This 5 movement work by performer and pedagogue Hill is designed to bring to the hornist the feel of playing fully worked out jazz tunes in various styles.
This is a well crafted, expansive work in 3 movements, the first being a dramatic sonata-allegro, the second a lyrical passacaglia, and the third a tongue-in-cheek, playful little march cast in sonatine form.
Harold Meek, former Associate Principal Horn of the Boston Symphony, has edited performance versions of two romantic works for soprano, horn and piano.
This collection contains A French Dance (duration 3 minutes) by Gluck; The Adagio and Allegretto (duration 4 minutes) and the Allegro non troppo (duration 4 minutes) from the second concerto by Friedrich Seitz, all for the early intermediate brass player.
Musi-Physi-Cality’s purpose is to acquaint young students with choreographic movements that will enable them to make a physical connection to musical feeling.
These excellently arranged short works will provide, for late elementary and intermediate brass musicians, access to the melodic and harmonic styles of four of the great composers.