(See also our Advent and Christmas music for trombone ensemble, and our
Advent and Christmas music for solo trombone.)
Con Spirito Music offers unique, highly playable and attractive arrangements of Advent and Christmas music for brass quintet. Click or touch a boldfaced title to preview and learn more about the selection.
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- A la Nanita Nana — delightful, easily playable Spanish carol
- Angels We Have Heard on High — French noel, aka “Westminster Carol” and “Gloria”
- Angelus ad Virginem — lively Medieval Annunciation carol with percussion
- An Appalachian Carol — simple, lovely 19th-century folk melody, attractively arranged with traditional and contemporary harmonies
- Away in a Manger — medley of two beloved tunes: “Cradle Song” and “Mueller”
- Blest Mary Walks Amid the Thorn (Maria durch ein’ Dornwald ging) — German Advent carol
- Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella — lovely French Provençal carol
- The Christmas Song* — the timeless “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire” (mp3)
- Christmas Time Is Here* — the classic ballad from A Charlie Brown Christmas (mp3)
- Come, All Ye Shepherds; Infant Holy, Infant Lowly — Medley of two pastoral carols from Bohemia and Poland
- Comfort, Comfort Ye My People — energetic, syncopated tune from the Genevan Psalter
- An English Christmas — four well-known carols, fun to play
- Gabriel’s Message — traditional Basque carol with optional hand percussion
- Gaudete! Christus est Natus — highly rhythmic medieval hymn of praise
- Gesu Bambino (The Infant Jesus) — Pietro Yon’s beloved Christmas carol
- The Gloucestershire Wassail — sprightly, traditional West-English carol
- Greensleeves (What Child is This?) — English folk tune / Christmas carol
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas* — pop standard made famous by Judy Garland (mp3)
- Hodie Christus Natus Est — Gregorian chant tune, attractively harmonized
- The Holly and the Ivy — English traditional carol
- How Brightly Shines the Morning Star — by Philipp Nicolai / J.S. Bach, newly arranged
- The Huron Carol — Canadian carol in a contemplative, lyrical setting, based on the French folk tune “Une jeune pucelle”
- I Wonder As I Wander* — John Jacob Niles’ haunting Appalachian folk hymn (mp3)
- In the Bleak Midwinter — Gustav Holst’s well-known tune in an attractive arrangement
- Irish Carol “Christmas Day is Come” — beautiful traditional tune
- Jingle Bells — Fun, toe-tapping arrangement in Latin/pop style, with a swinging conclusion
- Joy to the World — the most popular of Christmas carols, with bell-tone-like fanfares, contrasting instrument textures, and attractive harmonies
- Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!* — Sammy Cahn’s delightful winter-time classic (mp3)
- Ma’oz Tzur — solemn, joyful hymn for Hanukkah
- Maria Wiegenlied (Mary’s Lullaby) — Max Reger’s charming cradle-song
- Niño Lindo — Venezuelan folk tune / Nativity carol with engaging Latin rhythms
- O Tannenbaum (O Christmas Tree) — a swinging arrangement a la Vince Guaraldi, fun to play
- Of the Father’s Love Begotten — lovely setting of medieval plainsong “Divinum Mysterium”
- On Christmas Night, On Christmas Day, Rejoice! — cheerful medley of three joyful carols
- On December Five-and-Twenty — medley of “Fum, Fum, Fum,” “Pat-a-pan” and “Touro-Louro-Louro!”
- Past Three O’Clock — English traditional carol also known as “London Waits”
- Resonet in Laudibus — lilting German carol, “Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mine”
- Riu, Riu, Chiu — lively Catalonian villancico (carol) of the Renaissance
- Salvation is Created — Pavel Tschesnokoff’s famous Russian Orthodox choral work
- Sans Day (St. Day) Carol — lovely traditional Cornish tune, attractively harmonized
- See, Amid the Winter’s Snow — hymn tune “Humility” by Sir John Goss (1800-1880)
- Still, Still, Still (Salzburg Melody) — Austrian folk carol/lullaby
- Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day — delightful, traditional English carol in sprightly triple meter
- The Truth From Above — English folk melody also known as the “Herefordshire Carol”
- Two French Carols — engaging medley of “Il est ne, le divin enfant” and “Noel Nouvelet”
- Veni, Veni Emmanuel — a fresh setting of the most well-known Advent hymn
- A Virgin Most Pure — traditional English carol in Mixolydian mode
- We Three Kings Take Five — the popular Epiphany carol in a Brubeck-esque 5/4 swing style
- What Child is This? (Greensleeves) — English folk tune / Christmas carol
- What is the Crying at Jordan? — haunting, evocative traditional Irish tune and Advent hymn
- What is This Lovely Fragrance? — French traditional Noël