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Author: clarinetcase
Date: 2009-11-14 14:19
Any suggestions for clarinet with piano/organ accompaniment? What do you play when asked to play for a general audience Christmas concert? It would be nice to have the arrangement/publisher/info. Thanks!
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2009-11-14 15:55
Sleigh Ride lends itself very well to clarinet. Eddie Daniels makes that piece REALLY sing!
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Author: clarinetcase
Date: 2009-11-14 19:35
I'm not looking for beginner/intermediate pieces. Unfortunately, the last time I needed something, I used pieces arranged for trumpet/organ that were very good. I just located an arrangement of We Three Kings by Rich Heffler (clarinetist) which is quite nice. I was just hoping that some qualty arrangements were out there that I didn't know about. Thanks for the input.
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Author: jimk
Date: 2009-11-14 22:46
Good luck. I posted a similar question a few days ago and received few responses. I've about decided there isn't much of what we want out there. Also by Rich Heffler is "What Child is This?", his catalog number W29135AX for alto sax. I don't know if it is offered in an edition for Bflat instruments. If you don't mind dealing with the transposition, it works well on clarinet. I think the last time I played it I also changed the octave in a few places.
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Author: clarinetcase
Date: 2009-11-15 16:04
Thanks for the info! I'll look into "What Child Is This?" I'm used to transposing when what I need isn't available. Maybe someone will read this and work on filling the void in the market!
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Author: clariniano
Date: 2009-11-15 20:36
Just add some ornaments (trills, turns, mordents, inverted mordents, grace notes) to make them sound fancier. And moving things up the octave. Though I have a few arrangements that I or my husband did, like a beautiful piece called Snowfall (my husband arranged it from a version for solo piano he has), Christmas Time is Here, and even a Klezmer-style version of Jingle Bells, which is in the short of the Madagascar movie, at the end. What Child is This? sounds really effective with an inverted mordent on the last note.
Meri
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Author: clarinetcase
Date: 2009-11-15 22:05
Thanks for the suggestions. I wasn't asking to take a known tune and make it sound "fancier" because I do that on a regular basis. I was just looking for some quality arrangements.
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Author: George Taylor
Date: 2009-11-16 14:51
The James Rae Jazzy Christmas Carols always go down well from my experience. Also they are a little different from the stock standard versions.
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Author: James Langdell
Date: 2009-11-16 17:47
There's two vocal selections for Christmas that I've found go very well with clarinet and piano. They might also work with organ, but I've not performed either that way.
One is "Bright Star", a song composed by Norman Dello Jolio. It is published by Hal Leonard as a separate song sheet, and is also included in the high and low voice editions of "The Christmas Collection: 53 Songs For Classical Singers". The song and its words might not be familiar, but it has a pastorale sound that is apt for Christmas.
The other is an arrangement of "O Holy Night" by Craig Courtney in an anthology titled "Music For The Master" published by Beckenhorst Press. The vocal part is largely traditional, but the piano part has some effective Bartokian "night music" touches. The book includes effective settings of other non-Christmas hymns.
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Author: pdkbach
Date: 2009-11-17 02:53
'Easy Great Carols' by James Curnow, published by Curnow Music.
Also Pietro Jan 'Gesu Bambino' works great with clarinet and organ accompaniment. Also have your organ accompanist look through their solo organ arrangements. If the organ part calls for a 'solo reed', that part can be played by the clarinet. Also organ pieces with the melody in the pedals...organist eliminate playing the melody line and let the clarinet take it. For these, you may have to transpose or rewrite the melodies from bass clef. You may also check with popular organ music publishers websites for specific clarinet and organ arragnements. These would include Morning Star, Concordia, Lorenz Publishing to name a few.
Paul K., Clarinetist AND Organist :-)
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