Category: Christmas Music Composer / arranger: James Curnow
Based on "Ding Dong Merrily on High".
PROGRAM NOTE: The sound of bells at Christmas is an indigenous part of the festive season. Bells in church steeples, on street corners, in department stores and even on Christmas trees seem to represent the joy and spirit that prevails throughout the holidays. Christmas Carillon portrays the excitement of the arrival of the Christ-child, as angels sang, shepherds watched and surely, bells must have rung! The traditional carol Ding! Dong! Merrily on High is featured along with the clanging and ringing in, of the festive season. Ding! Dong! Merrily on High in heav’n the bells are ringing, Ding! Dong! Verily the sky is riv’n with angel singing. Gloria, Hosanna in excelsis!
NOTE TO THE CONDUCTOR: Jubiloso (joyously) is the directive that sets the tone for this bright and energetic opener. Since the tempo is not extremely fast, an extremely detached approach to the staccato quarter note ostinato will be crucial to the success of this piece. There are many contrasting styles including legato, staccato and marcato and many fast paced dynamic changes. Careful attention to these details will help to give the piece the characteristic flare and buoyancy required.
There are three verse and chorus presentations at measures 5, 27 and 59, with a grand finale at measure 83. The developmental interlude from measure 39-59 is based on several short phrases of the melody. Each of these motifs must be projected above the ensemble when they appear.
34 Carols in March Card size, can be played by any size of band. (Laminated )
Contents as follows:-
1. Away In A Manger 2. Hark The Herald Angels Sing 3. In The Bleak Mid Winter 4. Once In Royal David's City 5. O Come All Ye Faithful 6. See Amid The Winter's Snow 7. Silent Night 8. The First Nowell 9. Mary's Boy Child 10. Good Christian Men Rejoice 11. Joy To The World 12. The Sussex Carol 13. Unto Us A Boy Is Born 14. The Coventry Carol 15. It Came Upon A Midnight Clear 16. When A Child Is Born 17. Hail Smiling Morn 18. Angels From The Realms Of Glory 19. As With Gladness Men Of Old 20. Christians Awake 21. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 22. O Little Town Of Bethlehem 23. the Holly and The Ivy 24. Shile Shepherds Watched Their Flocks 25. We Wish You a Merry Christmas 26. Good King Wenceslas 27. Calypso Carol 28. Come and Join The Celebration 29. Her We Come a Wassailing 30. The Rocking Carol 31. Brightest and Best 32. We 3 Kings Of Orient Are 33. Ding Dong Merrily 34. Jingle Bells
The First Nowell;Good King Wenceslass; God Rest Ye Merry; It Came Upon A Midnight Clear; One In Royal David's City; Good Christian Men Rejoice; Here We Come A Wassailing; The Old 100th.; A Guid New Year.
A Christmas Cassatton opens festively with fragments of carols tossed around the hand against swirling comets. this is then followed by a slower section featuring flugel and trombones on the carol The Infant King. This is taken up by the full hand before the music moves into a scherzando section based on The Holly and the Ivy and Past Three O’clock, sometimes heard separately. sometimes together. The opening music returns and the piece ends as it began. festively. Suitable for all grades of hand.
Including: The Twelve Days of Christmas, See Amid The Winter Snow, Deck The Halls, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Coventry Carol, Masters In The Hall, Gloria In Excelsis Deo and We Wish You A Merry Christmas
Difficulty: C
Duration: 3m28s
Please note this publisher describes difficulty as follows:
The Christmas season presents many wonderful occasions for celebrating the birth of Christ. From magnificent cathedrals to the ensemble on the street corner, instrumental settings of the great carols play a very important part in this celebration.
A CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION is a collection of sacred carols designed to be used by just about every instrumental ensemble imaginable including quartets and quintets of mixed instruments to full orchestras, wind bands, or brass bands.
Basically four part harmony - so this set can be used by a quartet, but will work equally well with a full brass band. Additionally, there are descant melodic lines and percussion parts. If you can't always use a full brass band for whatever reason - this is a great Christmas selection to use.
It is the desire of this composer that this collection will help to edify the saint, attract the non-believer and most of all, glorify the Creator.
A CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION contains the following carols:
1. Fanfare Prelude on “0 Come, All Ye Faithful. 3:00 2. Coventry Carol. 2:05 3. Good Christian Men Rejoice. 1:40 4. Christmas Lullaby (based on Greensleeves: “What Child is This?’). 3:05 5. Polish Carol. 2:10 6. O Come, Immanuel. 2:45 7. In The Bleak Mid-Winter. 2:50 Christmas Bells (Carol of the Bells and Come, All Ye Shepherds). 1:40
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