EMPIRICAL RAG (Version 1, for brass quintet)

Composer: 
Brian Fennelly
Scoring: 
brass 5tet: 2-1-1-1
Year Authored: 
1977
Duration (min): 
5:
Movements-Titles: 
1
First Performance: 
by Empire Brass Quintet
Recording: 
Recorded on a Golden Crest LP by the Tidewater Brass Quintet

Sophisticated ragtime,the original version (#1 of 10), written for the Empire Brass Quintet (thus the title). Incorporates witty polyphonic writing for the five instruments in a Mahlerian (via Sessions) tonal fabric.

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