For Brass Quintet.
PDF digital download of all 5 parts plus full score.
Arranged by Betsy Bright
©2022 Bright Music Company
ASCAP
Title: Happy Birthday Variations
Composer: Patty & Mildred Hill
Arranger Betsy Bright
Duration: 2.5 minutes
Difficulty: 4 (advanced intermediate)
Instrumentation: Trumpet 1 in Bb, Trumpet 2 in Bb, French Horn in F, Trombone, Tuba
About this piece:
This piece begins and ends with the traditional Happy Birthday tune, but the middle is filled with variations that showcase various types of melodic derivation/development! Listeners don’t need to know the theory behind it, though it can be fun to share this for an education show. The melody is presented in inversion, retrograde, retrograde inversion, and with octave displacement. Lots of fun for an education show to show some quick composition tricks without getting too complex, and it’s great to end with a big sing-along!
For Brass Quintet.
PDF digital download of all 5 parts plus full score.
Arranged by Betsy Bright
©2022 Bright Music Company
ASCAP
Title: Happy Birthday Variations
Composer: Patty & Mildred Hill
Arranger Betsy Bright
Duration: 2.5 minutes
Difficulty: 4 (advanced intermediate)
Instrumentation: Trumpet 1 in Bb, Trumpet 2 in Bb, French Horn in F, Trombone, Tuba
About this piece:
This piece begins and ends with the traditional Happy Birthday tune, but the middle is filled with variations that showcase various types of melodic derivation/development! Listeners don’t need to know the theory behind it, though it can be fun to share this for an education show. The melody is presented in inversion, retrograde, retrograde inversion, and with octave displacement. Lots of fun for an education show to show some quick composition tricks without getting too complex, and it’s great to end with a big sing-along!
