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Voicing/Instrumentation: SATB
We also have other 61 arrangements of "The First Noel".
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Comments for this piece:
From Lyssa: THank you very much! This would helps us a lot. I really appreciate that you have this piece. I've been burning my eyebrows just to find this piece. Thank you!!!
5.0 stars.
From Danielle the Choir Pianist: The choir in my new ward just got started back up a few months before Christmas; I suggested this one (along with Matt Astle's arrangement of "Still, Still, Still") to the new director who accepted it for the performance. I LOVE THE SOUND OF THIS. I love how it puts an epic twist on a very very very very familiar carol. As a pianist, I think you get a lot of bang for your buck without having to do a bunch of 16th-note runs or octaves--measure 62 was the trickiest one for me, and it didn't take too long to get it smoothed out. But singingwise, this is probably best for an experienced choir, or one with strong music reading skills, because (and I didn't realize this when I suggested it) there's a LOT of interplay where different parts coming in only on specific beats. It was definitely a struggle for my choir. This song has a cosmic, 5-star sound and I adore it. But I'm knocking off a star--semi-angrily--because the tenor part is written in the treble clef (the heck??!), which necessitated my having to do up my own version in MuseScore so I could play the TB part with the SA to help the singers. If the T had been notated in the bass clef, I could have simply penciled in the B part right under it, wrote in the S in on the A part, and there would be no need to try and read across 4 staves and a wrong clef! Ain't nobody got time for that. Especially around the holidays. Aside from that, this is a great-sounding piece for a resolute choir.
4.0 stars.
More about Rick Graham:
I am a self-taught pianist that originally hails from Pennsylvania. I have a love of music that spans several decades. My Grandmother instilled in me the gift of listening to the sound of music no matter where it was. I was raised as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but sang as a young boy soprano in a boys choir for another church. Those years of learning music and techniques would forever stay with me as well as playing the recorder. I am married and am a grandfather and find great joy in my posterity. I moved to the Salt Lake area a couple years ago for employment and love it here (although I do miss my children and grandchildren terribly). I am humbled to be a member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir as a music missionary. I have been truly blessed and acknowledge all the gifts and blessings that I enjoy to Him, my Savior.
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If you sing/use this song, please contact the composer and say thank you to Rick Graham!
Voicing/Instrumentation: SATB
We also have other 61 arrangements of "The First Noel".
See more from Rick Graham.
Visit composer's personal website.
Comments for this piece:
From Lyssa: THank you very much! This would helps us a lot. I really appreciate that you have this piece. I've been burning my eyebrows just to find this piece. Thank you!!!
5.0 stars.
From Danielle the Choir Pianist: The choir in my new ward just got started back up a few months before Christmas; I suggested this one (along with Matt Astle's arrangement of "Still, Still, Still") to the new director who accepted it for the performance. I LOVE THE SOUND OF THIS. I love how it puts an epic twist on a very very very very familiar carol. As a pianist, I think you get a lot of bang for your buck without having to do a bunch of 16th-note runs or octaves--measure 62 was the trickiest one for me, and it didn't take too long to get it smoothed out. But singingwise, this is probably best for an experienced choir, or one with strong music reading skills, because (and I didn't realize this when I suggested it) there's a LOT of interplay where different parts coming in only on specific beats. It was definitely a struggle for my choir. This song has a cosmic, 5-star sound and I adore it. But I'm knocking off a star--semi-angrily--because the tenor part is written in the treble clef (the heck??!), which necessitated my having to do up my own version in MuseScore so I could play the TB part with the SA to help the singers. If the T had been notated in the bass clef, I could have simply penciled in the B part right under it, wrote in the S in on the A part, and there would be no need to try and read across 4 staves and a wrong clef! Ain't nobody got time for that. Especially around the holidays. Aside from that, this is a great-sounding piece for a resolute choir.
4.0 stars.
More about Rick Graham:
I am a self-taught pianist that originally hails from Pennsylvania. I have a love of music that spans several decades. My Grandmother instilled in me the gift of listening to the sound of music no matter where it was. I was raised as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but sang as a young boy soprano in a boys choir for another church. Those years of learning music and techniques would forever stay with me as well as playing the recorder. I am married and am a grandfather and find great joy in my posterity. I moved to the Salt Lake area a couple years ago for employment and love it here (although I do miss my children and grandchildren terribly). I am humbled to be a member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir as a music missionary. I have been truly blessed and acknowledge all the gifts and blessings that I enjoy to Him, my Savior.
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