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Quasi-Renaissance Dances, Op. 138 (2022)

Brass Quintet No. 2

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Duration: 11'30"

  1. I. Bourrée
  2. II. Allemande
  3. III. Galliarde
  4. IV. Basse Danse
  5. V. Chaconne
  6. VI. Bransle Gay

Instrumentation:

  • Trumpet 1 in C, Eb (opt.), Piccolo Bb
  • Trumpet 2 in C, Eb (opt.)
  • Horn in F
  • Trombone
  • Tuba

Program Notes:

This piece is the fifth in a series of Christmas gifts for my dear friend Noah Lauziere.

I wrote my first brass quintet in the summer of 2015 while attending the Bay View Music Festival. I ambitiously titled it "Brass Quintet No. 1", knowing full well that I had simlarly written a "Sonata No. 1 for Trumpet and Piano" three years prior that had never been followed up. I finally got around to writing another trumpet sonata in 2021, and the idea of writing another brass quintet remained, bouncing around in my head.

I also had unfinished business with my "Sonata for Ab Clarinet and Piano", conceived as a setting of mock-Renaissance dances. This is part an adaptation of that sonata for brass quintet, part a new composition - a new setting of the fictional dances from the imagined "original source".

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