Instrumentation : SATB a cappella The Kikapust Choral Series offers choirs an extensive choice of close-harmony a cappella arrangements. All of our arrangers / composers - Jonathan Rathbone, Ben Parry & Mark Williams - were long-standing members of the Swingle Singers. Content : Deck the Halls; I Saw Three Ships; We Wish You a Merry Christmas; The Holly and the Ivy; The First Nowell; Past 3 O'Clock Duration : 3 min
SKU: LO.15-3342H
ISBN 9780787731977.
This concise arrangement seamlessly strings together six carol favorites, featuring various twists on meter and style while maintaining accessibility. It is perfect as a festive opener or closer that audiences and singers will love. (The sample recording for this piece is the Three-part Mixed voicing.).
SKU: LO.15-3357H
ISBN 9780787733858.
Spice up your Christmas or holiday program with something truly unique...a medley with as many familiar carols and traditional holiday songs as one choir can sing in about three minutes (twenty-three carol/song quotations included)! Program notes outline additional creative staging possibilities for this entertainingly effective closer or encore. (The sample recording for this piece is the SSAB voicing.).
SKU: JK.01830
Lively Christmas medley arranged for mixed chorus (SATB), combining an original Christmas carol He Is Born, the Divine Christ Child with Lo, How a Rose E're Blooming, in E flat major. Soprano high note: F. Composer: Rob Millett Arranger: Rob Millett Lyricist: Rob Millett Difficulty: Medium Performance time: ~5:23Reference: Isaiah 9:6, Luke 2:7-19, Matthew 2:1-2.
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.
