Matériel : Vocal Score
A practical holiday collection for the developing male chorus. Includes: Blue Christmas Deck the Hall Go Tell It On the Mountain A Holly Jolly Christmas I'll Be Home for Christmas. Available: TB/TTB ShowTrax Cassette. Performance Time: Approx. 11:55.
SKU: WD.080689316586
UPC: 080689316586.
On the heels of two best-selling instrumental solo books, Contemporary Praise and Contemporary Hymns, comes Contemporary Christmas, a unique collection of popular Christmas carols and songs written specifically for each family of instruments. The Brass book contains solo pages for Trumpet, Trombone, French Horn and Euphonium. The Woodwind/String book contains solo pages for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Alto and Tenor Saxophone, Violin, Viola and Cello. The book also includes piano accompaniment as well as CD Trax to use during performances or for listening enjoyment.
SKU: BT.EMBZ15121
English-Hungarian.
The piece was written originally for equal voice choir in 1929. A mixed-choir adaptation was made in 1961 at the request of Oxford University Press. This appeared in print in the same year with an English text under the title A Christmas Carol in a collection of Christmas songs, as well as in a separate print. The musical material of the mixed-choir version largely follows the original. There is one essential difference in verse 5, beginning at bar 35 ( Babe all holy ) where the tenor solo appears with a delightful eight-bar countermelody not found in the original. Since this version only appeared in Kodály s lifetime with an English text, this has been retained, but we havealso provided the original Hungarian text upon which the equal voice version is based. Zoltán Kodály s complete choral works for mixed voices were published in a new, extended, edition in 2018 (Z. 6725 and Z. 6725A). This volume containing 51 compositions has been edited by the renowned conductor Péter Erdei, one of the most devoted interpreters of Kodály s choral works. The new edition takes into consideration the manuscript sources for the compositions housed in the Kodály Archives in Budapest. The publication features new, easily-legible music scores edited on uniform principles. For better readability, the new edition is printed in a slightly larger format than previous editions.The present publication is an offprint from the renewed edition of Kodály s complete choral works for mixed voices. It has the same format as the volume, and has been printed on excellent-quality pale-yellow paper.
SKU: PR.UE038023
UPC: 803452072836.
Somet hing quite a bit different from the usual Christmas program fare, Bartok's collection of Romanian Christmas Carols springs from his lifelong fascination with folk music of the region. Bartok arranged several of these folk songs for the Christmas season into his original piano solos (UE005890), and van Zoelen has faithfully transcribed this into saxophone quartet. Series II presents ten folks tunes performed as a seamless whole. (Series I is available as UE037115.).
SKU: CF.CM9756
ISBN 9781491162446. UPC: 680160921195. Key: E minor. Latin, English.
Personent Hodie is a medieval Christmas carol from the larger work Piae Cantiones—a published collection of songs intended for cathedral schools in 16th century Finland. The original tune uses modality and plainchant to evoke the mysterious character of Christmastide.This rhythmic setting of Personent Hodie expresses the tune in compound meter, resulting in a joyful energy. The optional hand drum and finger cymbals complement the melody with an exciting, dance-like pulse.“Ideo, gloria in excelsis Deo!â€Therefore, glory be in the highest to God!Ideas for study and reflection: How might word stress be used to enhance overall musicality? What syllables should be stressed vs. unstressed? What dynamic markings are indicted in the score, and where do they occur? Listen to a recording of the original “Personent Hodie†written in 4/4 time. How are the two settings different? .
