Product Description
Happy Birthday Ed
Muss i Denn
La Cucaracha
At
last: Some new repertoire for the historical natural trumpet!
This
one-handed instrument was familiar to
composers such as JS Bach, Handel, Telemann, Purcell, Vivaldi etc., but was
largely neglected after the invention of valves in the early 19th
century - and the subsequent invention of the nodal vent-hole systems in the
late 20th-century - until recently, when the elusive "lost
art" of clarino playing (in the
fourth octave and above) was cracked by dedicated optimists such as Don L Smithers
and JF Madeuf.
These
arrangements are a stylistic departure from the trumpet's golden age of Baroque
repertoire, featuring works well known in the 20th century, and
provide excellent training for rhythmic precision, style, pitching and team
playing. They're also fun, if you like
that sort of thing.
Advice
on tuning up the differently-pitched instruments and a technical tip are
included.
The
current regulations on SMP mean us little guys can only publish in-copyright
works one at a time. So, you can collect them all and make yourself a
tome!
This
arrangement of Happy Birthday was written in 2011 for Edward H Tarr's 75th birthday concert in Basel (CH). Ed
conducted many pieces from the Charamela
Real, mostly for trumpets in two different tonalities. Happy Birthday was slipped in the programme before the second
encore without his knowledge. At his downbeat, he got quite a surprise.
The
rest of these arrangements were originally written for Lunchtime Tower Music (weather permitting), at
the Dartington International Summer School between roughly 2000 and 2010, for
courses led by Michael Laird and David Staff. Such performances from the mediæval
clock tower involved the various brass and other wind classes playing seriously
with an informal atmosphere. Logistical
issues, a narrow staircase and the ubiquitous Health-and-Safety regulations
prevented the use of timpani on the tower but sometimes larger groups, and
those involving vertigo sufferers, played in the courtyard instead.
These
pieces are the opposite of playing Baroque music on modern, or postmodern
instruments.
Get
them all now and enjoy a refreshing change!
Enjoy!
DM
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.