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Published Music of Malcolm C Wilson
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Adagio, 2-3 octaves, level 2-,
2008, Agape, Hope
Publishing Company, code 2421. This arrangement is of the theme from the 2nd movement of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's concerto for clarinet and orchestra (K622), his last instrumental work completed before his death in 1791. This music has been used on the soundtracks of movies such as Out of Africa (1985), Green Card (1990) and Wasabi (2001). Listen to a recording by The Agape Ringers |
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An Advent Tapestry, 3-5
octaves, level 2, 1993,
Lorenz, 20/1007 Incorporates the melodies "Veni, Emmanuel", "Wachet Auf", and "Helmsley". Commissioned for Maghull Parish Ringers in Merseyside. Listen to a recording. |
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All in the April Evening, 3-5
octaves, compatible with SATB version, level 3, 2003,
Roberton
Publications, code 95514 This arrangement is compatible with the vocal 4-part choral classic by Sir Hugh S Roberton but can also be performed with handbells alone. It employs echo, mallet, thumb-damp, LV, mallet-roll, suspended mallet and brush-damp handbell techniques. Sir Hugh Roberton (1874-1952) conducted the most famous of all Scottish choirs, the Glasgow Orpheus Choir, for all of its 40 years and over a thousand concerts, and he composed or arranged hundreds of songs and part songs, many of them for the Glasgow Orpheus Choir. Some of these like All in the April Evening, have become "standards”. Roberton composed this telling, but simple Easter message at a time of great personal tragedy, and it is probably one of the most famous of all choral songs. He was knighted in 1931. The request to make this arrangement for handbells came from Hugh Roberton’s son, Kenneth Roberton, who himself was a conductor of note and founder of the Roberton publishing business. This arrangement was premiered in concert at the end of the National Residential Ringing Week at Dunblane Cathedral on Friday 1st August 2003. Download and view a video of All in the April Evening at Stirling Castle |
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Amazing Grace, 3-5 octaves, and
unison voices or solo instrument, level 4, 2003,
Beckenhorst Press,
HBSE2 (includes parts for solo instrument in C, unison
vocals, and Great Highland Bagpipes) Based on the traditional melody wedded to the John Newton test (to which this arrangement can be performed). Commissioned for the Handbell Ensemble of the American Guild of Organists, Savannah Chapter and premiered by them in February 2003 in the Cathedral of St John the Baptist, Savannah, Georgia, USA. Massed item at National Residential Ringing Week in Dunblane Cathedral August 2003. Massed selection at International Handbell Symposium 2004 in Toronto, Canada. Massed selection at AGEHR Area 1 Festival Conference 2005 (University of New Hampshire), Bay View Week of Handbells 2005 (Michigan) and AGEHR National Festival Conference 2006. Listen to a recording of Amazing Grace with solo flute. Listen to a recording with solo bagpipes. Download and view a video of Amazing Grace at Stirling Castle 2003 |
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Andante from Water Music,
2 octaves, level 3, 1995,
Flagstaff, HB 163 Massed ringing selection 3rd Scottish Handbell Festival 1991. |
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The Brig o' Blane
Engagement, 3 octaves, level 2, 1995,
Flagstaff, HB 160,
optional drum/tambour Massed ringing selection 3rd Scottish Handbell Festival 1991. Selected for massed ringing at 17th Annual Spring Ring in Sacramento, CA, USA in 2000. The title is a word play on the respective birthplaces of one of my younger brothers and his wife and composed at the time of their engagement to be married. My brother was born in Dunblane in the centre of Scotland (hence Blane, a Celtic missionary and later saint, who founded a hillside monastic community here in the year AD602 - dun meaning fortified hill). My brother's wife was from Bridge of Don near Aberdeen in Scotland (hence brig o'). The piece is reminiscent of Scottish martial airs as both parts of Scotland were the scenes of many battles (engagements) over the centuries hence the drum and plucked grace note and swung notes which simulate the Scottish Highland bagpipe (an instrument which has a unique scale which is suggested by the use of unusual chordal shifts in the piece). Listen to a recording. |
