Moon River
by Henry Mancini
Horn - Digital Sheet Music

Horn,Trombone,Trumpet,Tuba - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.746395

By Henry Mancini. By Henry Mancini. Arranged by Keith Terrett. Film/TV,Jazz,Standards. 12 pages. Keith Terrett #1925795. Published by Keith Terrett (A0.746395).

An arrangement for classical brass quintet (& optional drum kit), of a Henry Mancini classic from the film ''Breakfast at Tiffany's''. A great chart to augment your repertoire with, and one your audience and ensemble will really love. The melody is passed around the group, everyone gets a bit of glory! Great for pro brass quintets and University/High School ensembles. This arrangement features a slow first verse, followed by an up tempo jazz waltz section with a return to the slower tempo to conclude the chart. Everyone loves Moon River! "Moon River" is a song composed by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was originally performed by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 American movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's", winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song.The song also won the 1962 Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. 「ムーンリバー」は、ヘンリー・マンシーニが作曲し、ジョニー・マーサーが歌詞を書いた曲です。もともとは1961年のアメリカ映画「ティファニーで朝食を」でオードリー・ヘプバーンが歌い、アカデミー賞の歌曲賞を受賞しました。また、1962年のグラミー賞の最優秀レコード賞と最優秀楽曲賞も受賞しました。 "Moon River" is a song composed by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It received an Academy Award for Best Original Song for its performance by Audrey Hepburn in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961). It also won Mancini the 1962 Grammy Award for Record of the Year and won Mancini and Mercer the Grammy Award for Song of the Year. The song has been covered by many other artists. It became the theme song for Andy Williams, who first recorded it in 1961 and performed it at the Academy Awards ceremony in 1962. He sang the first eight bars of the song at the beginning of each episode of his eponymous television show and named his production company and venue in Branson, Missouri after it. His autobiography is called "Moon River" and Me. Williams' version was never released as a single, but it charted as an LP track that he recorded for Columbia on a hit album of 1962. Cadence Records' president Archie Bleyer disliked Williams' version, as Bleyer believed it had little or no appeal to teenagers. Forty years later in 2002, a 74-year-old Williams sang the song at the conclusion of the live telecast of the NBC 75th Anniversary Special to a standing ovation. The song's success was responsible for relaunching Mercer's career as a songwriter, which had stalled in the mid-1950s because rock and roll had replaced jazz standards as the popular music of the time. The song's popularity is such that it has been used as a test sample in a study on people's memories of popular songs. Comments about the lyrics have noted that they are particularly reminiscent of Mercer's youth in the Southern United States and his longing to expand his horizons. Robert Wright wrote in The Atlantic Monthly, "This is a love sung to wanderlust. Or a romantic song in which the romantic partner is the idea of romance." An inlet near Savannah, Georgia, Johnny Mercer's hometown, was named Moon River in honor of him and this song. If you need this title arranging for another instrumentation! For more of my original music, great arrangements and all the national anthems of the world, check out my on-line stores: http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/keith_terret http://musicforalloccasions.org.uk http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/search?Ntt=keith+terrett Need an anthem fast? They are ALL in my store! All my anthem arrangements are also available for Orchestra, Recorders, Saxophones, Wind, Brass and Flexible band. If you need an anthem urgently for an instrumentation not in my store, let me know via e-mail, and I will arrange it for you FOC if possible! keithterrett@gmail.com.