Showing posts with label clarinet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label clarinet. Show all posts

Friday, August 12, 2016

Christmas music for four clarinets

I've been arranging some Christmas songs for 4 B-flat clarinets, or 4 of any of the same type of clarinet. Here is a list of these arrangements. Most of them are also available in versions for four violins (though in a different key than the clarinet arrangements.)


Away in a Manger (both of two commonly-used melodies for this song)
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
Christmas Time Is Here (from "A Charlie Brown Christmas")
The First Noel
Four Carol Set (includes Huron Carol, See Amid the Winter's Snow, What Child is This? and It Came Upon the Midnight Clear)
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Joy To The World
Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming
Silent Night
Sleigh Ride (Leroy Anderson)
Still, Still, Still


This list will be updated as I add more sheet music.

If you would like more sheet music for 4 clarinets, Robert Rainford has arranged some Christmas songs for 4 B-flat clarinets, with optional E-flat clarinet, alto clarinet, and bass clarinet parts. The book can be found here. This book contains an arrangement of "Silent Night" (different from my own arrangement,) as well as other Christmas songs.

More Christmas music for 4 clarinets can be found here, as well.

Friday, May 29, 2015

Edward Elgar's "Enigma Variations" for clarinet choir

My clarinet choir arrangement of Elgar's "Enigma Variations" is now available online.

Sheet music links:
Enigma Variations for Clarinet Choir, Score
Enigma Variations for Clarinet Choir, Set of Parts (E-flat clarinet, 6 B-flat clarinets, alto clarinet, bass clarinet, alto clarinet, bass clarinet, and optional timpani.)

Program the whole piece in a clarinet choir concert, or choose a few of the variations to play.

If you would like to play just the Nimrod variation, an arrangement by Jeanie Murrow is available on Sheetmusicplus.

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Trios for 2 Clarinets and Horn, and Duets for Violin and Clarinet

Some more of my music arrangements have been published lately.

Trios for Two Clarinets and Horn
- 16 pieces. Includes music by Tchaikovsky, Bach, Haydn, and others.

Duets for Violin and Clarinet, Volume One - 30 pieces. Includes music by Mozart, Rossini, Rimsky-Korsakov, and others.

Duets for Violin and Clarinet, Volume Two
- 30 pieces. Includes music by Handel, Beethoven, Schumann, and others.

Saturday, March 21, 2015

Recent Montreal music events

A lot has been going on this past little while.


Once again, I played clarinet in the orchestra for a McGill Savoy Society production. This year, we did H.M.S. Pinafore. Pinafore was also the very first production that I played in, 10 years ago. Once again, it was such a pleasure to be in the Savoy Society!




On March 7, the Sam Roberts Band played the last show of their Lo-Fantasy tour. The show was here in Montreal. And what a show it was! Stunning visual displays, a wonderful mix of older and newer songs, and a very enthusiastic audience combined to create a most memorable concert. This was my fourth time seeing the Sam Roberts Band, and it was my favourite show of theirs that I've seen.

I love living in Montreal, where there are so many great things happening.