Music
Music has always been an important part of my life. I started playing the trumpet when I was 10, and was fortunate to attend the Redbridge Music School, where I also learnt composition. This page contains links to various things I have been working on recently.
Christmas Suite: A four movement suite for brass quintet (two Bb trumpets, Horn in Eb/F, Trombone and Tuba), which I started in December 2023 and completed early 2024. The entire piece is about 15 minutes. Each movement is an arrangement/reworking of well-known carols. A tranquil opening movement (I, at midnight) contains echoes of carols sung at midnight mass. Movement II (Three ships) was written as a challenge. As a trumpet player I’ve spent most Christmases caroling and playing carols in concerts. I like most carols, but always loathed “I saw three ships”. Here I rearrange the main tune in a piece written from the perspective of a sailor coming into port, working hard in choppy seas. Movement III (in praise, resound) is adapted from the Latin hymn “Resonet in Laudibus”, but with a modern twist. Finally, Movement IV is an adaption of one of my favourite (and one of the earliest) carols, O’come Emmanuel, set against a juxtaposed background motif from carol of the bells.
Complete score (with mp3): https://musescore.com/user/14452591/scores/22235560https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/gbromile/wp-content/uploads/sites/3394/2024/03/Christmas-suite.pdf
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/gbromile/wp-content/uploads/sites/3394/2024/03/Christmas-suite-Horn_in_F.pdf
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/gbromile/wp-content/uploads/sites/3394/2024/03/Christmas-suite-Trombone.pdf
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/gbromile/wp-content/uploads/sites/3394/2024/03/Christmas-suite-Tuba.pdf
Dido’s lament: For trumpet with piano accompaniment, in the original A minor, a loose arrangement of Purcell’s timeless aria from Dido & Aeneas, “When I am laid in Earth”, along with “Thy hand, Belinda). Score (with mp3) is uploaded here, for transposition etc:
Complete score: Dido lament arr trumpet and piano_A minor
Introitus from Jommelli’s Missa Defunctorum: short arrangement from Brass Quintet. As soon as I heard this I wanted to write an arrangement for brass. Brass arrangements of choral music often work really well, and I partly wrote this as an exercise in sustained playing and group coordination. The Introitus is hauntingly beautiful. The score is uploaded here (with mp3): Jommello Missa Defunctorum
Complete score and parts: Jommeli Missa Defunctorum_Introitus
Stabat mater dolorosa (Stabat mater): Arrangement/reduction of the Grave for Brass Quintet. Again, an arrangement of choral music for brass, and an exercise in control, sustained playing (with a fun tuba part). Stabat Mater dolorosa-Score_and_Parts
Complete score and parts (with mp3): Stabat mater
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