It Came Upon the Midnight Clear for Clarinet Quartet (arr. Vanessa Klassen) by Edmund Sears, Richard Storrs Willis Sheet Music for Woodwind Ensemble at Sheet Music Direct

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Title It Came Upon the Midnight Clear for Clarinet Quartet (arr. Vanessa Klassen)

Artist Edmund Sears, Richard Storrs Willis

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Edmund Sears, Richard Storrs Willis

Arranger Vanessa Klassen

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 10

Arrangement Woodwind Ensemble

Publisher Vanessa Klassen

Level 3

Product ID 1015317

Genre Christmas

Instruments Clarinet

Performance Group Woodwind Quartet

Product Description

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear is a poem written in 1849 by Edmund Sears, a pastor of the Unitarian Church in Wayland, Massachusetts. Contrasting with many Christmas songs, this poem describes a dark world full of "sin and strife," and looks forward to an "age of gold," when there will be true peace on Earth. In 1850, a student of Felix Mendelssohns, Richard Storrs Willis, composed the melody of the Christmas song which he called Carol. This is the common melody that the poem is sung to in North America, while other countries have adopted a different melody entitled Noël.

This arrangement is for clarinet quartet. Listening for balance is important as the melody is passed between the voices.

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