Sound files and sample scores in PDF format can be found free of charge in the online shop. Some works with organ accompaniment are also available for church concerts. Music for brass ensemble for any occasion can be easily searched for using the Genre filter function: Light music, film music and musicals, marches, polkas, opening works, classical overtures and transcriptions. All titles are supplied with alternative parts for horn in Eb, trombone/Euphonium (treble clef) and bass in Eb.Ĥ trumpets, horn, 4 trombones, tuba and percussion: The 10-piece Brass Ensemble (also known as Orchestral Brass) can be combined almost arbitrarily with the alternative parts for horn in Eb, trombone/Euphonium in treble clef and bass in Eb. Alternative parts for horn in Eb, trombone/Euphonium in treble clef and bass in Eb are also included.Ģ trumpets, horn, trombone, euphonium and bass: this is the classical instrumentation of the Brass Sextet. Obrasso also offers a selection of sheet music for trumpet quartet, trombone quartet and tuba quartet.Ģ trumpets, horn, trombone and bass together form a brass quintet. Whether 2 cornets, horn and euphonium or 2 trumpets, horn and trombone or even 2 trumpets and 2 trombones: the main thing is 4 brass players! Sheet music for brass ensemble is available from Obrasso for the following instrumentations. In the online shop you will find more than 450 works for brass ensemble in various instrumentations of all strength classes. In 1976 Joplin was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize.Sheet music for brass ensemble from the music publisher Obrasso. But Rifkin's tempo borders the unbearable: his interpretation of the Entertainer lasts an unbelievable 5:25 min Much of the effect of harmonic variation is lost at this low. Scott Joplin, Joshua Rifkin, The Southland Stingers - Joplin: Digital Ragtime / Joshua Rifkin.
Joplin's music returned to popularity in the early 1970s with the release of a million-selling album of Joplin's rags recorded by Joshua Rifkin followed by the Academy award-winning movie The Sting which featured several of his compositions, such as "The Entertainer". SCOTT JOPLIN The Ragtime Dance (1906) Maple Leaf Rag (1899) The Entertainer.
This was written, according to opera historian Elise Kirk, to be a "timeless story" about a young black "heroine of the spirit who leads her people from superstition and darkness to salvation and enlightenment." It was a failure in its first concert performance in 1915, but was rediscovered and premiered in 1972. Eventually, "the piano-playing public clamored for his music newspapers and magazines proclaimed his genius musicians examined his scores with open admiration." Ragtime historian Susan Curtis noted that "when Joplin syncopated his way into the hearts of millions of Americans at the turn of the century, he helped revolutionize American music and culture."īefore his early death at age 48, Joplin worked on his second opera Treemonisha. "He composed music unlike any ever before written," according to Joplin biographer Edward Berlin. As an adult, Joplin also studied at an all-black college in Sedalia, Missouri.
He was taught music theory, keyboard technique, and an appreciation of various European music styles, such as folk and opera. After he studied music with several local teachers, his talent was noticed by a German immigrant music teacher, Julius Weiss, who chose to give the 11-year-old boy lessons free of charge.
He was blessed with an amazing ability to improvise at the piano, and was able to enlarge his talents with the music he heard around him, which was rich with the sounds of gospel hymns and spirituals, dance music, plantation songs, syncopated rhythms, blues, and choruses. One of his first pieces, the "Maple Leaf Rag", became ragtime's first and most influential hit, and remained so for a century. He achieved fame for his unique ragtime compositions, and was dubbed the "King of Ragtime." During his brief career, he wrote forty-four original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas. Scott Joplin (between July 1867 and January 1868 ? April 1, 1917) was an African-American composer and pianist, born near Texarkana, Texas, into the first post-slavery generation.