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Just wondering if anyone has a quick list of good pieces for larger bone groups. I've got a choir that runs 12-16 fairly solid players. Ewazen's Posaunenstadt has been fun.

Edit: what are the 3 or 4 most-enjoyable pieces you've ever played in a larger trombone ensemble?
Bonus points for pieces with at least 8 independent parts.

Cherry Classics publishes music for large groups of trombones. Contact Gordon Cherry.

I swear, anything and everything by Jeff Reynolds. Really good stuff, every bit of it. You can find a bunch of his stuff at Cherry Classics, too.

https://cherryclassics.com/collections/ ... q=Reynolds

Iagree, Cherry Classics is a great place to start. Also probably some good pieces at Warwick music. Also Ensemble Publications, and of course the old Robert King editions. All of these will have dozens of pieces.

A few more specific suggestions:

The earliest existing piece specifically for such an ensemble is Tiburtio Massaino's Canzon trigesimaterza a 8 in 1608. It's available on IMSLP. Any vocal music of that time period written for 8 parts "a voce pari" should in principle work very well. I would to a "multi-category search" on CPDL specifying baroque and Renaissance, and with various 8-voice voicings that sont involve any sopranos.

There's a really good arrangement of the ending of Wagner's Walküre (Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music) for solo bass trombone and 10-part trombone choir (so, 11 trombones altogether) that is really fun to play. Can eventually involve a tuba and bass trumpet for different sound colours that evoke the original. Particularly great if there's a very good bass singer you want to play with (in that case, singer singing the original vocal part, plus 10 trombones).

Years ago I made an arrangement of Elgar's Nimrod for 10-part trombone choir for my university's trombone studio, that from what I can remember was pretty decent: https://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/ni ... 41380.html

LeTromboniste wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2025 12:34 pm Years ago I made an arrangement of Elgar's Nimrod for 10-part trombone choir for my university's trombone studio, that from what I can remember was pretty decent: https://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/ni ... 41380.html

And if 10 parts is not what you're looking for, Jeff Reynolds has Nimrod for 8 and 12 trombones.

Thanks for the responses so far, I appreciate the historic reference, and the Wagner sounds like a good fit.

TomInME wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2025 7:17 pm Thanks for the responses so far, I appreciate the historic reference, and the Wagner sounds like a good fit.

The arrangement is by Devon Hope Sweedy