Come, Ye Thankful People, Come

Four Plus Brass Series- for two Trumpets and two Trombones (with opt. Horn and Tuba for color). With excited anticipation the piece breaks forth with imitative motives until it settles down to the first statement of the theme. It continues in a rather straight forward manner with constant interplay of the parts. It gains strength and progresses through various harmonic stages until it relaxes to a softer, slower statement of the theme in the trombones. The final section is reminiscent of the earlier theme until in relaxes into a final statement.