Composed by English Carol circa 1780. Arranged by Tito Abeleda. Christmas,Hip-Hop. Octavo. 117 pages. Visionary Quest Records #4764463. Published by Visionary Quest Records (A0.984532).
Drum Set, Voice, SATB, SAB, TTBB, Tubular Chimes - Intermediate - Digital Download Male Rap Soloist, SSTB, TTBB, Studio Drum Set, Chimes. Female Beat-box option, Male Beat-box option.
I wanted to add some fun and swag to an old Christmas Carol Classic. So, I composed this new re-imagined rendition of the 12 Days of Christmas as a Holiday Hip-Hop Rap choral piece. This is a new dope hip-hop arrangement of the 1780 English Carol Christmas Carol 12 Days of Christmas. It has been modified completely in style, genre, instrumentation, and presentation. Musically, it has also been arranged completely as a hip-hop rap song with appropriate clean urban flavor with solo rap, choral rap support and audience participation with claps and stomps done by audience and choral members, plus rhythm supplied by drum set with deep hip-hop rhythm, plus female beat-box, and male beat-box musical options included if choral director chooses to add that additional hip-hop flavor, plus tubular chime instrument used throughout to provide haunting holiday hip-hop flavor on the DL. The lyrics are clean and suitable for high school choral groups. Additional support lyrics are added to support rap soloist. The tempo and style have been changed to Cool Swag with quarter = 110. Overall, this is a new fun re-imagined rendition of an old classic that high school students and their audiences should also find quite enjoyable. Choreographer should also find this to be a refreshing new project to choreograph.
