iJingle Jingle
by Steve Kupferschmid
Choir - Sheet Music

Choral vocal duet, piano

SKU: CF.BL938

Arranged by Steve Kupferschmid. Fold. Octavo. With Standard notation. 8 pages. Duration 2 minutes, 9 seconds. BriLee Music #BL938. Published by BriLee Music (CF.BL938).

ISBN 9781491145272. UPC: 680160902774. 6.875 x 10.5 inches. Key: F major. James Lord Pierpont (1822-1893).

This arrangement is designed for the young students to sing at their very first holiday concert and it includes the popular tunes Jingle Bells and Beethoven's Ode to Joy. What makes this piece unique is that it incorporates audience participation by inviting them to shake their cell phones while the choir is singing, using any of the free sleigh bell apps. This is going to be pure fun for your students and audience and one of the most talked about arrangements of the coming holiday concert season.
The idea for this arrangement of "Jingle Bells" came from my fellow composer and arranger Larry Clark, whose very successful iJingle for beginning concert band was published in 2015. What a great idea, for students to make the sound of sleigh bells with their cell phones and allowing for audience members to participate in the performance too! Although this choral adaptation cannot be performed with the concert band version, it has some humorous words to make it special for young choirs. Your singers will need to download a free sleigh bells app. It is important to try to find one that works in tempo with the music. Some of them have a slight delay and therefore are not as useful for this piece. Larry Clark tested many of them, and these are the ones that seemed to work the best: iPhone – Apple App Store; Android – Google Play Store; Santa Sleigh Christmas Bells 3D Sleigh Bells Ring Christmas Jingle Bells. In addition to Jingle Bells, your students will have an opportunity to sing the melody of Beethoven’s "Ode to Joy" while phrases of Deck the Hall are played by the piano.Have some jingle bell fun singing this! S.K.