Building Your Band From The Brass Up
The United States Army Field Band Brass Quintet
The United States Army Field Band
4214 Field Band Drive STE 5330 • Fort Meade, Maryland 20755-7055
Phone: (301) 677-6586 • Fax: (301) 677-6533
E-mail: field.band@us.army.mil • Website: ArmyFieldBand.com
The United States Army Field Band
Building Your Band From The Brass Up
The United States Army Field Band Brass Quintet
INTRODUCTION
Staff Sergeant Lauren Veronie
• The Army Field Band Brass Quintet: Who We Are,
What We Do
• The Goals of This Clinic
WHY BRASS CHAMBER MUSIC?
Master Sergeant Bob Cherry
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Build Confidence
Build an Ensemble Mentality
Build a Better Sound
Build a More Mature Sense of Musicality
Build a Better Band: Perform, Represent, Recruit
THE BEGINNING
Master Sergeant Scott Cameron
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Organization and Implementation
Instrumentation
Tools
Repertoire
Planning and Timing
• First rehearsal
THE FIRST REHEARSAL
Staff Sergeant Lauren Veronie
• Relinquishing Control
1) Conduct
2) Assist
3) Appoint a student leader
• Learning to Rehearse Themselves: blend, balance,
intonation, style
• Starting Without a Conductor: breathing, eye
contact, body language
• Setting Goals: long term, short term
GETTING BETTER
Sergeant First Class Ward Yager
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Listening to Established Groups
Band and Brass Quintet
Building Multiple Groups
Finding Performance Opportunities
Stick With It, Plan Early: Ensemble Festival
Practice Performance for Peers
INSTRUMENTATION &
ARRANGING
Sergeant First Class Phillip Johnson
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Choosing Appropriate Literature
Adapting Music To Your Program’s Limitations
Rearranging an Arrangement
Writing Your Own Arrangements
Music Software
Public Domain: Your Best Friend
Licensing and Ownership
Copyright Application
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Building Your Band From The Brass Up
WORKS PERFORMED
Fire Dance (1996)................................................................................. Anthony DiLorenzo (b. 1967)
Scherzo (1963).............................................................................................John Cheetham (b. 1939)
Canzona Per Sonare No. 2.................................................................. Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612)
Renaissance Dances............................................................Tylman Susato (1515-1570), arr. J. Iverson
La Mourisque
Brasse Danse Bergeret
Music for Brass Instruments (1944).............................................................Ingolf Dahl (1912-1970)
II. Intermezzo
Hometown Blues................................................................. Steve Earle (b. 1955), arr. Phillip Johnson
The Incredibles............................................................... Michael Giacchino (b. 1967), arr. Tom Holtz
RECOMMENDED REPERTOIRE
for the High School Brass Quintet
• Canadian Brass Book of Beginning Quintets (G. Schirmer, Inc.)
Complete set includes one each of Bb trumpet 1, Bb trumpet 2, F horn, trombone, and tuba. Set includes: A
la Claire Fontaine; Amazing Grace; Battle Hymn of the Republic; Crimond; Echo Carol; Fanfare for a Maple
Leaf; Kelligrew’s Soiree; Processional; Steal Away; Chorale (Bach); Ode to Joy (Beethoven); Music from the Royal
Fireworks (Handel); Saint Anthony Chorale (Haydn); Westminster Abbey (Purcell); Sanctus (Schubert); Tudor
Motet (Tye).
• Canadian Brass Book of Intermediate Quintets (G. Schirmer, Inc.)
Set includes: “Cantate Domino” from Musica Divina (Pitoni); Gavotte from Cello Suite No. 6, BWV 1012
(Bach); Greensleeves; Hava Nagila; High Barbary; Just a Closer Walk With Thee; Londonderry Air; Shenandoah;
Simple Gifts; The Drunken Sailor; Pilgrim’s Chorus from Tannhauser (Wagner); Prayer from Hansel und Gretel
(Humperdink); The Libery Bell (Sousa); This and That from Rigoletto (Verdi)
• Canadian Brass Book of Advanced Quintets (G. Schirmer, Inc.)
Set includes: Trumpet Voluntary (Stanley); Three Elizabethan Madrigals (Morley, Dowland); Hosanna to the
Son of David (Gibbons); Antiphonal (Sweelinck); Hallelujah, Amen (Handel); Where’er You Walk (Handel);
We Hasten with Eager Footsteps (Bach); Fantasia and Fugue (Bach); “Gloria” from Lord Nelson Mass (Haydn);
“Grand March” from Aida (Verdi); Jerusalem (Parry); Gaudeamus Igitur (Collegium Musicum); Three Spirituals
(arranged Barnes); Overture to H.M.S. Pinafore (Sullivan)
• Three Brass Quintets (Victor Ewald, Arr. Bryan Doughty, BVD Press)
• Music for Patriotic Ceremonies (Jari Villanueva, Music Express)
Includes: Opening Fanfare; Trio from Stars & Stripes Forever; The Star Spangled Banner; You’re a Grand Old Flag
(Grade 2-3)
• West Side Story Suite (Leonard Bernstein, arr. Jack Gale)
Prologue; Something’s Comin’; Maria; Tonight; America; One Hand, One Heart; I Feel Pretty; Somewhere
• Renaissance Dances (Susato, arr. Iveson, Chester Music)
• Three Joplin Rags (arr. Frackenpohl, Edward B. Marks Music Company)
• Scherzo (John Cheetham, Western Int. Music Co.)
• Contrapunctus I (J.S. Bach, Robert Nagel)
• Contrapunctus IX (J.S. Bach, Robert Nagel)
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Canzona per Sonare No. 4 (Giovanni Gabrieli, arr. King, Alphonse Leduc/Robert King, Inc.)
Monteregian Hills Suite for Brass Quintet (Morley Calvert, Berandol Music Ltd.)
Canzona Bergamasca (S. Scheidt, arr. De Jong, Ensemble Publications)
Three Pieces (Mauer, arr. R. Nagel, Mentor Music, Inc.)
This Old Man March (arr. R. Nagel, Mentor Music, Inc.)
That’s a Plenty (Lew Pollack)
Adagietto (Mahler, arr. Craig Garner, Dorm 40 Music)
Just a Closer Walk With Thee, (arr. Gillis, G. Schirmer, Inc.)
A SAMPLE OF GREAT BRASS QUINTET RECORDINGS
• American Brass Quintet:
Classic American Brass
Fyre & Lightning
Jewels
Quintessence
• Canadian Brass:
Canadian Brass Plays Great
Baroque Music
Canadian Brass Takes Flight
Echo – Glory of Gabrieli
High, Bright, Light & Clear
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Center City Brass Quintet:
Center City Brass Quintet
Romantic Music for Brass
Street Song
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Empire Brass:
Mozart for Brass
Royal Brass
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Stockholm Chamber Brass:
Sounds of St. Petersburg
MORE BRASS QUINTETS/ENSEMBLES
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Burning River Brass
Dallas Brass
German Brass
Manhattan Brass
Meridian Arts Ensemble
Mnozil Brass
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Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
Rhythm and Brass
Saint Louis Brass Quintet
Spanish Brass
Summit Brass
Washington Symphonic Brass
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