Why we waited until now to put these three selections in a set of quints is anybody's guess. Carol of the Shepherds, Deck the Halls, and O Come O Come Emmanuel are all very recognizable Christmas classics. The arrangements are specifically designed to be playable by second- or third-year players, though their use need not be restricted to just young ensembles.

From time to time, all brass groups get asked to play at a community gathering, shopping mall, open house, or something similar, and this could be a handy source of some material to play.

Christmas Quints No. 1
Silent Night, O Come All Ye Faithful, Good King Wenceslas

Christmas Quints No. 2
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Thou Didst Leave Thy Throne, I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day

Christmas Quints No. 3
How Great Our Joy (Echo Carol), Once in Royal David's City, As With Gladness Men of Old

Christmas Quints No. 4
O Tannenbaum, Jeg Er Sa Glad Hver Julekveld, Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence

Christmas Quints No. 5
Away in a Manger, Fum, Fum, Fum

Christmas Quints No. 6
Christmas is Coming, Bring a Torch Jeanette Isabella, What Child is This?

Christmas Quints No. 7
Angels We Have Heard on High, Jingle Bells, We Wish You A Merry Christmas

Christmas Quints No. 8
The First Noel, Lo, How a Rose E're Blooming, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

Christmas Quints No. 9
The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy, Joy to the World, Here We Come A-Wassailing

Christmas Quints No. 10
For Unto Us a Child is Born, O Thou Joyful, O Thou Wonderful, and Infant Holy, Infant Lowly

Christmas Quints No. 11
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear, Of the Father's Love Begotten, and O Little Town of Bethlehem

Christmas Quints No. 12
Go Tell It on the Mountain, Long Ago and Far Away, and O Come Little Children

Christmas Quints No. 13
On Christmas Night All Christians Sing, A Virgin Unspotted, and Lully Lullay

Christmas Quints No. 15
The Dreidel Song, The Birthday of a King, and We Three Kings

Christmas Quints No. 16
He Shall Feed His Flock (from Messiah)

Christmas Quints No. 17
I Saw Three Ships, Still, Still, Still and God Loves Me Dearly

MP3 sound sample: All three pieces all the way though (synthesizer/midi).



CHRISTMAS QUINTS NO. 14, three Christmas carols-- Carol of the Shepherds, Deck the Halls, and O Come O Come Emmanuel-- arranged by Tom Kirkland for brass quintet consisting of two trumpets, french horn, trombone, and tuba, comes in a pdf file of 365K, with three two-page scores, seven one-page parts and two two-page parts (most contain two parts on the same page), and a license page, eighteen pages in all. Performance time should be about one to two minutes each.