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I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
Clarinet Quintet: 5 clarinets
Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Clarinet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.514696…
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Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Clarinet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.514696 Arranged by Kenneth Abeling. Christmas. 17 pages. LINCOLN MUSIC PUBLICATIONS #3510619. Published by LINCOLN MUSIC PUBLICATIONS (A0.514696). “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus†Words & Music by Tommie Connor arranged for Clarinet Quintet by Kenneth Abeling. Based on a child’s case of mistaken identity, I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus is an ageless Christmas time favorite. This is an advanced intermediate to easier advanced level arrangement written in a Jazzy/Country-ish shuffle. To view and listen to this piece in its entirety as well as hundreds of other arrangements and transcriptions by Kenneth Abeling at the lowest prices available please visit: www.lincolnmusicpublications.com Playing Time: 2:30
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Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town - Christmas Classic - Clarinet Quintet
Clarinet Quintet: 5 clarinets
Clarinet Choir - Intermediate - Digital Download By Frank Sinatra. Arranged by Thomas Gr…
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Clarinet Choir - Intermediate - Digital Download By Frank Sinatra. Arranged by Thomas Graf. Score, Set of Parts. 16 pages. Published by Thomas Graf - the-hit- factory.com
Funny and playable "out of the box" arrangement of the famous Christmas classic. A real crowd pleaser, a must for your holiday repertoire.
and#65279;Instrumentation: Clarinet 1/2/3/4 in Bb, Bass Clarinet in Bb
and#65279;Listen to the recording - a challenge for your ensemble. Please don't forget to review your purchase - you will help other musicians to choose the perfect arrangement for their ensemble. Thank you very much!
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Zacimba Gaba
Clarinet Quintet: 5 clarinets
Composed by GILSON SANTOS. Arranged by Clarinet Quintet. Contemporary, Multicultural, …
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Composed by GILSON SANTOS. Arranged by Clarinet Quintet. Contemporary, Multicultural, World. 21 pages. Gilson Santos #694192. Published by Gilson Santos
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Reindeer Rampage - Clarinet Quintet
Clarinet Quintet: 5 clarinets
Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Clarinet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.721119…
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Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Clarinet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.721119 Composed by Anne L Christopherson GRSM ARCM. Christmas,Concert,Jazz. 16 pages. Music-Scores.com #3882719. Published by Music-Scores.com (A0.721119). Reindeer Rampage: Santa's reindeer are having a bit of fun before their work begins at Christmas. They try to sing some carols, but cannot agree on which one, so they return to jumping around and then home again to Santa.Clarinet Quintet: Eb Clarinet, 3 Bb Clarinets, Bass Clarinet.Playing time just under 2 minutes.By Anne Christopherson at https://www.music-scores.com
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Reindeer Rampage - Clarinet Quintet
Clarinet Quintet: 5 clarinets
Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Clarinet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.722261…
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Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Clarinet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.722261 Composed by Anne L Christopherson GRSM ARCM. Christmas,Concert,Jazz. 16 pages. Music-Scores.com #6196377. Published by Music-Scores.com (A0.722261). Reindeer Rampage: Santa's reindeer are having a bit of fun before their work begins at Christmas. They try to sing some carols, but cannot agree on which one, so they return to jumping around and then home again to Santa.For 4 Clarinets and Bass Clarinet.Playing time just under 2 minutes.By Anne Christopherson at https://www.music-scores.com
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Snow Miser
Clarinet Quintet: 5 clarinets
Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Clarinet - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.929902…
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Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Clarinet - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.929902 Composed by Jules Bass and Maury Laws. Arranged by Noah Allen. Contemporary. 10 pages. N.D.A. #4847007. Published by N.D.A. (A0.929902). Enjoy this clarinet quintet arrangement of a song from the classic film The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974). Thick harmonies accentuate timeless melodies and riffs you already know, allowing your beginner to early intermediate ensemble maximum fun this holiday season. A great piece for Christmas concerts and other holiday sets. Clarinet key: Bb major.Be sure to explore my other listings here, including a brass quintet and clarinet quartet arrangement of this tune: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/n-d-a-sheet-music/3011808If you have any questions or comments or need alternate transpositions, contact the arranger at brassclass466.16@gmail.com.
