Trumpet
instruments | repertoire | brass | trumpet
Repertoire examples for Trumpet, based on recommendations from orchestration treatises and college syllabi.
KENNAN AND GRANTHAM (2002, P. 160), THE TECHNIQUE OF ORCHESTRATION.
Suggested listening for Trumpet. Playlist available here on Spotify.
“Beethoven, Leonore Overture No. 3, meas. 272.
Wagner, Prelude to Parsifal, meas. 9; Siegfried, scenes of Mime; Die Meistersinger, scenes of Beckmesser (latter two are examples of muted trumpet).
Scriabin, The Poem ofEcstasy, 4 bars after figure 32; many other passages.
Mussorgsky-Ravel, Pictures at an Exhibition, opening “Promenade”; also Part 6 (“Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle”), figure 58 (muted trumpet).
Strauss, Ein Heldenleben, fanfare section, figure 42; Don Quixote, figure 3 (muted trumpets).
Debussy, Nocturnes: II. “Fetes,” 9 bars after figure 10 (3 muted trumpets).
Ravel, Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2, 2 bars before figure 204.
Respighi, Pines ofRome, 2nd movt., last movt.
Stravinsky, The Rite ofSpring, 4 bars before figure 84 (muted).
Stravinsky, Pulcinella, VIII (a) Minuetto, VIII (b) Finale.
Stravinsky, Agon, meas. 1-60, 124-131, 278-285.
Bartok, Piano Concerto No. 2, 1st movt.
Bartok, Concertofor Orchestra, 2nd movt. at meas. 90, Finale at meas. 234.
Bloch, Schelomo, figure 5.
Copland, An Outdoor Overture, meas. 16.
Copland, Third Symphony, fanfare section near beginning of 4th movt. (figure 85). Carter, A Symphony of Three Orchestras, figure 9 to figure 34, figure 329, many other passages.
Henze, Sixth Symphony, many passages (score includes piccolo trumpet).
Ligeti, Melodien, meas. 84-99.”
