| Instrument | |
|---|---|
| Level | 2.5 |
| Preview | https://www.despub.com/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/pdf145411.pdf |
| Recording | https://www.despub.com/wp-content/uploads/music/mpt145411.mp3 |
| Occasion | |
| Tune Name | |
| Theme | God Rest You Merry Gentlemen |
| Hymn First Line | God rest ye merry, gentlemen |
| Writer | |
| Composer | |
| Publisher | |
| Copyright | 1992 |
| Key | d, f |
| Meter | cut-time |
| Duration | 2'30" |
| Idiom | Four plus brass |
| Form | Song (binary) |
| Comments | (2-tp, 2-trb, opt hn & tuba) |
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
$9.95
Four Plus Brass Series- for two Trumpets and two Trombones (with opt. Horn and Tuba for color). In alla breve, the style is pensive a thoughtful of mankind at peace with their situation The trumpets carry the tune throughout the whole first section until it goes into a imitative section with the trombones. After a modulation takes place the trombones carry the tune much in the same style as the trumpets, earlier. The final section becomes more relaxed where it lies in simple relation.
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