Benedict Sheehan A Christmas Carol
for narrator, SATB soloists, and SATB choir unaccompanied, with optional bones In this compelling work for narrator, soloists, and choir, Sheehan presents an engaging musical dramatization of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Dickens's text has been artfully abridged by Matthew Guard to facilitate concert performance, and the narration is seamlessly woven into Sheehan's richly diverse score. Suited to performance in a variety of settings, this work sees imaginative arrangements of traditional carols and vibrant and accessible original music combine to bring a familiar festive tale to life.
for narrator, SATB soloists, and SATB choir unaccompanied, with optional bones
In this compelling work for narrator, soloists, and choir, Sheehan presents an engaging musical dramatization of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Dickens's text has been artfully abridged by Matthew Guard to facilitate concert performance, and the narration is seamlessly woven into Sheehan's richly diverse score. Suited to performance in a variety of settings, this work sees imaginative arrangements of traditional carols and vibrant and accessible original music combine to bring a familiar festive tale to life.
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Contents<br />
Scoring<br />
Note on Performance<br />
Composer’s Introduction<br />
vi<br />
vi<br />
vii<br />
A <strong>Christmas</strong> <strong>Carol</strong><br />
STAVE 1<br />
1. The truth from above 1<br />
2. Scene 1: In the Counting-House 5<br />
3. Scene 2: Surplus Population 8<br />
4. God rest you merry, gentlemen 12<br />
5. Scene 3: Marley’s Ghost 17<br />
6. Scene 4: Mankind was my Business 22<br />
7. Remember 24<br />
STAVE 2<br />
8. Scene 1: The Ghost of <strong>Christmas</strong> Past 29<br />
9. Scene 2: Little Fan 32<br />
10. Sussex <strong>Carol</strong> 34<br />
11. Scene 3: Fezziwig’s Ball 37<br />
12. Scene 4: Gain is Loss 49<br />
STAVE 3<br />
13. Scene 1: The Ghost of <strong>Christmas</strong> Present 50<br />
14. Scene 2: Not a Handsome Family 54<br />
15. Silent night 57<br />
16. Scene 3: A Child Himself 61<br />
17. Deck the halls 62<br />
18. Scene 4: The Bell Struck Twelve 69<br />
STAVE 4<br />
19. Scene 1: Ghost of the Future 70<br />
20. Scene 2: The Body of a Man 72<br />
21. Scene 3: My Little Child 73<br />
22. Coventry <strong>Carol</strong> 74<br />
23. Scene 4: The Spirits of all Three 81<br />
24. Poverty 84<br />
STAVE 5<br />
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25. Scene 1: <strong>Christmas</strong> Day 86<br />
26. Scene 2: Back Payments 88<br />
27. Scene 3: God Bless Us, Every One 91<br />
28. It came upon the midnight clear 94
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