Christmas Tale, A

Randall Standridge

Randall Standridge

Subtitle: Beware the Krampus

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

• Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown

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
• Mid America Freedom Band (Kansas City, Mo.) (Lee Hartman, conductor; Luke Williams, narrator) – 17 December 2017
• 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

Adaptable Music

• Aggressivo (Flex instrumentation) (2013/2020)
• Alarm (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
• Beginners Rock! (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Dark Ride (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
• Darklands March (Flex instrumentation) (2014/2020)
• Deus Ex Machina (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• The Dragon Lord (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Earthdawn (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
• A Festival of Carols (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Havana Nights (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
• Precious Lord, Take My Hand (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2020)
• Starfire Fanfare (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Vanishing Point (Flex instrumentation) (2020)

All Wind Works

• Adrenaline Engines (2010)
• Afterburn (2009)
• Aggressivo (2013)
• Aggressivo (Flex instrumentation) (2013/2020)
• Alarm (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
• Angelic Celebrations (2014)
• Argentum (2015)
• Armory (2016)
• Art(isms) I: Pointallism
• Art(isms) II: Surrealism
• Art(isms) III: Abstract Expressionism
• Battlesong
• Bazaar (2017)
• Beginners Rock! (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• The Boom Boom Galop (2017)
• Brave Spirit (2015)
• Brighton Camp March (2012)
• Buffalo Island March
• Celebration (2016)
• Celebration Tribalesque (2011)
• Celebrations for Christmas (as arranger) (2020)
• A Christmas Bell Carol (2018)
• A Christmas Fanfare
• A Christmas Flourish (2017)
• A Christmas Tale (2016)
• Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing (2014)
• Companion of My Voice (2015)
• Danse Bohemien (2010)
• Danse Carnivale (2013)
• Dark Ride (2018)
• Dark Ride (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
• Darklands Symphony
  • Darklands March (2014)
  • Darklands March (Flex instrumentation) (2014/2020)
  • Darklands Legends (2017)
  • DarkHeart (2016)
• Daybreak March
• Deus Ex Machina (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• The Dragon Lord (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Earthdawn (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
• El Zorro Rojo (2019)
• Extremis (2015)
• A Festival of Carols (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Fields of Clover
• Folk Suite for Beginning Band
• Four (2017)
• Frogs (2018)
• Gadget (2012)
• Galactic Fanfare (2018)
• Gently Blows the Summer Wind (2008)
• Gestures (2019)
• Grace
• Half-Past One
• Havana Nights (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
• Her Majesty's Brigade
• High Voltage (2017)
• Holiday Galop, A (as arranger) (2013)
• Imaginarium (2015)
• In Late November
• In Simple Faith (as arranger) (2018)
• In the Paths of Truth and Grace (2015)
• 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)
• Lux Spiritus (2018)
• Metalheads (2016)
• Metrodance (2012)
• Morpheus (2016)
• New Era Fanfare (2013)
• The Nine (2018)
• Ode to Joy
• On a Catalonian Carol (as arranger) (2016)
• Pandora
• Portent
• A Prayer Before Nightfall
• Precious Lord, Take My Hand (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2020)
• Rage
• Ridge Spirit Fanfare
• A Rollicking Hannukah (2018)
• Rowan Tree, The (as arranger) (2010)
• Ruckus (2014)
• Skygazer Fanfare (2015)
• Snake Charmer (2009)
• Snow Angels (2014/2017)
• Starfire Fanfare (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Stonewall: 1969 (2019)
• Steel (2011)
• Still, Still, Still (as arranger) (2011)
• Tanchōzuru (2016)
• That Old Hound Dog Rag (2009)
• To Horizons Unseen (2019)
• Towercrest March
• Undecim (2015)
• Under the Cherry Blossoms (2018)
• Union Street March
• Vanishing Point (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Victory Parade March
• When the Spring Rain Begins to Fall (2013)
• Whiplash (2014)
• Winds of Change (2016)
• The Witching Hour (2014)
• With Every Winter's Breath (2012)
• Wolverine Summer (2018)
• A Yuletide Festival
• Zooveniers

Resources

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