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Cathy Moklebust

Newly Published Music for Handbells

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Two Grooves
Choristers Guild
CGB1244 Full Score
CGB1245 Handbell Part
CGB1246 Handchime Part
3, 4, or 5  octaves handbells, and/or opt. 3, 4, or 5 octaves handchimes
Level 2+
Secular, Jazz
2023
Contents:
  • Groove No. 1 in D Minor
  • Groove No. 2 in C Minor
Commissioned by Gillian Erlenborn for the talented students at Frelinghuysen Middle School in Morristown, New Jersey.

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Angels We Have Heard on High (GLORIA)
Choristers Guild CGB1283

3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 octaves handbells, and opt. 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 octaves handchimes
Level 4-
Christmas
2023
Commissioned by the Circle City Ringers, Indianapolis, Indiana, Mike Keller, Director, and dedicated to all the past and present members of the ensemble.


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Infant Holy, Infant Lowly (W ZLOBIE LEZY)
Choristers Guild CGB1264

3, 4, or 5 octaves handbells or handchimes
Level 2
Christmas
2023
For Kathy Lowrie.


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Music to Make Us Smile
Choristers Guild CGB1266

3, 4, or 5 octaves handbells or handchimes
Play pieces individually or as a complete concert!
Level 2+
2023
Contents:
  • Festive Day
  • Theme from Symphony No. 9 (Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee) Chopsticks (The Celebrated Chop Waltz)
  • The Water Is Wide (When Love Is Found)
  • Celebration and Dance (Hosanna! Hosanna!)
  • Londonderry Air (O Danny Boy | O Christ the Same | I Cannot Tell)
  • When the Saints Go Marching In
  • My Country, ’Tis of Thee

No bell sharing or accidentals within pieces!


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Music to Make Us Smile
Choristers Guild CGB1265

2 or 3 octaves handbells or handchimes
Play pieces individually or as a complete concert!
Level 2+
2023
Contents:
  • Festive Day
  • Theme from Symphony No. 9 (Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee) Chopsticks (The Celebrated Chop Waltz)
  • The Water Is Wide (When Love Is Found)
  • Celebration and Dance (Hosanna! Hosanna!)
  • Londonderry Air (O Danny Boy | O Christ the Same | I Cannot Tell)
  • When the Saints Go Marching In
  • My Country, ’Tis of Thee

No bell sharing or accidentals within pieces!


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Vivacio
(Spirited Praise)
Beckenhorst HB785

3, 4, or 5 octaves handbells and optional 3, 4, or 5 octaves handchimes
General, Palm Sunday, Easter, Ceremonial, Festival
Level 4
2023
In memory of Julie Hora Williams, beloved director of the Jubilee Handbell Choir for 18 years. Her approach to life, love of music, patience, and sense of humor endeared her to us forever. Commissioned by the Jubilee Handbell Choir, First United Methodist Church, Hendersonville, North Carolina.


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  1. Manhã de Carnaval (A Day In the Life of a Fool/Theme from Black Orpheus)
5-7 octaves handbells, Latin percussion
Secular, Jazz
Level 5
2023

Full Score with Percussion Parts (maracas, claves, guiro, bongos, congas, vibraslap)
  • Sheet Music Direct
  • Sheet Music Plus
Handbell Score
  • Sheet Music Direct
  • Sheet Music Plus

manhã_de_carnaval_handbell_score_sample_pages.pdf
File Size: 85 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File


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We Go Together (from "Grease")
5 or 6 octaves handbells, voices
Secular, Musical Theater, End of School Year
Level 3
2023
For the Twin Cities Bronze.

  • Sheet Music Direct
  • Sheet Music Plus

we_go_together_sample_pages.pdf
File Size: 95 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File


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Pageantry
(Honor and Praise)
Choristers Guild CGB1254

3, 4, or 5 octaves handbells or handchimes
General, Palm Sunday, Ceremonial
Level 1+
2022
No bell sharing or accidentals!


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Pageantry
(Honor and Praise)
Choristers Guild CGB1253

2 or 3 octaves handbells or handchimes
General, Palm Sunday, Ceremonial
Level 1+
2022
No bell sharing or accidentals!


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Lamb of God, King of Kings
(Reproducible collection)
Choristers Guild
CGB1249 (book)
CGB1249e (digital download)
CGB1249a (digital accompaniment tracks)
12 bells, optional piano accompaniment
Lent, Holy Week, Easter
Level 2+
2022
  • My Shepherd Will Supply My Need (RESIGNATION)
  • My Song Is Love Unknown (RHOSYMEDRE)
  • Ah, Holy Jesus (HERZLIEBSTER JESU)
  • Good Christian Friends, Rejoice and Sing! (GELOBT SEI GOTT)
  • He Is Risen, He Is Risen! (Open Now Thy Gates of Beauty) (UNSER HERRSCHER)
No tables needed!


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Christians, to the Paschal Victim (VICTIMAE PASCHALI)
(An Easter Chant)
Choristers Guild CGB1243

3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 octaves handbells and optional 2, 6 or 7 octaves handchimes
Easter, Eastertide
Level 2+
2022
No bell sharing!


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Living Water
Choristers Guild CGB1239

3, 4 or 5 octaves handbells
General
Level 3+
2022
Dedicated to Cammy Carteng, in celebration of and thanksgiving for her 27 years as director of the Creekside Ringers,  St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Edina, Minnesota.


