No Rest for the Merry Bartok

No Rest for the Merry BartokNo Rest for the Merry Are you ready for an exciting take on a familiar holiday classic? Your students will love the energy and enthusiasm required to perform this fast paced adaptation of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen. Lower and middle strings begin this exciting arrangement with intense and driving interweaving rhythms which establish the foundation for this intriguing take on this standard Christmas carol. While first violins present an elaborate

While the motif creates major / minor ambiguity

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It can be shortened by eliminating the repeated section

Let your cellos take the lead

This all-pizzicato work for young strings imitates an African instrument called the kalimba (also known as an mbira or thumb piano

The focus shifts to the lower strings at bar 25

The Missing Hour begins with a mysterious melody asking the question

The Mambo is a syncopated style of music and dance that originated in Cuba in the early 1900s

The haunting melody

The lively jig section of the piece features energetic and memorable melodies in E dorian and A mixolydian

the piece builds toward a stunning conclusion

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