Be sure to check out the consortium I'm starting for two new trombone ensemble pieces, one for quartet and one for 12-part trombone choir! More information: hassmusic.com/2022/12/09/dancing-light-trombone-ensemble-consortium/ Entry form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfedLFL7l8_3i-N38VmQ9NqJROSXmvh4J8draMaierpLPLrUg/viewform
These talented musicians play with such grace. The trombone is sometimes used as a meaty and brash sound effect. This arrangement shows how much contrast this instrument holds with it's rich and dark tone. All coming from a clarinetist.
i’m a choral musician myself, but i love listening to instrumentalists do their thing. i like hearing a different sound sometimes after listening to choral music all day. refreshingly beautiful
I'm a trombone major. This is why I love trombone. October is such a beautiful piece of music and wow does it fit this trombone choir well. Amazing performance.
James Laceby Keep with it. I played 2nd for this to premier this piece with the Tallahassee Winds at the Sydney Opera House with Eric directing. Could hardly get to the end! Best of luck.
Oh my goodness, this is amazing. I love October, and the fact that it's being performed by a trombone choir is just a giant plus. I would love to play October once in my lifetime. Or you know, be in said trombone choir. c;
+Chris Hass Woah woah woah, are you serious? Because that would make my life to have this music (I played the full orchestration of it but this version is just as wonderful)
Chris: The Manitoba Trombone Collective played this at the North Dakota Trombone Festival last year - it was very well received. Thank you for the arrangement.
This is such a beautiful arrangement congrats! This studio is absolutely incredible and has such a unified sound so congrats to prof Wolfinbarger on having such a great studio at Western.
At the The International Music Camp 4 day adult camp, a low brass ensemble will be playing this, not sure we have video of us playing this for the 'talent' evening.
Why don't trombone choirs ever use ALL of the trombones? There's soprano, alto, contrabass, and sopranino trombones that would be fantastic in this setting. Also...valve trombones are trombones, too, so you can do some of the fancy filigree that would be too fast for slides to do accurately. Why don't they do that? That was a side question. The song, as expected, is beautiful and wonderfully suited to trombones' vocal qualities.
Alto trombone is a thinner, brighter sound as well. It may not have been desired for this darker arrangement. The use of alto is also pretty limited even today, it's almost a debate when to use it and when to not. Many things that used to be done on alto are now done on a small-bore tenor. Tenor and bass are the most commonly used. I know of zero instances where soprano or especially sopranino are ever called for.
As the arranger of any piece it is hard to blend different instruments together. Different instruments, and yes their transpositions have slightly different tone colors that affect how the piece sounds as a group. Usually the higher registers have a brighter tone color, they are harder to blend in.
Other trombones, in this case smaller ones, simply would not be necessary. The tenor is capable of all necessary pitches even on its own, with the exception of the bass trombone to help reach those lower notes with more clarity and merit. Soprano and alto trombones have different pitches and would otherwise stick out a bit. That probably wouldn't be a bad thing, but the difference would be substantial mixing high notes on altos or sopranos with tenors and basses. Keeping with the traditional tenor and bass trombones for most arrangements are favored more for modern music arrangements today. The smaller trombones are just for a different style of music and would otherwise be seen and heard more commonly in renaissance music. The Soprano trombone also sounds very, very similar to a trumpet, so it wouldn't blend properly with the rest of the trombones in this song unless you specifically want it to. The tenor and alto sound pretty similar, and the alto can't get as low as the tenor. The alto is almost obsolete. I also just think tenors sound much better than altos regardless, and due to their similar pitch they just aren't needed. At least in my eyes. Or ears.
