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Composed by Mark Goddard New Edition Orchestra Trombone and Piano

Trombone Concerto

Mark Goddard’s Trombone Concerto (Op. 65) has just been fully typeset and a new edition is imminent via Spartan Press in the next few months.

The new edition will make the concerto available in three separately available products as follows:

  • Piano Reduction (Solo Trombone with Piano)
  • Full Orchestral Score
  • Full Set of Orchestral Parts

 

Sneak preview PDF sample files available to view here…

Piano Reduction Excerpts
Solo Trombone Part Excerpts

YouTube excerpts

YouTube Video of excerpts from the Trombone Concerto

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The work was originally commissioned by John Esaias for the Burford Orchestra (Oxfordshire) in 1985, and the first performance was given by the trombonist Michael Skitt and the orchestra conducted by John in March 1986.

The concerto can be performed in any of the following configurations:

  • “Concerto” (movements I – V) . . . . . . duration: 20 minutes
  • “Concertino” (movements I, III and V) . duration: 13½ minutes
  • “Buffoonery” (last movement only) . . . duration: 4 minutes
Categories
B flat Bass and Piano Brass E flat Bass and Piano Horn In Eb and Piano Horn In F and Piano Trombone and Piano Trumpet and Organ Trumpet and Piano Trumpet Solo Tuba and Piano Uncategorized

List of works (brass)


Trumpet Solo

Trumpet Carols  (SP539)      available from Spartan Press

Various, arr: Goddard

Twenty seven of the most popular carols laid out in a simple solo manner with optional chord symbols.    Completed: 7th October, 1999

Trumpet and Piano

Easy Jazzical Trumpet  (SP574)      available from Spartan Press

Various, arr: Goddard and Widger

15 TOP classical themes made EASY for Bb trumpet with jazzzed-up piano accompaniments. Includes Beethoven 5 Theme, William Tell Rock, Mozart 40, Polovtsian Dance etc.    Completed: 30th July, 2000

Party Pieces  (SP168)      available from Spartan Press

Fresh and energetic pieces in which the piano part has been kept fairly simple, while allowing gifted pianists potential for improvisation.    Completed: 10th June, 1990

Songs without Words  (SP1306)      available from Spartan Press

Songs Without Words is a set of three short pieces, each inspired by a classic twentieth century poem. There is an underlying theme of ‘School’. 1. School Bell The music urgently moves forward within an anxiously breathless waltz lest we be late for school. Originally inspired by Eleanor Farjeon’s famous poem ‘Nine O’clock Bell’ where pupils hustle and bustle to school in the morning: Some of them scurrying, others not worrying, Carelessly trudging or anxiously hurrying. 2. A Blitz of a Boy With an affectionate nod to Charles Causley’s sad tale about ‘Timothy Winters’ who ‘hasn’t heard of the welfare state’. He sleeps on a sack on the kitchen floor, and they say there aren’t boys like him anymore. Although the music is laden with pathos, there is insuppressible energy too, portraying that lovable ‘Blitz of a Boy’! 3. A Lesson You’ll Never Forget! Roger McGough’s black poem ‘The Lesson’ was the catalyst for this piece. The teacher (and later even the headmaster) set upon a notoriously rowdy class with various lethal weapons, systematically murdering all the pupils! He picked on a boy who was shouting and throttled him then and there, then garrotted the girl behind him (the one with grotty hair). The baroque style recitative passages represent the school ‘establishment’, and are contrasted ludicrously with savage harmonic ‘stabs’ and terrifyingly anxious ‘chase scenes’ around the class room; this poem is not for the squeamish!    Completed: 11th May, 2015

Trumpet and Organ

Circles   (Op. 42)     more details

Printed facsimile of the original manuscript (score and part).    Completed: 15th January, 1982

Horn In F and Piano

Party Pieces  (SP166)      available from Spartan Press

Fresh and energetic pieces in which the piano part has been kept fairly simple, while allowing gifted pianists potential for improvisation.    Completed: 22nd May, 1990

Horn In Eb and Piano

Party Pieces  (SP165)      available from Spartan Press

Fresh and energetic pieces in which the piano part has been kept fairly simple, while allowing gifted pianists potential for improvisation.    Completed: 10th June, 1990

Trombone and Piano

Buffoonery  (SP142)      available from Spartan Press

Duration: 4-5 minutes.  This piece was originally written for the trombonist Michael Skitt, as the final ‘prank’ movement of a concerto for trombone and orchestra. By popular request, the piece has been given a separate piano part, and has since been proved equally entertaining for trombone, bassoon or cello! Within a month of its publication, Buffoonery was set for trombone grade VIII on the Oxfordshire Instrumental Examinations Syllabus.     Completed: 11th December, 1989

Concerto for Trombone  (SP114)      available from Spartan Press

Duration: 20 minutes.  Solo Trombone with piano (Orchestral material on hire). Commissioned by the Burford Orchestra for the trombonist Michael Skitt. Five movements. Manuscript form.    Completed: 10th June, 1990

Party Pieces  (SP167)      available from Spartan Press

The last in the series of brass Party Pieces, originally set for grades 2 to 5 on the Oxford Examinations Syllabus. The solo part makes use of both tenor and bass clefs, and the piano part has been kept fairly simple, while allowing gifted pianists potential for improvisation. Swingin’, Hornpipe, Charlbury Charleston, Blues, Ragamuffin, Boogie, Daydreams, Take it!.    Completed: 10th June, 1990

Trombone Concerto  (SP1393)      available from Spartan Press

Duration: 20 minutes.  1st Performance: Mike Skitt – Burford Orchestra, March 1986 and Wantage Silver Band..  Solo Trombone with piano (Orchestral also available). Commissioned by John Esaias for the Burford Orchestra and the trombonist Michael Skitt. Five movements.     Completed: 1st June, 1987

Tuba and Piano

Party Pieces  (SP169)      available from Spartan Press

Tuba (in bass clef) and piano.    Completed: 10th June, 1990

Bb Bass and Piano

Party Pieces  (SP287)      available from Spartan Press

Bb bass (in treble clef) and piano.    Completed: 11th May, 1997

Eb Bass and Piano

Party Pieces  (SP188)      available from Spartan Press

Eb bass (in treble clef) and piano.    Completed: 6th March, 1991