Name: Beach Spring - 10-Bell Ensemble (arr. Mark R Lewis) by B F White Performance Ensemble Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Mark R Lewis
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Beach Spring - 10-Bell Ensemble (arr. Mark R Lewis)
by B F White Performance Ensemble - Digital Sheet Music

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Product Details

Title Beach Spring - 10-Bell Ensemble (arr. Mark R Lewis)

Artist B F White

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Arranger Mark R Lewis

Composer B F White

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 3

Arrangement Performance Ensemble

Publisher Mark R Lewis

Level 3

Product ID 1240621

Genre Sacred Religious Folk Chamber

Instruments Handbells

Product Description

"Beach Spring" is an old American hymn-tune usually attributed to B. F. White, the co-editor of the music collection The Sacred Harp. Among the hymns that use this tune are "Lord, Whose Love Through Humble Service" and "Wash, O God, Our Sons and Daughters." The melody of the tune itself is pentatonic though many harmonizations end up disguising this. This particular arrangement by Mark Lewis actually embraces the pentatonic aspects of the melody and extends them throughout the harmony as well, causing the piece to require a 10 bell ensemble which is rather unusual and easiest to realize with five players. The time signature also is modified throughout the piece, starting in 8/4, moving through 7/4, and ending up in 6/4 which is basically the 3/2 time signature usually associated with the tune. By feeling the whole piece in variations of a "Three Pattern" the tempo marking of quarter-note = 200 is actually much more reasonable than it would first appear.

This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.