Composer: Paff, John

Instrumentation: Brass Quintet Instruments: 2 Trumpets, Horn, Trombone and Tuba

Genre: Contemporary

January Suite, for Brass Quintet, is a four movement composition displaying different moods of our coldest month.  If one lives in a warm location, this might help a person imagine January.  Although the movements all display a certain amount of minor tonality, January has many aspects to enjoy.  Usually, that enjoyment does not overshadow the hope that warmer weather will be arriving before too long. 

Musically, January Suite provides all players with interesting and integral parts, with lines being somewhat polyphonic.  The melody is distributed among the different players in each movement.  Elements of syncopation are found to some degree throughout, and the third movement has a significant use of chromaticism.  Enjoy January Suite at any time of the year!

Will work for a High School or College ensemble.

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