The First Noel - Brass Choir
I am a high school band director, and at Christmas I put together what I call a "Brass Choir" to go around the community spreading Christmas cheer. The ensemble is two trumpets (a 1st & a 2nd), one french horn, a trombone, and a tuba - 5 students. The principal gives us an excused day out of school and we go to bank lobbies, nursing homes, the courthouse, etc. and play 30-45 minutes of Christmas music at each place.
My Brass Choir arrangements were spread over several programs that I've used through the years, from Mark of the Unicorn's Pro Composer and Composer's Mosaic to Finale on a Window's machine. In very little time I was able to put them all into MuseScore and format them, so for this year, the parts are all MuseScore parts and look great!
Here is the score and the parts for my simple arrangement of The First Noel.
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| The First Noel.mscz | 4.63 KB |
| The First Noel - Trumpet 1.mscz | 2.72 KB |
| The First Noel - Trumpet 2.mscz | 2.58 KB |
| The First Noel - F Horn.mscz | 2.66 KB |
| The First Noel - Trombone.mscz | 2.6 KB |
| The First Noel - Tuba.mscz | 2.59 KB |
Comments
Very nice straight-forward arrangement. Would be a great starting point to arrange the same for a small wind group (say 2 clarinets, oboe, horn, bass clarinet).
I just found my Finale arrangement of a flute choir version for "Carol of the Bells." I should add that to MuseScore, as well. Then, you could take it and transcribe it for Brass, if you'd like. I actually took it from my high school's bell choir arrangement. So far as I know, it's old enough that copyright wise it's open, but I still give the credit where it's due for the original arranger of the Bell Choir piece.
In reply to I just found my Finale by gbfluteman
Funny, I'm currently working on a version of the Bell Carol! I'm about 2/3rds done with it. I checked on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_of_the_Bells), and it looks like it's not copyrighted, so I'll post mine when I'm done, and you post yours if you convert it,. Let's see how they compare!