Minor Alterations: Christmas Through the Looking Glass - David Lovrien (Concert Band)

Подписаться 1,9 тыс.

Просмотров 204 тыс.

50% 1

Minor Alterations: Christmas Through the Looking Glass - David Lovrien (Concert Band)
Looking for something really different for this year's Christmas concert? Here's a game of holiday hide-and-seek for your audience! "Minor Alterations: Christmas Through the Looking Glass" is a medley of favorite Christmas tunes, transposed from major to minor keys then disguised, layered and morphed even more. From the ominous "Deck the Halls" at the start to the final, frenzied "Nutcracker Suite" finale, each tune is lovingly twisted into something new and inventive.
Grade 5 Composition
(above recording is of Concert Band version)
Composed by David Lovrien (ASCAP)
Conducted by Jerry Junkin
Performed by the Dallas Wind Symphony
Published by Lovebird Music (2007)
Hosted on www.lovebirdmusic.com
To listen to the full orchestra version, visit • Minor Alterations: Chr... .
I do not own anything.

Видеоклипы

Опубликовано:

15 сен 2024

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 170

@ThefirstTimelady 7 лет назад

I'm playing this with my band now and it honestly sounds straight of a Nightmare Before Christmas

@hopeboland3116 2 года назад

We just started playing it today, and we said the EXACT SAME THING

@coldsniper7106 2 года назад

@@hopeboland3116 same tho we started yesterday

@marlontyler8907 2 года назад

Honestly from T to the end I just fake i don’t want to deal with it my band director doesn’t even notice

@Pheonix_7930 2 дня назад

dang all these people have played it before me and now i get to feel the same thing with this song and a bass clarinet :)

@dillonohlemiller9027 8 лет назад

I never realized how creepy and sinister Christmas carols sound when they're in a minor key

@WallysVoid 7 лет назад

That's really any song.

@johngillespie7660 7 лет назад

Dillon Ohlemiller

@Aaxolotl. 10 месяцев назад

I’m not sure how much of this is how we hear them happy and major so much and when it gets twisted our brains think it’s spooky. But yeah you’re totally right.

@CrystalPokeball 5 лет назад

This piece is SO much fun to play! Though those runs in the beginning took some time to get up to speed, lol. Shout out to my Oboe players out there!!

@juliakra01 4 года назад

Hello my fellow oboe!

@jazz2701 4 года назад

My band teacher just switched me from flute to oboe and we are playing this piece. Definitely been a struggle but it’s coming along nicely!

@CrystalPokeball 2 года назад

@@naddollie Aye!! Our breed is rare but awesome! I don't know how many times someone looked at my oboe and called it a clarinet. It hurts my soul.

@ilikechickenyey5654 2 года назад

Yeeeeeeeeeeeee oboeeeeeeeeeee

@marlontyler8907 2 года назад

So here’s the funny my band has 15 in total days until our winter concert so he’s making us play things at tempo to get this song done

@robertramos645 5 лет назад

Minor keys make everything sound better 👌

@Am-jg4di 9 лет назад

That sax solo is just magnificent!

@robertramos645 5 лет назад

Agreed

@excalibur1812 3 года назад

The composer is a saxophone player. I competed against him at Texas Music Educators Association All-State band tryouts in 1979. He got 1st chair, I got third (which was considered alternate).

@mambelfer 2 года назад

@@excalibur1812 That's cool. I found myself listening to this because I'm playing this in Wind Ensemble and me being first chair I get the solo and wow it sounds amazing. I hope I can play it just as good. I'm a sophomore in highschool.

@hopeboland3116 2 года назад

It's actually clarinet solo, we just started playing it in band today

@mambelfer 2 года назад

@@hopeboland3116 It's alto sax. I'm playing it for my winter concert in Wind Ensemble. I'm talking about the solo of the second page not the first part of the piece.

@pantherowl3169 9 лет назад

I just realized that the reason I don't like christmas music is because it's all in major key, and way too sugary sweet for me Minor key makes it 10000000x better

@Pheonix_7930 2 дня назад

are we sure about that?

@pantherowl3169 2 дня назад

@@Pheonix_7930 Yup. 100%.

@leoa7927 4 года назад

2:44 Every time I hear this part, I imagine the lyrics being "We wish you a merry christmas (or not) (or not)"

@IndecisiveJay- 4 года назад

I can’t unhear it

@ben29025 9 месяцев назад

I can’t unhear that now that I heard it

@christinemartin1352 7 лет назад

This is probably the best song and arrangement for a concert band, it sounds like a real orchestra even though there's no strings!

@cosmicsuccubus6515 6 лет назад

There's a harp part actually written in it but I agree

@rachelmarrone Год назад

there's actually string bass in here! i play tuba and my bd wants me to learn string and electric bass so i played the tuba and string bass parts on tuba for our concert :)

@rachelmarrone Год назад

@@cosmicsuccubus6515 and string bass!

@stephendenman6339 Год назад

@@rachelmarrone much sad! This is a piece that has an actual string bass part, as opposed to just doubling the tubas, and its different from the tuba part .... it makes this poor string bassists heart happy (because i'm so used to bloody tuba charts 😂😂)

@mollypriebe1334 9 лет назад

My favorite song I've ever played at any concert in band😍

@shawnhernandez9918 2 года назад

I love how it goes from nice sweet Christmas music to sinister music in a snap

@Mybeautifuloboe 8 лет назад

Minorchristmasmusic…Minorchristmasmusic…MERRYPOPPINS… Minorchristmasmusic

@harshmnr 7 лет назад

The best part is the random Chim Chim Cheree in the middle of nowhere. XD ~:~

@bigmustang1972 3 года назад

Literally where?

