Virtuostic Duets for Flute, Clarinet, Trumpet, or Trombone/Euphonium
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Hymns & Spirituals Virtuostic Duets for Flute, Clarinet, Trumpet, or Trombone/Euphonium |
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All the tunes included here have been, at some time in history, sung in church services. Echoes of Crown Him with Many Crowns have been heard in churches of a distinctively liturgical bent; We'll Work 'Til Jesus Comes characterizes a turn-of-the-century gospel meeting; He's Got the Whole World In His Hands could as easily have expressed theological concepts of 19th-century slaves as 20th-century urban parishioners. Upon first glance, the artists may be chagrined to find page turns within arrangements. Upon closer examination it will be discovered that fermatas come in close proximity to page turns, and so no awkwardness at all is caused by the turning. In fact, the well-paced resting spots are sure to improve endurance, and thus, effectiveness. One other valuable by-product of such a layout is the possibility it provides for shorter performances. A sensitive team may decide to do "...just the simple part," "...just the reverent stanza," or "...just the "stanza with all the activity." |
Hymns and Spirituals volumes is offered by the publisher for Flute, Clarinet, Trumpet and Trombone/Euphonium. The settings are designed so that a trumpeter may team up with a trombonist, or even a clarinetist or flutist, each playing from his/her respective book.
The settings here should provide interesting, challenging music for talented friends, for teachers and their students, or for aspiring church artists whose services welcome at least some of these treatments in actual worship.
A word of thanks is in order to trumpet players who have shared informal, exploratory duet performances with the arranger: Ray Conway, Minister of Music at the College Street Baptist Church, Walhalla, South Carolina; Gerhard Kelm, Washington, D. C., attorney and principal trumpeter of the Columbia Baptist Church Orchestra, Falls Church, Virginia; Rick Jacobs and Kevin Brannon, both students at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky; Dr. Ronald Matthews, touring artist who chairs the music department at Eastern College, St. Davids, Pennsylvania; David Artley of the U. S. Army Band; and Adel Sanchez of the National Symphony Orchestra, Washington, D. C.
---Douglas Smith
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