Comfort Ye My People for Brass Quintet, Organ and Optional Choir (Goudimel/arr Treybig)

MEDIUM DIFFICULTY

This joyful hymn proclaims a message of comfort and hope at Advent, announces the arrival of the kingdom of God, and expresses the need for repentance to prepare the way. The music is by Claude Goudimel, a French composer, music editor, and publisher who is well known for his four-part Psalm settings, masses, motets, and chansons during the Renaissance. The present arrangement reinforces the dance rhythms of the hymn through the use of hand drum, allows both the voices and the brass instruments to shine, layering in a trumpet descant on the final verse to bring the hymn to a jubilant close. Includes a score and parts for 2 Bb trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba, hand-drum, organ and optional SATB Choir.

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