Brass Trios
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Brass Trios
I play my ee flat tuba in a very good brass quintet here in western Canada.Our two trumpet players plan to be away from the group for the forseeable future and i am interested in pursuing brass trios specifically or horn trombone and tuba.A brief look through youTube and some music sellers i have come up with a short list of pieces.This is a genre of music i know nothing about.Is this something worth pursuing?What pieces can you folks recommend?
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Re: Brass Trios
Back when I was engaged in low brass trios/quartets, I utilized IMSLP archives:
https://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Other_music_score_websites
In search type in brass trios. I also just searched for trios and, if appropriate for the group, rearranged various scores to fit. With the brass trios, most have trumpet up top, so a little arranging will be necessary. It's public domain stuff, so, free.
Also ScoreExchange provided some trio scores......a few were free at the time.
Being cheap, I tried to search the free sites first. There are a few if one searches the web.
https://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Other_music_score_websites
In search type in brass trios. I also just searched for trios and, if appropriate for the group, rearranged various scores to fit. With the brass trios, most have trumpet up top, so a little arranging will be necessary. It's public domain stuff, so, free.
Also ScoreExchange provided some trio scores......a few were free at the time.
Being cheap, I tried to search the free sites first. There are a few if one searches the web.
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Re: Brass Trios
There are so very many trombone trios.
I’m guessing that your horn player really doesn’t enjoy reading bass clef...
I’m guessing that your horn player really doesn’t enjoy reading bass clef...
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Re: Brass Trios
We have a very good horn player that could easily read bass clef so no problem there.I have looked into the avenue that you suggested and we just might go that route.Just a quick trip around various music sellers last night i have come up with at least a dozen pieces written for horn,trombone and tuba.Triangles by John Stevens is a good place to start.
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Re: Brass Trios
Horn, trombone, and E-flat tuba sounds like a great combination, and could easily play any trombone trios.
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Re: Brass Trios
Any decent horn player can read C bass clef. And a plethora of other "transpositions." It's part of the repertoire. They can also read tenor clef should the trombone part require it.