Format : Vocal Score
Medley-Here's an easy swingy 4-minute medley of three favorite carols in a fresh contemporary style that will add sparkle to any Christmas program! Great for pop jazz and concert choirs it includes: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen;What Child Is This ; Deck the Hall. Available separately: SATB SAB 2-Part ShowTrax CD. Combo parts available as a digital download (tpt 1 tpt 2 tsx bsx tbn syn gtr b dm). Duration: ca. 3:40.
SKU: BR.CHB-5381-00
ISBN 9790004413821. 7.5 x 10.5 inches. English.
As director of the Bavarian Radio Choir, Howard Arman has been actively engaged with international Christmas carols through various Christmas-related CD productions in the past years. This has resulted in a number of original arrangements for four- to eight-part mixed choir a cappella, shedding new light on well-known classics such as O du frohliche [O, you joyful], Stille Nacht [Silent Night] and Lasst uns froh und munter sein [Let us be happy and cheerful]. The first volume includes five Christmas carols from the German-speaking regions. They range from simple but harmonically intriguing settings such as Lieb Nachtigall, wach auf [Dear nightingale, wake up] to eight-part sound paintings with bell-like chimes as in O du frohliche and classical double choir settings such as Resonet in laudibus. The second volume includes five Christmas spirituals with English texts, forming a contrast to the solemn and festive character of the first. The choir can prove its swing and jazz qualities here; the stirring arrangements are a gain for classical Christmas concerts, too. Following the tradition of the spiritual, some settings also require soloists, which can, however, also be recruited from the choir if adequate singers are available. The first piece combines the spirituals It's a Birthday and Wasn't That a Mighty Day to form a medley, Ain't That a Rockin' gives a moment of tranquility before the likewise rousing spirituals Mary Had a Baby and Little David conclude the volume. In both volumes, Howard Arman provides a short preface in German and English, explaining the background of each piece and giving advice on performance.
SKU: BR.CHB-5380-00
ISBN 9790004413814. 7.5 x 10.5 inches. German / Latin.
SKU: OU.9780193530058
ISBN 9780193530058.
For SATB and piano or organ or orchestra This sprightly setting of a sixteenth-century English text tells the tale of a jolly shepherd named Wat. With an upbeat triple metre and a joyful swing feel, this carol has imaginative, contrasting textures, a memorable refrain, and a rousing finish.
SKU: OU.9780193530065
ISBN 9780193530065. 12 x 9 inches.
