Barnett demonstrates once again her unusual talent for idiomatic brass writing. The use of euphonium in place of trombone lends a new color to the quintet combination, although the part may perfectly well be played on trombone. The one-movement work includes four sections with the suggestive subtitles: Stand and Play, Sousa Fragments, Asleep, and The Two-Step Alarm.

This striking isorhythmic motet is perfect for a 180-degree change of style for your trio programs of mostly 20th century repertoire.

Renowned horn humorist Brian Holmes (aka Cabbage) has very effectively set Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Donald Justice’s satirical poem Variations for Two Pianos: “There is no music now in all Arkansas / Higgins is gone, taking both his pianos”. This audience-pleaser works brilliantly coupled with either the Brahms Trio or the Schubert Auf dem Strom.

Holmes sets poems on hunting themes by Walter Scott, William Butler Yeats, and e e cummings in this jovial and immediately appealing work.

We present this ever-popular Renaissance chanson in a new arrangement which retains all of the lively brilliance of the original but within a clearer rhythmic framework, resulting in a work which sounds far more challenging than it proves to be in rehearsal.

This popular and spirited Renaissance chanson makes a brilliant change of pace for the quintet that's tired of Danzi and Reicha or Ibert and Arnold.

Another Mozart standard available for the first time in a facsimile of the first edition printed in Leipzig in 1796. Invaluable for historically accurate performance (parts only)

As the first edition of the above work did not include a score, we have prepared for easy reference a study score in which all musical indications correspond strictly to the first edition.

A very important addition to the meager Romantic quintet repertoire: we present the complete Pictures (including the sections that Ravel did not orchestrate) effectively and very colorfully transcribed for winds. Each movement is also available separately as follows, with optional endings in those instances where Mussorgsky wrote attacca, so that suites may be easily assembled to fit any program.

This simple and lyrical Russian Orthodox hymn is always popular with audiences, and is an ideal change of pace for quintet programs whether light or serious, as well as a great selection for church services.

Seven colorful settings of actual gravestone texts which range from deadly serious to almost slapstick. An entertaining work to which audiences respond openly, once they realize they may laugh at en epitaph.

Contents:
Claude Gervais Basse Dance
Orlando di Lasso Bonjour mon Coeur
Guillaume Costeley Allon, Gay, Gay
E. N. Ammerbach Passamezzo Antico

Contents:
Claude Gervaise Basse Dance
Orlando di Lasso Bonjour, mon Coeur
Guillaume Costeley Allon, Gay, Gay
E. N. Ammerbach Passamezzo Antico