The Adventurer: Suite for Trumpet and Piano (optional: unaccompanied) by Kenneth Baird Sheet Music for Trumpet and Piano at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist Kenneth Baird

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Kenneth Baird

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 9

Arrangement Trumpet and Piano

Publisher Kenneth Baird Music

Level 3

Product ID 822913

Genre Contemporary Standards

Instruments Piano Trumpet

Product Description

The Adventurer: Suite for Trumpet and Piano is a short (3:30) three-movement work in a bold contemporary style. The first movement is a joyful allegro that is filled with syncopation, harmonic surprises, and echoes of Gershwin and Bernstein. The second movement is an adagio that begins peacefully, adds a little more motion with a pentatonic melody, and then returns to a peaceful mood, concluding with a harmonic question. The suite then concludes with a lively and spirited dance-like allegro that alternates between 3/4 and 6/8, and may, for some, invoke images of a pirate-like nautical adventure, while also sounding somewhat like a Latin American dance tune. While the trumpet range goes up only to a written G (concert F), it does require good technical agility and security with syncopated rhythms. The Adventurer: Suite for Trumpet is a refreshing change from the standard contest repertoire written for this intermediate level and will be a delight both for the performers (trumpet and piano) and for the listener. An alternative, less technically challenging ending is provided for less-advanced performers. Additionally, The Adventurer may be performed as an unaccompanied trumpet solo.

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