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Brass Instruments

Basic resources for finding information on and music for brass instruments

Orchestral Parts & Excerpts

Orchestral Excerpts in the Library

The Little Fine Arts Library has copies of printed orchestral excerpts for the following composers:

Beethoven          MT426.B330
Brahms               MT426.B72 1972
Haydn                 MT426.H380
Mendelssohn      MT426.M360
Mozart                MT426.M690
Shostakovich      MT426.S56 1999
Strauss               MT426.S87 1968
Wagner               MT426.W125 O7 C5 1966

Orchestral Excerpts Lists

Orchestral Excerpts Online

Check out Orchestral Horn Excerpts on the homepage of the International Horn Society. Dozens of excerpts for horn include audio examples by world-class orchestras.

Full Orchestral Parts in the Library

The Little Fine Arts Library has several volumes of the Orchestra Musician's CD-ROM Library.

Click on the link to execute an InfoKat Title Browse search for Orchestra Musician's CD-ROM Library to get a complete listing.

You can check these CD-ROMs out to print out the parts you want.

The complete horn parts to works by the following composers, among others, are available:

  • Bartok
  • Beethoven
  • Debussy
  • Elgar
  • Haydn
  • Mahler
  • Mozart
  • Ravel
  • Schubert
  • Sibelius
  • Stravinsky
  • Tchaikovsky

Full Scores & Parts Online