The trumpet repertoire consists of solo literature and orchestral or, more commonly, band parts written for the trumpet. Tracings its origins to 1500 BC, the trumpet is a musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family.
Among the repertoire for the trumpet are the following works:
Solo trumpet
Samuel Adler, Canto I, for B-flat or C trumpet
Louis Andriessen, A Very Sad Trumpet Sonata
Louis Andriessen, A Very Sharp Trumpet Sonata
Mark Applebaum, Authenticity
Mark Applebaum, Entre Funérailles I
Cecilia Arditto, Música Invisible, Libro IV, for flugelhorn and trumpet" Richard Ayres, No. 27 "Blue" Julian Azumi, Cardiogram Sven-Erik Bäck, March and Song Gerald Barry, Trumpeter Luciano Berio, Good night Lauren Bernofsky, Fantasia Lisa Bielawa, Synopsis #5: He Figures Out What Clouds Mean Harrison Birtwistle, Antiphonies from the Moonkeeper Harrison Birtwistle, Five Little Antiphonies for Amelia Daniel Börtz, Målning Howard J. Buss, A Day in the City, Commemoration Elliott Carter, Retracing III Aaron Cassidy, What then renders these forces visible is a strange smile (or, First Study for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion) Friedrich Cerha, The Pied Piper Nicolas Collins, Sonnet 40 Peter Maxwell Davies, Litany – for a Ruined Chapel between Sheep and Shore, for solo C trumpet Peter Maxwell Davies, Sonatina, for solo trumpet Lucia Dlugoszewski, Space Is a Diamond Axel Dörner, Clinamen Axel Dörner, Komposition für trompete-solo, No. 1 Axel Dörner, Komposition für trompete-solo, No. 2 Axel Dörner, marchugk Amy Dunker, Chet Amy Dunker, Cruise Control Amy Dunker, Distant Voices Amy Dunker, Hush! Amy Dunker, Improvisation on Raga Asvari Amy Dunker, Prelude-Doina Amy Dunker, Satchmo Anders Eliasson, Prelude Robert Erickson, Kryl, for solo C trumpet Ivan Fedele, High, for solo B-flat trumpet Morton Feldman, A Very Short Trumpet Piece Stanley Friedman, Solus Stanley Friedman, Poem for a Fallen Hero HK Gruber, Exposed Throat Anthony Halstead, Suite for solo trumpet or horn Robert Henderson, Variation Movements for trumpet solo Hans Werner Henze, Sonatina, for trumpet Åke Hermanson, Fanfare Hans Holewa, Little Fanfare Robin Holloway, Sonata for solo trumpet Adriana Hölszky, Projektion Adriana Hölszky, Weltenenden, for one or four brass players Tom Johnson, Tilework Betsy Jolas, Épisode troisième Mauricio Kagel, Old/New, for trumpet Mauricio Kagel, Morceau de Concours Laura Kaminsky, Elegy for the Silenced Voice Maurice Karkoff, Fanfare Fantasy, Op. 154 Otto Ketting, Intrada, for unnacompanied trumpet or horn Hanna Kulenty, Brass No. 1, for double bell trumpet Eres Holz, MACH, for B-flat trumpet (2011) Libby Larsen, Fanfare for the Women, for solo C trumpet Robert Hall Lewis, Monophony VII, for trumpet solo Ingvar Lidholm, Epigram György Ligeti, The Big Turtle-Fanfare from the South China Sea Liza Lim, Wild-Winged One Witold Lutosławski, Tune Miklós Maros, Fanfare Ron Mazurek, Dialogues Arne Mellnäs, The Unquestioned Answer (Hommage to Charles Ives) Dexter Morrill, Nine Pieces Jan W. Morthenson, Memory Isabel Mundry, Solo auf Schwellen, for double bell trumpet Sergiu Natra, Sonatina Olga Neuwirth, Laki, for solo C trumpet Per Nørgård, Scale – Fanfare – Variation Nigel Osborne, Flamingo Time-Line Martijn Padding, One Trumpet Vincent Persichetti, Parable XIV for Trumpet, Op.