A Snail’s Pace
Written with a plush orange-pink-and-purple snail in mind, this original laid-back jazz piece will challenge you even as you relax into its feel! Individual copy: Price: Handbell choir: Price:
Funeral Tango
Apocryphal tale: Chopin needed a vacation, so he started from France where he lived, crossed into Spain, and after staying there for a while, took a ship to St. Louis. There, he influenced the development of the blues… and the rest is history. Whatever the story, though, you’ll have fun playing this bizarre twist on …
Holy, Holy, Holy
Handbells (3 octaves), Level 3 Download PDF One sunny Tuesday at the 1990 Mount Hermon Music Conference, Dana Vivit asked “Why haven’t you written anything for the Brass Angels yet?” We’d been friends for some years by then, and so I responded, “Well,name it.” “Holy, Holy, Holy.” “You got it!” Not knowing how to leave …
I Will Arise and Go to Jesus
This arrangement of the well-known Southern Harmony tune, was commissioned by Barbara Charlebois in memory of her father. Below is a rehearsal video from Distinctly Bronze West 2011 in Bremerton, Washington. Scored for 3-8 octaves of handbells plus chimes C4-Eb5. Price: Price:
Islamey
Handbells (5 octaves)/Handchimes (5 octaves), Level 6+ Download PDF The “Mighty Handful” were five especially gifted Russian composers in the nineteenth century.You probably know two of them: Modest Mussorgsky (Pictures at an Exhibition and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (The Flight of the Bumblebee). The others were Cesar Cui, Alexander Borodin, and Mila Balakirev – and while their …
Lenten Piece
Here’s a meditative piece for the Lenten season. The video below was produced by Tintabulations from Reno-Sparks, Nevada. We think they’ve done a marvelous interpretation! Special thanks go to director Barb Walsh for leading the effort, and to Derek and Bryce Nance as the videographers. Individual Copy: Price: Full Choir: Price:
Power In The Blood
Handbells (5-6 octaves), Level 5 Christine Anderson is a wonderful handbell soloist, and a wonderful person. She has a wonderful ministry playing her bells in many location, sometimes flying home just in time to leave for the next event. She has a number of wonderful scores and wonderful instructional videotapes too. Did I mention that …
Rhapsody in C Minor
[This full-length concert piece for five to seven octaves of handbells, plus four octaves of handchimes, was supposed to be modeled after the style of Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies. But... it decided to become Russian, and so here we are. The accelerandi will bring visions of iron-legged dancers performing before cheering crowds.Shouting “Hey!” on the …
Rock of Ages
Handbells (3 octaves)/Handchimes (3 octaves), Level 3 Download PDF I had a composing whim some years ago, and thought that a version of “Rock Of Ages” with three octaves each of bells and chimes would work… if you try this one, let me know how it goes!
Tigress Rag
“Tigress Rag”, written in the style of Scott Joplin, was the Second Place Winner of the 2012 Bells of the Sound “All That Jazz” composition contest. The arrangement is for 5-7 octaves of handbells, and is dedicated to Larry’s wife Carla! Individual Copy: Price: Full Choir: Price: