Brass quintet repertoire

The bulk of any brass quintet's repertoire consists of arrangements of pre-existing music. Victor Ewald's four brass quintets are the first serious attempts at establishing a repertoire for the ensemble. The Chicago and New York Brass Quintets made sustained efforts to commission new works, and much of the original repertoire for brass quintet from the mid-20th century derives from their groundbreaking work. The mantle of creating a repertoire for brass quintet was taken up by the American Brass Quintet. Though the Canadian Brass popularized the quintet as an ensemble, it rarely performs original repertoire.

The American Brass Quintet uses bass trombone instead of tuba, and their extensive commissioning has increased the popularity of this instrumentation. It is not uncommon for composers to write interchangeable parts for tuba and bass trombone to enable both types of quintets to perform their work.

Brass Quintet Repertoire

Among the fairly large repertoire for brass quintet are the following works:

• Bruce Adolphe, Triskelion
• Albert Ahlstrom, Treelight
• Gilbert Amy, Relais
• Malcolm Arnold, Quintet For Brass, Op. 73
• Daniel Asia, Brass Quintet
• Milton Babbitt, Counterparts
• Jan Bach, Laudes
• Jan Bach, Triptych
• Jason Bahr, Divergence
• Jason Bahr, Eagle Fanfare
• Drew Baker, Kiln for brass quintet & piano
• Leonardo Balada, Mosaics
• Stephen Barber, Multiples Points on View of a Fanfare
• Stephen Barber, Gone Is the River
• Edward Barnes, Variations for Brass Quintet
• Samuel Baron, Impressions of a Parade
• Greg Bartholomew, Voyageur Suite
• Robert Beaser, Brass Quintet
• Irwin Bazelon, Brass Quintet
• Luciano Berio, Call
• Harrison Birtwistle, "Chorale from a Toy Shop"
• Derek Bourgeois, Sonata for Brass Quintet
• Robert J. Bradshaw, Vignettes No. 1 Right Then. Same Time Tomorrow?
• Henry Brant, The Fourth Millennium
• Robert Bennett, Arabesque
• Leonard Bernstein, Dance Suite for Brass Quintet
• Larry Bitensky, For Then and Now for brass quintet
• William Bolcom, Quintet
• Darijan Božič, Kriki (The Cries)
• Eugene Bozza, Bis
• Eugene Bozza, Quintet for Brass
• Alvin Brehm, Quintet for Brass
• Timothy Broege, Brass Quintet No. 2
• Howard J. Buss, Concord, Chromatic Fantasy, Sonic Fables (brass quintet & one percussion), Sonata K.380/Scarlatti,D. (arrangement)
• Morley Calvert, Occasional Suite
• Morley Calvert, Suite from the Monteregian Hills
• Elliott Carter, A Fantasy about Purcell's "Fantasia upon One Note"
• Elliott Carter, Brass Quintet
• Robert Chastain, Quintet for Brass Instruments
• John Cheetham, Brass Menagerie
• John Cheetham, Scherzo
• Jack Cooper, Fives Scenes for Brass Quintet
• Louis Coyner, Eolith No. 4 for Brass Quintet
• Ingolf Dahl, Music for Brass Instruments
• Asa Daniel, Brass Quintet
• Georges Delerue, Vitrail
• Carl Della Peruti, Sounding for Brass Quintet
• Anthony DiLorenzo, Fire Dance
• Robert Dennis, Blackbird Variations
• Kathleen Ditmer, Tonqueues
• Lucia Dlugoszewski, Angels of the Inmost Heaven
• Jacob Druckman, Other Voices
• Jack Curtis Dubowsky, Brass Quintet No. 1
• Jack Curtis Dubowsky, Due North
• Jack End, 3 Salutations
• Donald Erb, Three Pieces for Brass Quintet
• Donald Erb, The St. Valentine's Day Brass Quintet
• Alvin Etler, Quintet
• Alvin Etler, Sonic Sequence
• Victor Ewald, Quintet no. 1 in B flat minor (Op. 5)
• Victor Ewald, Quintet no. 2 in E flat major (Op. 6)
• Victor Ewald, Quintet no. 3 in D flat major (Op. 7)
• Victor Ewald, Quintet no. 4 in A flat major (Op. 8)
• Eric Ewazen, Colchester Fantasy
• Eric Ewazen, Frost Fire
• Eric Ewazen, Western Fanfare
• Brian Felder, Canzone XXXI
• Brian Fennelly, Brass Quintet No. 3 (Velvet and Spice)
• Brian Fennelly, Locking Horns-Brass Quintet No. 2
• Brian Fennelly, Prelude And Elegy For Brass Quintet
• Myron Fink, A Suite of Antiques
• Jason Forsythe, Sanctity