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Capriccio Campana, 3
octaves, level 4, 1993,
National, HB-354. Composed for my wife - my favourite piece! Download and listen to MP3 recording - performed by The Bluebells, Tokyo, Japan, directed by Eiko Kimura. |
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The Christ Child's Lullaby
(Gaelic: "TALADH CHRISODA"),
2 octaves, level 3, and SATB choir, 1999,
Flagstaff, HB 200
(director score) HB 201 (handbell score) HB 202 (SATB
score), SATB choir Traditional carol from Scotland's Outer Isles. The melody is a traditional Gaelic waulking song (a song sung by workers to keep the rhythm while making hand-woven tweed cloth) from the Scottish outer isles of the Outer Hebrides. The original Gaelic carol text was written by the Rev. Ranald Rankin in 1855 as a gift to the children of his congregation in Moidart to sing on Christmas Eve. This was soon heard in churches on the isles of Barra, South Uist and Eriskay, where it was collected by Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser and first published in her "Songs of the Hebrides" in the early 20th century. The words are: "My Love, my joy, my darling, thou, With riches full my heart is now, My babe-son beautiful art thou, Unworthy I to tend to thee. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia. My Love, as hope and life art thou, My love, as heart and eye art thou, Though but a tender babe, I bow In heav'nly rapture unto thee. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia. Amen." Download and listen to MP3 recording - performed by The Choir of St Michael and All Angels directed by Karen Philips, and St Michael's Belles of Parish Church of St Michael and All Angels, Sandhurst, Berkshire. |
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Christ's is the World in Which We
Move, 2-3 octaves, level 2, 2000,
Green
Rose Press (alternative title A Touching
Place) Commissioned for the Ringers of Holy Innocents' Episcopal School, Atlanta, Georgia. Based on the traditional Scottish melody Dream Angus (as used for the modern hymn by John Bell and Graham Maule of the Iona Community). 'Dream Angus' is a Scottish version of the sandman in folklore, going around helping children to sleep. The lyrics of the chorus are: "Dreams to sell, fine dreams to sell Angus is here wi' dreams to sell Hush ye my bairnie and sleep without fear Dream Angus has brought you a dream my dear" Download and watch a video clip of this piece performed by a group from Dunblane Cathedral |
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Dance and Sing (alternative title
Faery's Lament), 2-3 octaves, level 2, 2004,
GIA Publications,
G-6314 This traditional Scottish Gaelic lullaby “Pulling Bracken” was collected in the Hebrides by Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser (1857-1930) and the legend is that the faery who sang the song was in love with the young girl whom he met when she came out to cut the bracken. When her family caught her they kept her locked up in their home. Since she didn't come any more the faery became despondent and sang the song. The melody has been set to the text of modern hymns "Dance and Sing All the Earth" (which follows the course of Creation as celebrated in Genesis Chapter 1) by John Bell and Graham Maule; and for Easter "Lifted High on Your Cross" by I. Cowie - writers of the Iona Community. If performed using the title "Faery's Lament" then it would be performed at the slower marked tempo adding an optional rainstick throughout; if performing with the title "Dance and Sing all the Earth" then it would be performed at the faster marked tempo adding an optional light tambourine ad lib. Massed selection for Scottish Schools Ring held in Dunblane Primary School with 200 pupils performing. Listen to a recording. |
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Dunblane, 3 octaves, level 3,
1986,
Handbell Ringers of Great
