{"id":6514,"date":"2020-12-22T10:03:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T15:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=6514"},"modified":"2023-03-31T12:39:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T16:39:23","slug":"hallelujah-chorus-for-trombone-quartet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=6514","title":{"rendered":"Hallelujah Chorus for Trombone Quartet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back almost 20 years ago I wrote an arrangement of the Hallelujah Chorus, from G.F. Handel&#8217;s <em>Messiah.<\/em> I happened across it a couple of weeks ago and as I had just gotten a new microphone I decided to record myself playing all four parts, figuring I could post it as a holiday greeting. Here&#8217;s the recording.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hallelujah-Chorus-Trombone-Quartet.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And here&#8217;s the sheet music for it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hallelujah-Chorus-Trombone-Quartet.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Hallelujah-Chorus-Trombone-Quartet.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-9f64e07b-c264-4257-8565-41bb174d26ac\" href=\"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hallelujah-Chorus-Trombone-Quartet.pdf\">Hallelujah-Chorus-Trombone-Quartet<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hallelujah-Chorus-Trombone-Quartet.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-9f64e07b-c264-4257-8565-41bb174d26ac\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You might want to listen to it before you bother downloading it. I&#8217;m not sure why I wrote the 1st trombone part so high, maybe I was hoping to show off? I got it to sound passable in the recording by isolating that phrase and playing it a few times until I got it to sound OK, but I wouldn&#8217;t want to try that in a live performance. You can probably fix that by just playing trombone 1 down an octave there, but that puts it in unison with another part and I guess I wanted it to be in octaves like Handel&#8217;s original. Try it out and let me know how it goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bass trombone part is a little rough in the recording, partly because I&#8217;m playing it on a tenor trombone and partly because I hadn&#8217;t played that horn for months (I&#8217;d mostly been playing my King 2B and staying out of the trigger range, but this was a positive kick in the seat to brush the dust off that horn and start working on my low register again). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back almost 20 years ago I wrote an arrangement of the Hallelujah Chorus, from G.F. Handel&#8217;s Messiah. I happened across it a couple of weeks ago and as I had just gotten a new microphone I decided to record myself playing all four parts, figuring I could post it as a holiday greeting. Here&#8217;s the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=6514\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hallelujah Chorus for Trombone Quartet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15350306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1362,1364,1389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brass","category-composition","category-trombone"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peFHCc-1H4","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15350306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8732,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6514\/revisions\/8732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}