Category: Handbells

Larry Sue

By admin in Choraegus, Choral music, Christmas, Church Music, Classical Music, Easter, Eight-Bell, Handbell Choir, Handbell Ensemble, Handbell solo, Handbells, International Music, Larry and Carla, Low Ding Zone, Six-Bell, Sixteen-Bell, Twelve-Bell

Larry Sue has been a church musician since 1974, when he became the accompanist for his church’s new youth choir. That led to opportunities with guitar, voice (natural-range baritone, but usually tenor, and occasionally bass and alto), keyboards, electric bass, choral conducting, and choral composing. He began playing to handbells in 1987 at a choral …

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By admin in Choraegus, Choral music, Christmas, Church Music, Classical Music, Easter, Eight-Bell, Handbell Choir, Handbell Ensemble, Handbell solo, Handbells, Instrumental, International Music, Larry and Carla, Low Ding Zone, Six-Bell, Sixteen-Bell, Twelve-Bell

I started Choraegus ShareMusic as a way to share my music with the public. My initial impression was that I was arriving a bit late in the game. What I didn’t know, being a newbie, was that 1995 actually was still in the beginning stages of the Internet. There were only about 25,000 Web sites …

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Nov 10

Updating “Spiritual Boogie”

By admin in Handbells, Low Ding Zone

LDZ (Low Ding Zone) has been going through a lot of changes over the past two seasons. One of the huge ones is the way we’re writing our scores. This is exceedingly important to us – there really isn’t any repertoire for an all-bass handbell ensemble to play! True, we’ve tried dropping existing music an …

Nov 08

Capital Area Handbell Festival weekend

By admin in Handbells

This weekend was my annual trip to North Carolina for the Capital Area Handbell Festival. This year, just over 500 ringers got together to ring under Fred Gramann’s baton. If you don’t know about Fred, he’s been Music Director at the American Church in Paris for nearly 35 years, and over that time has become …

Type of PDF score	Number of copies per PDF score you’re allowed to make
6-bell score, accompanied	Three handbell score copies, one accompanist copy, and one full score copy
8-bell score	Four score copies
8-bell score, accompanied	Four handbell score copies, one accompanist copy, and one full score copy
12-bell score	Six score copies
12-bell score, accompanied	Six handbell score copies, one accompanist copy, and one full score copy
16-bell score	Eight score copies
Handbell choir score	Fifteen score copies
(Handbell) ensemble	One copy of each part for each ensemble member