does anyone out there know where I could find music for a brass ensemble. I would prefer music with a drum corps sound or feel to it. We are made up of all bflat intsruments but I can transpose the parts if need be.
Thanks
Gord

There are lots of places who sell quality sheet music. Hickeys.com; Robert King (rkingmusic.com), Portland Sheet Music (sheetmusicservice.com), Solid Brass Music Company (www.sldbrass.com). You can usually search by ensemble configuration, say brass quintet, brass sextet, etc. and imploy a numbering system for specific instrumentation. For example, the standard brass quintet of 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, and tuba would be 211.01, the 0 position representing euphonium, which does not exist in the standard quintet.

I`m not sure what you mean by drum corps sounding ensemble music. I imagine it would be pretty difficult to recreate that sound (which is dependent on large numbers of brass and percussionists) in a small ensemble setting. Playing in a small ensemble is a completely different musical experience and usually much more demanding than playing in a large ensemble, where your part is doubled by other players.

One other note: If all of the members play Bb instruments, and are usued to reading Bb treble clef parts, all of the low brass players will have to get used to reading in bass clef C, and you`re playing off parts intended for the French horn, then one of the players (say a mellophone, or something) will have to read that part and transpose (unless its a mellophone in F, in which case you could read straight off the part, except when it goes too low for the instrument). This is the standard way music is published (Trumpet parts in Bb, Horn in F, low brass in Bass Clef C). Drum corps is a very unique way notating, sort of like British brass band. The rest of the world is different. What is your specific instrumentation? Maybe I can suggest a way of adapting standard small ensemble literature to your specific group.

Aaron Stanley