O Little Town of Bethlehem (arr. Williams)
Carol arranged by Mark Williams
General Info
Year: 2007
Duration: c. 2:50
Difficulty: I-1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Carol
Publisher: Alfred Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $45.00; (digital) - $45.00 | Score Only (print) - $6.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F
Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
Piano Accompaniment
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Triangle
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The addition of an attractive countermelody provides additional appeal to this favorite lyrical carol.
- Program Note from publisher
O Little Town of Bethlehem is a popular Christmas carol. The text was written by Phillips Brooks (1835–1893), an Episcopal priest, then rector of Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia, and later of Trinity Church, Boston. He was inspired by visiting the village of Bethlehem in the Sanjak of Jerusalem in 1865. Three years later, he wrote the poem for his church, and his organist Lewis Redner (1831-1908) added the music.
- Program Note from Wikipedia
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
- Audio CD: Mabry Middle School Symphonic Band (Kimberley Lemmick, conductor) - 2007
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Mabry Middle School (Marietta, Ga.) Symphonic Band (Kimberley Lemmick, conductor) – 19 December 2007 (2007 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
- 1812 Overture (as arranger) (1880/1997)
- Ave Verum Corpus (as arranger) (1791/2006)
- Battle Hymn of the Republic (as arranger, with Althouse) (1861/1997)
- Barber of Seville, The (as arranger)
- Beethoven's Fifth Christmas
- Capriccio Espagnol (as arranger) (1887/1993)
- Cardiff Castle (2000)
- Cascade Festival Overture (1994)
- Cedar Canyon Roundup (2002)
- Celebration Fanfare (1998)
- Colonel Bogey (as arranger) (1914/2001)
- Elizabethan Dance (2008)
- Fantasy on "Yankee Doodle" (1995)
- Finale from Symphony No. 1 (as arranger) (1862-76/2008)
- Finale from Symphony No. 2 (as arranger) (1872/1880/2002)
- Friday Harbor (2001)
- Grant County Celebration (1991)
- Greenwillow Portrait (1988)
- Hawkeye Festival Overture (2006)
- Highbridge Excursions (1995)
- Highland Park Overture (1991)
- Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (as arranger) (1853/2001)
- Korean Hill Song (2000)
- Largo from "New World Symphony" (as arranger) (1893/2007)
- The Last Rose of Summer (as arranger) (1813/2006)
- Mallet Maniacs (2003)
- March to the Big Top (1995)
- Nessun Dorma (as arranger) (1926/2000)
- Night in the Tropics (as arranger) (1859/2001)
- Night on Bald Mountain (as arranger) (1867/1991)
- O Little Town of Bethlehem (as arranger) (2007)
- Plaza de Toros (1997)
- Plaza Park Escapades (1994)
- Primordium (1999)
- Riverside Rag (1988)
- Russian Sailors' Dance (as arranger) (1927/1998)
- Santa at the Symphony (as arranger) (1990)
- Santa Meets Sousa (1992)
- Scenes of Wonder (1994)
- The Star-Spangled Banner (as arranger) (1814/1998)
- Southgate Fantasy (1995)
- Tunbridge Meadows (1992)
- Twenty Carols in 2 Minutes (as arranger) (1998)
- Two Classic Miniatures (as arranger) (1991)
- Variants on a Nautical Hymn (1993)
- A Winter's Carol (as arranger) (1996)
- Zuni Legend (1993)
Resources
- O Little Town of Bethlehem, Wikipedia Accessed 9 January 2018
- Perusal score
- Williams, M. (2007). O Little Town of Bethlehem [score]. Alfred Music: Van Nuys, Calif.