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JOY TO THE KING
Beginner Band setting by: Brian
Harris
If you need something special for your beginners to play
at their first Christmas concert, Joy to the King can provide an
easy and fun medley of the two popular beginner tunes "Ode to Joy" and
"Good King Wenceslas." And with our site-licensing
policy, your students can keep their parts as a keepsake of their first
real band concert! |
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LEVEL:
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Very, Very Easy; Grade 1/2 (perhaps lower!)
Appropriate for beginners. |
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SAMPLES:
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Sample pages (.pdf):
Sound file:
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COST:
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$25 U.S. (plus shipping) for full score, parts, site-license.
Extra full scores are $4 U.S. (plus shipping). |
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PROGRAMMING:
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Christmas concert
Performance Time: about 1.5 minutes (37 measures at mm=100)
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FEATURES:
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Melody distributed through all wind parts.
Simple percussion parts.
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CHALLENGES:
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Independence of lines (melody played with/against simple
bass accompaniment).
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KEY and RANGES:
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B-flat major
Uses first five notes of the B-flat Concert scale. Clarinets
also play low G. |
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INSTRUMENTATION:
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Basic
Instrumentation |
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MINIMUM
INSTRUMENTATION
REQUIREMENTS:
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Flute or Trumpet, Clarinet, Bass Line*, up to 5 Percussion
(can be reduced)
* At least one: Bassoon, Bass Clarinet, any Saxophone,
Horn, Trombone, Baritone, or Tuba
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PERCUSSION:
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Three percussion parts:
Percussion 1 = Snare Drum, Tenor Drum, Bass Drum
Percussion 2 = Cymbals, Finger Cymbals, Triangle
Bells/Mallets = any number of mallet instruments (melody
line)
These parts are simple, using only quarter-, half-, dotted-half,
and whole notes. Two one-measure occurrences of sixteenth-notes in Snare
and Tenor Drum part (shown in measure 13, 14 of Percussion
1 part).
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All concert band arrangements purchased directly
from Bandroom.com Publications
come with a site-specific
license authorizing the duplication of parts for use by the license
holder.
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