Moro Lasso (arr. Eric Wilson) by Carlo Gesualso Sheet Music for Brass Ensemble at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist Carlo Gesualso

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Arranger Eric Wilson

Composer Carlo Gesualso

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 14

Arrangement Brass Ensemble

Publisher Woodrow Edition

Product ID 1095595

Genre Concert Renaissance

Performance Group Brass Quintet

Product Description

Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, Musician and Murderer! Thats not a news headline (though it would be quite a good one) but the title of a book by composer Peter Warlock which I read avidly after first encountering the Italian composer in a lecture at the University of Liverpool in the 1980s. We were studying the Italian madrigal, which was not really my thing until our lecturer threw Moro Lasso into the mix. Its opening chords seemed so incongruous unlike anything we had heard and are as striking today as they must have been in 1611 when first published in Gesualdos 6th Book of Madrigals.

More or less immediately after that lecture I arranged the piece for the Seras Brass Quintet which I had helped form. In those days the brass quintet repertoire was limited, and certainly didnt include anything by Gesualdo!

The arrangement really benefits from a church-like acoustic where you can make the most of the dramatic built-in silences. The tuba part lies quite high and is very playable on a trombone if need be. Even to modern ears there are some strange sounds and I trust that all the wrong notes are Gesualdos rather than mine do let me know if you think otherwise!

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