10 Miniatures For Brass

Ten Miniatures for Brass is not your customary configuration of a brass band ensemble. It does not contain your typical or routine amount of brass instruments. This brass ensemble’s compliment consists of three French horns, two Bb trumpets, two trombones, euphonium and tuba in C. There are no woodwinds and no percussion. Though Ten Miniatures For Brass does not typify your standard brass band it can still embody the brass band mantra that being it is from top to bottom resounding and reverberant.

Ten Miniatures For Brass is designed to be a collection of small scale lively evocative and energetic musical vignettes specifically for brass. This collection of brass vignettes is both tunefully palatable and rhythmically evocative. It’s etiquette and conduct is if anything reminiscent of an exemplary brass band heritage along with a singular paradigm of an art music esthetic. It is meant to be if anything entertaining.

The full score if formatted to A3 while the parts are formatted to A4.