Christmas Overture
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Score and Parts Concert Band (Score & Parts) - Grade 4
SKU: HL.768721
For Band. Composed by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Arranged by Joe Derhake. Southern Music Band. Christmas. Softcover. Southern Music Company #S1012CB. Published by Southern Music Company (HL.768721).ISBN 9781705170823. UPC: 196288086604. 9.25x12.0x0.717 inches.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Christmas Overture appeared posthumously in 1925. Originally orchestrated by Sydney Baynes, it features God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen and Hark the Herald Angels Sing. It is thought by some to have been put together from incidental music he wrote for a children's play called The Forest of Wild Thyme. This band arrangement, based on Baynes' orchestra score, omits the largely developmental middle section of the original, shortening the performance time by two minutes, while retaining all of the traditional carol material.