[Trombone-l] Church Music for Trbn Quartet

[Raymond Horton]

Thanks for the advice.  I'd thought about a trumpet book, but not so 
much about WWs.  These pieces are not the usual you see in these "for 
all instrument" solo collections - they are fairly challenging, the kind 
of pieces there aren't enough of on the market. But I could adapt and 
make them idiomatic for the other instruments as well, possibly. 

I also appreciate the publisher advice very much.

Ray

Charles De Paolo wrote:

>Ray,
>
>I can feel your pain, as well as that of your publisher. It's hard to get dealers to invest in new publications by small publishers.  I know, I'm a small publisher and co-own a dealer.  There's so much stuff being released by the big houses that's there's not much room in the budget for all the interesting "indy" stuff as well. With that in mind, you might try shopping your collection out to Southern Music (San Antonio), Curnow Music (Wilmore, KY), DeHaske (Belgium) or Musicians Publications (New York).  All have a track record of selling church related instrumental publications to a larger dealer base.  You might also try Alfred (Van Nuys, CA).  They recently acquired the Belwin/Warner Brothers catalog.  Don't bother with Hal Leonard, I understand they no longer accept unsolicited works as they do all their with their work with in-house arrangers.  The same might be true of Alfred, but I don't have that on good authority.  
>
>One other thing to consider - many of these places might feel better about the collection if it were available (or at least potentially available) for the other four "big five " instruments as well-flute, clarinet, alto sax & trumpet.  And, if the keys were set accordingly, the books could use a single piano book, rather than needing to engrave a separate piano book in different keys for each instrument.  Just a thought.  Good Luck!
>
>In Music,
>---Charles De Paolo
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>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Raymond Horton 
>  Cc: List Trombone 
>  Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 12:38 PM
>  Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Church Music for Trbn Quartet
>
>
>  Along this line, I have almost completed a set of sacred solo 
>  arrangements for trombone and piano.  My publisher for trombone 
>  ensembles, Cimarron Music, wants to publish it but I am unhappy with 
>  sales there.  What publishers would you expect to see such a collection 
>  published by?
>
>  Raymond Horton
>
>  Daryl Burch wrote:
>
>  >I agree. I'd like to hear your ear on "Old Rugged Cross," "Just A 
>  >Closer Walk With Thee,"  and other standards. Most guys just read the 
>  >four parts out of the hymnal and make do. If there were compelling 
>  >arrangements around they'd jump at 'em.
>  >
>  >When I was a young upstart and competing in youth competitions around 
>  >OH, I landed a Bill Pierce solo book that had med/hard arrangements of 
>  >"Joshua" and "Precious Lord" and a bunch of others. They were very fun 
>  >to play and took me far in the competitions. I also performed them a 
>  >lot as offertories or special music during the home church services. I 
>  >got a lot of miles out of that book.
>  >
>  >Basically, if the arrangements are interesting (and most of Bob's are!) 
>  >players will want them.
>  >
>  >My $0.02, anyway.
>  >
>  
>