pierre Attaignant (1494-1551(2?), the inventor of a new process for printing...

Collage' - dedicated to the composer's grandson, Canon James - was written by John Stevens in spring 2009, while he was residing on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The music and the movement titles reflect t...

A Mexican Serenade Although Joplin uses the same musical form in 'Solace' that is so familiar in his rags, 'Solace' is not a rag but rather a slow drag, which differs in tempo and mood. Even in the fa...

2 trumpets, 2 trombones (alternative parts: trumpet in Bb and C, Horn in F and Eb, baritone Bb, trombone, euphonium in Bb) Guillaume Costeley (1530-1606), a composer at the court of Charles IX, was on...

Large (symphonic) brass ensemble, timpani and percussion Exact instrumentation: 4 horns in F, piccolo trumpet, E flat trumpet, 2 Bb trumpets, flugelhorn, 3 tenor trombones, bass trombone, euphonium, 2...

This work was written in 2005 and is dedicated to the Simon Bolivar Brass Quintet. The movements represent four episodes of a knight’s life. I. The Knight of the Hill II. The Maid of the Grey Ca...

Although the 'ripieno' and 'concertante' elements are played equally by each of the five instruments in turn, this fast, virtuosic and pithy work is essentially a mini-concerto for brass quintet. Cast...

Mitia' was his intimate's nickname for Dmitri Shostakovich. 'We have a happy life under the sun of Stalin's constitution' . This prudently ironical quotation is taken from the private correspondence o...

2 trumpets, 2 trombones (alternative parts: trumpet in Bb and C, horn in F and Eb, baritone Bb, trombone, euphonium in Bb) Most of the work of Clement Janequin (1485-1558) consists of settings of text...

These three essays were ordered by my friend and publisher Jean-Pierre Mathez and premiered on July 3, 1968, at the Municipal Theater, by the student brass ensemble he directed, on the occasion of the...

2 Spielpartituren Complex , commissioned by the French tubist François Thuillier, was written in the autumn of 2011. It was preceded by a collaboration between the composer and the tubaist that began...