Britain, HRGB The music is from a song by Jim Macleod, who was leader of one of Scotland's most popular dance-bands which featured in numerous radio, television and recording sessions as well as performing annually for the Queen at Balmoral Castle. He was also musical director at one of Scotland's best known hotels, Dunblane Hydro. This arrangement was used as a massed ringing item and conducted by Jim Macleod, at the Scottish Handbell Festival, held in Dunblane. The words are: When it's morning in Dunblane and I wake up to the rain Drizzling down on sleepy rooftops on the hillside by Dunblane That's the home that keeps on calling though I'm often far from home That's the home that ties me dearly to Dunblane. The old Cathedral City with its mem'ries by the score I can share it all with someone, no-one really asks for more Though the highways lead to fortune I can hear a soft refrain For the bells they are ringing o'er the hillside by Dunblane And wherever roads may lead me And they take me far from home That's the home that ties me dearly to Dunblane. Listen to a recording |
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Ennanodrog, 3 octaves,
level 4, 1990,
Jeffers, JH S9013, optional multiple
choir/chimes/keyboard round Massed ringing masterclass selection HRGB Regional Rally Chester 1986. The title is a play on the names of those for whom it was composed - their names in reverse! The three central themes can be played as a round either as two or three handbell groups, or with a keyboard. Listen to a recording. |
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Fantasy on Alleluia Quarters,
3 octaves, level 4, 1990,
Jeffers, JH S9006 Massed ringing selection 2nd Scottish Handbell Festival 1987. Melody is the quarter hour chime in Dunblane Cathedral, unique in Scotland, inaugurated on the occasion of the visit to Dunblane of King Edward VII in 1908. Listen to a recording. |
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Festive Exultation!, 3-5
octaves, level 4, 1994,
Jeffers, JH
S9149, optional chimes Commissioned by Moorings Ringers of Moorings Presbyterian Church in Naples, Florida. Selected for massed ringing at the 9th International Handbell Symposium in 2000 in Birmingham. Listen to a recording - performed by The Bluebells, Tokyo, Japan, directed by Eiko Kimura. |
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Ho Ri, Ho Ro (alternative titles: Tiree
Love Song, or Heaven on Earth), 2-3 octaves,
level 1, 2007, From
The Top Publishing,
20171. This traditional Gaelic melody is from the Isle of Tiree, the most westerly island of Scotland's Inner Hebrides, situated twenty-two miles west of the mainland of Scotland and the twentieth largest island in the British Isles. It is at the same latitude as southern Alaska yet with the moderating influence of the Gulf Stream has a mild climate with some of the highest levels of sunshine recorded anywhere in the British Isles. The song is often credited to Alexander MacLean Sinclair, who collected and published many collections of Gaelic cultural material in the 19th century. He was the grandson of John MacLean of Tiree, known generally as the Bard MacLean, the last professional Gaelic poet in Scotland. The melody has been set to the modern hymn text by John Bell and Graham Maule, The God of Heaven is Present on Earth, published by the Iona Community. The words Ho-Ri Ho-Ro (pronounced hoe-ree hoe-row) are vocables, or words that don't necessarily have any meaning but are often used in Highland Scots music. The words of the Tiree Love Song (Ho Ri Ho Ro) are: 1. Ho-ri, ho-ro my bonnie wee girl. Ho-ri, ho-ro my fair one. Will you come away my love. To be my own my rare one. 2. Smiling the land, shining the sea. Sweet is the smell o' the heather. Would we were younger you and me. The two of us together. Chorus Ho-ri, ho-ro my bonnie wee girl. Ho-ri, ho-ro my fair one. Will you come away my love. To be my own my rare one. 3. All the day long, out on the peat. Then on the shore in the gloaming. Stepping it lightly with dancing feet. And then together roaming. Chorus 4. Laughter above, singing below. Tripping it lithsome and airy. Could we be asking of life for more. My own my darling Mary. Chorus Listen to a recording. |
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Humoresque, 2-3 octaves,
level 4, 1995, Flagstaff,
HB 162 An arrangement of Dvorak's famous melody. |
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In Majesty Resplendent,
3-5 octaves, level 3+ and organ or brass quintet, 2004,
GIA Publications,
G-6315 (handbell and organ parts combined), G-6315 INST
(brass quintet parts) Original composition commissioned for The Atlanta Concert Ringers of St Mark United Methodist Church, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, premiered 2002. Listen to a recording. |
