Toccata Prelude to L'Orfeo for Trumpet Ensemble by Claudio Monteverdi Trumpet - Digital Sheet Music

This 1607 opera prelude fanfare is the famous trumpet ensemble work to survive from the early Baroque and is an historically important contribution to the trumpet ensemble literature.

This 1607 opera prelude fanfare is the famous trumpet ensemble work to survive from the early Baroque and is an historically important contribution to the trumpet ensemble literature. Beyond recital or ceremonial performance, begin your band or orchestra concert featuring the trumpet section with this accessible and brilliant fanfare. Alternate E-flat and C parts are provided for the first trumpet part that can also played using piccolo B-flat trumpet. Trombone substitutes are included for the drone fifths in trumpet parts 4 and 5. The recording is an actual trumpet ensemble performance.See 150+ mixed brass ensembles and homogeneous horn, trumpet and trombone ensembles publications with Charles Decker Music Press at Sheet Music Plus for inexperienced to advanced musicians with music from the Renaissance to contemporary works for trios, quartets, quintets, sextets, septets, octets, brass choir and brass band. Many editions include alternate C trumpet parts for B-flat trumpet, flugelhorn/trumpet substitute for horn, horn substitute for trombone and treble clef substitutes for trombone and euphonium. All ensemble publications are digital download with preview recordings. Charles Decker Music Press brass publications are played internationally by all levels of students, adult amateurs and professionals including performances at music festivals, at universities and prestigious U.S. music conservatories of Eastman, New England, Peabody, Oberlin, Boston and by professional ensembles including the world-class Summit Brass.For our two special brass ensemble series see Women Composers with Charles Decker Music Press at Sheet Music Plus for works by Amy Beach, Lili Boulanger, Ethel Smyth, Emma Louise Ashford, Florence Price and others and Music of Black Composers with Charles Decker Music Press at Sheet Music Plus for early jazz to symphonic works with composers Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, R. Nathaniel Dett, William Grant Still, Will Marion Cook, James Reese Europe, James Johnson, Florence Price and others.For more brass ensemble editions by Charles Decker use these links to Kendor Music and Cherry Classics Music for arrangements of music by J.S. Bach, H.L. Clarke, Debussy, Dukas, Elgar, Falla, Gervaise, Handel, Holst, Ives, Nestico, Rachmaninoff, Satie, Susato, and Tchaikovsky.