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 nursery rhyme tune Christmas is Coming, French carol Bring a Torch Jeanette Isabella and old favorite What Child is This? 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.
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, Christmas is Coming complete, and the others one time through no repeat (synthesizer/midi).
CHRISTMAS QUINTS NO. 6, three Christmas carols-- Christmas is Coming, Bring a Torch Jeanette Isabella, What Child is This?-- arranged by Tom Kirkland for brass quintet consisting of two trumpets, french horn, trombone, and tuba, comes in a pdf file of 449K, with one two-page score, two one-page scores, 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.