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Bells and Beer! (LIFT! LAGER)
3, 4 or 5 octaves handbells or handchimes and SATB choir
Full Score $4.00
Handbell Part w/SATB songsheet $4.00 (minimum order of 6)
Secular
Level 2
2019
For the 2022 Handbell Musicians of America Area 7 Festival Conference, June 9-12, 2022, special event at Hoops Brewery, Duluth, Minnesota,  in honor of their special craft brew, “Lift! Lager.”
To order: Send me a message on my Contacts page. All proceeds to benefit Area 7 of the Handbell Musicians of America!
No bell sharing, accidentals, or table techniques!

bells_and_beer_fs_sample.pdf
File Size: 87 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File


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And So It Goes (B. Joel)
Secular
Level 3
2022



Sheet Music Direct:
  • 3, 4, or 5 octave Handbells, opt. Handchimes
  • Optional Synth and Vocal part
Sheet Music Plus:
  • 3, 4, or 5 octave Handbells, opt. Handchimes
  • Optional Synth and Vocal part

and_so_it_goes_handbells_sample.pdf
File Size: 76 kb
File Type: pdf
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Christ the Savior Is Born (Reproducible collection)
Choristers Guild 1233

CGB1233 (book)
CGB1233e (digital download
)
CGB1233a (digital accompaniment tracks)
12 bells, optional piano accompaniment
Advent, Christmas
Levels 2 & 3
2022
  • Savior of the Nations, Come (NUN KOMM, DER HEIDEN HEILAND)
  • Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head (Applalachia 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)
No tables needed!



Thundersnow
Choristers Guild
CGB1240 (Full Score/Percussion parts)
CGB1241 (Handbell Score)
3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 octaves handbells, glass or shall windchimes, concert bass drum, suspended cymbal, thunder sheet (or thunder tube or tam-tam), and optional 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 octaves handchimes.
Christmas, Winter
Level 4+
2022
Commissioned by Twin Cities Bronze, Minneapolis/St.Paul, Minnesota, Amy Maakestad, Artistic and Music Director

He Came Down (HE CAME DOWN)
Choristers Guild
CGB1173 (Full Score/Percussion parts)
CGB1174 (2 or 3 octave handbells and optional handchimes)
CGB1175 (3, 4, or 5 octave handbells and optional handchimes)
2-3 and/or 3-5 octave handbells, optional handchimes, optional large djembe (or congas), small djembe (or bongos), caxixi (or maracas), shekere (or other large shaker), gankoqui (or agogos)
Christmas
Level 3-
2022
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the building dedication of First Lutheran Church, Algona, Iowa.

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Sacred Solos for Bell Tree, Set 3: Advent and Christmas (Reproducible collection)
Choristers Guild
CGB1232 (book)
CGB1232a (digital accompaniment tracks)
2 or 3, and 3 octaves bell tree solo, piano accompaniment
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!


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O Magnum Mysterium
(O Great Mystery)
Choristers Guild CGB1236
3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 octaves handbells with optional 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 octaves handchimes
Christmas
Level 2+
2022
Commissioned by Virginia Handbell Consort in celebration of their 25th anniversary.


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Christ the Savior Is Born (Reproducible collection)
CGB1233 (book)
CGB1233a (digital accompaniment tracks)
12 bells 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)


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Allegro Brillante
(Joyous Adoration)
Beckenhorst HB741
3, 4 or 5 octaves handbells with optional 3, 4, or 5 octaves handchimes
General
Level 4
2021
Commissioned by The Rogue Ringers and Shepherd's Bells, Medford, OR in memory of Cyndy Patterson.


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As Lately We Watched (AUSTRIAN CAROL)
Concordia 977974
3, 4 or 5 octaves handbells with optional 3, 4, or 5 octaves handchimes
Christmas
Level 2
2022
Commissioned by Franklin Baptist Church, Franklin, Virginia, in remembrance of Dr. J. Floyd Clingenpeel.


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We Praise You with Our Minds, O Lord (CLONMEL)
(Thy Word Is Like a Garden, Lord)
Choristers Guild CGB1166
3, 4 or 5 octaves handbells with optional violin (or other C instrument) and optional 3 octaves handchimes
General, Irish
Level 3
2022
Commissioned in honor of the 20th anniversary of service of Robert A. Smith, church musician, First Presbyterian Church, Morganton, North Carolina.


Mfurahini, Haleluya (MFURAHINI HALELUYA)
(Christ Is Arisen, Alleluia)
Choristers Guild
CGB1208 (Full Score/Percussion parts)
CGB1209 (2 or 3 octave handbells and optional handchimes)
CGB1210 (3, 4 or 5 octave handbells and optional handchimes)
2-3 and/or 3-5 octave editions, with with optional African or Latin American percussion and handchimes
Easter
Level 2+
2022
For Barbara Ringen, who inspires us with her love of music every Sunday. Commissioned by the Music Ministry of Central Christian Church, San Antonio, Texas, Douglas R. Boyer, director.

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Jesus Is a Rock in a Weary Land (WEARY LAND)
Choristers Guild CGB1212
3 or 5 octaves handbells with optional 3 octaves handchimes
Lent, General
Level 4
2022
Commissioned in honor of Leilani Lewis  to celebrate her 35 years as a Handbell Ringer in the Alleluia Ringers, with love from her friends at White Bear Lake United Methodist Church.


Bright and Glorious Is the Sky (DELIG ER DEN HIMMEL BLAA)
(O How Beautiful the Sky)
Choristers Guild
CGB1217 2-3 octaves handbells with optional handchimes
CGB1218 3-6 octaves handbells with optional handchimes
Christmas, Epiphany
Level 2+
2022
Commissioned for the 40th annual 12th Night Handbell Festival, Sioux City, Iowa in honor of Eleanor Tasker, festival founder.

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