Be sure to check out the consortium I'm starting for two new trombone ensemble pieces, one for quartet and one for 12-part trombone choir! More information:
hassmusic.com/2022/12/09/dancing-light-trombone-ensemble-consortium/
Entry form:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfedLFL7l8_3i-N38VmQ9NqJROSXmvh4J8draMaierpLPLrUg/viewform
These talented musicians play with such grace. The trombone is sometimes used as a meaty and brash sound effect. This arrangement shows how much contrast this instrument holds with it's rich and dark tone. All coming from a clarinetist.
i’m a choral musician myself, but i love listening to instrumentalists do their thing. i like hearing a different sound sometimes after listening to choral music all day. refreshingly beautiful
I'm a trombone major. This is why I love trombone. October is such a beautiful piece of music and wow does it fit this trombone choir well. Amazing performance.
James Laceby Keep with it. I played 2nd for this to premier this piece with the Tallahassee Winds at the Sydney Opera House with Eric directing. Could hardly get to the end! Best of luck.
Great arrangement! Im headed to WMU this fall as a trombone student, I hope I get to play some of your arrangements.
Oh my goodness, this is amazing. I love October, and the fact that it's being performed by a trombone choir is just a giant plus. I would love to play October once in my lifetime. Or you know, be in said trombone choir. c;
Oh, it totally is! And that would be amazing! Thank you so much!
+Chris Hass Woah woah woah, are you serious? Because that would make my life to have this music (I played the full orchestration of it but this version is just as wonderful)
Im gonna have to take you up on that offer.
You're a peach! Thank you, thank you, thank you! This really means a lot to me!
I would love sheet music to this!
Chris: The Manitoba Trombone Collective played this at the North Dakota Trombone Festival last year - it was very well received. Thank you for the arrangement.
Thanks for letting me know! I'm glad it went well!
This is such a beautiful arrangement congrats! This studio is absolutely incredible and has such a unified sound so congrats to prof Wolfinbarger on having such a great studio at Western.
this is beautiful
At the The International Music Camp 4 day adult camp, a low brass ensemble will be playing this, not sure we have video of us playing this for the 'talent' evening.
That's awesome! Have a good performance!
Would it be possible to obtain the sheet music for this. This is amazing.
Why don't trombone choirs ever use ALL of the trombones? There's soprano, alto, contrabass, and sopranino trombones that would be fantastic in this setting. Also...valve trombones are trombones, too, so you can do some of the fancy filigree that would be too fast for slides to do accurately. Why don't they do that?
That was a side question. The song, as expected, is beautiful and wonderfully suited to trombones' vocal qualities.
Alto trombone is a thinner, brighter sound as well. It may not have been desired for this darker arrangement. The use of alto is also pretty limited even today, it's almost a debate when to use it and when to not. Many things that used to be done on alto are now done on a small-bore tenor.
Tenor and bass are the most commonly used. I know of zero instances where soprano or especially sopranino are ever called for.
As the arranger of any piece it is hard to blend different instruments together. Different instruments, and yes their transpositions have slightly different tone colors that affect how the piece sounds as a group. Usually the higher registers have a brighter tone color, they are harder to blend in.
Other trombones, in this case smaller ones, simply would not be necessary. The tenor is capable of all necessary pitches even on its own, with the exception of the bass trombone to help reach those lower notes with more clarity and merit.
Soprano and alto trombones have different pitches and would otherwise stick out a bit. That probably wouldn't be a bad thing, but the difference would be substantial mixing high notes on altos or sopranos with tenors and basses. Keeping with the traditional tenor and bass trombones for most arrangements are favored more for modern music arrangements today. The smaller trombones are just for a different style of music and would otherwise be seen and heard more commonly in renaissance music.
The Soprano trombone also sounds very, very similar to a trumpet, so it wouldn't blend properly with the rest of the trombones in this song unless you specifically want it to.
The tenor and alto sound pretty similar, and the alto can't get as low as the tenor. The alto is almost obsolete. I also just think tenors sound much better than altos regardless, and due to their similar pitch they just aren't needed. At least in my eyes. Or ears.
Can you send me the sheet music for the arrangement of October once again please it seems I have deleted it...
@chrishass
1 person probably disliked because section N should've had more impact lol