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Title	Christmas Crystals
Article no.	9117028
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Christmas music (orchestra instrumentation)
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Country of publication	USA (us)
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Series title	Young Band
Year of publication	1998
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Arranger	Rizzo, Jacques
Difficulty level	2
Duration	3:10
Additional info/contents	Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella; The Sleep of the Holy Child; Sing We Now of Christmas; These lovely old French carols are a contrast to the more traditionel carols usually found at this level. They are favorites of mine - I hope this shows in the scoring - and, although various compositional devices are used to provide musical interest, I have tried to preserve their traditional feeling. The first carol, Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella, should be played quite lyrically with legato articulations. At measures 25-26 and again at m. 30-31, the tenuto half notes should be held full value (to the quarter rest) and played a little softer than the surrounding measures. In the second carol, The Sleep of the Holy Child, the melody passes from low winds (m. 46-47) to clarinet 1/alto saxophone 1 (m. 48-49), to trumpet 1 (m. 50-51), back to low winds (the first three beats of m. 52), to trumpet 1 (m. 52, the last sixteenth of beat three to m. 54). Although the scoring readily allows these instruments to predominate, this segment might be rehearsed with the above named instruments playing only those measures cited, to allow the performers to better understand how the melody passes from one section to another. Focus on the articulations (especially the forte-piano) in the third carol, Sing We Now of Christmas, will provide for an effective close to the piece. The bridge sections beginning at m. 76 and m. 100, altough accented, should be played sustenuto rather than separated. I have used enharmonic spellings of some notes where these might be more familiar to the student. I hope you and your band enjoy the piece. Sincerely, Jacques Rizzo
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