Early Brass Ensemble Listening Session

In class today we listened to a playlist of brass ensemble music by European composers ranging from the late Renaissance and Baroque eras to the 19th century. As I mentioned in class, rather than a simply passive listening experience (since we are studying scores), I encouraged you to take notes on any piece, composer or ensemble that peaked your curiosity and consider blogging or even writing your historical perspectives paper on that topic. Here is the complete playlist with as many hyperlinks as I could find of interest:

1. The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, La Bignani by Giovannio Cavaccio
   
2. The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, Canzona a 5 by Claudio Merula
3. American Brass Quintet, Battle Suite, II. Courant, by Samuel Scheidt 
4. U.S. Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps, March Fur Die Arche by C. P. E. Bach
5. Brass sections of the Philadelphia, Cleveland and Chicago Symphony Orchestras,Canzona Per Sonare No. 27 by Giovanni Gabrieli from the Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli recording
6. The Ewald Brass Quintet, Brass Quintet No. 4, II. Minuetto by Jean Francois Bellon who composed as set of twelve brass quintets in the 1850s.
   
7. Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass & Mark Ridenour, Sonata Piano e Forte by Giovanni Gabrieli  
8. Copenhagen Brass, Flensborger March by Jensen from their "Historic Danish Brass Music" recording
9. The Brass Ensemble of the Tonkuenstler Orchestra Lower Austria, Arie Per Il Balletto A Cavallo by Johann Heunrich Schmelzer
   
10. The Brass Ensemble of the Tonkuenstler Orchestra Lower Austria, Grund-richtiger Unterricht by Daniel Speer 
11. Deutsche Naturhorn Slisten & Franz Ruml, Air for 2 Horns and Organ in F Major, HWV 410 by Handel 
12. Le Rally-Cor de Montmélian, Les Honneurs du Pied 
13. Hermann Baumer & Brass Partout, Brass Quartet, Op. 38 In Modo Religioso by Alexander Glazunov (pub. 1893)