Review:
Capriccio is defined as "an instrumental piece in free form." Composer Kevin McChesney has placed this piece in 7/8 time with occasional 6/8 and 3/8 measures with a middle section in 3/4. The tempo marking is "With fire! quarter = 144 and quarter-dot = 96." Driving eighth-note accompaniment moves the work along while the melody is more a chordal texture than melodic line. Lots of staccato technique is found in the beginning sections before the slower, 3/4 section opts for mallets on suspended bells in the bass and treble bells. Tempo I reappears and adds dramatic mart and mart-lifts. A full shakes and ascending, marted line completes the piece that should have all the ringers hopping! Set in c minor, measures total 150.
Published by:
AGEHR Publishing
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Composer:
McChesney, K.
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Arranger:
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Octaves:
3-5
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Level:
5
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Rating:
Advanced
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Copyright:
1997
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Classification:
Church or Concert
, Secular
, Original Composition
, Concert
, Classical Music
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Technique:
Mallet
, Pl (Pluck)
, Martellato Lift
, Pluck Lift
, Sk (Shake)
, LV (Let Vibrate)
, Martellato
, Mallet Lift
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Voicing:
Handbells, No Choral
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Bells Used:
Three Octaves: 31 Bells; Four Octaves: 38 Bells; Five Octaves: 49 Bells
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