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Martha My Dear (arr. Ray Thompson)by The Beatles Brass Quintet - Digital Sheet Music

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Arranged standard brass quintet: 2tpts, hn. tbn and tuba. Opening piano solo arr horn and tuba, then melody is taken by tpt 2 , chorus by trumpet 1. Fun for everyone.

"Martha My Dear" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 eponymous double album The Beatles (also known as the "White Album"). Credited to LennonMcCartney, the song was written solely by Paul McCartney about his Old English Sheepdog, Martha. It has been covered by several artists, including Slade, Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, Phish, World Party, and Les Boréades de Montréal.
The song incorporates elements from pop rock music; it also features a music hall-inspired piano line that recurs throughout the piece, as well as a brass section.
The song modulates through several keys The song is notated mainly in the key of E major, showing up embellished chords with jazzy sprinkled dissonances.

The verse is a syncopated replicate of the first melodic section adding two extra beats, a technique similar to that used later by McCartney in "Two of Us". Though the bridge is in the key of F major, the manner in which it abruptly sets in and exits makes it sound more out-of-the-way than it really is.

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