• Lukas Foss, Night Music for John Lennon In Memory of December 8, 1980, for brass quintet and orchestra
• Kenneth Fuchs, Fire, Ice, and Summer Bronze
• Jack Gallagher, Toccata for Brass Quintet
• Jack Gallagher, Celebration and Reflection
• Elliot Goldenthal, Brass Quintet No. 2
• Daniel Grabois, Zen Monkey
• John Halle, Softshoe
• Piers Hellawell, Sound Carvings from the Bell Foundry
• Paul Hindemith, Morgenmusik
• Edward Hirschman, Four Bridges
• Alun Hoddinott, Ritornelli 2
• Vagn Holmboe, Quintet No 1, Op. 79
• Vagn Holmboe, Quintet No 2, Op. 136
• Eres Holz, Vier Schatten
• Josef Horowitz, Music Hall Suite
• Eric Hudes, Pentateuch
• John Huggler, Quintet
• Karel Husa, Divertimento
• Karel Husa, Landscapes
• Edward Jacobs, Passed Time
• Phillip Johnston, Sleeping Beauty
• Collier Jones, Four Movements for Five Brass
• Peter Korn, Prelude and Scherzo
• Kyle Lane, Sonata for Brass Quintet
• Michel Leclerc, Par Monts et Paul Vaux
• Tania León, Saoko
• Edwin London, Brass Quintet
• Witold Lutoslawski, Fanfare for CUBE
• Witold Lutoslawski, Mini Overture
• Frederik Magle, Intermezzo for Brass Quintet^[1]
• Frederik Magle, Lys på din vej (Light on your path) for brass quintet and organ
• Francis McBeth, 4 Frescos
• Kevin McKee, Escape
• Kevin McKee, Vuelta del Fuego
• John Melby, 91 Plus 5 for brass quintet and computer
• Robert Nagel, This Old Man March
• Clint Needham, Abstract Mosaics
• Per Nørgård, Vision
• Leroy Osmon, "Introduction and Allegro"
• Hermeto Pascoal, Timbrando
• Vincent Persichetti, Parable
• Tom Pierson, Brass Quintet
• Anthony Plog, Mini-Suite for Brass Quintet
• Anthony Plog, 4 Sierra Scenes for Soprano and Brass Quintet
• Anthony Plog, 4 Sketches for Brass Quintet (Quintet #1)
• Anthony Plog, Mosaics for Brass Quintet (Quintet #2)
• Anthony Plog, Animal Ditties 7 for Brass Quintet
• Howard Quilling, Four Pieces for Five Brass
• Wilke Renwick, Dance
• Belinda Reynolds, Weave
• Verne Reynolds, Suite
• Brandon Ridenour, Brass Quintet
• Brandon Ridenour, Fanfare for Muriel
• Peter Robles, Transcendent Tones, Fractured Forms
• Ned Rorem, Diversions
• Steven Sacco, Quintet for Brass
• David Sampson, Distant Voices
• David Sampson, Entrance
• David Sampson, Morning Music
• David Sampson, Strata (originally Quintet 99)
• Adam Schoenberg, Reflecting Light
• William Schmidt, Variations on a Negro Folksong
• Gunther Schuller, Music for Brass Quintet
• Gunther Schuller, Brass Quintet No. 2
• William Schuman, American Hymn
• Elliott Schwartz, Three Movements
• Ralph Shapey, Brass Quintet
• Ralph Shapey, Fanfares
• Alexander Shchetynsky, On the Eve
• Faye-Ellen Silverman, Kalends
• Faye-Ellen Silverman, Quantum Quintet
• Reynold Simpson, Brass Quintet
• David Snow, Dance Movements
• Robert Starer, Evanescence
• Raymond Stewart, OK Chorale
• Robert Stewart, Quintet No. 2
• Robert Stewart, Three Pieces for the American Brass Quintet
• William Susman, The Heavens Above
• Elias Tannenbaum, Patterns and Improvisations for BQ and Tape
• Elias Tannenbaum, Structures
• Michael Tilson Thomas, Street Song
• Virgil Thomson, Family Portrait
• George Tsontakis, Brass Quintet
• George Tsontakis, Hansel
• Vladimir Ussachevsky, Anniversary Variations
• Vladimir Ussachevsky, Dialogues and Contrasts for Brass Quintet and Tape
• George Theophilus Walker, Music for Brass (Sacred and Profane)
• Dan Welcher, Brass Quintet
• Charles Whittenberg, Triptych
• Alec Wilder, Jazz Suite for brass quintet
• Natalie Williams, Land of the Ages
• Charles Wuorinen, Brass Quintet
• Norman Yamada, Mundane Dissatisfactions
• Carolyn Yarnell, Slade
• Ramon Zupka, Masques for brass quintet and piano
• Joseph Harkins, "Quintet No. 1 in Bflat Major"

References

• American Brass Quintet Database
• The Rep List - Brass Quintet
• O'Loughlin, Niall. "Modern Brass", The Musical Times, Vol. 123, No. 1678, 250 Years of Covent Garden (Dec., 1982), p. 851