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Jessie the Flower o' Dunblane, 3
octaves, level 3, 1986,
Handbell Ringers of Great
Britain, HRGB Listen to a recording |
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Jubilate Noël, 3 octaves,
level 3, 1988, Agape,
1338 Fantasy incorporating the melodies "In Dulci Jubilo", "Sussex Carol", "I saw three ships". Listen to a recording. |
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Lysbeth with a "Y", 3
octaves, level 3, 1990,
Jeffers, JH S9014
Massed ringing selection 1997 HRGB National Residential Ringing Week, Dunblane and conducted by the Lysbeth of the title: Lysbeth C Wilson. Listen to a recording - performed by The Bluebells, Tokyo, Japan, directed by Eiko Kimura. |
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Margareta Aurumque - Carmen
Sollemne, 3 octaves, level 3, 1989,
Handbell Ringers of Great
Britain, HRGB 03/02 (alternative title
March of the Golden Pearl) Massed ringing masterclass selection Lancaster University 1985, 2nd Scottish Handbell Festival 1987, and Liverpool University 1999. The music was composed to celebrate what would have been the Golden (Latin "Aurumque") and Pearl (Latin "Margareta") wedding anniversaries of grandparents and parents respectively. However my grandfather died in the months preceding the date of the Golden Wedding anniversary and so the title had the addition of Carmen Sollemne (Latin for sad song). Listen to a recording. |
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Meditation on 'Blaenwern',
3-5 octaves, level 3, 1996,
Lorenz, 20/1068L Appropriate for meditative reading of Charles Wesley hymn text "Love Divine, all loves excelling". Commissioned for the director of Maghull Parish Ringers, Merseyside. Listen to a recording. |
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Morning has Broken,
3-5 octaves, level 2, 2006,
Lorenz, 20/1349L “Morning has broken” became part of popular culture when recorded by Cat Stevens in 1971. This setting of the popular traditional Scottish Gaelic lullaby “Bunessan” is suitable for performing in a concert situation or in a worship setting as an aid to meditative reading of the text of the hymn text “Morning has Broken” or the Christmas hymn text “Child in the Manger”. The melody was first published in “Songs and Hymns of the Gael” in 1888. This arrangement is in a reflective style to evoke the tranquility of the village of Bunessan (which gave the melody its name) on the Ross of Mull (Ross means peninsula) at the south of the isle of Mull off the west coast of Scotland. This is inextricably linked to Iona, the island which has been a place of pilgrimage for Christians since St Columba landed there in the 6th century AD, and more recently home to the Iona Community. The setting makes judicious use of handbell techniques Echo, Martellato Lift , Tower Swing), and Vibrato, and intersperses an original motif with the well-known melody. Listen to a recording. |
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A Nativity Antiphonal, 3-5
octaves, level 3, 1995,
Lorenz, 20/1063L, organ Incorporates the melodies "Noel Nouvelet", "Personent Hodie" and "Il est ne, le divin Enfant". Ranked within top 40 of retail sales for 1995, Jeffers Retail Division. Listen to a recording. |
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Otley, 3-5 octaves, level
3, 1999, Lorenz,
20/1180L Commissioned by the Otley Bell Orchestra, Otley, West Yorkshire. There are three motifs. One, the stately refrain, alludes to the classical style of Thomas Chippendale (1718-79), English furniture designer born in Otley. The next provides a carnival feeling as Otley is a market town with an annual carnival. The last theme is hymn-like in reference to the association of the area with John Wesley (1703-91), evangelist, founder of Methodism and publisher of the first hymn book in the USA. Listen to a recording. |
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Reflection on "Kelvingrove",
2-3 octaves, level 1, 1998,
Lorenz, 20/1130L Based on the traditional Scottish melody this reflective piece may be performed as an aid to reflection during meditative reading of the text of the hymn by John L. Bell and Graham A. Maule "Will you come and follow me if I but call your name" (The Summons). Alternatively a narrator may read the text of the hymn in a free manner.
