BQ Arrangement of "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing"?

Z-Tuba Dude · Post by **Z-Tuba Dude** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 11:59 pm

Anybody know of a really good BQ arrangement of "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing"?

We've had a request for X-mas eve, and somehow, we don't have it in the book!

TIA!

JB · Post by JB » Sat Dec 10, 2005 1:04 am

Tony E wrote:We're playing the Frackenpohl arrangement for organ and brass quintet this Sunday. You can order it from the Canadian Brass website for $15.00 plus shipping. It's not too dificult, and has nice parts for both the brass and organ.

You can hear the arrangement on the Canadian Brass CD "Christmas with the Canadian Brass and the Great organ of St. Patrick's Cathedral".

Or, get in touch with Bryan at BVD Press.

http://www.bvdpress.com

Regards,

Tony E[/url]

With a little "mild" cutting and pasting, you can make this arrangement into a "brass-quintet-only" version by writing the organ part into the quintet voices. With few exceptions, the organ part either doubles the already existing quintet voices, or the brass are tacet while the organist is "doing their thing" solo while the brass count bars rest. Thus, no organ, and more brass (as a quintet only).

Voila.

tubabike · Post by **tubabike** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 9:43 am

Sam Pilafian did some amazing arrangements of x-mas tunes for brass quintet. He uses a lot of jazz harmonies & styles. I forget where he published these but I'm sure the powers of google will tell all answers.

best of luck!

And now for the plug:

Monumental Brass will be performing a few of the Pilafian arrangements on our December 24th 12:00pm concert broadcast live over the internet from the Millenium Stage at the Kennedy- Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. Visit: www.kennedy-center.org to view this concert live from your home computer!

Bill Troiano · Post by **Bill Troiano** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 11:12 am

As long as I've listened to the Canadian Brass w. organ cd, I never realized that Hark was a Frackenpohl arrangement. Thanks for the info, Tony. As I mentioned in another post, that is one of my favorite Christmas cd's. Hark and First Noel are my favorite cuts on the cd too. As far as Hark arrangements for BQ, with the faculty quintet where I teach, we've used a traditional, straight-forward arrangment by Walter Sear. It comes in a set of about six Christmas arrangements. I'm not sure who published it (maybe Cor Music), but you might check Robert King. I believe that's where ours came from.