Portrait On The Birth of Christ

$30.00

A free styled tone poem that opens with many percussion statements including mallets. The central section is a chorale-antiphonal styled section based on Bach’s Puer natus in Bethlehem. The third section has a highly imitative counterpoint building in excitement proclaiming the Savior’s birth.

SKU: 183904
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Instrument

Level

4

Occasion

Theme

Puer Natus in Bethlehem

Writer

Publisher

Key

Eb, Bb

Meter

4-4, 3-4, 2-4

Duration

8'00"

Idiom

Advanced band

Form

Fantasia