David Johnson's Trumpet Tunes

[hartleymartin]

Any recommendations on which of David Johnson's Trumpet tunes are best for beginners? I'm still working my way back into music after a 9-year absence.

[nullogik]

David Johnson's Trumpet Tunes are great because a lot of them are near sight-readable. Some of them are a little mediocre and don't do much but there are gems. Here are my favourites from the collection (ranked in terms of easiest down to hardest)

Trumpet Tune in F

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8y9sETQ2vg&feature=plcp

Trumpet Tune in D (probably the best known out of the whole collection)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6MPquYmRnI

March in D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApMTCHij_ww

Trumpet Tune in C

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofF5x1-JDNc

Processional in D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udGJ_RCDim4&feature=plcp

Trumpet Tune in A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDvXvgVVD9U&feature=plcp

[hartleymartin]

Sight-readable for you, perhaps! I was away from Organ and Piano for nearly 10 years and need to get back into it.

I've been mainly exploring manuals-only stuff, so English and Spanish Baroque. The tiny 3-rank single-manual instrument I play is really an overgrown Positiv.

I am looking into these trumpet tunes as something for a much larger 3-manual instrument which I have been invited to play.

[nullogik]

Sight-readable for you, perhaps! I was away from Organ and Piano for nearly 10 years and need to get back into it.

I am looking into these trumpet tunes as something for a much larger 3-manual instrument which I have been invited to play.

Good luck! How long do you have to prepare?

[hartleymartin]

It won't be any time soon, but I figure that I should start working on a couple. I have just about mastered a manuals-only arrangement of Stanley's Voluntary in D, which I have used on a couple of occasions. I originally prepared manuals-only stuff because I would often have to play on an electric piano with an organ sound instead of a proper organ. It is basically Stanley's original score with repeats much the same as the version best known by Diane Bish.