This exercise booklet presumes that your choir is above the beginning ringing level. It is designed to be used in “coordination” with regular rehearsal plans and may be used to isolate particular ringing problems presented by your present repertoire. Further help, goals and suggestions are given. Eight pages in length.
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A text for the beginning ringer/director. The Ringer's edition is illustrated and has exercises as well as pieces to learn technique. The Director's supplement does not give direction as to use of Ringer's edition but discusses the director and his role.
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A lyric middle section is surrounded by rhythmically exciting sections. Modal. Multiple ringing techniques are used in this sparkling music.
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Three Christmas carols are included in this simple arrangement. A passage of original material in peal-like fashion introduces the first tune and is also used as transition material between tunes and as a final statement to the piece of seventy-eight measures. Includes: Joy to the World • Hark! The Herald Angels Sing • O Come, All Ye Faithful.
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Includes: The Ballad of Davy Crockett • The Bare Necessities • Chim Chim Cher-ee • A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes • It's a Small World • Mickey Mouse March • The Siamese Cat Song • A Spoonful of Sugar • Stay Awake • Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
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With a strong beginning written idiomatically for bells and the abundance of tall, rich chords, Linda Lamb offers your ringers a very accessible, fun arrangement of the well-known hymn tune, LASST UNS ERFREUEN, often sung to the hymn, All Creatures of Our God and King. Linda makes frequent use of scalar passages and echo ring in this level one setting.
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Veteran writer Dan Edwards gives us a strong medley of Palm Sunday hymn tunes, including “Hosanna, Loud Hosanna” and “All Glory, Laud and Honor.” The thick texture and diatonic nature of this piece will help assure solid, confident ringing with your choir.
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Good use of bells in all octaves. Very chordal and no complicated rhythms.
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“Christ, the Lord, Is Risen Today,” and “Crown Him with Many Crowns” are the two Easter hymns included in this folio for bells and Bb trumpet (the trumpet score is included). The excitement is enhanced by use of martellato lifts, shakes, and fortissimo dynamic in the bells. Chordal structure exists throughout all 59 measures.
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A festive processional for holidays and other services of joy, dedication and tribute. Excellent as prelude or postlude. Brass ensemble is two trumpets, two trombones and tuba.
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Multiple techniques are applied to this “big” sounding arrangement of the favorite Easter hymn. The tempo marking is quarter=88. Dynamics are limited to mezzo-forte and forte. The melody is embellished by inserting transitional music between melody phrases and the work is sixty measures in length.
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This is a jig-like setting of O Waly Waly by Gregg L. Brandon for handbells, 2 C instruments and finger cymbals. Gregg includes a new countermelody to complement the familiar folk tune often associated with The Water Is Wide or The Gift of Love.
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Don't overlook this lovely, melodic handbell piece. Very useful in many different settings.
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See how many American folk tunes your audience can identify in this fantasy sub-titled, “Melodies of Our Heritage.” Tunes include: America • Turkey in the Straw • Carry Me Back to Old Virginny • Yellow Rose of Texas • My Old Kentucky Home • I've Been Working on the Railroad • Dinah • Aura Lee • Take Me Out to the Ball Game • Taps • Down By the Old Mill Stream • Old MacDonald • Row Row Row Your Boat • When the Saints Go Marching In. A fun addition to any concert, this work is 243 measures and is set in C Major and A-flat Major.
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This fun Christmas medley is full of lightening fast, rhythmically intense challenges for your choir, including lots of malleting and mixed meter. Bill Gross incorporates the tunes PAT-A-PAN • THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY, and HE IS BORN. This piece is a great challenge for the experienced bell choir!
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Ringing Basics is a step-by-step approach to the art of handbell ringing. The basics of music and bell ringing are presented and reinforced through explanations, exercises and pieces. The pieces are designed for learning and practice, but they may also be used for performance. For 2-Octave handbells or chimes.
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This piece is a beautifully poignant expression of the long walk of Christ to the cross. The haunting melody and ethereal accompaniment evokes mystery and reverence. Three octaves of handchimes are optional, but their timbre adds to the overall success of the piece. 81 measures.
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Hal Hopson's hymn concertatos always offer plenty of performance options and flexibility. God of Grace and God of Glory is no exception. A triumphant, majestic song of praise, this octavo could be sung as a choir hymn anthem, or with the congregation as a concertato. The handbells and soprano descant are optional, but add power and might to this glorious choral.
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Here is yet another very accessible medley from the pen of Dan Edwards. Dan incorporates lots of idiomatic bell techniques in this joyful Christmas medley, which includes • Angels From the Realms of Glory • Echo Carol and Joy To The World.
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Dan Edwards once again masterfully provides a simple, yet creative arrangement for the beginning bell choir with this medley for Christmas. The medley includes • It Came Upon a Midnight Clear • There's a Song in the Air • and We Three Kings.
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Here is a hauntingly beautiful setting of the Huron Carol. The use of mixed meter and a malleted sixteenth note bass palate create a setting that is uniquely challenging to both ringer and director.
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A medley of the Christmas carols: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing • What Child Is This? • and Joy to the World.
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Dan Edwards once again masterfully provides a simple, yet creative arrangement for the beginning bell choir with this medley for Christmas. Included are the familiar carols: Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella • Away in a Manger • Silent Night.
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A delightful concerto-type arrangement of hymntune AUSTRIA. Brass Parts available separately (tpt 1-2, hn, tbn, tba.)
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