Frère Jacques

Traditional (French)

For trombone and piano

In F major, range C3 to D4

A sleepy friar is told to wake up and ring the morning bells, the singers calling him one voice after another, a round Gustav Mahler later turned into a slow minor-key funeral march in his First Symphony; the piano part is Charles-Marie Widor’s, from 1883.

Also as a duet for two tubas

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