Tchaikovsky wrote several ballets. They’ve had a long and wonderful life; in fact, his “Sleeping Beauty” was made into the famous Disney film. One of the well-known pieces from this work is the Sleeping Beauty Waltz. Sixteen Handbells, C5-G6 Score Package: $ US Practice track:: $ US Sixteen Handbells, F5-C7 Score Package: $ US Practice …
Category: Sixteen-Bell
Dec 12
Deal with the Christmas Rush
It’s getting into the middle of December, and that means the Christmas Rush (whatever that happens to mean to you) is in full surge. For most of us musicians, it probably means surviving the last couple of rehearsals and performances. But… sometimes that very, very late request comes in. Maybe someone’s had their musicians cancel …
Dec 05
Advent’s in Full Swing!
This coming Sunday will be “Advent 2” (imaginative, yes? 😀 ). It’s the second of the four Sundays before Christmas. It’s a season of preparation for the coming of the Christ Child, and many churches put a lot of effort into making it something to remember. If you participate in the music ministry at your …
Oct 23
Christmas (Rehearsal) is on the Horizon!
If you’re a musician, practice for anything starts weeks ahead. If it’s a big presentation like a church Christmas concert, then my experience has been that those rehearsals start about three months in advance. After all, we want to put our best foot forward on the evening when we have one of the largest congregations …
Aug 15
Sixteen Bells and Michigan
We’ve added a new sixteen-handbell score to our catalog, Prelude No. 1 from J.S. Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier”. You can play it as a four-in-hand quartet (as friends from Bells of the Sound demonstrate in their video), or you can gather as many as eight musicians to play it. Take a look! * * * We’re …
Well-Tempered Clavier, Prelude No. 1 – Sixteen handbells
We’ve adapted the first (C major) prelude of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier” to be played with just sixteen handbells. This is a great piece for learning teamwork, and for working on musicality. There are two versions available for the ranges C5-G6 and F5-C7. Sixteen Handbells, C5-G6 Score Package: $ US Practice track:: $ US …
Sixteen-Bell Music
Here’s some music that requires “just” sixteen bells. You can play it as a four-in-hand quartet, or as an octet with each person having two bells, or anything in between. And if you have a suggestion for a piece that might be great with just sixteen bells, please suggest it below and we’ll think about …
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Larry Sue
Larry Sue has been a church musician since 1974, when he became the accompanist for his church’s new youth choir. That led to opportunities with guitar, voice (natural-range baritone, but usually tenor, and occasionally bass and alto), keyboards, electric bass, choral conducting, and choral composing. He began playing to handbells in 1987 at a choral …
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I started Choraegus ShareMusic as a way to share my music with the public. My initial impression was that I was arriving a bit late in the game. What I didn’t know, being a newbie, was that 1995 actually was still in the beginning stages of the Internet. There were only about 25,000 Web sites …
