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Title	Christmas Night
Article no.	4100087
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Wind music and choir
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band); Chor (adlib)
Instrumentation/info	Concert Band, Optional Chorus
Format	PrtStm (full score and parts); Download
Country of publication	USA (us)
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Series title	Carols for Choirs
Year of publication	2018
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Composer	Traditional French
Lyricist	Rutter, John
Arranger	Rutter, John; Noble, Paul
Difficulty level	1+
Duration	4:00
Additional info/contents	'Christmas Night' is John Rutter's setting of a traditional French Carol, with words by John Rutter. It became the theme of one of his Christmas albums, focusing on the central event of the Christmas story – the birth at Bethlehem – and on the characters in that story: the angels, the shepherds, the wise men, and the mother with her child. This arrangement is written for combined Concert Band and Chorus, but may be performed by Band alone. The arrangement is technically very easy, and is a showpiece of the colours and textures of the families of band instruments. This arrangement is one of the Carols for Choirs Series of Band Arrangements and is compatible with the vocal score Christmas Night and the coral collection 100 Carols for Choirs except that it is one-half step (semi-tone) lower than written. Carols for Choirs - Band Accompaniments In celebration of Sir David Willcocks (1919 - 2015) centenary year (2019), Oxford University Press and Paul Noble are presenting accompanying and compatible Concert/Wind Band arrangements of many of the Christmas carols in the famous books of Carols for Choirs. Here are the points of interest: - The band arrangements are faithful transcriptions of the original orchestra or instrumental presentation, including the published key signature (with some exceptions of a change of key, i.e. from B-major to B-flat major, etc). - Although the arrangements are intended as accompaniment to choirs, they may be performed by band alone. - The arrangements are generally technically very easy to perform, and are generally voiced complete within each family of instruments, giving flexibility to vary the accompaniment background as may be desired. - If keyboard accompaniment is available, any assortment of band instruments may be used to enhance the keyboard instrument. - The band arrangements include the choral parts as reference, but they are not included in the purchase of the material. - When performing as a band alone piece, the arranger offers to adjust key signatures on purchased titles to be more compatible with band instruments, i.e., titles originally scored in D-major can be adjusted to E-flat major, etc. Just email Paul@Bandmusicpdf.net with your request for change. - This is an ongoing effort, with new titles being completed weekly. Please visit this site often to see new works as they are added. If you have a special request for a carol you do not see, please email Paul@Bandmusicpdf.net
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