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 pieces in this item, The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy, Joy to the World, and Here We Come A-Wassailing, are immediately recognizable. The arrangements are specifically designed to be playable by second-year players, though their use need not be restricted to just young ensembles. These three are a bit more challenging than the others in the series, but if your group has played all of the others, you will have little trouble with these.
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.
MP3 sound sample: All three pieces complete (synthesizer/midi).
CHRISTMAS QUINTS NO. 9, three Christmas carols-- The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy, Joy to the World, and Here We Come A-Wassailing-- arranged by Tom Kirkland for brass quintet consisting of two trumpets, french horn, trombone, and tuba, comes in a pdf file of 842K, with one two-page score, two three-page scores, nine one-page parts (most contain two parts on the same page), and a license page, eighteen pages in all. Performance time should be about two to three minutes each.