Early Brass Ensemble Listening Session

Today's listening session featured brass ensemble music mostly from the Renaissance and Baroque eras. Here is the complete set list. We started with this video below of the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble performing Beata es Virgo a 6 by Giovanni Gabrieli:

 

1. American Brass Quintet, Battle Suite, II. Courant, by Samuel Scheidt
2. U.S. Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps, March Fur Die Arche by C. P. E. Bach
3. Brass sections of the Philadelphia, Cleveland and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, Canzona Per Sonare No. 27 from the Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli recording
4. The Ewald Brass Quintet, Brass Quintet No. 4, II. Minuetto by Jean Francois Bellon
5. Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass & Mark Ridenour, Sonata Piano e Forte by Giovanni Gabrieli
6. Copenhagen Brass, Flensborger March by Jensen from their "Historic Danish Brass Music" recording
7. The Brass Ensemble of the Tonkuenstler Orchestra Lower Austria, Arie Per Il Balletto A Cavallo
8.  The Brass Ensemble of the Tonkuenstler Orchestra Lower Austria, Grund-richtiger Unterricht by Daniel Speer
9. The Brass Ensemble of the Tonkuenstler Orchestra Lower Austria, A Due Trompetenduette No. 1 by Franz Biber
10. Deutsche Naturhorn Slisten & Franz Ruml, Air for 2 Horns and Organ in F Major, HWV 410
11. Le Rally-Cor de Montmélian, Les Honneurs du Pied
12. Hermann Baumer & Brass Partout, Brass Quartet, Op. 38 In Modo Religioso

Bay Brass

Just a brief introduction to the Bay Brass. Founded in 1995, this amazing group is a comprised of a "dream team" of brass musicians in the San Francisco Bay area.

From their website:

"Formed in 1995, The Bay Brass, is comprised of a cooperative of players from the San Francisco Bay Area's leading performing organizations including the San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, and Symphony Silicon Valley. The aim of the group is to present both large-scale symphonic brass ensemble works and compositions for smaller combinations of players in acoustics which complement the wonderful sound of brass. In addition, The Bay Brass programs concerts of remarkable diversity, combining the traditional brass repertory with jazz and other contemporary styles, including the works of some of today's most influential composers.
As a true cooperative, The Bay Brass has no principal players and no music director -- only a core of musicians who share equally in all of the organizational and musical responsibilities of the group. Members of the ensemble also conduct, arrange, and compose, allowing for maximum musical growth and enjoyment for each member. Another important priority is the commissioning of new works in an effort to expand and enhance the brass repertory."

Welcome Spring 2020 Students

Welcome Spring 2020 students to Advanced Brass Ensemble Literature (ABEL). 

I have added the syllabus to the ICON site, but please to check this blog regularly for not only my own posts but links to your own blogs. Students have been maintaining blogs for this course since 2006, so all feel free to peruse older blogs and posts to get ideas and inspiration for your own blogs. 

For quick reference to the most updated version of the syllabus, click here.