Wexford Carol is a traditional Irish Christmas song from long ago (historians put its origin in the 15th or 16th century). It’s unusual in that the melody has some wonderful accidentals. This arrangement for sixteen handbells sets the melody line in mysterious, mildly (and pleasantly!) dissonant chords reflective of a lone singer wandering on the moorlands.
Our arrangement of Wexford Carol for sixteen handbells comes in two versions, D5-Bb6 (playable with three octaves of handbells) and G4-Eb6 (playable with two octaves of handbells).
Good people all, this Christmas time / Consider well and bear in mind
What our good God for us has done / In sending His beloved Son.
With Mary holy we should pray / To God with love this Christmas day
In Bethlehem upon that morn / There was a blessed Messiah born.
