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Dragon's Breath │ Brass Quintet │ Dr. Daniel Thrower

Sheet music is available here: https://gildedmusicpress.com/GMP-3056... Dragon’s Breath, Op. 139 for brass quintet was composed to celebrate Giddings Mouthpieces' 20th anniversary of making stainless steel mouthpieces, on which I played for much of my Air Force career. The piece is fiery, not terribly long, colorful, rhythmic, spontaneous while still being musical, and heroic—a “presentation letter” to be the first piece of a concert. The evocative title "Dragon’s Breath" comes from a heat treatment that Giddings uses on some of his mouthpieces. It is a title fitting of a fiery piece! Especially in light of my family moving to Japan during the compositional process, the title is also autobiographical with dragons being a prevalent theme throughout Asian countries. Parts for trumpets in C and B-flat are available, though the parts lay much more comfortably on C trumpets than on B-flat. The technical requirements of all five parts present delightful challenges and weave a complex furor throughout the piece, even when underlying the lyrical, albeit turbulent, melodies. Story line and imagery are left to the hearer’s imagination based on everything the title may invoke.