Leroy Anderson
Wassail Song
3-6 oct.
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Leroy Anderson
Wassail Song
3-6 oct.
- Instrumentation Handbells
- Composer Leroy Anderson
- Editor Martha Lynn Thompson
- Edition Sheet Music
- Publisher Hope Publishing Company
- Order no. HPC2404
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Description:
Martha Lynn Thompson's 3-6 octave transcription of the last movement of Leroy Anderson's 'Suite of Carols for String Orchestra' features a brisk tempo (triple meter with the feeling of one beat per measure). The familiar Yorkshire Carol appears throughout as an unadorned melody in both treble and bass ranges, above a malleted bass accompaniment, beneath an embellished melody, and with melodic phrases playing off one another in the various bell ranges. After a grand pause in measure 123, the setting races to an exciting climax.