Music from Chaucer
by Michael Berkeley
Brass Quintet - Sheet Music

Brass quintet - Moderately Difficult to Difficult

SKU: OU.9780193555020

Composed by Michael Berkeley. Chamber/Ensemble. Miscellaneous. Score and parts. 76 pages. Duration 12'. Oxford University Press #9780193555020. Published by Oxford University Press (OU.9780193555020).

ISBN 9780193555020. 12 x 8 inches.

For brass quintet (2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba). A work in five movements, each characterizing a poem by Chaucer. 'Triton's Trumpets', acts as an overture to the suite of pieces, is mainly rather rustic and, as its title implies, much of its music is in the nature of fanfares. Next is a haunting slow waltz, then a very short and very vigorous fanfare. In the fourth movement, 'The Sorrowful Knight', each instrument expresses its individual sorrow. Finally Chaucer himself chatters in a jaunty, innocent style.