Season's Beatings by Jesse Mattson takes eleven cherished holiday tunes and transforms them into quirky percussion ensembles perfect for your upcoming winter concert.
All eleven pieces are scored for 8-10 beginner to intermediate players using the standard percussion instrumentation you have around the band hall. Any of these pieces would be perfect on their own or as small interludes between bigger ensembles.
Instrumentation:
- Glockenspiel
- Xylophone
- Vibraphone
- 4.3-Octave Marimba
- Timpani and Sleigh Bells
- Suspended Cymbal
- Crash Cymbals, Ride Cymbal, Hi Hat
- Snare Drum and Triangle
- Bass Drum
Difficulty: Medium
Pieces Included:
- Deck the Halls
- Robin Laid an Egg
- Carol of the Bells
- Drummer Boy
- The Twelve Drum Fills of Christmas
- Silent Night
- O Tannenbaum
- Hark!
- Come All Ye
- Bartok Builds a Snowman
- Slay Ride
