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TIDINGS OF JOY
Beginner Band setting by: Brian
Harris
With a nice minor mode sound, Tidings of Joy is a simple yet enjoyable piece for your beginners and audience. It is similar in style to Joy to the King but places a few extra demands on the players.
The piece opens with God Rest Ye Merry, harmonized in drone fashion, then features a soli middle section of Patapan for which you "audition" the players to play this more difficult middle section (keeps your best players challenged!). The piece then recaps with God Rest Ye Merry with a slightly fuller instrumentation.
And remember, with our site-licensing policy, your students can keep their parts as a souvenir of their first
real band concert! |
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LEVEL:
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Very Easy; Grade 1/2
Appropriate for beginners who have encountered eighth-notes and the key of E-flat. |
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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 $3 U.S. |
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PROGRAMMING:
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Christmas concert
Performance Time: about 2'45"
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FEATURES:
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Melody opportunities for all wind parts.
Multiple percussion parts give colorful sound
Low brass parts very simple.
Soli section in middle will motivate players to learn the part so they get to play the melody (keeps your better players challenged). |
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CHALLENGES:
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Independence of lines (melody played with/against simple
bass and accompaniment).
Some slurs and eighth-notes.
Key/accidentals (mostly in flutes, oboe, clarinet, and trumpet).
A few extended range notes for some parts. |
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KEY and RANGES:
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C minor (3 flats)
Some Clarinets
play low G and F (m. 14 and 48) - put your best players on these low notes and have rest play the higher notes of D and C. |
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INSTRUMENTATION:
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Basic
Instrumentation |
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MINIMUM
INSTRUMENTATION
REQUIREMENTS:
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Flute, 2 Clarinets, Alto Sax, Trumpet, Bass Line*, 1 Percussion (Timpani)
* At least one: Trombone, Horn, or Tenor Sax and Bassoon, Bass Clarinet, Bari Sax,
or Tuba
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PERCUSSION:
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Five percussion parts:
Timpani = no pitch changes, written for 3 drums (G, C, G) and optional B-flat on fourth drum; can be simplified to 2 drums (C, G)
Bells/Tambourine = can be played by a single player
Chimes = uses four notes (G, A, B-flat, and C); whole notes and two dotted-half notes
Percussion 1 = Suspended Cymbal, Tenor Drum, Bass Drum (2 or 3 players)
Percussion 2 = Triangle, Finger Cymbals (2 players; can use multiple players on these parts)
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