Are you interested in playing our music?
We have lots of music available for purchase and download! From 6- and 8-bell music all the way up to full handbell choir music; it’s all on Choraegus, our music site. You’ll also find choral music, sample pages and demonstration videos.
Music from Choraegus is designed to be purchased and downloaded. Instead of waiting for a hard copy to arrive in the mail, you download the file and print it yourself. First, choose your music, add it to your cart, and make your payment. Next, you’ll see a purchase confirmation page containing a download link for each piece you ordered. Finally, click on the links within 120 hours to download your music, ready for printing. For more details, click here for a step-by-step guide!
More information about what’s available:
6-Bell Music – a growing catalog of accompanied pieces for just six bells and piano.
8-Bell Music – including folk songs, hymns, Christmas and classical pieces, all playable as four-in-hand duets, or by trios or quartets. Some pieces are surprisingly easy, and others are more challenging – but they’re all effective for those times when you don’t have a large group of people.
A note about our “dual range” 8-bell scores
Almost all of our arrangements for eight unaccompanied handbells comes as “dual-range” PDFs. Each PDF contains “G5-based” and “F5-based” versions of the music. The G5-based version is first; it’s the original version of the score, with notes most often in the range G5-G6. This is the version we record in the demonstration videos for these pieces, and it’s the one we (Larry and Carla) perform.
The F5-based version is the same as the G5-based version, except transposed downward a half step or a whole step. This version is provides more familiar territory for those who prefer a “space = left hand, line = right hand” approach to ringing assignments. You can find more information about these dual-range scores on our Choraegus website.
12-Bell Music – including folk songs, hymns, Christmas and classical pieces, playable by three to six people.
16-Bell Music – playable as challenging four-in-hand quartet pieces, or with more people for a lower-stress experience!
Music for small ensembles – from trios to sextets.
Music for full handbell choir – from 2-3-octave music to pieces for 5-7 octaves of bells and chimes.
Bass handbell music – originally played by “Low Ding Zone” – the worlds first bass-only handbell choir, here are some challenging and fun pieces for the bucket-slingers among you. Don’t forget to check out The Bass Ringer’s Notebook too!
Solo handbell music – for those of you who enjoy the challenge of solo ringing.
We also have some handy flowchart-style guides to help you determine how many copies of each piece you’ll need to pay for and print.
Questions?
If you’re looking for a particular piece and you don’t see it on our website, or if you’d like to commission a piece specially-written for your own handbell group, please let us know. For more information about purchasing or playing our music, or if you’d like to play our music but don’t have a way to make purchases online, please contact us and we’ll try our best to help.