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Watermelon Man for Clarinet Quintet & Opt. Drumset
Clarinet Quintet: 5 clarinets
By Herbie Hancock. Arranged by Keith Terrett. Score, Set of Parts. 22 pages. Published…
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By Herbie Hancock. Arranged by Keith Terrett. Score, Set of Parts. 22 pages. Published by Music for all Occasions
Arranged for Clarinet Quintet & optional drumset, "Watermelon Man" is a jazz standard written by Herbie Hancock, first released on his debut album, Takin' Off (1962), in a grooving hard bop version that featured improvisations by Freddie Hubbard and Dexter Gordon.<br> <br> A single of the tune reached the Top 100 of the pop charts. Cuban percussionist Mongo Santamaría released the tune as a latin pop single the next year on Battle Records, where it became a surprise hit, reaching #10 on the pop charts. Santamaría's recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998. Hancock radically re-worked the tune, combining elements of funk, for the album Head Hunters (1973).<br> <br> Hancock's first version was released as a grooving hard bop record, and featured improvisations by Freddie Hubbard and Dexter Gordon. A single reached the Top 100 of the pop chart. Cuban percussionist Mongo Santamaría released the tune as a Latin pop single and it became a surprise hit, reaching No. 10 on the pop chart.[2] Santamaría's recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998. Hancock radically re-worked the tune, combining elements of funk, for the album Head Hunters (1973).<br> <br> Hancock wrote the piece to help sell his debut album as a leader, Takin' Off (1962), on Blue Note Records; it was the first piece of music he had ever composed with a commercial goal in mind. The popularity of the piece, due primarily to Mongo Santamaría, paid Hancock's bills for five or six years. Hancock did not feel the composition was a sellout however, describing that structurally, it was one of his strongest pieces due to its almost mathematical balance.<br> <br> The form is a sixteen bar blues. Recalling the piece, Hancock said, "I remember the cry of the watermelon man making the rounds through the back streets and alleys of Chicago. The wheels of his wagon beat out the rhythm on the cobblestones." The tune, based on a bluesy piano riff, drew on elements of R&B, soul jazz and bebop, all combined into a pop hook. Hancock joined bassist Butch Warren and drummer Billy Higgins in the rhythm section, with Freddie Hubbard on trumpet and Dexter Gordon on tenor saxophone. Hancock's chordal work draws from the gospel tradition, while he builds his solo on repeated riffs and trilled figures.<br> <br> Hancock filled in for pianist Chick Corea in Mongo Santamaría's band one weekend at a nightclub in The Bronx when Corea gave notice that he was leaving. Hancock played the tune for Santamaría at friend Donald Byrd's urging. Santamaría started accompanying him on his congas, then his band joined in, and the small audience slowly got up from their tables and started dancing, laughing and having a great time. Santamaría later asked Hancock if he could record the tune. On December 17, 1962, Mongo Santamaría recorded a three-minute version, suitable for radio, where he joined timbalero Francisco "Kako" Baster in a cha-cha beat, while drummer Ray Lucas performed a backbeat. Santamaría included the track on his album Watermelon Man (1962). Santamaría's recording is sometimes considered the beginning of Latin boogaloo, a fusion of Afro-Cuban rhythms with those of R&B<br> <br> Hancock re-recorded the tune for Head Hunters (1973), combining synthesizers with a Sly Stone and James Brown funk influence, adding an eight-bar section. Hancock described his composition "Chameleon", also from Head Hunters, to Down Beat magazine in 1979: "In the popular forms of funk, which I've been trying to get into, the attention is on the rhythmic interplay between different instruments. The part the Clavinet plays has to fit with the part the drums play and the line the bass plays and the line that the guitar plays. It's almost like African drummers where seven drummers play different parts"; "Watermelon Man" shares a similar construction. A live version was released on the double LP Flood (1975), recorded in Japan.<br> <br> On the intro and outro of the tune, percussionist Bill Summers blows into beer bottles imitating hindewhu, a style of singing/whistle-playing found in Pygmy music of Central Africa. Hancock and Summers were struck by the sound, which they heard on the ethnomusicology LP, The Music of the Ba-Benzélé Pygmies (1966), by Simha Arom and Geneviève Taurelle.<br> <br> This version was often featured on The Weather Channel's Local on the 8s segments.<br> <br> The tune is a jazz standard and has been recorded over two hundred times. Hancock's recording has been sampled in "1-900-LL-Cool-J" from Walking with a Panther (1989) by LL Cool J, "Open Your Eyes" from Organized Konfusion (1991) by Organized Konfusion, "Smoke Some Kill" from Smoke Some Kill (1988) by Schoolly D, and "Pocket Full of Furl" from Uptown 4 Life (1996) by U.N.L.V. In 2003, pianist David Benoit covered the song from his album Right Here, Right Now.<br> <br> A live and funky performance at the 1999 Montreux Jazz Festival Casino Lights '99 featured Fourplay, George Duke, Boney James and Kirk Whalum trading choruses, and Rick Braun.
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