Name: California Girls (arr. Ray Thompson) by The Beach Boys Woodwind Ensemble Digital Sheet Music
Brand: RayThompsonMusic
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California Girls (arr. Ray Thompson)
by The Beach Boys Woodwind Quintet - Digital Sheet Music

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Product Details

Title California Girls (arr. Ray Thompson)

Artist The Beach Boys

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Brian Wilson Mike Love

Arranger Ray Thompson

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 9

Arrangement Woodwind Ensemble

Publisher RayThompsonMusic

Level 3

Product ID 583409

Genre Pop Rock

Instruments Clarinet

Performance Group Woodwind Quintet

Product Description

California Girls
This is a song written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love for the American rock band, the Beach Boys featured on their 1965 album Summer Days. Wilson conceived the song during his first acid trip, later arranging and producing the song's recording. Upon its release as a single, "California Girls" reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The song is considered emblematic of the 1960s Californian Sound.
It is arranged for clarinet quintet of 3 clarinets, alto and bass.( A clarinet 4 part is provided as an alternative to the alto clarinet part.) I have transposed the piece into Eb, a less problematic key, for playing the bass riff, which is shared amongst the 3 lower instruments. The melody is shared amongst the 4 upper instruments, and I have given interesting harmony parts to the others, rather than following the melodic line. Hope you enjoy it.
Check out my other Beach Boy's arrangements : God only Knows for clarinet quartet and wind quintet.

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