Brass quintet with piano accompaniment.

Collection of 50 Christmas Carols for solo Tuba (bass clef), comfortable range and key, easy for beginner/intermediate (grade 1 - 2). Contents: A la nanita nana - Adeste Fideles - Angels from the Realms of Glory - As Lately We Watched, As with Gladness Men of Old - Auld Lang Syne - Away in a Manger - Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabelle - Carol of the bells - Children, Go Where I Send Thee - O Christmas Tree - Coventry Carol - The Deck the Halls - Ding Dong Merrily on High - First Noel - The Friendly Beasts - The Gloucestershire Wassail - Go Tell it on the Mountain - God Rest Ye Merry,Gentlemen - Good King Wenceslas - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - Holly and the Ivy - The Huron Carol - I saw three ships - In dulci Jubilo - In Notte Placida - In the Bleak Midwinter - It Came Upon the Midnight Clear - Jingle Bells - Joy to The World - Lullaby - O Holy Night - O Little Town of Bethlehem - O Sanctissima - Oh, come, little children - Once in Royal David's City - Over the river and through the woods - Patapan - Quanno Nascette Ninno - Ring Out, Wild Bells - Rise Up Shepherd And Follow - Sans Day Carol - Silent Night - Toyland - The Twelve Days of Christmas - Up on the Housetop - We Three Kings of Orient Are - We Wish you a Merry Christmas - What Child Is This? - Winter's Snow.

Ran Whitley has compiled and beautifully arranged Twelve Hymn Preludes and Offertories for 4-part Brass Ensemble. They are playable by most performers of intermediate level and higher. Each piece is a complete arrangement on its own. The entire collection of twelve hymns contains almost 30 minutes of music of glorious Christian music appropriate for many different occasions.

The twelve hymns are amongst the most famous of the Christian liturgy:

All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name

Be Still My Soul

Brethren, We Have Met to Worship

God of our Fathers

Holy, Holy, Holy

I Love to Tell the Story

If You Will Only Let God Guide You

Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise

Nearer, My God to Thee

O Worship the King

Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us

Instrumentation for the quartet is for 2 Trumpets in B-flat and two Trombones. There are 4 substitute parts for parts 2 and 3 in B-flat treble and for F Horn, plus a Tuba part 8ba on the 4th part. You can perform these works with a mass brass ensemble very successfully.

?What is This Lovely Fragrance?? (?Quelle est cette odeur agréable??) is a 17th-century French traditional Noël (carol) about the Nativity of Christ. The melody accompanying its lyrics, a folk tune, was used by John Gay (1685?1732) in his satirical work, The Beggar's Opera (1728). It is this tune to which the text, calling the shepherds to the manger, is typically set. What is this lovely fragrance wafting like to the scents of flow'rs in spring? / Shepherds, O tell us, whence such beauty, hear you not heav'nly carolling? / What is this lovely fragrance wafting like to the scents of flow'rs in spring? Thisintermediate level arrangement is suitablefor advanced high school to professional ensembles for use inconcert, recital, and worship. Full score and parts, 8.5x11-inchformat. ©Copyright2013 Todd Marchand / ConSpiritoMusic.com