Stations of the Cross (Brass Quintet)

Hello all! This is a piece I wrote for college. The first movement was performed, and I was supposed to have the rest performed before the end of the month, but unfortunately, the ensemble that would have played it got too busy. The piece is kind of in a similar vein as my first large scale work, the Seven Sorrow; a program piece based on a traditional Catholic devotion. The difference is, while no other composer had written a piece on the seven sorrows, there are composers who have written pieces about the stations of the cross (Liszt's "Via Crucis" comes to mind), though I approached it quite differently, I think. Rather than a movement for each station, I made it a 3-movement brass quintet where each movement represents several stations. The first 5 stations in movement 1, the next 4 in movement 2, and the final 5 in the finale.

The stations are shown both in the score and in the video with pictures.

The Stations of the Cross for Brass Quintet - YouTube

Stations_of_the_Cross_Full.pdf

after procrastinating in enough time, I actually had listened to it, and after even more procrastinating, I am now going to write my opinion in review

first off this is amazing piece of work and it was all enjoyable. Even the use of extended technique was good and also also the recording quality was also phenomenal.

This would be programmed well for an Easter or coming of spring concert and I appreciate all the different tambre in harmonic use you use. especially at the last scene with the use of minor seconds to convey some sort of sour bitterness following jesus’s death. it also had a hymn like feeling to it as well.

Great job