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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.
5 2. In the
5 2. In the Counting-House Welsh traditional O Deued Pob Cristion adap. and arr. BENEDICT SHEEHAN STAVE 1, Scene 1 [CORO TACET] Narrator: Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. Scrooge signed the register of his burial; and Scrooge’s name was good for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Scrooge never painted out Old Marley’s name. There it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door: Scrooge and Marley. Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! SOPRANO # & # # [CHOIR BEGINS] Once upon a time—on Christmas Eve—old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. It was cold, bleak, biting weather. Gentle and remote q = 72 4 π œ œ ˙ œ œ ˙ ˙ ˙ Œ œ œ ˙ œ ALTO # # & # 4 Daeth π œ mm Bren - in yr holl - fyd I oed - fa ein w ˙ TENOR # # V # 4 Œ ∑ for online perusal only div. ˙ w w ∑ ∑ ∑ BASS ? # # # 4 Œ ∑ ∑ ∑ ∑ # & # # ? # # # Gentle and remote q = 72 4 4 œ π Œ œ ˙ œ œ ∑ ˙˙ ∑ ˙ w Œ ∑ œ œ ˙ œ w ∑
6 5 # & # # The door of Scrooge’s counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk. Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal. “A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” cried the cheerful voice of Scrooge’s nephew. ˙ ˙ . ˙ œ œ ˙ œ œ œ ˙ œ w ∑ had - fyd Er sym - ud ein pen - yd a’n pwn; # & # # # ˙ ˙ ˙. nœ w w œ ˙ œ w # V # # ∑ ∑ ∑ ∑ ∑ Ó Œ π œ ? # # # # & # # ? # # # #˙ ∑ ∑ ˙˙ ˙˙. ∑ ∑ nœœ ∑ œ ˙ w # œ œ ∑ ∑ œw ˙ œ ∑ ∑ w œ ˙ œ ∑ Heb π Ó Œ œ w π Ó Œ œ œ mm # # & # 11 A “Bah! Humbug!” said Scrooge. “Christmas a humbug, uncle! You don’t mean that, I am sure?” “I do. Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? You’re poor enough.” ∑ ∑ # # & # w w for online perusal only ∑ ∑ ∑ w ∑ ∑ # V # # œ ˙ œ œ a˙ ˙ ˙ Œ œ œ ˙ œ nœ ˙ œ le yn y lle - ty, Heb ael - wyd, heb we - ly, Na - ? # # # w div. n˙˙ ˙ w w # œ ˙ n œ Na - # # & # w w w ˙ . œ œ ˙ œ nœ ˙ œ ? # # # œ ˙ œ œ w a n˙ ˙˙ ˙ w w # œ ˙ n œ
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