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Christmas Tale, A
Subtitle: Beware the Krampus
Contents
General Info
Year: 2016
Duration: c. 5:20
Difficulty: II 1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $58.00; (digital) - $58.00 | Score Only (print) - $9.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Narrator
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Brake Drum
- Chimes, Metal
- Chimes
- Crash Cymbals
- Sleigh Bells
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Wind Chimes
- Wood Block
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
In some European Christmas traditions, Saint Nick does not work alone: he travels with Krampus who doles out punishment to bad boys and girls.
This work serves as a darkly delightful Christmas piece, intended to educate, entertain, and creep out. The spooky narration helps frame the piece as The Ukranian Bell Carol; Up on the Housetop; Jolly Old St. Nicholas and other holiday favorites are carefully distorted, adding to the entertaining musical effect.
- Program Note by publisher
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Pride of San Antonio (Tx.) Showband – 8 December 2018
- Arkansas (Farmington) Winds Community Concert Band (Laura Jackson, conductor) – 18 December 2016
- Western Reserve Community Band (Hudson, Ohio) (Ralph Meyer, conductor) – 18 December 2016
- Coronado High School (Henderson, Nev.) Symphonic Band Concert – 8 December 2016
Works for Winds by this Composer
- Adrenaline Engines (2010)
- Afterburn (2009)
- Aggressivo (2013)
- Angelic Celebrations (2014)
- Argentum (2015)
- Armory (2016)
- Art(isms) I: Pointallism
- Art(isms) II: Surrealism
- Art(isms) III: Abstract Expressionism
- Battlesong
- Bazaar (2017)
- The Boom Boom Galop (2017)
- Brave Spirit (2015)
- Brighton Camp March (2012)
- Buffalo Island March
- Celebration (2016)
- Celebration Tribalesque (2011)
- Christmas Fanfare, A
- Christmas Tale, A (2016)
- Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing (2014)
- Companion of My Voice (2015)
- Danse Bohemien (2010)
- Danse Carnivale (2013)
- Dark Ride (2018)
- Darklands Symphony
- Darklands March (2014)
- Darklands Legends (2017)
- DarkHeart (2016)
- Daybreak March
- Extremis (2015)
- Fields of Clover
- Folk Suite for Beginning Band
- Four (2017)
- Frogs (2018)
- Gadget (2012)
- Galactic Fanfare (2018)
- Gently Blows the Summer Wind (2008)
- Grace
- Half-Past One
- Her Majesty's Brigade
- High Voltage (2017)
- Holiday Galop, A (as arranger) (2013)
- Imaginarium (2015)
- In Late November
- In These Last Days of Autumn (2016)
- Iron and Ice (2017)
- IronHeart (2014)
- Kinetic Dances (2015)
- Life's Railway (2018)
- Little Suite for Band (2014)
- Lullabye (Waltz for Band)
- Metalheads (2016)
- Morpheus (2016)
- New Era Fanfare (2013)
- The Nine (2018)
- Ode to Joy
- On a Catalonian Carol (as arranger) (2016)
- Pandora
- Portent
- Prayer Before Nightfall, A
- Rage
- Ridge Spirit Fanfare
- Rowan Tree, The (as arranger) (2010)
- Ruckus (2014)
- Skygazer Fanfare (2015)
- Snake Charmer (2009)
- Steel (2011)
- Still, Still, Still (as arranger) (2011)
- Tanchōzuru (2016)
- That Old Hound Dog Rag (2009)
- Towercrest March
- Undecim (2015)
- Under the Cherry Blossoms (2018)
- Union Street March
- Victory Parade March
- When the Spring Rain Begins to Fall (2013)
- Winds of Change (2016)
- With Every Winter's Breath (2012)
- Zooveniers
