Subject: Trombone-l Digest, Vol 24, Issue 4 Date: Thursday, January 4, 2007 12:00 PM From: trombone-l-request@maillists.samford.edu Reply-To: trombone-l@maillists.samford.edu To: Conversation: Trombone-l Digest, Vol 24, Issue 4 Send Trombone-l mailing list submissions to trombone-l@maillists.samford.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://maillists.samford.edu/mailman/listinfo/trombone-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to trombone-l-request@maillists.samford.edu You can reach the person managing the list at trombone-l-owner@maillists.samford.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Trombone-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Moravian Trombone Music for Easter (DF Cramer) 2. Re: Moravian Trombone Music for Easter (Fred Hudson) 3. Re: Trombone-l Moravian Trombone Music for Easter (John Cather) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:09:01 -0500 From: "DF Cramer" Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Moravian Trombone Music for Easter To: gmiddleton@gmail.com, trombone-l@samford.edu Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed I have included 2 links below. The second will get you to the ordering information and the first will explain some of the arrangements and voicings. I purchased a complete set of Green Books and they work very well with virtually any instrumentation. A score is also available. http://webpages.charter.net/gmtc/GMTCFAQ.html http://www.moravianmusic.org/Sheet%20Music-band.php Dennis F. Cramer Teacher-Trombonist-Historian-Conductor >From: "Graham Middleton" >To: Trombone-L >Subject: [Trombone-l] Moravian Trombone Music for Easter >Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 12:07:40 -0500 > >Hello All, > >I was contacted my a Church today about possibly organizing some Moravian >Trombone ensemble music for their Easter service. I am familiar with the >large trombone ensembles ranging from soprano to contra, but it is possible >to do some literature with smaller instrumentation like soprano/trumpet, >alto, tenor and 1 or 2 bass trombones. What instrumentations are best? I >have heard of the "Green Book", but I am not sure what instrumentation it >like. What pieces are interesting and fun to preform? Any with Organ? >Are >there and sources where music is commercially available? Any info would be >much appreciated. > >Thank you > >-- >Graham Middleton >Adjunct Instructor of Low Brass: Kenyon College >Associate Trombone: Columbus Symphony Orchestra >114 East Burgess St. >Mt Vernon, OH 43050 >(740) 263-3372 >_______________________________________________ >Trombone-l mailing list >Trombone-l@maillists.samford.edu >http://maillists.samford.edu/mailman/listinfo/trombone-l _________________________________________________________________ >From photos to predictions, The MSN Entertainment Guide to Golden Globes has it all. http://tv.msn.com/tv/globes2007/?icid=nctagline1 ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 19:27:35 -0600 From: "Fred Hudson" Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Moravian Trombone Music for Easter To: "Graham Middleton" , "Trombone-L" Message-ID: <002301c72f9f$87775a00$3de7eb3f@s0024172501> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Graham, If the "Green Book" is the one I am familiar with it is arranged for full wind band instrumentation but there are many doubled parts so that groups of four or five brass voices can cover the harmonies. But ---be aware this is stretching my memory back to my undergraduate years in the early fifties. Our department head, James Christian Pfohl, was of Moravian descent and he organized the annual Easter Sunrise Service in "Old Salem" - the Moravian Section of Winston-Salem, NC. Small brass choirs would be placed on several street corners around the Old Salem area and the hymns would be played antiphonally and progressively by phrases. There is an archive of music and instruments at the Moravian Church there in Winston Salem but I don't have any contact information. I suggest you try Google or Ask.com, I know there is a lot of information on the internet. Hope this helps Fred H ----- Original Message ----- From: "Graham Middleton" To: "Trombone-L" Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 11:07 AM Subject: [Trombone-l] Moravian Trombone Music for Easter > Hello All, > > I was contacted my a Church today about possibly organizing some Moravian > Trombone ensemble music for their Easter service. I am familiar with the > large trombone ensembles ranging from soprano to contra, but it is possible > to do some literature with smaller instrumentation like soprano/trumpet, > alto, tenor and 1 or 2 bass trombones. What instrumentations are best? I > have heard of the "Green Book", but I am not sure what instrumentation it > like. What pieces are interesting and fun to preform? Any with Organ? Are > there and sources where music is commercially available? Any info would be > much appreciated. > > Thank you > > -- > Graham Middleton > Adjunct Instructor of Low Brass: Kenyon College > Associate Trombone: Columbus Symphony Orchestra > 114 East Burgess St. > Mt Vernon, OH 43050 > (740) 263-3372 > _______________________________________________ > Trombone-l mailing list > Trombone-l@maillists.samford.edu > http://maillists.samford.edu/mailman/listinfo/trombone-l > > ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:46:44 -0800 From: John Cather Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Trombone-l Moravian Trombone Music for Easter To: trombone-l@server5.samford.edu Message-ID: <1BD6CC61-3787-4B0D-B718-C6FF99FFAA8F@CatherMusic.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Do it! It'll be great! I play in the Moravian Trombone Choir of Downey. The traditional choir is as the voices. S-A-T-B. It's getting easier to find alto players than before but still difficult to get soprano players. Usually converted trumpeters. The green book is hymns from the Moravian hymnal basically and transposed for: Bb soprano, F or Eb alto and non transposed for tenor and bass. If you don't have the green book, you can play directly out of the hymnal, but it's not transposed. We have a tremendous amount of SATB trombone choir music. Much of it written for specifically us. It also ranges from about 4 parts to about 12 parts including Eb sopranino and contrabass parts. You can also use brass quartet music and quintet music very successfully. I can send the email address to our current director-Doug Shabe. Jeff Reynolds is now retired and no longer an active part of our group. We hope he drops in to play with us when he can. He is a great inspiration as well as a terrific musician. He usually brings his G contra made by Minnick. Yeousa! what a sound! John Cather > > Hello All, > > I was contacted my a Church today about possibly organizing some > Moravian > Trombone ensemble music for their Easter service. I am familiar > with the > large trombone ensembles ranging from soprano to contra, but it is > possible > to do some literature with smaller instrumentation like soprano/ > trumpet, > alto, tenor and 1 or 2 bass trombones. What instrumentations are > best? I > have heard of the "Green Book", but I am not sure what > instrumentation it > like. What pieces are interesting and fun to preform? Any with > Organ? Are > there and sources where music is commercially available? Any info > would be > much appreciated. > > Thank you > > -- > Graham Middleton > Adjunct Instructor of Low Brass: Kenyon College > Associate Trombone: Columbus Symphony Orchestra > 114 East Burgess St. > Mt Vernon, OH 43050 > (740) 263-3372 ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Trombone-l mailing list Trombone-l@maillists.samford.edu http://maillists.samford.edu/mailman/listinfo/trombone-l End of Trombone-l Digest, Vol 24, Issue 4 *****************************************