johannhowitzer writes for Brass Quintet!

As promised I searched for any more of your music you'd posted, and came across this.

Brass Quintet is an idiom I am currently very interested in, having recently taken up brass, and become obsessed with brass ensembles, especially Brass Quintet, and I intend to write something for BQ sometime in the near future, if I can get my act together and focus on smething long enough to get it finished.

On to the piece: Very beautiful, and extremely enjoyable as a piece of music. I expecially liked the horn solo and the louder more exciting sections, although the slower/quieter sections were equally enjoyable. I like your liberal use of suspensions, the dissonances work beatifully with the brass sound. Would you be able to post a score? I'd like to have a closer look at this

Thank you for posting this

I'll have to wait to post the score until I get home from NY, remind me please.

I shall, when will that be?

I may be back Friday. The service is tomorrow.

Oh my! This is beautiful, love how you layered the instruments one after another in the beginning, and then... WHOOSH! Full quintet. Breathtaking. Canadian Brass should feature this....

I'm a brass player myself, I play trumpet, horn, and tuba, and I play a ton of other instruments, all quite well too... but I've found that there is really NOTHING like brass in the world, such regal and majestic instruments, and you've shown that beautifully in "A Heart That Stands". This is such a lyrical piece.... it's one of those things that sounds like it should have words to it, but that would just ruin the beauty of it.

I've written a couple pieces for brass choir/brass band, but I never managed to get the hang of brass quintet, even though I absolutely love the ensemble. Wow.... I'm just speechless at this.... I think I would faint if I heard a live recording... even this rudimentary MIDI rendition lifts me so.

Absolutely gorgeous, I'm melting. More, more, MORE!!

I SO wish I was part of a brass quintet...

Hi,
Yeah I really like this one. I agree with EnigmusJ4, Canadian Brass should feature this. It works well, and like most of the Canadian Brass piece's I've listened to, it's easy on the ear. I'm happily listening to it while writing this, and feeling no desperation to skip to another track.

You deffinatley seem talented in writting for BQ, keep it up (Y)

First time I actually hear one of your works

I will be commenting the midi file that you uploaded, would not surprise me if there have been some changes, after all it was written for almost 3 years ago.

I like your themes, they are truly memorable, but there are a few drawbacks. I may be very wrong, . In bar 12 there is a pause in both the Trumpet II and Horn I, that comes a bit as an unpleasant shock since the density becomes thin very fast; it practically decreases from 3 instruments to 1. It may be the effect you wanted to achieve, since you do the similar thing two bars later. Nevertheless I find the first pause a bit like abruptly interrupting the flow.

In bar 27 the timbrel switch is fantastic, really marvelous. I mentioned earlier that I like your themes, I particularly like the one that starts on bar 27.

In bar 45 when the tension builds up to enter the main theme once again, I find it a bit too slim. Personally I would like a lot of tension, maybe spiced up with some dissonances, it would really make the climax [inserts a plentiful of smilies and metaphors ].

Another thing I noticed was the notation for the Horns, shouldn't the key signature be modified? Maybe it is an error on my account.

SAIMING, CHANGE YOUR SIGNATURE. It gets... ermm... RATHER annoying...

Originally Posted by Saiming

Another thing I noticed was the notation for the Horns, shouldn't the key signature be modified? Maybe it is an error on my account.

Well, if you only viewed the MIDI file, than the key signature wouldn't have been preserved right? Maybe I misunderstand you.

Originally Posted by EnigmusJ4

SAIMING, CHANGE YOUR SIGNATURE. It gets... ermm... RATHER annoying...

Well, if you only viewed the MIDI file, than the key signature wouldn't have been preserved right? Maybe I misunderstand you.

Ah, yes. It was a midi file. I guess that makes my comment rather obsolete.

James, I love to annoy

Is it the last thing?
Solved it?