The Expandable Chamber Project

Adaptable Quintets

Folk & Traditional

All of the tunes below are based off of a quintet formation. You need five players (with optional percussion-typically snare, bass, and tambourine-feel free to ad lib as desired). These can be played with a huge variety of combinations. First, you have your standard quintet formations - brass quintet, sax quintet, woodwind quintet - but then you can mix and match as desired. These can all be played with a full band too! Only one trumpet...no problem...the saxes got you covered, or flutes, or basically whatever. Have fun!!

Sailor's Hornpipe

This is an adaptable quintet arrangement of the famed "Sailor's Hornpipe." Rather than have the highest pitch instrument play the melody the entire time, it passes from instrument to instrument throughout. This is meant to make it a bit more interesting to play for the performers, but also add variety to a tune that's been arranged in so many settings. This will also make it more achievable by younger players by breaking it up some.

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Amazing Grace

This is an arrangement of the famous "Amazing Grace." It has been set for adaptable wind quintet and goes through several arrangements and interactions of the melody, with a mixture of different harmonies and key centers. This would work well as a set during a wind quintet performance, especially as incidental music. As with everything, it would also work well as a flexible instrumentation concert band piece.

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