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Pater Noster for Clarinet Quintet
Clarinet Quintet: 5 clarinets
Clarinet Quintet,Woodwind Ensemble Bass Clarinet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1…
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Clarinet Quintet,Woodwind Ensemble Bass Clarinet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1425711 Composed by Giuseppe Verdi. Arranged by James Haynor. Romantic Period. 20 pages. James Haynor #1006469. Published by James Haynor (A0.1425711). Giuseppe Verdi was born in Le Roncole on the 9th October 1813, the son of an innkeeper and small-scale farmer. Although he grew up in poor circumstances his extraordinary musical talent was soon recognized and he received organ lessons, then – assisted by a patron – he entered the Busseto Gymnasium.Scored here for Clarinet Quintet, his setting of the “ Pater Noster “ is a lovely piece originally written for five part vocal. It is an eternal religious subject set to more progressive harmonies.Duration - 5:58.
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Little Saint Nick
Clarinet Quintet: 5 clarinets
Clarinet Quintet,Woodwind Ensemble Clarinet - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.563370…
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Clarinet Quintet,Woodwind Ensemble Clarinet - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.563370 By The Beach Boys. By Brian Wilson and Mike Love. Arranged by Austin Ralphson. Christmas,Pop,Rock. 20 pages. Austin Ralphson #3573429. Published by Austin Ralphson (A0.563370). The Beach Boys' biggest Christmas hit is presented here in a straightforward arrangement which will brighten up any Christmas concert, recital or party!
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Little Saint Nick
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Intermediate Music for Four, Christmas - Part 4 for Bass Clarinet 73143DD
Clarinet Quintet: 5 clarinets
Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Clarinet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.530273…
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Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Clarinet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.530273 Composed by Various. Arranged by Daniel Kelley. Baroque,Christmas,Classical,Hanukkah,Romantic Period. 49 pages. Last Resort Music Publishing #3221207. Published by Last Resort Music Publishing (A0.530273). Part 1 for Bb Clarinet - Fantastic and festive arrangements of Christmas and Hanukkah songs for quartet with flexible instrumentation. Each volume is arranged in progressive order of difficulty. This series is designed to progress to the level of the Music for Four series.Each part is sold separately.Perfect for String Quartet, Wind Quartet, Piano Quartet, Clarinet Quartet, & More! The keyboard/guitar part encompasses parts 2, 3 and 4. Therefore, the arrangements could be played as a piano quartet, or an entire quartet could play with a pianist - as long as Part 1 is being played.Table of ContentsA La Nanita Nana Angels From The Realm Of Glory The Boar's Head Carol Christmas Day in the Morning Christ Was Born On Christmas Day Coventry Carol The First Noel O Come, All Ye Faithful The Twelve Days of Christmas Up On The Housetop Christ-Child is Born O Christmas Tree Christmas Concerto from Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 #8 For Unto Us A Child Is Born Joy To The World Pastoral Symphony Pifa from The Messiah Fum, Fum, Fum The Song of the Birds Gesu Bambino Good King Wenceslas Hanukkah Medley - Hanukkah, S’Vivon, My Dreidel, Rock of Ages Hark! The Herald Angels Sing He Is Born, The Divine Christ Child I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day It’s Christmas Time Again Jingle Bells O Holy Night, Cantique de Noel O Little Town of Bethlehem Sleigh Ride from German Dance, K. 605 #3 Wexford Carol www.lastresortmusic.com.
