Category: Church Music

“All Things Bright and Beautiful” for Twelve Bells!

Here’s our new twelve-bell arrangement of All Things Bright and Beautiful (hymn tune ROYAL OAK)! We’re sure you’ll have a wonderful time playing it. As always, there are versions for ranges C5-G6 and F5-C7.

He Leadeth Me (AUGHTON) (Handbells, 3 or 5 octaves, Level 3)

Having direction and purpose in life is a challenge… but following God can make our walk through this world seem much more reasonable. One hymn on this subject is He Leadeth Me. He leadeth me: O blessed thought! O words with heavenly comfort fraught! Whate’er I do, where’er I be, still ’tis God’s hand that …

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Stowey (STOWEY) (Handbells, 3 to 5 octaves, Level 2+)

Our arrangement of the English folk melody STOWEY actually gives you three options for how it’s used: As the folk melody STOWEY, As the hymn When a Knight Won His Spurs: When a knight won his spurs, in the stories of old, He was gentle and brave, he was gallant and bold With a shield …

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Give Me Jesus

The new year is bringing new music for you to play! Here’s our twelve-bell arrangement of the spiritual Give Me Jesus. Have a listen!

Give Me Jesus – Twelve handbells

Our heritage of African-American spirituals is a rich one. Give Me Jesus is about how the most important thing in life – or death – is Jesus, our Lord and Savior. In the morning, when I rise, in the morning, when I rise, in the morning, when I rise, give me Jesus. Give me Jesus, …

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Home at Last (Handbells, 5 to 8 octaves, Level 4+)

I’ve written a number of choral pieces for Living Water, my choir at Valley Church of Cupertino, California, and looked through them to see whether any could be arranged for handbells. Home at Last, the fifty-fourth in the set, is about the blessed hope that Christians have in the promise that Jesus Christ will one …

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“Silent Night” for eight handbells – at last!

We’ve wanted to have an eight-bell arrangement of Silent Night for some time. If you count your way through the score, you’ll find that the melody has eleven notes. Since eleven is a lot more than eight (to two four-in-hand handbell ringers), we couldn’t initially figure out how to make it into one of our …

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Two new arrangements for Christmas!

We’ve just released two new Christmas carol arrangements for handbell choir (three to five octaves) – do take a look! Sing We Now of Christmas Preview: [sg_popup id=”11418″ event=”click”]Page 1[/sg_popup] [sg_popup id=”11420″ event=”click”]Page 2[/sg_popup] MP3: O Come, All Ye Faithful Preview: [sg_popup id=”11431″ event=”click”]Page 1[/sg_popup] [sg_popup id=”11434″ event=”click”]Page 2[/sg_popup] MP3:

Sing We Now of Christmas (NOEL NOUVELET) (Handbells, 3 to 5 octaves, plus handchimes, 1 octave, Level 3+)

Here’s a dual-purpose arrangement that you can play as Sing We Now of Christmas for Christmas, or as Now the Green Blade Riseth for Easter! Sing we now of Christmas, Noel, sing we here! Hear our grateful praises to the babe so dear. Sing we Noel, the King is born, Noel! Sing we now of …

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