Title	Variants on a Moravian Hymn
Article no.	9751070
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Festive music, fanfare, hymns
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Format	PrtStm (full score and parts)
Country of publication	USA (us)
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Year of publication	1993
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Composer	Barnes, James
Difficulty level	4
Duration	9:00
Additional info/contents	This work was commissioned by the Freedom High School Band to celebrate the 250th anniversary of that school's hometown: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Realizing that Bethlehem was in the very center of the many settlements of Moravian Baptists who founded this city, the composer searched for some sort of musical identity that would be appropriate, and found an obscure, but very beautiful, Moravian Christmas hymn entitled Morning Star, O Cheering Sight. Instead of composing a normal "theme and variations" based on this hymn, Barnes opted to save the tune in its entirety until the very end when introduced by a trombone choir, so it is essentially a "variations and theme". The instrumentation was chosen because the Moravians are most famous for their wonderful trombone choirs accompanying the singing in their church services.
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	Variants on a Moravian Hymn (concert/wind band), full score and parts
	Variants On A Moravian Hymn (concert/wind band), full score
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