Rhapsody for Brass Quintet
General Info
Year: 2017
Duration: c. 8:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Daniel Dade, through Sheet Music Direct
Cost: Score and Parts (digital) - $39.99
Movements
1. Lament
2. The Dance
3. A Certain Kind of Hymn
4. Ill-Tempered Fanfare
5. Red Tango
Instrumentation
Full Score
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F
Trombone
Tuba
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Rhapsody for Brass Quintet is a piece in five movements which can also be played as one continuous sequence, lasting approximately eight minutes.
Written in early 2017, the Rhapsody opens with a somber horn call echoed throughout the ensemble in the first movement, Lament. Moving into the second movement, The Dance, the ensemble begins with a bouncy 5/8 rhythmic pulse, enthusiastically switching between simple and compound meter. In a stark contrast to the second movement, the third movement, A Certain Kind of Hymn, juxtaposes the emotion felt in The Dance with its slow-paced 6/8 chorale in (mostly) four voices. The fourth movement, the Ill-Tempered Fanfare, is a departure from the previous movements with its aggressive duple meter and walls of sound. The final movement, Red Tango, begins with a groove in the tuba, soon after joined by the trombone. Eventually the groove bursts into a complex dance, closed out by a slick glissando in the trombone.
- Program Note by composer
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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Works for Winds by This Composer
- Attack of the Toy Planes (2018)
- New York from a Distance (2017)
- Rhapsody for Brass Quintet (2017)