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HOW GREAT OUR JOY!

Arranged & Orchestrated by David T. Clydesdale

Take 12 popular Christmas carols, add short, dynamic, musical introductions by David T. Clydesdale, and you've got a recipe that will enliven and energize your Christmas season! Each introduction includes a "standard" and "alternate" key for flexibility in your worship music planning. (Introductions are bundled together and are not sold separately.)




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At-a-Glance

* Enhanced CD orchestration includes Finale files, pdf files in two keys, and demonstration recordings

Booklet

  • Word Choral Club: Christmas 2009
  • Voicing: SATB
  • Release Date: April 17, 2009

     

Song Titles

O Come, All Ye Faithful Latin hymn, John Francis Wade
How Great Our Joy! traditional German carol
O Little Town of Bethlehem Phillip Brooks, Lewis H. Redner
Angels We Have Heard on High traditional French carol
O Holy Night! John S. Dwight, Adolphe Adam
We Three Kings John H. Hopkins, Jr.
The First Noel W. Sandy's "Christmas Carols"
Silent Night! Holy Night! Joseph Mohr, Franz Gruber
Joy to the World! Isaac Watts, George Frederick Handel
What Child Is This? WIlliam C. Dix, traditional English melody
Away in a Manger unknown, James R. Murray
Hark! the Herald Angels Sing Charles Welsey, Felix Mendelssohn

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Instrumentation

flute 1, 2/piccolo; oboe; clarinet 1, 2; bassoon; horn 1, 2; horn 3; trumpet 1, 2; trumpet 3; trombone 1, 2; trombone 3/tuba; percussion 1, 2; percussion 3, 4; *violin 1, 2; *viola; cello; string bass; rhythm; harp; string reduction (*simplified parts included)
ADDITIONAL PARTS: clarinet 3 (doubles viola); bass clarinet (doubles string bass); soprano sax (doubles oboe); alto sax 1, 2 (doubles horn 1, 2); tenor sax/baritone T.C. (doubles trombone 1, 2); baritone sax (doubles tuba)



Ordering Information

Order Number Description Price Quantity Notes
080689265273 Booklet $3.50 In Stock
080689262470 Orchestration $99.95 In Stock
     

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Other works by David T. Clydesdale

  • INDESCRIBABLE

  • NOEL

  • A TIME FOR CHRISTMAS

  • THE MAJESTY OF CHRISTMAS

  • NATION, IT'S TIME TO PRAY

  • HOLIDAY CLASSICS

  • THE JOURNEY

  • WHAT A DAY TO CELEBRATE

  • LET HEAVEN AND NATURE SING!

  • THE FATHER'S GIFT OF LOVE

  • OUR FLAG WAS STILL THERE

  • WONDROUS GIFT

  • FREEDOM

  • RAISE THE CROWN

  • A BABY CHANGES EVERYTHING

  • JOY JOY JOY

  • JOURNEY TO THE MANGER

  • THE HOME OF THE BRAVE

  • REPEAT THE SOUNDING JOY

  • THAT'S THE GOOD NEWS!

  • EVIDENCE OF GRACE

  • EYES OF FAITH

  • BELIEVE

  • EYES OF FAITH (SIMPLIFIED VERSION)

  • HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD

  • THE SACRIFICE

  • MAJESTIC HYMNS V4

  • MAJESTIC HYMNS V2

  • MAJESTIC HYMNS V3

  • MAJESTIC HYMNS V1

  • ONLY YOU

  • THAT'S THE GOOD NEWS!

  • CELEBRATE THE LORD OF LOVE

  • HIGH AND EXALTED

  • FOREVER AND ALWAYS

  • LORD, HAVE MERCY

  • PREPARE THE WAY

  • ISN'T HE GOOD?

  • ALL RISE

  • GLORY, GLORY!

  • HOLY IS THE LORD

  • IN A HEARTBEAT

  • THE STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER

  • LOVE LET HIM GO

  • PREPARE THE WAY

  • AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL

  • MORE THAN I IMAGINE

  • WHO AM I

  • THE PROMISE

  • THIS GOD (HE IS OUR GOD)

  • I PLEDGE MEDLEY

  • I SALUTE YOU

  • EAST TO WEST

  • I'M NOT ASHAMED

  • THE VOICE OF A SAVIOR

  • THE LAST NOEL

  • WE SHALL BEHOLD HIM

  • BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE

  • ALIVE AND WELL

  • THE ONES LEFT STANDING

  • FAIREST LORD JESUS

  • GLORY AND HONOR

  • HE REMAINS FAITHFUL

  • SONG OF THE ANGELS

  • WHEREVER LOVE LEADS

  • IT'S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR

  • GRACE FLOWS DOWN

  • O GETHSEMANE

  • ABOVE ALL

  • YOUR GRACE STILL AMAZES ME

  • HE SHALL BE GREAT

  • JESUS, LIGHT OF THE WORLD

  • MOVED TO PRAISE

  • YOU REIGN

  • LOVE DIVINE

  • GOD OF OUR FATHERS

  • IT IS YOU

  • LET THERE BE BLESSING

  • JESUS WON IT ALL

  • GOD LOVES YOU

  • GLORIOUS LIGHT

  • NOT GUILTY

  • SING NOEL, SING HALLELUJAH

  • SWINGIN' TO THE SOUNDS MEDLEY

  • GLORIOUS DAY

  • PREPARE YE THE WAY

  • PRAISE THE FATHER, PRAISE THE SON

  • I WILL OFFER UP MY LIFE

  • LET'S HAVE A CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION

  • ARISE

  • HOLY IS HE

  • THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER

  • JOY HAS DAWNED UPON THE WORLD

  • INDESCRIBABLE

  • REDEEMER, SAVIOR, FRIEND

  • REFINER'S FIRE

  • WORTHY IS THE LAMB

  • THE FIRST NOEL

  • MULTIPLY YOUR LOVE

  • STILL

  • SAVE US

  • ONE NATION UNDER GOD

  • EVERYTHING TO ME

  • THE NEWBORN KING

  • STARLIGHT

  • BE THOU NEAR TO ME

  • CELEBRATE!

  • HERALD ANGELS MEDLEY

  • JESUS, YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL

  • HALLELUJAH, WHAT A SAVIOR!

  • CREATION SINGS!

  • SHELTER ME

  • FORGET YOUR WORRIES

  • SING GLORIA!

  • TONIGHT

  • OH, THE BLOOD

  • LET THE PRAISES RING

  • CROWN HIM WITH MANY CROWNS

  • RISEN LORD

  • THAT'S WHY THEY CALL IT GRACE

  • WE CROWN YOU NOW AS KING

  • JOHN 3:16

  • FOR THE LORD OUR GOD REIGNS

  • MAJESTY (HERE I AM)

  • WHEN THE LITTLE BABY BOY WAS BORN

  • FOR FREEDOM

  • THIS KINGDOM

  • TAKE MY LIFE

  • FROM HEAVEN'S THRONE

  • LET ALL HEAVEN REJOICE

  • SING FOR JOY!

  • A CHRISTMAS SUITE

  • THE POWER OF HIS LOVE

  • A SONG TO SING!

  • THE POWER OF PRAISE

  • VOICES OF CHRISTMAS

  • A BABY CHANGES EVERYTHING

  • CHRISTMAS ANGELS

  • THE CHRISTMAS STAR

  • GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO