Frère Jacques

Traditional (French)

For trumpet and piano

Written in D major, range A3 to B4

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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