15 Easy Arrangements-15 Easy Arrangements. These exciting instrumental collections feature 15 easy arrangements for brass quartet or brass quintet with flexible instrumentation and optional keyboard accompaniment. They make ideal accompanimentsfor congregational singing in churches or other groups and are also great for performances by brass only. Every book includes two versions of each carol: the standard version found in hymnals in the common key and a variationverse with a free and interesting arrangement. Includes: Angels We Have Heard on High · The First Noel · Go Tell It on the Mountain · Hark! the Herald Angels Sing · Joy to the World · WhatChild Is This? · and more.

Canadian Brass-Ideal hymn accompaniments for festive congregational singing and for performances by brass alone. Flexible instrumentation with optional keyboard accompaniment makes the arrangements adaptable to many situations. There are twoversions of each hymn: the standard version found in hymnals in the common key and a “variation verse ” with a free and interesting arrangement. There is also a trumpet descant book available separately that matchesthe arrangements. Songs include: All Creatures of Our God and King • All Glory Laud and Honor • Blessed Assurance • Christ the Lord Is Risen Today • Come Ye Thankful People Come • Crown Him with ManyCrowns • Fairest Lord Jesus • and many more.

Canadian Brass-Ideal hymn accompaniments for festive congregational singing and for performances by brass alone. Flexible instrumentation with optional keyboard accompaniment makes the arrangements adaptable to many situations. There are twoversions of each hymn: the standard version found in hymnals in the common key and a “variation verse ” with a free and interesting arrangement. There is also a trumpet descant book available separately that matchesthe arrangements. Songs include: All Creatures of Our God and King • All Glory Laud and Honor • Blessed Assurance • Christ the Lord Is Risen Today • Come Ye Thankful People Come • Crown Him with ManyCrowns • Fairest Lord Jesus • and many more.

Handel in the Band is a virtuoso set of symphonic variations on one of Handel’s best known keyboard dances the Sarabande from his Suite in D minor HWV 437 based on the Spanish traditional dance La Folia. Kenneth Downie’s work was commissioned by Brass Band Treize Etoiles for performance at the 2013 Swiss National Brass Band Championships where it was conducted by James Gourlay. The title is a reference to Percy Grainger’s popular Handel in the Strand and is indicative of the witty and theatrical nature of the music which is more playful than conventional competition pieces and as such offers different challenges to brass bands as well as beingthoroughly entertaining for audiences. Kenneth Downie is one of the most respected and experienced brass band composers. His music has been widely performed and published throughout the brass band world since the 1960s.

London Brass Band Series-Leslie Pearson's Christmas Is Coming scored for 3 Trumpets 3 Trombones Tuba 2 Percussion Organ and Keyboard. 'When I set out to arrange traditional Christmas carols I was determined that they should not be yet another run-of-the-mill strophic verse-by-verse version of our Christmas heritage. I have tried to treat each carol in the collection as the basis for a Petite Fantasie - a continuous single-movement of variations on the original tune. Of course the carol is heard in its traditional form at some point during the arrangement but hopefully its appeal is enhanced without destroying the traditional concept. Inparticular White Christmas Silent Night and the middle sections of Hark the Herald and Christmas is Coming have the soft 'lush' treatment. Christmas is Coming has a humorous opening and a 'Noblimente' end. The collection is in all a delightful mixture of musical styles through the ages.' Leslie Pearson

‘Toccata Festiva’ was commissioned in 1994 by the Dutch Brass Band Championships. The wind band version was made a year later by the composer himself. Historically speaking the toccata is considered to be one of the first independent instrumental forms for keyboard instruments. Originally the toccata was typically more or less improvised later this musical form was given a more regulated structure. Both elements are used in the ‘Toccata Festiva’: on the one hand the different themes are developed freely on the other the piece has an orderly structure. It is in a three part form (quick-slow-quick) and includes both strong rhythmical figures and broad melodic lines. Partof the composition is written in a more or less archaic tone idiom referring to the period from which the toccata form originates (16th century).