Advent

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Christ the Savior Is Born (Reproducible collection)
CGB1233 (book)
CGB1233a (digital accompaniment tracks)
12 bells handbells or handchimes with optional piano accompaniment
Advent, Christmas
Level 2 & 3
2022
Includes:
  • Savior of the Nations, Come (NUN KOMM, DER HEIDEN HEILAND)
  • Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head (Applalachian carol)
  • ’Twas In the Moon of Wintertime (UNE JEUNE PUCELLE)
  • Sing We Now of Christmas/Now the Green Blade Rises (NOEL NOUVELET)
  • Silent Night (STILLE NACHT)
Sacred Solos for Bell Tree, Set 3 (Reproducible collection)
Choristers Guild
CGB1232 (book)
CGB1232a (digital accompaniment tracks)
2 or 3, and 3 octaves
Christmas
Easy to Medium
2022
  • Hark, the Glad Sound (CHESTERFIELD)
  • The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came (GABRIEL’S MESSAGE)
  • Silent Night (STILLE NACHT)
  • It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (CAROL)
  • Still, Still, Still (STILL, STILL, STILL)
Also playable from the table!
The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came (GABRIEL'S MESSAGE)
Choristers Guild
CGBD118 (digital download)
CGBD118a (.mp3 accompaniment)
Handbell solo (bell tree or from the table) with piano accompaniment
3 oct., piano
Advent, Annunciation Sunday
2020
Easy Favorites for the Handbell Soloist, Vol. 3
Choristers Guild
CGB1183 Book
CGCD76 Accompaniment CD
CGB1183a Accompaniment Mp3 Bundle
2 or 3 octaves handbell solo and keyboard

Contents:
  • Calming Peace (Prayer for Kristin)
  • Christ the Lord Is Risen Today (From the East the Donkey Came) (ORIENTIS PARTIBUS)
  • Kyrie
  • On Jordan’s Banks the Baptist’s Cry (That Easter Day with Joy Was Bright; What Star Is This, with Beams So Bright) (PUER NOBIS)
  • Still, Still, Still (STILLE, STILLE, STILLE)
  • This Is My Father’s World (TERRA BEATA)
  • ’Twas in the Moon of Wintertime (UNE JEUNE PUCELLE)
Advent, Christmas, Lent, Communion, General, Times of Meditation, Easter, Eastertide, Creation
2020
Repeat the Sounding Joy (Reproducible Collection)
Choristers Guild
CGB1116 (2-3 octaves)
CGB1117 (3, 4, or 5 octaves)
Includes Cathy's:
  • The Bells of Christmas
  • Savior of the Nations, Come
Level 1, 1+, 2- & 2
Advent, Christmas, Epiphany
2019
Joyfully Ring (Reproducible Collection)
Choristers Guild
CGB1061 2 or 3 octaves
CGB1062 3, 4, or 5 octaves
Levels 1, 1+, 2
General, Easter, Eastertide, Advent, Epiphany
2018
  • Jesus Shall Reign (DUKE STREET), arr. Cynthia Dobrinski
  • Processional and Bell Chime, Margaret R. Tucker
  • This Day of Gladness, Susan E. Geschke
  • That Easter Day with Joy Was Bright (On Jordan's Banks the Baptist's Cry, What Star Is This, with Beams So Bright) (PUER NOBIS), arr. Cathy Moklebust
  • How Firm a Foundation (FOUNDATION), arr. Sandra Eithun
Impressions on Veni, Emmanuel (VENI EMMANUEL)
Choristers Guild
CGB1000 (Full Score/Percussion parts)
CGB1001 (Handbell Score)
3, 4, 5 or 6 octaves handbells with finger cymbals (or triangle), chime tree, wood block, and optional 3 octaves handchimes
Level 4-
Advent
2017
Commissioned by Jim Dahlgran and dedicated to all handbell ringers of Trinity United Methodist Church and St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Lost In the Night (LOST IN THE NIGHT)
Choristers Guild 1014
3, 4 or 5 octaves handbells with optional violin and 3 octaves handchimes
Level 2+
Advent
2017
For Michael Burkhardt
Easy Favorites for the Handbell Soloist, Vol. 2
Choristers Guild
CGB1022 (Book)
CGCD68 (Accompaniment CD)
3-4 oct handbells, keyboard accompaniment
Advent; Christmas; Lent; Communion; Easter; Eastertide; General
2017
  • Rejoice, Rejoice! (HAF TRONES LAMPA FARDIG/VENI EMMANUEL)
  • In the Bleak Midwinter (CRANHAM)
  • Thee We Adore, O Hidden Savior (ADORO TE DEVOTE)
  • Now the Green Blade Rises (NOEL NOUVELET)
  • Lord, Whose Love in Humble Service (BEACH SPRING)
  • Children of the Heavenly Father (TRYGGARE KAN INGEN VARA)
  • O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing (AZMON)
Prepare the Royal Highway (BEREDEN VAG FOR HERRAN)
Choristers Guild
CGB896 (2-3 oct. handbells, oboe or other C or Bb instrument, opt. percussion and 2-3 oct. handchimes)
CGB897 (3-5 oct. handbells, oboe or other C or Bb instrument, opt. percussion and 3-5 oct. handchimes)
CGRP35 (Reproducible Instrumental Parts)
Level 3-
Advent/Palm Sunday
2015
Christ Is Alive! Let Christians Sing (TRURO)
(Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates)
Choristers Guild
CGB876 (2-3 oct. handbells, opt. Bb, F, or C treble instrument, or C bass instrument)
CGB877 (3-5 oct. handbells, opt. Bb, F, or C treble instrument, or C bass instrument)
Level 2
Easter/Advent/Palm Sunday
2014
That Easter Day with Joy Was Bright (PUER NOBIS)
(On Jordan’s Banks the Baptist’s Cry)
(What Star Is This with Beams So Bright)
Choristers Guild
CGB281 (2-3 oct. handbells)
CGB870 (3-5 oct. handbells)
Level 2
Advent/Epiphany/Easter
2014
Comfort, Comfort (FREU DICH SEHR)
Choristers Guild
CGB855 (Full Score/Instrumental Parts)
CGB856 (Handbell Score)
3-5 oct. handbells, opt. handchimes, flute, percussion
Level 3
Advent
2014
Commissioned by de klokkenluiders, Pella, Iowa, in honor of fifteen years of joyful ringing together.
