Maryland
Early Brass
Sample
Programs
MEBC:
- provides a complete early brass ensemble
presenting an hour-long program.
- can provide players for the brass section for
your
Baroque,
Classical, or early Romantic Orchestra.
- provides prelude, processional, offertory, and
recessional
music for your wedding or church service, or individual members can
work
with your choral or instrumental group.
- provides a prelude of authentic 17th and 18th
century equestrian
music for horse shows and historical re-enactments.
- presents hands-on lecture demonstrations of the
history of
the trumpet from antiquity to the present, using copies of historical
instruments.
Special Programs:
Special Programs are generally performed once by request for
festivals and concerts, often in cooperation with other
organizations. Recent performances have included:
- M Mosl: Trois
Pétites Morceaux d'Élglise for 3 natural trumpets,
2 hand horns, Romantic era trombone, tympani, and organ (listen)
- P.J.Vejvanovsky: Intrada
for 5 natural trumpets, tympani, strings, and continuo (listen)
- Anonymous (Kromeriz): Sonata
for 5 natural trumpets and organ
Full Program:
The standard Full Program highlights the
cornett and sackbut quartet and the natural trumpet ensemble:
- T. Morley - 'Now
is the Month of Maying' for cornetto and sackbut quartet
- T. Susato: Moresca
for cornettos, sackbuts, natural trumpets, and tympani (listen)
- J. A. Groß - 3 Aufzüge for three natural
trumpets and tympani
- G. Gabrieli - Canzona
seconda for cornetto and
sackbut quartet (listen)
- C. Zoeller/J. B. Schiedermayr - March Nr 1 and
- Anonymous - À
L'Étendard for four French cavalry trumpets
- G. Dufaÿ - Gloria
ad modum tubæ for
cornettos and natural trumpets
- T. Susato - Les
Quatre Branles, Pavane 'La Bataille,' & Ronde for cornetto
and sackbut quartet
- M. Keller - Sechs
kurze und leichte Aufzüge for three natural trumpets and
tympani
- D. Speer - Two
Aufzüge
for seven natural trumpets and tympani (listen)
Weddings:
- Outdoor Prelude: Diabelli and Keller - Aufzüge
for three trumpets and tympani
- Processional: J. Clarke - Prince
of
Denmark's March for three or four trumpets, tympani, and organ.
- Recessional: G. F. Handel - Selections from the
Watermusic
for trumpets, tympani, and organ, followed by Diabelli - Fanfare
No 12 for three trumpets and tympani
Sample Small
Church
Service (for example, Advent):
- Processional & Recessional: Pater Ignatius
- Aufzüge
for four trumpets
and tympani
- Collection: J. L. Krebs - Chorale fantasia on 'Wachet auf!' for
cornetto and organ
Sample Large Church Service (for example,
Christmas):
- Prelude: Pater Ignatius - 'Resonet in
laudibus'
for four trumpets with tympani
- Processional: Anonymous - Intrada for
four
trumpets
with tympani
- Collection: M. Praetorius - In dulci iubilo
for cornetto and sackbut quartet
- Communion: C. Bendinelli - Sonata 328/9
Joseph
lieber, Joseph
mein
- Recessional: J.S. Bach - Nun seid ihr wohl
gerochen arranged
for three trumpets with tympani with your organ and choir
Equestrian events and
Renaissance
Faires:
A short prelude of baroque music originally written
for
equestrian events, including:
- H. Schmelzer - Balletto a Cavallo
- J.D. Zelenka - Cavalry
fanfares
- J.B. Lully - Carousel of 1688
- M.-A. Charpentier - Deux Aires de trompette
- A.D. Philidor - Music from the 'Grande
Écurie' of
Versailles
- C. Zoeller - Music
for
Cavalry
Educational Programs:
'A Brief History of the Trumpet from
Antiquity to the Present.' A
slide lecture traces the development of the trumpet from animal horn to
the modern Bb instrument. Reproductions of mediæval trumpets,
baroque
trumpets, slide and keyed trumpets, and orchestral trumpets are used to
trace the developments and improvements in the instrument, as well as
to
illustrate what was lost. Students will be asked to improvise a
five part sonata and will play several
processionals
on reproduction natural trumpets. Suitable for university or
advanced high school students.
- Anonymous - Call - Animal Horn
- Herodotus - Calls -
Egyptian Trumpet
- Anonymous - Hejnał - Busine
- Anonymous - Minstral piece -
Mediæval
Slide Trumpet
and Cornett
- G. Dufay - Gloria ad modum tubae -
Renaissance Trumpets
- Anonymous - Improvised five part sonata - (students) -
Five Natural
Trumpets
- Anonymous - 3 Aufzüge (students) -
3-6
Natural Trumpets
with Tympani
- H. Purcell - Funeral March - Three
Flatt
Trumpets and
Sackbut
- A. Diabelli - Two Fanfares - Three
Natural
Trumpets with
Tympani
- T. Harper - God Save The Queen - Two
English Slide Trumpets
and Two Natural Trumpets
- F.J. Haydn - 2nd movement of the Trumpet
Concerto - Keyed
Trumpet (with piano)
- G. Mahler - excerpt from Symphony No 1
- F
Orchestral
Trumpet
'Brass from the Past.' This interactive program
introduces
elementary school students to early brass instruments such as the
cornetto,
the natural trumpet, natural horn, and the sackbut. Students may
participate
through
percussion or early dance.
Suitable for Grade 5 and up.
'Elizabethan Program.' A program of Elizabethan dances and
madrigals presented as one facet of 'Elizabethan Day' at Howard County
Middle Schools.