Range Requirements
Range Requirements for the Horn in Standard Brass Quintet Repertoire
All pitches are for horn in F [bass clef is in new notation]
Octave Designation System:
C B c b c’ b’ c’’ b’’ c’’’
| Lowest Pitch | Highest Pitch | ||
| Composer | Title | ||
| Amram, David | Fanfare and Processional | c# | b” |
| Arnold, Malcolm | Quintet No.1 Op. 73 | c | b” |
| Arutiunian, Alexander | Armenian Scenes | g | a” |
| Bach, Jan | Rounds and Dances | A | bb” |
| Laudes | Bb | b” | |
| Barboteu, Georges | Astral | c# | b” [highest possible pitch also notated] |
| Bazelon, Irwin | Brass Quintet | f | c”’ |
| Bernstein, Leonard | Dance Suite | ab | cb”’ |
| Bozza, Eugene | Sonatine | c | a#” |
| Calvert, Morley | Suite from the Monteregian Hills | c | ab” |
| Carter, Elliott | Brass Quintet | F# | c”’ |
| Cheetham, John | A Brass Menagerie | a | bb” |
| Scherzo | c’ | e” | |
| Childs, Barney | Variations sur une chanson de canotier | g | bb” |
| Dahl, Ingolf | Music for Brass Instruments | e | b” |
| Etler, Alvin | Quintet | B | c”’ |
| Ewald, Victor | Quintet No. 1, Op. 5 | b | gb” |
| Quintet No. 2, Op. 6 | a | f” | |
| Quintet No. 3, Op. 7 | bb | gb” | |
| Ewazen, Eric | Colchester Fantasy | d | a” |
| Ewazen, Eric | Frost Fire | f# | g” |
| Frackenpohl, Arthur | Brass Quintet | f | g” |
| Gregson, Edward | Equale Dances | e | bb” |
| Quintet for Brass | f | b” | |
| Hill, Douglas | Intrada for Brass Quintet | c’ | c”’ |
| Timepieces for Brass Quintet | c | c”’ | |
| Hindemith, Paul | Plöner Musiktag: Morgenmusik | g | c” |
| Horovitz, Joseph | Music Hall Suite | g | g” |
| Hovhaness, Alan | Six Dances | g | g” |
| Sharagan and Fugue | d’ | g” | |
| Husa, Karel | Landcapes | d# | c”’ |
| Divertimento | f | f” | |
| Koetsier, Jan | Kinderzirkus, op. 79b | d | a” |
| Brass Quintet, op. 65 | c | g” | |
| Leclerc, Michel | Par Monts et Par Vaux | eb | bb” |
| Lovelock, William | Suite for Brass | B | b” |
| Lutoslawski, Witold | Mini Overture | gb | c”’ |
| McCabe, John | Rounds | eb | a” |
| Persichetti, Vincent | Parable for Brass Quintet | d | bb” |
| Plog, Anthony | Four Sketches (Quintet No. 1) | eb | a” |
| Mosaics (Quintet No. 2) | eb | a” | |
| Previn, André | Four Outings | c | bb” |
| Renwick, Wilke | Dance | c#’ | e” |
| Reynolds, Verne | Suite for Brass Quintet | a | ab” |
| Rieti, Vittorio | Incisioni | a | g” |
| Sampson, David | Distant Voices | db | b” |
| Morning Music | g | a#” | |
| Sanders, Robert | Quintet in B-flat | Bb | f” |
| Schuller, Gunther | Music for Brass Quintet | c# | c”’ |
| Stevens, John | Fabrics | c# | b” |
| Seasons | g | bb” | |
| Tilson Thomas, Michael | Street Song | d | b” |
| Tull, Fisher | Coup de Brass | b | a” |
| Exhibition | e | g” | |
| Wilder, Alec | Brass Quintet No. 1 | db | b” |
