"Turmoil" for Brass Quintet | Kyle Hilton (UncleRed99)

Turmoil.pdf

A short brass quintet piece I wrote, originally just to serve as a sound pack demonstration for Vienna Brass sound library in Muse, that ended up becoming a full score. Thought this sounded pretty cool 🙂

Hey @UncleRed99!

Nice Brass Quintet!  Definitely an ensemble I should write something for in the future considering I played Trumpet and French Horn.  I think my favorite measures in this piece are 16 and 44 because in those measures you abandon the chordal approach to the music where it sounds like the music is just an elaborate but slow (I mean a slow harmonic rhythm) chord progression.  Overall measures 12 - 16 and 40 - 44 are the most awesome to me, with a unique approach to melody, rhythm and scoring (I especially like how you create a natural delay effect where the 2nd Trumpet imitates the 1st at a delay of a 16th note.

Where there's room for improvement is something I already touched on above:  the harmonic rhythm seems like it's usually one or two chords per measure.  You don't necessarily need more chords or anything, just varying the harmonic rhythm to different note values could be enough.  And you could also have built some kind of accompanimental ostinato to kind of set down a cool groove underneath the melody to create a banger.  I also feel like there isn't really a long leading song-like melody that really sticks in my head that I remember easily after listening to this.  I've listened to this piece a few times while writing this review and somehow I still feel this way about it.  Perhaps there are what you might consider melodies but they're just not unified enough or self-similar enough to really stick in my head?  Or maybe I just have fringe expectations about this?  Or perhaps they're interspersed too much with passages that are dominated by too many long notes and chords that don't seem to create a melodic impression for the listener?  That's my impression.  Thanks for sharing!