Cherry Classics Psalm 1 - Schutz/Fetter - 4 Pt Trombone Ensemble & Organ or Brass Quintet - Score/Parts

Composer: Heinrich Schutz
Arranger: David Fetter
Format: Score and Parts
Instrumentation: Four Part Trombone Ensemble & Organ or Brass Quintet

Psalm 1 by Heinrich Schutz (1585-1672), is taken from his collection of choral settings of several of the biblical Psalms of David, in which Schutz continued the polychoral tradition he had absorbed in Venice as a student of Giovanni Gabrieli. Schutz indicated in his preface to the Psalms, published in 1619, that due to limits on performance during the Thirty Years War, alternate instruments or voices could be employed as available. As Psalm 1 was composed for two choirs of voices, it might be an attractive option to double the parts in this version for Brass. Also, the choirs might be placed some distance apart. The original version of Psalm I is for two four-part choirs, one of mixed voices and one of Tenors and Basses. (The original also calls for continuo accompaniment, but, as in similar works of Gabrieli, the choral parts sound complete in themselves.)

Composer/arranger David Fetter (b. 1938) is a Trombone faculty member at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Also a conductor, his works are performed in concert, at festivals, and in educational settings in the U.S. and Europe and they have been recorded by leading soloists.