SKU: A0.784311

This classic ballad, sung first by Bing Crosby and then reprised by Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Trudy Stevens in the movie White Christmas, is now available in an easily accessible setting for brass quintet. Feature your trombone player in an arrangement that is sure to please audiences of all ages.

As performed by the Brass Arts Quintet at Tennessee Tech University. Look for our other selections from the movie White Christmas including Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep, featuring the horn, and Sisters, featuring both trumpets.

 https://youtu.be/Q8Ro3fcQyAk

SKU: A0.518935

5 Part A Cappella SATBB arrangement of Irving Berlin's White Christmas. Originally Performed by New Recording 47, a Singaporean A Cappella Group. Find us at @newrecording47 on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook and Tiktok!

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This arrangement of White Christmas is written for solo guitar and may be performed on an electric guitar, steel string acoustic, or nylon string guitar.  It is written in both standard notation with chord symbols as well as tablature.

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Get your Christmas shopping started with this arrangement for Alto voice and Big Band. One of the best selling songs of all-time. Irving Berlin, according to many stories, wrote this at the La Quinta Hotel. This arrangement embraces that idea and sets this with a Cuban bolero/cha-cha feel. Berlin said of this tune, Not only is it the best song I ever wrote, it's the best song anybody ever wrote.

Jazz Big Band 5444 (Vocal [key of Bb]; 2 Alto Saxophones; 2 Tenor Saxophones; Baritone Saxophone; 4 Trumpets; 3 Trombones; Bass Trombone; Guitar; Piano; Bass; Drums). Arranged by Bert Ligon for and Performed by South Carolina Masterworks Ensemble.

 

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For SAT or SABar choir a cappella (no divisi). A reharmonised arrangement of a Christmas classic. Ranges: sopranos C#4-G5, altos A3-C#5, tenors/baritones C#3-E4. (Could easily be performed a tone lower, but the bright high register is effective if your choir is comfortable with it.).

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CHORUS PRICING. Price is per copy. Quartet pricing is available separately. Women's Barbershop, SSAA a cappella As performed by The Drifters This arrangement is cleared in Sweet Adelines International Song Evaluation database Learning tracks for this arrangement are available for sale by Kim Newcomb.

SKU: A0.784308

This classic ballad, sung by Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney in the movie White Christmas, is now available in an easily accessible setting for brass quintet. Feature your horn player in an arrangement that is sure to please audiences of all ages.

This works best when you have flugelhorns on both the trumpet 1 and 2 parts, but it can be played with trumpets.

As performed by the Brass Arts Quintet at Tennessee Tech University. Look for our other selections from the movie White Christmas including White Christmas, featuring the trombone, and Sisters, featuring both trumpets.

https://youtu.be/CoYyJnwL-a8

SKU: A0.548494

Silent Night arranged for Viola & Piano with new harmony for the final verse. Score: 2 pg. Part: 1 pg.

Silent Night

Origins

Father Joseph Mohr wrote the lyrics for a new Christmas Carol. He wanted the new carol for his Christmas Eve Mass. With only a couple of hours until the service, He asked organist and schoolteacher Franz Gruber to write a melody and simple accompaniment to go with the lyrics. The result is probably the most famous of all Christmas carols – Silent Night.

First Performance

Perhaps because the organ was undergoing repairs, or to make sure the accompaniment was easy enough, Mohr asked Gruber to write it for the guitar. Mohr played the guitar, and both Mohr and Gruber gave the world premiere performance at the Christmas Eve Mass in 1818 at St. Nicholas Church in Oberndorf in Salzburg.

Original Score

Eventually, the original score became lost, and consequently, Mohr's name was largely forgotten.  Though the public originally recognized Gruber as the composer, many people over time began rumors that a more famous composer was responsible. Thus, they floated the names of Haydn, Mozart, and even Beethoven. Authorities eventually settled the matter when a manuscript in Mohr’s handwriting turned up in 1820. Consequently, we learn that Mohr wrote the lyrics in 1816, and Gruber composed the melody in 1818.

Popularity

Nonetheless, Silent Night is still very popular. Singers have performed this song in nearly every genre and in multiple languages. Perhaps the most famous version is the one Bing Crosby crafted. This version is the third best-selling physical single recording in the history of recorded music. This particular recording was released in 1935 and sold at least 30 million copies.

Only two songs have ever sold more. Elton John released Candle in the Wind in 1997 and sold 33 million copies. The record for most copies ever sold goes to Bing Crosby. He released White Christmas in 1942 and sold 50 million physical copies.

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