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PostPosted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 7:58 am    Post subject: What are your favorite duet books? Reply with quote

I need to expand my collection of trumpet duet books! Looking for suggestions for books of all difficulty levels and all styles. What are your favorite duets, and please include a short description of what kind of book it is.

Here are some of my favorites:

Pietzsch: 24 Duets...classic, musically solid duos. Moderately difficulty, but rather long pieces.

Belwin Master Duets, Easy....perfect for lessons with youngsters

Rubank Selected Duets, Easy-Medium and Advanced books. This must be just about the most common set out there, and for good reason.

Thomas Morley Complete Canzonets (Balquidder)....very nice, good for getting used to the rhythmic independence of renaissance counterpoint.

Di Lasso/Baldwin: Cantabile Duets...more beautiful renaissance pieces

All the Bach Duo Concerto arrangements edited by Vacchiano, published by Colin. Very difficult, probably impossible to get through most of them in terms of endurance, but great music and tons of fun to practice on.

Blumel: Duos in the Low Register...funny little book, but a nice change of pace

Bozza Dialogue for 2 trumpets...Solid 20th century recital music

Persichetti Parable...ditto

Castrerede: Six Pieces Breves En Duo...possibly my favorite trumpet duet music of all. Great performance repertoire.

The Rite of Spring, arranged by Hoffman. Ed, you madman!

All three Mueller books published by Balquidder...A great way to practice standard solo repertoire pieces with a friend or student.

As far a jazz style duets, my favorites are the Bugs Bowers Bop Duets and Erik Jekabson's books, all published by Colin.

Please help me out by sharing your favorites!
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 12:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great list. Below are some of my favorites, especially the trumpet solos in duet form...cool for playing accompaniment along with your student who is working on any of the solos. Fun, challenging, some different stuff in there too. Click the links for sample pages and details.

-6 Canonic Sonatas Telemann (arr. Schmidt) : http://www.hickeys.com/search/products/sku041270.php

-Classical Virtuosic Duets by Bach, Handel, Rimsky-Korsakov, Vivaldi, Mozart, Offenbach, etc. (arr. Ziek) http://www.hickeys.com/search/products/sku114409.php

-Baroque Duets (arr. Past) http://www.hickeys.com/search/products/sku041551.php

-14 Duets by Alessi & Sachs: http://www.hickeys.com/search/products/sku068270.php

-Famous Trumpet/Cornet Solos in Duet Form by Ropartz, Clarke, Arban, Balay Goedicke, and Hansen (arr. Mueller): http://www.hickeys.com/search/products/sku074770.php

-3 Classical Concerti in Duet Form by Haydn, Hummel and Neruda (arr. Mueller) http://www.hickeys.com/search/products/sku062224.php

-Jazz Duets for Equal Trumpets (arr. Slechta): http://www.hickeys.com/search/products/sku090520.php

These are pretty good sellers too at our store. – Pete

Trumpet Duets: http://www.hickeys.com/music/brass/trumpet/trumpet_ensembles/trumpet_duets.php

Trumpet Duets with Piano: http://www.hickeys.com/music/brass/trumpet/trumpet_ensembles/trumpet_duets_with_piano.php

More Trumpet Ensembles: http://www.hickeys.com/music/brass/trumpet/index.php
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 30, 2018 10:34 am    Post subject: More Duets (especially Jazz) Reply with quote

Jack Gales 12 Jazz Duets
Trumpet Sessions, Compiled and Arranged by Don Cassel and Livingston Gearhart (with several trios, quartets and other trumpet ensembles)
And--not sure why this is missing from the list so far--Gatti's 33 Duets for Trumpet
and Amsden's Celebrated Duets (free downloads available). These are taxing and often painfully out-of-date but still fun to read through and play.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 30, 2018 2:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Moravian Brass Duet Book Volumes 1 and 2 Brass Press Ed Tarr.
Trumpet Duets Herring/Collins.
Fifteen Two-Part Inventions Howey. Cimarron Music Press.
Gekker 44 Duos for Trumpet. Transition Publications.
Mel Broiles Trumpet Studies and Duets Books 1,2 and 3
Selected Duets Volumes 1 and 2 Voxman Rubank Educational Library.
14 Duets for Trumpet Michael Sachs/Joseph Alessi. Carl Fischer
Arthur Amsden 75 Duets. C.L. Barnhouse.
Allen Vizzutti New Concepts for Trumpet.
Allen Vizzutti Concert Duets Book 2.
St. Jacome and Arban. methods.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 30, 2018 3:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nelson - Colin duets. they are transcribed baroque keyboard pieces and VERY challenging.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2018 8:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My favorite books recently are the Fisher progressive books.

http://www.hickeys.com/search/products/sku062406.php
http://www.hickeys.com/search/products/sku087111.php

I got to browse the whole Hickeys duets bin at ITG last year and these guys really stuck out in terms of good arrangements of classical pieces, plus a few new pieces thrown in. Its like the Alessi/Sachs book but more pieces and on average a bit easier.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2018 9:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lots of great books listed so far. I particularly like the Mueller and Voxman books.

Haley's "Bach: 15 Two-Part Inventions" and Mathie's "Telemann for Two Transposing Trumpets" are wonderful moving transpositions in the tradition of Vacchiano's "Moving Transcription" version of Sachse and Porret's "24 Vocalises" version of Bordogni's vocalises. Great for studios.

A few that I did not see listed already are:

Hering's "Bach for Two Trumpets" (intermediate/advanced)

Bob Zottola's "Challenging Duets" (advanced; intended for developing commercial players) -- along the lines of Phil Collins' "Pops Orchestra" but in duet form
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 04, 2018 7:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just got a J.S. Bach Fifteen Two Part Inventions book done for trumpet by Robert Haley. It is great, MAKES you work on transposition.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 04, 2018 8:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

When I sort the qPress catalogue by most popular duet books, I must say I am pleasantly surprised. What are the odds that my favourite all-time duet book is the highest selling?

The most popular duet books.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2018 9:54 pm    Post subject: More Duets Reply with quote

All the good suggestions here sent me back to my filing cabinet. A couple of things not mentioned:
Ernest R. Miller, Brass Duet Notebook I and II Southern Music Company
Duets in Vol. I are drawn from Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, those in Vol. II from J. S. Bach
Rich Willey, I'd Rather Be Boppin' Vol. 1-3 Boptism Music Publishing
Bop duets on the changes for standards. Increasingly more difficult as one moves through the three volumes. Also Home Cookin': 24 Dixie Duets Fer Young'Uns)
And finally (maybe already listed in the links to Hickey's catalog--is there anything they don't have?)
Hubert Arnold, Sonata for Two Trumpets and Piano Southern Music Company
Emile Baudrier, Fughetta Alphonse Leduc--Paris
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2018 11:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/lichtmann/Operatic-Duets.pdf
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