WorshipArts Jul Aug Sep 2023

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What Child is This: Four Carols for Flute and Piano

great, because these accessible settings stay in more common keys with little modulation, they can be played by any good first chair HS flutist, with just a bit of help during rehearsals. The piano parts are nearly sight-readable for me as an experienced keyboardist (who was a trombone major). This is definitely on the agenda for me for December.

Daniel Burton, MorningStar Music, MSM-25-151, 2022. Reviewed by Ed Duling.

There are four well-known carols in this set of arrangements. The title carol is first— "What Child is This?” ( GREENSLEEVES) , followed by “Good Christian Friends, Rejoice and Sing” ( INDULCI JUBILO) , “O Come All Ye Faithful” ( ADESTE FIDELES ), and “Lully, Lullay, Thou Little Tiny Child” (COVENTRY CAROL) . In general, each arrangement starts with a piano intro loosely based on the harmonic progression of the carol, brings in the flute, and the two each take up the melody, descants, and countermelodies throughout with refreshing moments of what my theory prof called “modal interchange.” Though musically-seasoned performers make anything sound

Christmas Carol Trilogy

Glenn L. Rudolph, MorningStar Music, MSM-20-723, Trumpet and Organ, 2022. Reviewed by Ed Duling.

Though technically separable, this trilogy is intended as an inventive medley: “[This Shall be] My Dancing Day,” “Coventry Carol,” and “Hark the Herald Angels Sing.” The arrangement calls on maturity and skill belonging to more-experienced players; for example, they are encouraged by the arranger at one point to “ornament further in playful