Trombone quartet arrangements
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2018 9:10 am
What are some of your favorite trombone quartet arrangements? Especially those that tend not to place all the high notes only on the first part.
Oh, very nice stuff. Thanks for that. Here's the link for the too-lazy-for-google - http://www.tenorposaune.com/sheetmusic/BostonChops wrote: ↑Wed Apr 11, 2018 2:11 pm Bach chorales - Benjamin Coy has arranged all of them(!) for trombone quartet, they're available for free on his website, along with other paid (nice looking) arrangements.
In my experience, they're great for dialing in intonation, breathing and tone. Also, good for some nostalgia for my A level music 20 years ago...
Where can I find these? Can’t seem to find any record of Morris’ stuff anywhere other than this thread.hyperbolica wrote: ↑Thu Apr 05, 2018 11:03 am
There is a mix of styles here. Bob Morris is disproportionately represented because our quartet gained access to a lot of his quartet stuff.
Our quartet bought several of these books. We generally like one or two tunes out of each book. Some tunes are nice, but they're just a little insane from time to time. Like insane key signatures, or a variation that just steps way out there. WWright is right about the lead player, but the same is true for the bass player in some situations. Anybody can blat out a big pedal G, but this stuff requires control and finesse under the staff.wwright wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2020 7:00 am Robert Elkjer has a lot of really nice stuff: https://robertelkjer.net/TrbnQuartetPage12.html. He doesn't generally take it easy on the lead player, though. The highest notes tend to be in the first part. That can be addressed with some copy/paste work, which can help.
I'm not familiar with Elkjer's arrangements, and I'd like to have a look at them to see how difficult they really are, but I can't really justify spending money on pieces that our group may never play if they're too hard. I didn't get much of a chance to poke around his website, but does he offer any previews of his arrangements so people can see what they're getting into? Being able to listen to the pieces helps, but for me, it's easier to gauge difficulty by seeing the music itself.hyperbolica wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2020 8:10 am Christopher Bill is not in the same league as Elkjer, but he does some of the same stuff. Bill tends to annotate soloistic syncopation, which drives me nuts, because the only thing it achieves is make the stuff impossible to read. Plus, Bill has this tendency to write everything 1 or 2 octaves higher than anyone can play. And, he seems to revel in keys with 5 or more sharps or flats. Because, you know, that's easy with software.
I don't know how, but I wish someone would write nice arrangements of interesting tunes that you could actually play without rehearsing 5 days a week. The Bill Morris stuff did that, and he seemed to have a hit rate of greater than 50%. Elkjer is about 25% and CB is less than 10%.
I used to love Musescore until they went subscription. There's so much amateur music in the world. It's really hard to get good charts unless you write them yourself. I've done some of that, but I don't always have time or energy.