Concertino for High Trumpet.

Light music, tonal, a chance to relax from chromaticism. More in the vein of Leroy Anderson than Herr Bach. So it lasts just on 3 minutes.

A conventional chamber orchestra, one each woodwind, 2 horns, trombone, timps, percussion (just a cymbal), chamber strings and the piccolo trumpet.

Please give it an airing. Comments are always appreciated be they good or bad so feel free if you're of a mind and thank you.

Edit: forgot to mention - if the trumpet sounds a little out of tune, my player has a "humanising" feature so I pressed the "amateur" button!

Edited June 12, 20214 yr by Quinn

I mean, come on Quinn, this piece should be way longer, and you know this ;). The piece is delightful to be honest, it's not too serious but still high quality. I just want more, like 3 or more movements, and that's saying something, cause I usually hate listening to the trumpet.

Enjoyable piece. It has a smell of baroque because of the sound of the trumpet but a modern beautiful language.

Great job!  I like the constantly shifting tonalities outlined by triads and rising and falling scalar passages.  It is quite adventurous and yet you manage to still round it off in Eb major - quite unusual for you!  I also thought your choice to humanize the trumpet the way you did gave the piece a humorous character.  Thanks for sharing!

On 6/12/2021 at 2:09 PM, Morgri said:

I mean, come on Quinn, this piece should be way longer, and you know this ;). The piece is delightful to be honest, it's not too serious but still high quality. I just want more, like 3 or more movements, and that's saying something, cause I usually hate listening to the trumpet.

 

Thank you kindly for listening and your encouraging remarks. At least I didn't plagiarise it from Bach's famous concerto!  Mine's fairly whimsical but unlikely to get performed as this style of music is far from in vogue, even supposing a suitable player were available.

Many thanks.

On 6/12/2021 at 8:53 PM, Luis Hernández said:

Enjoyable piece. It has a smell of baroque because of the sound of the trumpet but a modern beautiful language.

 

Many thanks, Luis. Pleasing that it made some kind of sense and I can see what you mean now about a smell of baroque. Some of the phrasing does seem to replicate that era. I rarely write in a key but when it turns out a major key it also usually turns into light music.

On 6/12/2021 at 8:53 PM, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

Great job!  I like the constantly shifting tonalities outlined by triads and rising and falling scalar passages.  It is quite adventurous and yet you manage to still round it off in Eb major - quite unusual for you!  I also thought your choice to humanize the trumpet the way you did gave the piece a humorous character.  Thanks for sharing!

 

Many thanks for listening and your generous comments; also looking through the score to spot it ending in the same key. Oh dear, that must be an error of style on my part!! Much appreciated.

Again, thanks.

Q

Edited June 14, 20214 yr by Quinn

Yes ... definitely Leroy Anderson in style.  A very delightful melodic adventure filled with lots of fun moments.  I really enjoyed the orchestration - light and full of texture.

Beautiful piece! This does sound like something Leroy Anderson would write! Bravo maestro!