Category: Twelve-Bell

Twelve-Bell Classical

By admin in Classical Music, Handbells, Twelve-Bell

Classical music is interesting and fun on handbells! Sometimes it’s worshipful, such as Holy is the Lord; other times it’s thoughtful and nostalgic, like Barcarolle; and other times it’s just plain wild, such as Farandole. Regardless, it requires careful concentration, and getting to the point when you present it to others is a reward in …

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Twelve-Bell Music

By admin in Handbells, Twelve-Bell

Twelve-bell music has been around for quite a while. The usual convention has been to compose for twelve white key bells from C5 to G6 (so, C5, D5, E5, F5, G5, A5, B5, C6, D6, E6, F6, G6). More than a few sets of bells, particularly in the United Kingdom, consist of those notes, possibly …

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By admin in Christmas, Church Music, Classical Music, Easter, Eight-Bell, Handbell Choir, Handbell Ensemble, Handbell solo, Handbells, International Music, Low Ding Zone, Popular Music, Six-Bell, Sixteen-Bell, Twelve-Bell

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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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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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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