The Morning Brass Ensemble of Kaneland Harter Middle School, Sugar Grove, Illinois, requested some simple arrangements of Christmas music for holiday concerts at nursing homes and shopping malls. This is a part of the collection written for them.

The three tunes in this item, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Thou Didst Leave Thy Throne, and I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, are immediately recognizable. The arrangements are specifically designed to be very playable by second-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. 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, 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. 14
Carol of the Shepherds, Deck the Halls, and O Come O Come Emmanuel

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 carols once through, no repeats, except God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen is complete in the sample-- we just couldn't resist (synthesizer/midi).



CHRISTMAS QUINTS NO. 2, three Christmas carols-- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Thou Didst Leave Thy Throne, I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day-- arranged by Tom Kirkland for brass quintet consisting of two trumpets, french horn, trombone, and tuba, comes in a pdf file of 456K, with two one-page scores, one two-page score, nine one-page parts (most contain two parts on the same page), and a license page, fourteen pages in all. Performance time should be about two to three minutes each.