Review:
Clarion Call is a big, bold piece suitable for concerts, festivals, and worship services. The opening music sounds the “clarion call” with energetic, fanfare-like music. The middle section is propelled by a drum-like mallet accompaniment in the bass bells, while a variety of handbell articulations occur throughout the rest of the ensemble. This section provides a great opportunity for teaching and practicing mallets, thumb damps, marts and mart-lifts. The opening music returns to bring this composition to a rousing conclusion.
Published by:
Choristers Guild
|
Composer:
Joy, Michael W.
|
Arranger:
N/A
|
Octaves:
3-5
|
Level:
2+
|
Rating:
Easy Medium
|
Copyright:
2014
|
| |
|
Season:
All Year
|
|
Classification:
Church or Concert
, Secular
, Original Composition
, Concert
|
|
Technique:
Mallet
, TD (Thumb Damp)
, Echo
, Martellato Lift
, Sk (Shake)
, LV (Let Vibrate)
, Martellato
, Mallet Lift
, Damp Sign
|
|
Voicing:
Handbells, No Choral
|
|
Bells Used:
Three Octaves: 37 Bells; Four Octaves: 48 Bells; Five Octaves: 57 Bells
|
|