brass liberation orchestra

Sheet Music Index

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We have also included scores below as .MUS files for editing with Finale 2008, so you can make your own arrangements.

Addio Lugano

Amara Terra Mia

Bella Ciao

BLO Second Line

Bubamara

Ciganko Moja

De Colores

Dog Eat Dog

Ederlezi

Follow the Drinking Gourd

Hop Hop Hop

Internationale

Note: This arrangement has 5 different parts. Usually, we use only 3: Everyone plays the Melody except the trombones, which play "Tenor Harm 3" and sousaphone, which plays "Bass."

Lil' Liza Jane

Let's Get Re-Started

Matador

Merry Blues

Misirlou

The Model

We play by ear in key of Concert Gm.

Moliendo Cafe

Nkosi Sikelel iAfrika

No Agreement

Petenera

El Quinto Regimiento

Roma-Rama

Sat

Ska-Bond

El Sombrero Azul

St. James Infirmary Blues

Wade in the Water

We Shall Overcome ("Murga")

Wein a Ramallah

Work Song

You Move Ya Lose

Songs out of rotation

Chameleon

Get Up Stand Up

Grazin' in the Grass

Mercy, Mercy, Mercy

No Woman No Cry

We always played this by ear, in the key of Concert F

Powerhouse

Watermelon Man

A note on our arrangements:

We have arrangements of each of the tunes we play usually for 2 or 3 parts. Because attendance can vary, many of us learn all of the parts to a song. Therefore we've included each part in every key below. Thus, for example, while trumpets would only play "Bb melody", an Alto Sax could play either "Eb melody" or "Eb harmony" and a trombone either "C bass", "C harmony bass clef" or "C melody bass clef".

Keys of instruments in the BLO:

  • Bb= Trumpet, Clarinet, Cornet, Baritone Horn, Tenor Sax, Soprano Sax
  • Eb= Alto Sax, Baritone Sax
  • C= Flute, Accordion, Trombone, Sousaphone, Tuba

Note: Baritone Sax, while usually playing the bass part, reads in treble clef (sounding one octave plus one major sixth lower than written.) Melody and harmony parts are in treble clef, and bass parts in bass clef unless otherwise noted.