Hymn to Awakening Nights (Brass Quintet)

Hi,

two days ago I wrote a small fanfare for brass quintet because of an friend of mine. She asked me "Hey, don't you want to write a little song for our brass quintet?" I think, it was a joke, but I wrote a little fanfare for them.

How do you think about this piece of music?

Hymn_to_Awakening_Nights.pdf

You might consider writing it in a more "brass friendly" key.

If your friend's brass quintet is not at a certain standard, they might not like playing in Db major, etc.

If you pick something like F major, it's easy for all the instruments: G major for the trumpets, C major for the horn, F major for the tuba and trombone.

By the way, just write "trombone" and "tuba". You don't need to add "in C".

If you upload audio, I'll have a proper look through it.

Here is a midi-rip with strings-sound. The brass sounds are just too bad :D

and it's strange, that some of the notes are not simultaneous, especially the last one. but that's an other problem. and there are no tempo changes in it.

File-Upload.net - Hymn_to_Awakening_Nights.mp3

The people playing in the brass quintett are all good musicians. most of them are going to attend university in the next years. so i don't think, that there's a problem with Db major.

Overall, a nice piece. I enjoy your harmonies, and the 16ths in the trumpets add an interesting flair to the chords. However, it doesn't have much of a melody, but it is rather short and fanfare-ish so a melody isn't really that important I suppose. It has a cool, suspenseful feel that I like without being overly gloomy.