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Silent Night (flex)
Franz Gruber (arr. Charles Booker)
General Info
Year: 2015/ 2020
Duration: c. 3:40
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: BandT Publications, through Print Music Source
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $37.50 | Score Only (print) - $16.00
Instrumentation (Flexible)
Full Score
Part A
- Piccolo
- Flute
- E-flat Soprano Clarinet
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet
- E-flat Alto Saxophone
- B-flat Trumpet
- Violin
Part B
- Flute
- Oboe
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet
- E-flat Alto Saxophone
- B-flat Trumpet
- Horn in F
- Violin
Part C
- Bassoon
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet
- B-flat Trumpet
- Horn in F
- Trombone
- Euphonium
- Cello
Part D
- Bassoon
- B-flat Bass Clarinet
- E-flat Alto Clarinet
- E-flat Contra-alto Clarinet
- B-flat Tenor Saxophone
- Trombone
- Euphonium
- Cello
Part E
- Bassoon
- B-flat Bass Clarinet
- E-flat Contra-alto Clarinet
- B-flat Contrabass Clarinet
- E-flat Baritone Saxophone
- Trombone
- Euphonium
- Tuba
- String Bass
- Electric Bass
- Cello
Part F
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Chimes
- Crash Cymbals
- Drum Set
- Marimba
- Snare Drum
- Vibraphone
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Together with Joseph Mohr, a Catholic priest who wrote the original German lyrics, Gruber composed the music for the Christmas carol Silent Night. On Christmas Eve of 1818, Mohr, an assistant pastor at St Nicholas, showed Gruber a six-stanza poem he had written in 1816. He asked Gruber to set the poem to music. The church organ had broken down so Gruber produced a melody with guitar arrangement for the poem. The two men sang Stille Nacht for the first time at Christmas Mass in St Nicholas Church while Mohr played guitar and the choir repeated the last two lines of each verse.
In later years, Gruber composed additional arrangements of the carol for organ and for organ with orchestra, as well as scores of other carols and masses, many of which are still in print and sung today in Austrian churches.
- Program Note from Wikipedia
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Quad City (Davenport, Iowa) Wind Ensemble (Nicolas Propes, conductor) - 12 December 2021
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Silent Night (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Booker) (1818/2015/2020)
All Wind Works
- All is Calm (arr. Smith) (2002)
- Fantasia on Silent Night (arr. Bond) (1818/2011)
- Season of Peace (arr. Milford) (2014)
- Silent Night (arr. O'Bryant) (1818)
- Silent Night (arr. Clark) (1818/2001)
- Silent Night (arr. Dawson) (1818/1992)
- Silent Night (arr. Holcombe) (1818/1993/2008)
- Silent Night (arr. Marlatt) (1818/2014)
- Silent Night (arr. Swearingen) (1818/2008)
- Silent Night (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Booker) (1818/2015/2020)
- Silent Night in Gotham (arr. Giroux)
- Stille Nacht (arr. Davis and Longfield) (1818/1987?)
- Stille Nacht (arr. Davis and Vinson) (1818/1985)
- A Winter's Night (arr. Kirby) (1818/2011)
Resources
- Charles Booker Jr. website Accessed 21 December 2020
- Perusal score
- Silent Night, Wikipedia. Accessed 22 December 2020