A short piece written for a competition in Spain, hence its Spanish flavour. Each instrument has its own melody, its own dance. First they're played on their own with interjections from the others, then after a very short burst of flamenco clapping, the dances start to come together until all are going at once, gathering momentum and becoming a whole…
Heloisa Pinto is the actual name of the girl from Ipanema. The songwriters were sitting at a café there in the morning and she walked past, and inspired one of the world’s most famous tunes.
The beautiful melody from the Faure Requiem. I've taken the opportunity to add my own expression and phrase marks. Listen in the Virtual Venue to see if you agree. I've marked the solo part to be played on cornet, but trumpet is fine too.
Here's a little brass quintet I did in 1998. This is easy listening, and not too hard to play either. I couldn't settle on a title, both seemed to suit the music well, see below. Grade VI upwards.
It’s a ubiquitous trick in a lot of pop music, to shift up a semitone every verse, possibly most memorably used in Stevie Wonder’s hit ‘I just called to say I love you’. This is the Blaydon Races tune exaggeratedly given the same manoeuvre, with the John Iveson middle section thrown in as well (see ‘Deck the Halls’).
