Flute Choir, Woodwind Ensemble Alto Flute, Bass Flute, Flute, Piccolo - Level 3 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.1901595
Composed by Traditional. Arranged by James-Michael Sellers. This edition: pdf. Holiday. 33 pages. JMS Composer #1459824. Published by JMS Composer (A0.1901595).
A bold and inventive overture treatment of the traditional carol Good King Wenceslas, arranged for flute choir. Scored for Piccolo (optional), Flutes 1–3, Alto Flute, and Bass Flute, this intermediate work runs approximately 5 minutes and is ideal for holiday and winter concert programming.
The piece opens in the brilliant clarity of G major, the piccolo alone before the flutes enter one by one — each voice carrying independent material rather than simply doubling, the texture building toward a full-ensemble drive. The melody is present from the start, but rhythmically displaced and layered across all voices in a way that gives the familiar tune forward momentum and energy.
When the B section arrives, the key shifts to Eb major — warmer, more relaxed, almost wistful — and the melody that was driving now breathes. The same tune becomes something different: spacious, song-like, lyrical. As the music moves into 3/4, the key drifts further to Db major, a sense of wandering far from home, the ensemble pulling back to something quiet and sustained. A full-ensemble fermata holds that stillness before G major snaps back into place — brilliant and immediate — and the opening energy returns. The recap builds to a full choir statement at ff and ends with a sharp stinger, a clean cutoff that leaves the room ringing.
Modal mixture throughout keeps the harmonic language alive and unpredictable, with accidentals woven consistently across all voices rather than appearing as occasional decoration.
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Flute Choir, Woodwind Ensemble Alto Flute, Bass Flute, Flute, Piccolo - Level 3 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.1901595
Composed by Traditional. Arranged by James-Michael Sellers. This edition: pdf. Holiday. 33 pages. JMS Composer #1459824. Published by JMS Composer (A0.1901595).
A bold and inventive overture treatment of the traditional carol Good King Wenceslas, arranged for flute choir. Scored for Piccolo (optional), Flutes 1–3, Alto Flute, and Bass Flute, this intermediate work runs approximately 5 minutes and is ideal for holiday and winter concert programming.
The piece opens in the brilliant clarity of G major, the piccolo alone before the flutes enter one by one — each voice carrying independent material rather than simply doubling, the texture building toward a full-ensemble drive. The melody is present from the start, but rhythmically displaced and layered across all voices in a way that gives the familiar tune forward momentum and energy.
When the B section arrives, the key shifts to Eb major — warmer, more relaxed, almost wistful — and the melody that was driving now breathes. The same tune becomes something different: spacious, song-like, lyrical. As the music moves into 3/4, the key drifts further to Db major, a sense of wandering far from home, the ensemble pulling back to something quiet and sustained. A full-ensemble fermata holds that stillness before G major snaps back into place — brilliant and immediate — and the opening energy returns. The recap builds to a full choir statement at ff and ends with a sharp stinger, a clean cutoff that leaves the room ringing.
Modal mixture throughout keeps the harmonic language alive and unpredictable, with accidentals woven consistently across all voices rather than appearing as occasional decoration.
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.
About Digital Downloads
Digital Downloads are downloadable sheet music files that can be viewed directly on
your computer, tablet or mobile device. Once you download your digital sheet music,
you can view and print it at home, school, or anywhere you want to make music, and
you don't have to be connected to the internet. Just purchase, download and play!
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