Eastertide-Brass Quintet Ensemble - Brass Audio and Score

Audio and Score

powerful and fun to rehearse and perform - Optional percussion features in nearly every selection - Optional bass line part for adding keyboard or electric bass

or elaborate and celebratory

The center section will help students read accidentals and the key is in the relative minor

accents and mixed meters

Eastertide-Brass Quintet Ensemble - Brass Audio and ScoreEastertide Brass Quintet arr. Jayson Gerth William Billings' music can be at times forceful and stirring, as in his patriotic song "Chester"; ecstatic, as in his hymn "Africa"; or elaborate and celebratory, as in his "Easter Anthem." (Eastertide). The latter sounds rather like a miniature Handelian chorus, sung a cappella. As might be expected from a composer who was very close to his roots in folk music, Billings' music shows a striking purity.