Product Description
2018 Holiday Contest Entry ![]()
Silent Night
Arranged for Flute
Quartet (or Choir) by Jenifer Aragon
Silent Night,
probably the best known Christmas melody, was composed in 1818
by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr in the small town of Oberndorf
bei Salzburg, Austria.
It was the arrangers objective in writing
this four verse set to bring the most beautiful harmonies and variations
possible to give something new and unusual to this tune. It works equally well as a performance piece
or as a piece where people can sing along.
The arrangement keeps interest with a variety of tonalities and
occasional dissonants which resolve into lovely harmonies.
The first verse starts with a lovely duet
between the first and second flutes joined by the Alto and Bass flutes with
chordal support. The second verse has
the first and second flutes conversing in a call and response. The lower instruments support with moving
harmonies. In the third verse, the first
flute plays a lovely descant over the traditional Silent Night melody and in the
fourth verse you hear a delicate obbligato played by the piccolo while the
lower flutes play the melody.
While the actual parts are two C flutes and
piccolo), Alto and Bass, the arranger has included transposed parts - Alto to C
flute, 2nd flute in lower register to expand to Flute Choir. It is suggested the Alto flute and Bass flute
parts be doubled to create maximum depth in the performance of this piece.
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