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Christmas Bells Overture
General Info
Year: 2010
Duration: c. 4:30
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Lorenz Corp.
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $39.95
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Chimes
- Crash Cymbals
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Triangle
Handbell Choir
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Beginning with a rousing verse of O Come, All Ye Faithful, the excitement of the Christmas season comes to life in this medley of ultimate classics. Each theme weaves seamlessly into the next, incorporating a nice mix of contrapuntal writing and tempo changes into a dynamic landscape. This overture medley includes O Come, Little Children; Angles We Have Heard on High; Good King Wenceslas; I Saw Three Ships; Ukrainian Bell Carol; God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen; Joy to the World; and The First Nowell.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
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State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Heart of Texas (San Antonio) Concert Band (R. Mark Rogers, conductor; River City Ringers) - 19 December 2021
- College of the Ozarks Concert Band and Handbells (Kevin Powers, conductor) – December 2021
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- You'll Be Back (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2015/2020)
All Wind Works
- American Salute (as arranger)
- Annabel Lee (2000)
- And All the Bells on Earth Shall Ring
- Appalachian Tapestry (2009)
- Baba Yetu (as arranger) (2005/2015)
- Beetlejuice (as arranger) (1988/2015)
- Brother James' Air (as arranger) (1915/1995)
- Canticle (1996)
- Carols from the British Isles (as arranger) (2013)
- A Celtic Christmas
- Children's March (as arranger) (1919/2000)
- Christmas Bells Overture (2010)
- Christmas from the '50s (2009)
- A Classic Christmas
- Cole Porter Classics (as arranger) (2004)
- Colonial Song (as arranger) (1919/2014)
- The Dam Busters March (as arranger) (2004)
- Doctor Who (as arranger) (1963/2015)
- Down in Some Lonesome Valley (2002)
- Ellan Vannin Suite
- Engines of Change (2015)
- Festivo (as arranger) (1968/2008
- From Sea to Shining Sea (as scorer; arr. Whitney) (1882/1963/2017))
- Glory! (2016)
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (as arranger) (1944/2006)
- Hymn for Those Who Serve (2015)
- I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' (as arranger)
- I'm Seventeen Come Sunday (as arranger) (1905-12/1999)
- Irish Suite: The Last Rose of Summer (as arranger) (1950/2010)
- Irish Suite: The Wearing of the Green (as arranger) (1947/2009)
- Japanese (as arranger) (2006)
- March for a Norwegian Penguin
- March On, America! (as arranger) (2014)
- Morris Dance Tunes (as arranger) (1910/2010)
- On a Tune of William Billings (2015)
- Over the Sea to Skye (as arranger) (2014)
- Promenade (as arranger) (1945/2017)
- A Quiet Music (2007)
- A Ralph Vaughan Williams Portrait (as arranger) (2018)
- Santa in the Mix (as arranger) (2021)
- Screamers! (as arranger) (2013)
- Selections from Leroy Anderson's "Irish Suite" (as arranger) (2011)
- Slane (as arranger) (1994)
- Three Movements from "Water Music" (as arranger) (1715/2014)
- Two Variants on Dives and Lazarus (2014)
- United States Armed Forces Salute (as arranger) (2020)
- U.S. Field Artillery March (as arranger)
- A Vaughan Williams Christmas (as arranger) (1999)
- We Will Remember Them (2021)
- Welcome Christmas (as arranger) (1997/2013)
- Windforce (2016)
- You'll Be Back (as arranger) (2015/2020)
- You'll Be Back (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2015/2020)
Resources
- Douglas Wagner website Accessed 17 December 2021