Alto Trombone music

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whitbey
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by whitbey »

I need some more Alto tunes to play.

I noticed the prices are pretty fat. So I need to get picky. Can't just buy everything.

I have the Wagenseil, The Girl with the Flaxen Hair and the Albinoni.

Looking for pretty sounding stuff.

Any recommendations?
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harrisonreed
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by harrisonreed »

[quote="whitbey"]I need some more Alto tunes to play.

I noticed the prices are pretty fat. So I need to get picky. Can't just buy everything.

I have the Wagenseil, The Girl with the Flaxen Hair and the Albinoni.

Looking for pretty sounding stuff.

Any recommendations?[/quote]

The slow (traditionally opening) movement of the L. Mozart "concerto" (air quotes) is one of the most beautiful moments we get as trombonists.

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Bach cello suites?

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Got a singer?

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spencercarran
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by spencercarran »

Can always just transpose your Rochuts (or any other tenor music in your library) up by whatever interval feels comfortable
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whitbey
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by whitbey »

Winner, Winner!!!

The slow (traditionally opening) movement of the L. Mozart "concerto" (air quotes) is one of the most beautiful moments we get as trombonists.

Much more practice for me to play that fast.

Bach cello suites?

Thank you very much!!!
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Doug_Elliott
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by Doug_Elliott »

Pretend they're Bach viola suites
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BGuttman
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by BGuttman »

[quote="Doug Elliott"]Pretend they're Bach viola suites[/quote]

A viola player in my orchestra had a book of the Bach suites in alto clef and was playing one of them at her audition.
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CalgaryTbone
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by CalgaryTbone »

Hickeys has a section of alto trombone solos and another section of etudes for the alto on their website. Cherry Classics has a good selection, including a bunch of stuff transcribed by Ralph Sauer. There are a few more "standard" solos that weren't mentioned in the earlier posts, like Albrechtsberger and Michael Haydn. Alain Trudel has a nice CD of 4 of the most standard alto trombone "concerti" (many of them were parts of larger works for multiple solo players, and the trombone mvts. have been extracted and bundled together as a makeshift concerto).

Jim Scott
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DJC0189
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by DJC0189 »

Shocked that the Besozzi and Boismortier have not been recommended yet! The Finger is also good, but more simple than the Wagenseil.
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MrHCinDE
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by MrHCinDE »

Whilst I was getting to grips with reading alto clef on alto trombone, I used to play through some (Eb -British) Tenorhorn solos on alto trombone to get the fundamentals of the instrument without having to think about reading in alto. (I’m a ‘native’ Bb treble clef reader on Bb instruments, playing Eb treble clef on an Eb instrument obviously has the same positions)

They are quite different to the traditional alto repertoire but can be very pretty. Stuff like the untold story by Paul-Lovatt cooper, she’s like the swallow by James Curnow or Bel canto by Kenneth Downie.

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Typo corrected, she’s like the sparrow didn’t quite have the same ring to it