Name: Fantasia on God Rest You Merry - SATB by Phil Beaman SATB Choir Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Phil Beaman
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Fantasia on God Rest You Merry - SATB
by Phil Beaman SATB Choir - Digital Sheet Music

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Title Fantasia on God Rest You Merry - SATB

Artist Phil Beaman

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Phil Beaman

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 8

Arrangement SATB Choir

Publisher Phil Beaman

Level 4

Product ID 940722

Genre Christmas Sacred Jazz A Cappella Contemporary

Instruments Choir

Product Description

For this Christmas here is a dramatic a capella piece that is a Fantasia based on the old English carol God Rest You Merry Gentlemen. It is an eclectic fusion of Classical music and 1950's Free Jazz and West Indian/Caribbean rhythms with exuberance and pulse. It is in verse-refrain form, but is very freely treated and each of the four verses is wholly unique while expressing, and sometimes expanding upon, each word. There is no Time Signature and thus irregular measures which change every few bars which would utilize 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, and 7/4, but always maintains a strong pulse. It contains abrupt changes in dynamics and a rubato tempo. This is a challenging work with dynamic results.
8 pages (I have only printed the refrain once (after the first verse) and it is repeated the same after every verse. If I inserted it after each verse this would have been a 19 page score to print. Best to just memorize the short catchy refrain.)
4:45 minutes
I originally wrote this as an a capella piece. Years later I also transcribed it for Instrumental Quartet. If you do not wish to do this piece a capella there are 15 different Instrument Quartet combinations also published on this site which double the four voice parts and are all in the same concert key and can be used as accompaniment.
The recording attached is of the Brass Quartet version which exactly doubles the SATB voices so that you can get an idea of the rhythms and harmonies.

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