Clarinet Quartet,Woodwind Ensemble Bass Clarinet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.553942 Composed by Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Arranged by Ray Thompson. Baroque,Christmas,Renaissance. 29 pages. RayThompsonMusic #6287543. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.553942). Charpentier wrote a lot of music for Christmas: oratorios on Christmas themes, pastorals, noels, and a lovely Midnight Mass for Christmas.He arranged a lot of French Christmas Carols (Noels) as 2 suites _ Noels sur les instruments and Noels pour les instruments for a string orchestra and 2 flutes/recorders.This is my transcription of the Noëls sur les instruments for standard clarinet quartet. (2 Bb, alto and bass) (Alternative clt 3 in Bb provided for alto part)They are 6 pieces :Les Bourgeois de Chastre (The Townsfolk of Chastre) Où s'en vont ces gais bergers (Where have the merry shepherds gone?) Joseph est bien marié (Joseph is well married) Or nous dites Marie (But, tell us Mary) A la venue de Noël (With the coming of Christmas) Une jeune pucelle (A young virgin girl)This is purely the order they are shown in his manuscript.They appear in his Midnight Mass in the following order:(This follows the Christmas Story)Joseph est bien marié (Joseph is well married)Or nous dites Marie (But, tell us Mary)Une jeune pucelle (A young virgin girl)Les Bourgeois de Chastre (The Townsfolk of Chastre) Où s'en vont ces gais bergers (Where have the merry shepherds gone?)A la venue de Noël (With the coming of Christmas)

Clarinet Quartet,Woodwind Ensemble Bass Clarinet - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1422398 Composed by F-J. Gossec (1734-1829). Arranged by RUSSELL T. KING. Chamber,Classical,Contest,Festival. 9 pages. EMK Music #1003740. Published by EMK Music (A0.1422398). Performance time: 2.27 This piece is excellent for practising ensemble skills as well as for filling that small gap in your program with something light and entertaining. You can use as much rubato as you like.François-Joseph Gossec (1734 – 1829) was a French composer of operas, string quartets, symphonies, and choral works. His Gavotte, from his opera Rosine, ou L'épouse abandonnée (1786), remains familiar in popular culture because Carl Stalling and Charles M. Jones used arrangements of it in several Warner Brothers cartoons. Arguably the most notable of these is Porky Pig's dance to an uncredited version of Gossec's Gavotte in Jones’ Porky's Cafe (1942). (Wikipedia).