We’ve gotten a lot closer to settling into life in Michigan – it’s been part of the adventure that started when we moved from California in 2016. Now everything is pretty much in place in our new home, and the blue spruces in the woods are happily growing new bits as spring rolls into summer. …
Category: Eight-Bell
Linstead Market – Eight handbells
The Jamaican song Linstead Market tells of a woman who goes to town to sell some ackee fruit to earn money so she can feed her children. Unfortunately, she isn’t able to sell enough, and exclaims “what a Saturday night!” This melody is present in our churches as the hymns “Break Not the Circle” and …
Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us (BRADBURY) – Eight handbells
Jesus tells us that He is the Great Shepherd, and that we are His sheep. Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us is an appropriate description of those who follow Him in faith, because we need the Lord’s guidance to walk through life. Savior, like a shepherd lead us, much we need Thy tender care, In …
Sakura – Eight handbells
One of the most-beloved melodies from Japan is Sakura. The translation of the title is “cherry blossoms”. This thoughtful, melancholy tune affords lots of oppportunity for expressive, flowing playing. Standard Version: ”Dual-Range”™ Score Package: $ US G5-based practice track: $ US F5-based practice track: $ US Purchasing this 8-bell arrangement gives you permission to print …
Mar 31
Warner Robins, Georgia
We’re heading to Warner Robins, Georgia today! It’s a city about 70 miles south of Atlanta that grew up around an Air Force base. The purpose of our trip is to put on a concert at the Christ United Methodist Church there. The entire program will be our own eight-bell music, including selections such as …
Mar 07
The Boys of Bluehill
Hornpipes and jigs were two of the exciting additions to our repertoire over the past three or four years. In case you haven’t played many of them and were wondering about thematic structure, jigs often (but not always!) have the pattern AA, BB, CC, DD, etc. and can be chained together to add to the …
Feb 17
Easter is on the way
Yes… it still is two months before Easter, but church musicians usually have to think a bit ahead so that they can get their practice time before playing in church. So we’re releasing our new eight-bell arrangement of Alas, and Did My Savior Bleed. It’s the Ralph Hudson version which sets Isaac Watts’ words to …
Alas, and Did My Savior Bleed (MARTYRDOM) – Eight handbells
Hugh Wilson arranged a tune of anonymous origin, MARTYRDOM, as a setting for Isaac Watts’ words Alas, and did my Savior bleed, and then added a refrain. It’s a hymn that is important to many Christians at Easter. Alas! and did my Savior bleed / And did my Sovereign die? Would He devote that sacred …
Jan 08
Epiphany
And a wonderful Epiphany to you! We’re starting 2017 by publishing a new eight-bell arrangement of the German Epiphany carol O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright. Philipp Nicaolai composed the tune at the end of the sixteenth century, and about 150 years later J.S. Bach harmonized it. We wish you a happy 2017, and …
O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright (WIE SCHON LEUCHTET DER MORGENSTERN) – Eight handbells
O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright tells of many wonderful attributes of the Son of God and how apprehension of them leads us to give ourselves to Him in humility and worshipfulness. This sixteenth-century Epiphany hymn was harmonized by J.S. Bach in 1731. O Morning Star, how fair and bright Thou beamest forth in …
