Name: Coventry Carol (arr. Del Ahlin) by Unknown Brass Ensemble Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Del Ahlin
Price: 4.99 USD
Availability: InStock

Coventry Carol (arr. Del Ahlin)
by Unknown Brass Quintet - Digital Sheet Music

₹410.00

Sales tax calculated at checkout.

Product Details

Title Coventry Carol (arr. Del Ahlin)

Artist Unknown

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Unknown

Arranger Del Ahlin

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 11

Arrangement Brass Ensemble

Publisher Del Ahlin

Level 3

Product ID 1437189

Genre Christmas Sacred Advent Renaissance 21st Century

Instruments French Horn Trombone Trumpet Tuba

Performance Group Brass Quintet

Product Description

The Coventry Carol text is based on the Gospel of Matthew (2:1618) and deals with the "Massacre of the Innocents" in which Herod the Great, king of Judea, orders the execution of all male children who are two years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem.

The music tends to use a lot of "Picardy Third" (the practice of raising the "third" of a chord at the end of a cadence, and changing the quality of a minor chord to a "major" chord). I took the Picardy Third thing one step further and modulated to the relative major (Cmaj from Amin), and fanfared on a bright, C major chord -indicating Christ the Savior's successful conquest despite all odds. Then quickly modulate once again to C minor (C major's parallel minor, and up a minor third where the piece started), to bring back the somber feeling the piece is supposed to have.

This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.