Gesualdo - Three Motets for five Trombones Saint Saens Parts include Trumpets in C

Parts include Trumpets in C and B-flat

This four minute work for advanced performers is in swing style and is fun and challenging to perform with all players getting a "kick at the can"

2 B-flat Trumpets

The work is a depiction of a lullaby sung to a stuffed Elephant

The Fanfare is a six minute work for moderately advanced performers in the following instrumentation: 6 Trumpets in C

Gesualdo - Three Motets for five Trombones Saint Saens Parts include Trumpets in CCarlo Gesualdo, who lived in the late Renaissance period is compared to Richard Wagner because of his shifting harmonies. His music was considered "progressive" and even today we are taken aback by the violent shifts in tonality. An additional bit of information about the composer is that he murdered his wife and her lover after discovering them together. The Three Motets for Five Trombones come from a series of sacred works from 1603 titled, Sacrarum