Frederick Chopin is the most famous of Polish composers, having become all the rage in Paris toward the end of his brief life. Despite picking minor keys for many of his most famous compositions, he was said to have been very lively with a brilliant sense of humor. He is best remembered for his incredibly expressive and sometimes quite difficult piano compositions. It is said that the hand casts of Chopin reveal very deep depressions between the third knuckles, the result of playing his own compositions with hands spread to more than an octave. Even today, the sheer joy of playing Chopin is for many pianists tempered by aching hands. This waltz, one of a great many written for the piano, is among his most famous compositions. The A section consists of two nearly identical phrases that both end with runs that speed up and then slow down. The B section is where the trumpeters really fly with arpeggios and runs that alternate between the first and second player. The B section gives way to the C section, a contemplative theme carried by the horn at a slower tempo in the complementary major key. This is followed by a repeat of the B section. The A section and B sections are then repeated to finish out the piece. In this arrangement the tuba and trombone parts are relatively easy, though the tuba will need to have good control in the high register. The horn part is somewhat challenging in range specifically in the B section. The two trumpet parts are challenging in fingering, speed, and range. VALSE - OPUS 64 NO. 2 by Frederick Chopin, arranged by Tom Kirkland for brass quintet consisting of two trumpets, F horn, trombone, and tuba, comes in a pdf file of 1049K, with a nine-page score, five three-page parts, and a license page, twenty-five pages in all. Performance time should be just under five minutes. MIDI sound sample: entire piece. TRK10161AUS$3.95 BLANKET RECORDING POLICY FOR SHEET MUSIC Many of our sheet music licenses state that the purchaser does not have the right to record the work. We have modified our policy on this, and unless the license page states that you must obtain permission from a party other than www.tributek.com to record the work, we will allow a small number (less than 50) of copies of an audio or video recording of a live performance to be made and distributed and/or posted to a free web site for viewing/listening, so long as www.tributek.com, the composer, arranger, and lyricist are credited. IN THE DOWNLOADABLES BUSINESS OVER TEN YEARS! Visit our hard goods division at A customer commented: "This was a first for me: downloading a book instead of buying it in paper form. The cost of the book in this format was less than many firms charge for shipping an item. I had not a single glitch and I would buy another book in this format with no reservations. Tributek did a good job." Another customer commented: "I would like to compliment you on the ease of purchasing music on-line. I require the music for a wedding in a couple of weeks, and didn't want to wait for music to be sent in the mail. It was great to be able to hear the music and to know the length of the PDF file and performance time." Another customer writes: "I bought some choral music off your site. It's great. I hope we can do all of it in our church. I don't know how you can sell it so cheap. It's a great service you offer." NOTE: All www.tributek.com customers are given the opportunity to rate our service, value, and quality, and 98% of www.tributek.com customers who have ever returned satisfaction surveys rate their overall experience doing business with us as "excellent" (71%) or "good" (27%). You can't please all of the people all of the time, but we do try very hard. www.tributek.com - PO Box 8025 - Elburn IL 60119 USA Visit our hard goods division at www.tributek.biz Copyright (c)1999-2012 www.tributek.com All rights to all text, sounds, and graphics are reserved. Last update: 21 May 2012