Piano 4-Hands page 32SDGS 967 $4.50
Piano 4-hands 2.5’ 12 pgs.
The English rhyme, Sing a Song of Six Pence is the basis for 6Pence. The original choral work bears the dedication: “For my mother, Josephine, in celebration of her ever-present, always irreverent sense of humor!” Following an opening statement of the familiar verse using Schoenberg’s sprechstimme, the pianists begin a romping, crazy version of the familiar nursery rhyme tune which includes excerpts from Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro and a Berkey “frenzy” on the piano. Ballet dancers may be added to increase the fun and merriment!
Homage To Thomas Campion
SDGS 966 $3.50
Piano 4-hands 4’ 8 pgs.
The English poet and composer Thomas Campion (1567 - 1610) is the inspiration for this piano 4-hands work; specifically his poem, View Me, Lord, A Work of Thine. A prolific writer, Campion supplied texts and music for masques of the court of James the First. Jackson’s setting of this poem in his Thoughts & Remembrances serves as the basis for this beautiful instrumental work.
Hosanna Down! Major
Piano 4-hands 2.5’ 12 pgs.
Hosanna Down! is taken from Jackson Berkey’s choral piece, Hosanna! It is a delightfully syncopated, energetic powerhouse! This piece is so much fun to play, it could come with an unconditional, money back guarantee!
Hosanna Down! Modal
SDGS 974 $4.50
Piano 4-hands 2.5’ 12 pgs.
The double catalog listing is correct. This version simply discards the key of the “Major” version and turns into a very jazz oriented Dorian/Mixolydian hoe-down. The original Hosanna Down! is taken from Jackson Berkey’s choral piece, Hosanna!
Jackson Cove Moonrise
SDG 02-206 $6.95
(includes performance CD by the composer)
Piano 4-hands 4’ 12 pgs.
Strikingly similar to Chopin’s Prelude in E minor (4-hand setting included in the publication), this 4-hand setting of the solo piano version of Jackson Cove Moonrise captures in music the quickly changing panorama of a moonrise over the Hood Canal on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State.
Handbells page 32Angels We Have Heard On High
SDG 98-203 $3.95
Handbells 4’ 8 pgs.
Angels We Have Heard on High is one of America’s most beloved carols. It comes to us from the French countryside (probably in the 1700’s) where it emerged anonymously as a macaronic carol (that is, with its text a mélange of Latin and vernacular French) called Les angel dans nos campagnes. Robert Noland’s adaptation of Berkey’s arrangement is absolutely stunning.
A Day In A Manger
SDG 98-204 $3.95
Handbells 4’ 8 pgs.
A Day in a Manger is a contemporary setting of the popular carol, Away in a Manger. What we now understand as the standard American tune was first offered in Cincinnati in 1887 in the collection Dainty Songs for Little Lads and Lasses by James R. Murray. Robert Noland’s adaptation of Berkey’s arrangement works beautifully with handbells.
WIW 622 (Walton Music) $3.95
Handbells, treble voices or treble solo
4’ 8 pgs.
Jesu, Son Most Sweet and Dear is a centuries old anonymous English poem. Colin Brumby, an Australian composer and teacher at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, found it in an 1866 edition Political, Religious and Love Poems collected by F. J. Furniwall of The Early English Text Society. Robert Noland’s adaptation of Berkey’s arrangement works beautifully with handbells as the accompanying force.
View Me, Lord, A Work Of Thine
SDG 04-201 $3.95
Handbells 4’ 8 pgs.
The English poet and composer Thomas Campion (1567 - 1610) is the inspiration for this original vocal work by Berkey. Robert Noland adapted it for Easter Sunday services dedicating a new church sanctuary in 2004
This version also works beautifully as an acompaniment for either the solo vocal or choral settings.
Handbells page 32