Contest Lists
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$8.00A contemporary style duet for trumpets. Jack Gallagher (Resonances) has created a one movement piece challenging in rhythm but not extreme in range.
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$6.00Indiana University trumpet professor Charles Gorham has brought to light another work by a Russian composer.
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$6.00Elegy V. Berdiev edited by Charles Gorham University of Indiana professor Charles Gorham has edited this rediscovered Russian romantic work, hitherto unpublished in the west. Dark and rich, Elegy is an excellent short recital work accessible to good high school players as well as collegians and professionals.The piano part has…
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$8.00Part of Manduca Music’s Brass Treasures series is Vincent Bach’s long unavailable Hungarian Melodies for cornet (trumpet) and piano.
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$6.00This solo stresses tone, slurring, and expressive playing, and changes keys a few times. The rhythm is mostly quarters and eighths.
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$6.00A nice melodic solo with a conservative range suitable for intermediate players and players with braces.
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$7.00Both the solo and accompaniment parts are within the abilities of good high school players.
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$25.00This transcription of the Sinfonia from Rossini’s The Barber of Seville for seven trumpets is suitable for advanced high school or college trumpeters.
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$18.00Transcribed from the original 20th century work for men’s chorus, this piece adapts beautifully for the sonority of the trombone choir.
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$10.00This allegretto is in alternating 3/8 and 2/4 time (keys of Bb and Eb) and employs lots of jaunty rhythms which interchange between players in canonic fashion.
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$20.00Editor’s choice. A marvelously written work for one of the most difficult textures in brass chamber music.
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$12.00The first movement resembles a short toccata, the second creates a full luxurious texture that implies a much larger instrumentation and the third movement is Stravinskyesque in nature with a dry, brittle rhythmic drive.