Easy Favorites for the Handbell Soloist
Choristers Guild
CGB862 3-4 oct. solo handbells, keyboard acc. (book)
CGCD56 audio CD keyboard acc.
2014
  • Savior of the Nations, Come
  • Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head
  • Greensleeves (What Child Is This?)
  • Amazing Grace
  • God, Who Stretched the Spangled Heavens
  • Meditation on Beautiful Savior
  • The Lord Is My Shepherd
Celebrate the Season (reproducible collection)
Choristers Guild
CGB785 (2-3 oct. handbells, percussion)
CGB786 (3-5 oct. handbells, percussion)
Levels 2 and 2+
Advent/Christmas
2013
  • Rejoice, Rejoice! (HAF TRONES LAMPA FÄRDIG/VENI, EMMANUEL)
  • Come Thou Long-Expected Jesus (JEFFERSON)
  • Twas In the Moon of Wintertime (UNE JEUNE PUCELLE)
  • What Is this Lovely Fragrance? (QUELLE EST CETTE ODEUR AGRÉABLE)
  • Away in a Manger (AWAY IN A MANGER)
  • Infant Holy, Infant Lowly (W ZLOBIE LEZY)
  • Rise Up, Shepherd and Follow (RISE UP, SHEPHERD)
Joy to the World (ANTIOCH)
Choristers Guild
CGB703 (Full Score)
CGB704 (Handbell Score)
CGB705 (Organ Score)
CGA1232 (SATB Score)
CGRP23 (Instrumental Parts)
3-5 oct. handbells, opt. organ, brass, timpani, SATB, congregation
Level 3
2011
The King Shall Come (CONSOLATION/MORNING SONG)
Choristers Guild
CGB690 (2-3 oct. handbells, opt. percussion)
CGB691 (3-6 oct. handbells, opt. percussion)
Level 2
2011
O Love, How Deep (DEO GRATIAS)
(O WONDROUS TYPE)
Choristers Guild
CGB715 (Full Score/Instrumental Parts)
CGB716 (Handbell Score)
3-5 oct. handbells, percussion
Level 2
2011
Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus (JEFFERSON)
Choristers Guild
CGB266 (2-3 oct. handbells, percussion)
CGB569 (3-5 oct. handbells, percussion)
Level 2
2008
Savior of the Nations, Come (NUN KOMM, DER HEIDEN HEILAND)
Choristers Guild
CGB173 (2-3 oct. handbells, opt. percussion)
CGB300 (3-5 oct. handbells, opt. percussion)
Level 2
2003
Creator of the Stars of Night (CONDITOR ALME SIDERUM)
Choristers Guild CGB268
2-3 oct. handbells, handchimes, chime tree
Level 1
2002
Hymnworks III (collection)
Lorenz Publishing HB-36
  • Adeste Fideles (Two Hymn Accompaniment)
  • Adoro te devote (random ring)
  • Antioch (Hymn Accompaniment)
  • Conditor alme siderum (random ring)
  • Diademata (Processional)
  • Divinum Mysterium (random ring)
  • Holy Manna (Ostinati)
  • Jefferson (Ostinati)
  • Lobe den Herren (Processional)
  • Noel Nouvelet (Ostinati)
  • Picardy (random ring)
  • Valet will ich dir geben (Hymn Accompaniment w/descant)
  • Veni Creator Spiritus (random ring)
  • Veni veni Emmanuel (Hymn Accompaniment)
  • Victimae paschali (random ring)
2-5 oct. handbells, congregation
Level 2
General/Seasonal
1999
People Look East (BESANÇON) (POP)
Augsburg Fortress 11-10805
3-5 oct. handbells
Level 4
1997
Rise Up Shepherd and Follow (collection) 
  • The Babe of Bethlehem (THE BABE OF BETHLEHEM)
  • Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus (JEFFERSON)
  • The Hills are Bare at Bethlehem (PROSPECT)
  • The King Shall Come (MORNING SONG/CONSOLATION)
  • Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow (RISE UP, SHEPHERD)
Choristers Guild CGB184
2-3 oct. handbells, opt. percussion
Level 2
1997
The Bells of Christmas (collection)
  • Rejoice, Rejoice! (HAF TRONES LAMPA FÄRDIG/VENI, EMMANUEL)
  • Gentle Mary Laid Her Child (TEMPUS ADEST FLORIDUM)
  • Away in a Manger (AWAY IN A MANGER)
  • The Bells of Christmas (DET KIMER NU TIL JULEFEST)
Choristers Guild CGB146
2 oct. handbells
Level 2
1993