Quiet City

Parts

By Aaron Copland

I bought this piece to play English horn on, and I had lots of fun. It's a perfect piece to display every register of the instrument and different focuses of the sound. I'd recommend this to any English horn player looking for a fun and beautiful piece. All...

you'll need after that is a good trumpeter and a pianist!

I am a high schooler and I play trumpet. My best friend, who plays oboe, wanted to play this piece for our solo and ensemble contest, so we bought it. It is a really beautiful piece of music... the trumpet part has some hard spots, like fast repeated notes and...

two really exposed cadenza-type sections, but overall isn't bad. My friend learned English horn for this and she says the only hard part for her is the really high notes (such as E above the staff). Our pianist, who is also in high school, says that the piano part isn't too hard for him. I don't play piano, so I'm not sure what the difficulty level is. Overall, I'd say it's at a late intermediate level, but you can play it and sound like a pro!