Name: Grandfathers Clock (arr. Peet du Toit) by Danny Marsden S. Widdicombe Brass Ensemble Digital Sheet Music
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Grandfathers Clock (arr. Peet du Toit)
by Danny Marsden S. Widdicombe Brass Ensemble - Digital Sheet Music

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Product Details

Title Grandfathers Clock (arr. Peet du Toit)

Artist Danny Marsden S. Widdicombe

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 73

Arrangement Brass Ensemble

Publisher Peet du Toit

Level 4

Product ID 1502150

Genre Folk Pop

Instruments Euphonium French Horn Trombone Trumpet Tuba

Performance Group Brass Ensemble

Product Description

"Grandfather's Clock" (popularly known as "My Grandfather's Clock") is a song written in 1876 by Henry Clay Work, the author of "Marching Through Georgia". It is a standard of British brass bands and colliery bands, and is also popular in bluegrass music. The Oxford English Dictionary says the song was the origin of the term "grandfather clock" for a longcase clock. In 1905, the earliest known recording of this song was performed by Harry Macdonough and the Haydn Quartet (known then as the "Edison Quartet").The song, told from a grandchild's point of view, is about his grandfather's clock.

The clock is purchased on the morning of the grandfather's birth and works perfectly for 90 years, requiring only that it be wound at the end of each week.

The clock seems to know the good and bad events in the grandfather's life; it rings 24 chimes when the grandfather brings his new wife into his home, and near his death it rings an alarm, which the family recognizes to mean that the elderly gentleman is near death and gathers by his bed. After the grandpa dies, the clock suddenly stops, and never works again.

This famous Euphonium solo, with brass quintet, but also with Sam Harrill's percussive magic. Enjoy!

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