SKU: H1.2326DP

Five Christmas carols Musically satisfying, yet easy to master technically, these five delightful carol settings will provide 2 and 3 octave ensembles with diverse offerings for the entire Christmas season. An added feature is that this volume is also a great budget stretcher - these five arrangements, if purchased separately, would cost about four times as much as purchasing them in this collection format.

SKU: C7.CGB1078

UPC: 749193028056.

This Christmas medley includes five carols (O Christmas Tree, What Child Is This, I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, Silent Night and Go Tell It on the Mountain) with optional piano and optional SATB voices. Each carol is arranged in a distinctive style, with contrasting use of mallets featured in two of the settings. German, as well as English texts are given for O Christmas Tree and Silent Night. A perfect choice to feature your ringers (and singers) for your Christmas worship service or concert.

SKU: C7.CGB1077

UPC: 749193027677.

This Christmas medley includes five carols (O Christmas Tree, What Child Is This, I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, Silent Night and Go Tell It on the Mountain) with optional piano and optional SATB voices. Each carol is arranged in a distinctive style, with contrasting use of mallets featured in two of the settings. German, as well as English texts are given for O Christmas Tree and Silent Night. A perfect choice to feature your ringers (and singers) for your Christmas worship service or concert.

SKU: A0.953730

The First Christmas is an 84 measure, 4-5 octave, handbell choir medley of the Christmas carols: The First Nowell, O Come, O Come Emmanuel, Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming, and Angels from the Realms of Glory Parts of O Come, O Come Emmanuel, and Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming are scored for OPTIONAL 3 octaves of handchimes, but handbells can be substituted, if desired. Those two carol selections are reserved, reverent, soft and slow, in contrast to the first and last selections, which are much more exuberant in nature. This medley varies in tempo, volume levels, and style, throughout. Towards the end, there are tolls (swings) and a shake. It includes a brief introduction and an extended half-timed ending. Occasionally, there are descant lines and bass runs. I believe that this would be a level 2+ (2 plus) arrangement. The MP3 audio file provided is in a piano voice (patch) but suffices to demonstrate how this arrangement is generally meant to sound.

SKU: A0.953722

Christmas Joy is a 3-4-5 octave, 58 measure, handbell choir arrangement, which is a medley of Christmas carols, including Joy to the World, O, Little Town of Bethlehem, a little bit of O Come, All Ye Faithful and the chorus to Hark! The Herald Angels Sing. I would guess that this arrangement is a level 2+ (2 plus) degree of difficulty, due primarily to the quick eighth-note bass runs in Hark! The Herald Angels Sing. It starts softly, then repeats the opening phrase (Joy to the World) twice, each time louder. The last time, which actually starts the carol, is loud and bold. This naturally contrasts with the next carol (O, Little Town of Bethlehem). The first line of O Come Let Us Adore Him forms a natural-sounding bridge to the enthusiastic chorus of Hark! The Herald Angels Sing. The very ending is half-timed, with tolls (swings). I think that this arrangement is probably a 2+ (2 plus) level of difficulty.

SKU: A0.1336956

Here is a last minute carol arrangement for my handbell choir. It features 3 straight forward traditional carols with an optional introduction and an optional flashy ending. It was written for a two-octave handbell choir. We played it with 6 ringers but you may need more or less for your group.
Robert.

SKU: A0.707927

The Cherry Tree Carol is a lovely part of English musical folklore. This particular version is based on the melody in John Stainer's Christmas Carols New and Old It is arranged for two octave handbells, tone chimes or hand chimes. It is at an 'easy' level, and is a little over one minute long. This is a reproducible product. This piece may be purchased for one performing group, and copies made for the members of that one performing group. Save money and space while allowing for more flexibility in annotating from year to year.

SKU: LX.20-1336L

ISBN 9780893280765. UPC: 000308104400.

From the pen of one of the most highly respected writers for the idiom comes this set of creative and musically captivating arrangements of familiar carol tunes. The music of Christmas is presented in diverse scorings, from a tender interpretation of Silent Night, to the resplendent strains of Ding! Dong! Merrily on High. These well-crafted expressions celebrating the joy and peace of the season will find countless programming opportunities in the sanctuary as well as on the concert stage.