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Suggestions of pieces for a small ensemble

Author: rfoot
Date: 2010-01-17 19:14

I know that this isn't clarinet specific, but I would like to hear your suggestions of pieces for a small ensemble of 2 Clarinets, 2 violins, 1 French Horn, 2 Flutes, 2 trombones, 2 trumpets. The specifics don't matter fo instrumentation, but wehave no cellos or oboes, and I would be thankful for any suggestions of arrangements of pieces around Grade 6 in standard, but the sheet music needs to be relatively easy to get hold of. The piece needs to be shorter than 4 minutes long and not too complicated. Thanks very much in advance.

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Re: Suggestions of pieces for a small ensemble

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2010-01-20 02:25

Not that I have any idea of an arrangement that "fits" but it sounds like a group of instruments that would work well for cabaret sort of music, French folk music or................perhaps Kurt Weil's Three Penny Opera. There are a lot of different arrangements out there of Weil's music, shouldn't be too hard to tailor it up a bit.

................Paul Aviles

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Re: Suggestions of pieces for a small ensemble

Author: stevensfo
Date: 2010-01-20 06:49

This guy has arranged 'pick 'n mix' pieces for ensembles and offers them free:

http://www.dichmusik.dk/index.html

5-stemmer is 5 instruments...etc, but I think they often contain parts for 1st and 2nd etc. You could just try transposing some of the bass parts for the trombones.

You could search here as well:
http://icking-music-archive.org/ByComposer.php

Steve

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Re: Suggestions of pieces for a small ensemble

Author: johng ★2017
Date: 2010-01-21 02:53

I thought - why not, so I googled on 2 Clarinets, 2 violins, 1 French Horn, 2 Flutes, 2 trombones, 2 trumpets and came up with some that might be useful with some juggling of parts.

Try this one by Haydn:

Classical music composition, German dances (12) for 2 violins, bass, 2 flutes, 2 oboe, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 french horns, 2 trumpets and timpani, ...
www.classical-composers.org/piece/8435

John Gibson, Founder of JB Linear Music, www.music4woodwinds.com

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