String Quartet - Grade 3 - Digital Download

SKU: DX.169418

Composed by Charles Wesley. Arranged by Dana F. Everson. Sacred instrumental music. Sheet Music. Traditional. Score and parts. 16 pages. David E. Smith - Digital Sheet Music #169418. Published by David E. Smith - Digital Sheet Music (DX.169418).

This is a traditional string quartet with optional third violin. The melodic material is passed through the various ensemble parts and the textures vary greatly with even a brief fughetta section.

String Quartet String Quartet - Digital Download

SKU: A0.734335

Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn. Arranged by Dennis Ruello. Christian,Christmas,Jazz. Score and parts. 11 pages. Chicory Music #2946001. Published by Chicory Music (A0.734335).

HARK! THE HERALD ANGELS SING - String Orchestra / String Quartet - Intermediate

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing is a Christmas carol that first appeared in 1739 in the collection Hymns and Sacred Poems, having been written by Charles Wesley. Wesley had requested and received slow and solemn music for his lyrics, not the joyful tune expected today. Moreover, Wesley's original opening couplet is Hark! how all the welkin rings / Glory to the King of Kings.[1]

The popular version is the result of alterations by various hands, notably by Wesley's co-worker George Whitefield who changed the opening couplet to the familiar one, and by Felix Mendelssohn. In 1840, a hundred years after the publication of Hymns and Sacred Poems, Mendelssohn composed a cantata to commemorate Johann Gutenberg's invention of the printing press, and it is music from this cantata, adapted by the English musician William H. Cummings to fit the lyrics of Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, that propels the carol known today.

This arrangement, in the string friendly key of G concert, can be preformed as a quartet with or without the optional acoustic bass and drum set parts. It may be performed as a string orchestra with all the string parts plus or minus the drum set part. Your performers and audience will enjoy the modern harmonies used in this presentation. Performance time approx. 2 minutes 6 seconds.

String quartet - Grade 2.75 - Digital Download

SKU: DX.169423

Composed by Charles Wesley. Arranged by Dana F. Everson. Christmas. Sheet Music. Sacred instrumental music. Score and parts. 16 pages. David E. Smith - Digital Sheet Music #169423. Published by David E. Smith - Digital Sheet Music (DX.169423).

A string quartet with optional violin for viola. After a full ensemble introduction the piece gives way to a duet in the viola and cello. With the violins entering one at a time the piece now becomes full with all parts present gravitating to motivic development moving to a modulation. The next section gives the tune to the cello with the upper lines adding punctuated accompanied figures. The next section uses motivic patterns while passing portions of the tune to the various players. A modulation- then the parts become increasingly more active in a variation style. With a solid ensemble altering the melody; a brake; then, repose.

Key of G, C, D.