Product Description
Your
Favorite Christmas Hymns and Carols for Brass, Book 1
Arranged
for brass by Colin Kirkpatrick
Heres
a brand new collection of best-loved Christmas hymns and carols arranged for
brass, to brighten up your next Christmas event. They are presented in a set of
two books and include full four-part instrumental scores plus parts for 1st B
flat trumpet, 2nd B flat trumpet, horn in F (with a separate optional part for
horn in E flat), trombone and/or tuba. The tuba part is also optional because
it either doubles the trombone part or plays an octave below. Both trombone and
tuba parts appear on a single staff in the bass clef at concert pitch. The
arrangements can be used with brass quartet, brass quintet or brass ensemble. Theres
also an optional but useful simplified keyboard part intended for less
experienced keyboard players. The left hand plays only the bass part most of
the time, with the right hand part kept as simple as possible. It could be used
as the basis of an accompaniment which means that you can use the arrangements
as solos, duets or trios.
The
arrangements are intended either as stand-alone pieces that could be used as
interludes in a concert or service, or they could be used to accompany solo,
choral or congregational singing. The arrangements been written in
brass-friendly keys as often as possible. While the hymns mostly use the
traditional harmonies, the carols have been treated more freely.
Book 1 includes the
following 19 titles: Angels from the Realms of Glory (Melody: Gloria); Away
in a Manger (Melody: Mueller); Unto Us a Child Is Born (Melody: Puer
Nobis); Christians Awake! (Melody: Yorkshire); Deck the Halls with
Boughs of Holly (Melody: Nos Galan); Go Tell it on the Mountain; Good
Christian Men, Rejoice (Melody: In Dulci Jubilo); Good King Wenceslas
(Melody: Tempus Adest Floridum); I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In; It
Came Upon the Midnight Clear (Melody: Carol); Little Jesus, Sweetly Sleep
(Melody: Rocking); O Christmas Tree (Melody: Tannenbaum); O Come all
ye Faithful (Melody: Adeste Fidelis); O Little Town of Bethlehem
(Melody: Saint Louis); O Holy Night (Melody: Cantique Noël); Silent
Night (Melody: Stille Nacht); The Holly and the Ivy; We Wish You
a Merry Christmas and What Child is This? (Melody: Greensleeves)
The audio samples
include Go Tell it on the Mountain; O Christmas Tree; O Holy
Night and Silent Night. Please note that the arrangements are usually
not usually compatible with the string collection of the same name.
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.