Advanced. The four pieces chosen here (The New Doll, Folk Song, Old French Song and Italian Song) are suitable to be arranged for a trio of instruments. These pieces are secular and a suitable contrast to the aequale and other 19th century trombone genres. The arrangements are relatively short and pitched so as not to over-tax the players lips. They also share around the thematic material giving interest to each part. Because of their relative brevity, several or all of them, could be played as a sequence in a performance. They are of intermediate difficulty, playable by reasonable amateurs, and could be used as section practice pieces during the inevitable hanging around that orchestral trombones often experience. Paul St John Smith