Music for Brass No. 13-Sonata from Die Bänkelsängerlieder is a piece for Brass Quintet: two Trumpets a Horn a Trombone and a bass Trombone. The general level of this Sonata is intermediate / upper intermediate for all instruments. Found among some music sheets bought in the auction of the effects of one Dr. Gehring this sonata is the nineteenth piece was considered as one of the best musical sheets found. The title “Die Bänkelsängerlieder” means “The bench singer” to be understood as the itinerant musician who is singing about the stories he witnesses every day. A more detailed story of the piece is written as apreface for this volume.Lasting 2 minutes 45 this piece has a very nice melody and is perfect for recitals.

Like many of Davies’s smaller works this is in a relatively lucid modal style midway between the clarity of his carols and the complications of his symphonies: the opening is in a kind of B flat minor and the close is triumphantly in G flat major. What happens in between -- always in 4/4 march time but usually with exuberant syncopations and cross-rhythms - is a sequence of transformations of the theme heard first from the second trumpet on the top line at the start; it will be heard again from the horn and from the first trumpet in upward-moving inversion with brilliant climaxes to punctuate. An ebullient piece in a simplified yet still very distinctive harmonic andrhythmic style and surely destined to make a rousing encore item. Arranged for brass quintet.