Trombone Duet

20 Duets for Trombone is perfect for a get together with a friend or for a teacher and student. This set includes:

1. Bist du bei mir - Bach

2. Allegro assai - Beethoven

3. Prelude No. 7 - Chopin

4. Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes - trad.

5. Gavotte - Purcell

6. Honor and Arms - Handel

7. Serenade from String Quartet in F - Hoffstetter

8. Prelude from Cello Suite I - Bach

9. Rondeau - Mouret

10. The Liberty Bell - Sousa

11. Sarabande II - Handel

12. Largo - Vivaldi

13. Pastorale - Vivaldi

14. Bridal March - Wagner

15. Adagio - Handel

16. Andante - Handel

17. In the Hall of the Mountain King - Grieg

18. Für Elise - Beethoven

19 Sarabande - Handel

20. Turkish Rondo - Mozart

2 Trombones and Rhythm Section; 1. You'd be so Nice to Come Home To 2. Caribe 3. Happiness is a Thing Called Joe 4. The Song is You 5. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning 6. Yes, You 7. How High the Moon 8. Violets for your Furs 9. Too Close for Comfort

Another complete JK transcription! ("Jay and Kai" is the album with the big alphabet letters on the front.) "Jay and Kai" is also a complete transcription of all trombone parts, rhythm parts, improvised solos and chord changes.

This duet book comes in both a low and high key and can be played by various combinations of low brass instruments.

This book seeks to provide low brass players with useful, enjoyable materials that can be used effectively as both pedagogical tools and performance pieces. By incorporating a variety of keys, articulations, meters, phrase structures, and styles, these duets present countless opportunities for musical and technical development without feeling so exercise-like as to preclude them from having a place on recital programs.

While thinking about this project, I received a number of messages from tubists, euphoniumists, and trombonists—performers and pedagogues alike—lamenting the various challenges they face when searching for duet literature. For example, trombonists looking for materials to play alongside their tuba students face a dilemma: most tuba duets are too low for the trombone, while most trombone duets are too high for the tuba. Others remarked that some tuba duets ignore the upper tessitura, making them unhelpful to players looking to build range and facility, or pointed out that many trombone duets are either musically fulfilling or technically accessible to non-professional players, but not both. The quality of low brass duet literature also varies widely, with little overlap between works that make useful teaching tools and those which are musically compelling enough to perform.

To address some of these issues, the duets in this book present a variety of technical challenges without losing sight of the importance of sound, pitch, phrasing and musicianship. Whether addressing technical issues like range, articulation, or velocity, each piece also requires that players pay attention to style, tone production, and ensemble playing. Moreover, each duet appears in two different keys, separated variously by a perfect fourth, tritone, or perfect fifth in order to avoid extreme ranges or particularly unwieldy key signatures. This allows players to learn each piece in the more comfortable tessitura first (tuba players beginning with the lower-keyed version, for instance), empowering them to subsequently approach the more challenging tessitura already armed with a musical plan of attack and command of the melodic lines and intervals.

Although some of the pieces in this book will undoubtedly be more or less challenging than others, depending on the combination of instruments and experience levels possessed by the performers, the hope is that each one adds value by providing opportunities to hone our musical and technical skills, allowing teachers to perform alongside their students, or allowing students to play with one another. I am grateful to all of those who reached out with thoughts about this project and hope you enjoy these Six Concert Caprices.

As a member of the low brass family, I often find myself humming famous melodies that the “back row” does not ever get the chance to play. Ironically, the only thing missing from some of these melodies is the majestic sound of a of our gentle giants. As many of my low brass brothers and sisters would likely share this sentiment, it was time that these melodies were graciously set our stands! Something Old, Something New: Ten Duets for Trombone/Euphonium takes several of these legendary lines and alters them in all sorts of ways so that every low brass player may bellow out the classics. Of the set, half are completely original works and half are based on orchestral excerpts that musicians everywhere recognize and cherish.

I. Original

II. Original

III. Horn Concerto No. 1, Strauss

IV. An American in Paris, Gershwin

V. Original

VI. Symphony No. 5, Mahler

VII. Original

VIII. Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Tchaikovsky IX. The Rite of Spring, Stravinsky

X. Original