Review:
Optional handchimes (Db3 to Eb 6) add a special touch to this favorite carol arranged for 3-5 octaves. The opening simulates church bells tolling away the glad news in their towers. The peal quickens and the melody enters in the mid register on chimes. The tolling resumes after a statement of the tune and serves as a transition to a key change and a broad setting of the carol in full texture. The last section is a glad cacophony of sound as if all the bell towers in the world rang together.
Published by:
Beckenhorst Press, Inc.
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Composer:
Calkin, J.
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Arranger:
McChesney, K.
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Octaves:
3-5
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Level:
4+
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Rating:
Med Adv
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Copyright:
1997
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Season:
Christmas
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Voicing:
Handbells, No Choral
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Instrument:
Chimes(Choirchimes or Handchimes)
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Bells Used:
Three Octaves: 37 Bells; Four Octaves: 49 Bells; Five Octaves: 60 Bells
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