Thank You Very Much (arr. Ted Samuels) by Leslie Bricusse Sheet Music for Piano & Vocal at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist Leslie Bricusse

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Leslie Bricusse

Arranger Ted Samuels

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 16

Arrangement Piano & Vocal

Publisher Theodore A. Samuels

Level 4

Product ID 925024

Genre Contemporary

Instruments Piano Voice

Product Description

This arrangement was created to commemorate both the 50th anniversary of the 1970 Christmas movie musical SCROOGE & the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven. A more detailed description of this piece & the story & imaginings behind it is included in its covering pages. However, it may be summarized by its subtitle, "What If Liszt Played Beethoven While Scrooge & the Londoners Celebrated?" (Franz Liszt was performing in a European concert tour at the same time that Charles Dickens was writing A Christmas Carol in 1843. Liszt's purpose for the tour was to raise money for constructing a statue of Beethoven in his hometown of Bonn, Germany.) The piece begins in the key of Bb for the first 3 verses of the song. The 3rd verse consists of a variation on the melody "in the style of Beethoven", perhaps as Liszt might have written & performed it. The key is raised to C major for the final verse, which includes a few quotes from Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, and concludes with some final lines from his Choral Symphony No. 9 as well as "The 5th". The full time of performance by piano/keyboard, solo voice and/or choir is approximately 4 minutes, which may be shortened & simplified by skipping the 3rd variation verse as indicated.

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