Kelvingrove on the River Kelvin, near where it joins the
River Clyde, is now a part of the city of Glasgow. This tune
appears in Smith’s collection “Scottish Minstrel” in 1824,
though it was then called Kelvin Water, but the tune was long
known as “O the shearin’s no for you” which was the first line
of the old song. |
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Reflection on "St Clement",
3-5 octaves, level 3, 1998,
Jeffers, JH S9230 Based on the hymn-tune by Clement Cotterill Scholefield, this reflective piece may be performed as an aid to reflection during meditative reading of the text of John Ellerton's hymn "The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended" for which the melody was composed. Commissioned for member of St Wulfram's Handbell Ringers, Grantham, Lincolnshire. Massed ringing selection 1999 HRGB National Residential Ringing Week, Dunblane. Download and listen to MP3 recording - performed by The Bluebells, Tokyo, Japan, directed by Eiko Kimura. |
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Ring of Praise, 2-5
octaves, level 3, 2003,
Lorenz, 20/1271L, optional Bb clarinet, organ solo reed
or violin. An original composition. Listen to a recording. |
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Rondo Campana, 2-5
octaves, level 3, 1993,
Lorenz, 20/1018, optional chimes Prize winner in Handbell Ringers of Great Britain Silver Jubilee Composition Contest 1992. Listen to a recording. |
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The Skye Boat Song, 3-5
octaves, level 3, 1998,
AGEHR, AG35123 Massed ringing selection 4th Scottish Handbell Festival 1996 and 1st Canadian Handbell Festival 1998. Massed ringing selection 1999 HRGB National Residential Ringing Week, Dunblane. Massed ringing selection at International Handbell Symposium 2004 in Toronto. Traditional Scottish melody (for the song Speed bonnie boat like a bird on the wing) which has been set to the modern hymn Spirit of God as strong as the wind by Margaret Old and to the modern Christmas carol Hush little baby, peace little boy by Michael Perry. Annie MacLeod (later Lady Wilson) heard the first part of this old Highland rowing tune in 1879 while being rowed from Torrin to Loch Coruisk in Skye. She added the second part herself and in 1884 Sir Harold Boulton (editor of "Songs of the North") wrote the words. They tell the story of an episode in the wanderings of Bonnie Prince Charlie in the winter of 1745-6 when he made his escape, disguised as a maid to Flora Macdonald, in a small rowing boat with a few loyal highlanders. A storm was rising and his pursuers chose not to follow. Listen to a recording - performed by The Bluebells, Tokyo, Japan, directed by Eiko Kimura. |
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Theme from Symphony No. 1,
2 octaves, level 2, 1990,
Jeffers, JH S9017 Brahms' theme has been set to words in the modern hymn "We are God's People". |
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The Trumpet Tune Finale,
2-3 octaves, level 3, 1989,
Flammer, HP-5303 Charpentier's popular wedding selection. Has an optional recessional section. |
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Variations on a Highland Cradle
Song, 3-5 octaves, level 3, 1991,
Handbell Ringers of Great
Britain, HRGB 35/01 Massed ringing selection 3rd Scottish Handbell Festival 1991 and 5th International Symposium, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 1992. Listen to a recording - performed by The Bluebells, Tokyo, Japan, directed by Eiko Kimura. |
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Variations on Loch Lomond, 3
octaves, level 3, 1986,
Handbell Ringers of Great
Britain, HRGB Listen to a recording - performed by the Kinder Ringers, New Mills, directed by Anne Hopley. |
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Variations on Piper o' Dundee, 3
octaves, level 3, 1986,
Handbell Ringers of Great
Britain, HRGB Listen to a recording |
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