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Tis the Season for Clarinet Quintet
Clarinet Quintet: 5 clarinets
Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Clarinet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.782196…
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Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Clarinet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.782196 Composed by Traditional. Arranged by James Haynor. Christmas. 24 pages. James Haynor #3379565. Published by James Haynor (A0.782196). This medley wraps up eight of the most popular Christmas songs into a tidy package for audiences of all ages. Represented are: Joy to the World, Away in the Manger, Ding Dong Merrily on High, Deck the Halls, Lo, A Rose, Hark the Herald, Coventry Carol and Jingle Bells. There’s something to play for everyone and it’s a great way to touch on a lot of great tunes with good pace and variety throughout. Duration : 4:35
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Mister Sandman
Clarinet Quintet: 5 clarinets
Clarinet Quintet,Woodwind Ensemble Bass Clarinet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1…
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Clarinet Quintet,Woodwind Ensemble Bass Clarinet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1269023 By The Chordettes. By Pat Ballard. Arranged by Vanessa Klassen. Pop. 19 pages. Vanessa Klassen #861559. Published by Vanessa Klassen (A0.1269023). Mister Sandman was written by Pat Ballard in 1954. It was recorded by several artists including The Chordettes, whose version this arrangement is based on. The title and lyrics refer to a folklore character, the Sandman, who puts people to sleep and inspires beautiful dreams by sprinkling magical sand onto their eyes. The dream The Chordettes ask for in the song is a potential lover, or dreamboat.This arrangement for clarinet quintet has been transposed up a half step to better suit Bâ™ clarinets. The four voices of The Chordettes are represented in the Bâ™ clarinet parts with the accompanying upright bass in the bass clarinet part. All accented notes should be played as bell tones. There is also an optional part for tenor saxophone, which adds short jazzy interjections.
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Sunny
Clarinet Quintet: 5 clarinets
Clarinet Quintet,Woodwind Ensemble Clarinet - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.564016…
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Clarinet Quintet,Woodwind Ensemble Clarinet - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.564016 By Bobby Hebb. By Bobby Hebb. Arranged by Austin Ralphson. Contemporary. 24 pages. Austin Ralphson #6025829. Published by Austin Ralphson (A0.564016). Classic soul tune from the 1960s which shifts up a key for each stanza. There's a little treat at the end though!
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A Night In Tunisia
Clarinet Quintet: 5 clarinets
Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Clarinet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.746990…
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Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Clarinet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.746990 By Dizzy Gillespie. By Dizzy Gillespie and Frank Paparelli. Arranged by Keith Terrett. Jazz. 13 pages. Keith Terrett #5827845. Published by Keith Terrett (A0.746990). A great sounding arrangement of A Night in Tunisia, your Clarinet Quintet will love it!A jazz solo is written out for you, if you wish you can improvise on the given chord symbols!A Night in Tunisia is a musical composition written by Dizzy Gillespie around 1941–42, while Gillespie was playing with the Benny Carter band. It has become a jazz standard.It is also known as Interlude. Gillespie called the tune Interlude and said some genius decided to call it 'Night in Tunisia'. He said the tune was composed at the piano at Kelly's Stables in New York. He gave Frank Paparelli co-writer credit in compensation for some unrelated transcription work, but Paparelli had nothing to do with the song. A Night in Tunisia was one of the signature pieces of Gillespie's bebop big band, and he also played it with his small groups. In January 2004, The Recording Academy added the 1946 Victor recording by Gillespie to the Grammy Hall of Fame.On the album A Night at Birdland Vol. 1, Art Blakey introduced his 1954 cover version with this statement: At this time we'd like to play a tune [that] was written by the famous Dizzy Gillespie. I feel rather close to this tune because I was right there when he composed it in Texas on the bottom of a garbage can. The audience laughs, but Blakey responds, Seriously. The liner notes say, The Texas department of sanitation can take a low bow.The complex ostinato bass line in the A section is notable for avoiding the standard walking bass pattern of straight quarter notes, and the use of oscillating half-step-up/half-step-down chord changes (using the Sub V, a tritone substitute chord for the dominant chord) gives the song a unique, mysterious feeling. The B section is notable for having an unresolved minor II-V, since the chord progression of the B section is taken from the B section of the standard Alone Together, causing the V chord to lead back into the Sub V of the A section.Like many of Gillespie's tunes, it features a short written introduction and a brief interlude that occurs between solo sections - in this case, a twelve-bar sequence leading into a four-bar break for the next soloist.
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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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