@prusiking5179 3 года назад

@@bigmustang1972 this comment is 3 years old bro, but it’s at 4:17, it plays the end of chim chimeree

@IAmTheEg7 9 месяцев назад

I absolutely LOVE the saxophone solo at the beginning of the waltz section when it played "Here Comes Santa Claus!" Whoever was playing on that night was perfect in their execution; I've learned to match my humming to its distinctive timbre whenever I (re)listen to this. I played this as trumpet when I was a sophomore at university. The section gave me a chance to recollect my chops before the final section (I played second part)

@stevenb6253 8 лет назад

Intro is incredibly well written. The trumpet part sounds epic...I might use that as inspiration whenever I get to writing a piece for band.

@cmiller9800 3 года назад

This is what Christmas music sounds like for folks working in retail. I speak from experience after first hearing this after a working a shift at home depot around black friday.

@notkail9174 4 года назад

It's not Christmas and I'm still here

@blewbyboy 7 лет назад

So our band director handed it out and I was joking around and said "Who wants the timpani part, I don't think I can do this" (it's really easy btw) and the percussion section just starts flipping their lids like "HOLY SHIT IF SHE CAN'T PLAY IT NOBODY CAN OH GOD" today I made the world accidentally burn whoopie

@leylaakin5003 9 лет назад

This is amazing. I've listened to it 3 times in a row!!

@Rankurusu777 9 лет назад

Only 3?

@tylivia4 9 лет назад

Doing this for my marching bands field show this year!

@pastel3022 8 лет назад

+tylivia4 OMG THAT IS SO AMAZING :DDD I WANNA SEE THAT SO BAD

@adrianj5789 8 лет назад

+tylivia4 isnt it kinda weird.... Christmas music.... in the middle of september?

@pastel3022 8 лет назад

Adrian Cantu IT'S ALWAYS CHRISTMAS BRAH THAT IS LIKE THE BEST FUCKING SHIT I HAVE EVER HEARD OF I WISH I WAS IN THAT MARCHING BAND GOD DAMMIT XDDDD

@adrianj5789 8 лет назад

Lol well tbh, I would too :)) I guess their show has something to do with a Christmas-y feeling and omg that would sound so awesome! ITS LIKE AN ORCHESTRAL CHRISTMAS FOR MARCHING XDDDDDDD

@adrianj5789 8 лет назад

Hanako Mitsu

@PastysBakery 7 лет назад

Very Nightmare Before Christmas-esque, I love it!

@starryeyedD0e 5 лет назад

They do play Here Comes Santa Clause in both this piece and the movie, in a minor key. They are very similar, so I see what you mean!

@NovaGoesBoom 2 года назад

I loved playing the bass trombone part for this ❣️

@sleepywalker87 2 года назад

Ahhh, damn. A player who played it 12 days ago (or so), I play this December 7th and… I’m looking forward to playing this. I play 2nd part, but I was supposed to receive 3rd part, but I hope it was amazing to perform

@poyodaboyo12 2 года назад

As someone who played Trombone in this song a few years ago, I can confirm that Trombones had a damn field day with this piece

@judyparker9023 7 лет назад

Like Tim Burton does Christmas songs. Super.

@bigmustang1972 3 года назад

Danny elfman

@themindmaster3073 4 года назад

I love some of the bassoon parts in this, it was fun to learn and play

@WallysVoid 7 лет назад

This song is pretty amazing. And my band is going to play it!

@excalibur1812 4 года назад

I competed against David Lovrien at Texas All-State tryouts in 1979. He got 1st chair on Alto sax. I got 3rd.

@Blackfedoraowner 11 дней назад

For Texas that is really good. I know that is a competitive state for lots of things. You would’ve gotten first in so many other states, probably over half of them.

@c.serrano2974 9 лет назад

My old high school band played this at their concert and I'm mad cause it's really hard taking their music cause it's too cool to not play again much less to leave alone!! P.S. Minor Christmas music is the best!!!!!!

@CrystalPokeball 5 лет назад

You should listen to Darth Vader's theme in major key, it sounds like someone's getting married to it XD

@lalapal112 Год назад

Playing this for band, love it with all my heart

@daffodilclouds2443 2 года назад

to all the flutes out there, i’m so sorry. i feel your pain 🥲

@sleepywalker87 2 года назад

sadly I don’t play flute, but I know a lot of friends who do, and they say they all… dread it… I understand the idea of playing flute and see why it is difficult, but damn… it is… painful to look at their music… (I play trombone btw)

@nataliaamador9822 Год назад

I’m playing this in my band and the oboe nailed her solo. I had flute 1 and oh those notes where so high.

@arrowprincess12 Год назад

I def enjoyed playing it on piccolo back in my day :)

@kayleigh-jf2zo 6 лет назад

santa clause is coming to tow-BYUUM BUM BOUM

@xoxoKinley 10 месяцев назад

I love the pic part especially on the rouldoff song

@rocco2mom 10 лет назад

This collection is wonderful. It is so creative and inspired. I just love it.

@catherinewhitaker3425 8 лет назад

my flute band is playing this year. I'm on piccolo ;) and I'm gonna play flute for any parts only flutes play and picc doesn't cuz I have many rests lol

@onlybug3186 6 лет назад

That bass bone part in the beginning 😫

@sleepywalker87 2 года назад

I can’t relate. My band director was supposed to give me the 3rd/Bass part, but I’m playing the first/second part (only difference is splits, we just play the bottom ones), so I will never sadly get to see what it looks like

@mr.guitarpicker Год назад

Bass bone part goes crazy

@fluterific00 5 лет назад

Shostakovich 2nd Waltz is in there. So crazy. I am playing this in community band this year. Sight read if last night. This took a lot of theory knowledge to make this work.

@heheheiamasupahstarsnail7296 7 лет назад

5:19 and 5:28 best moments for French horn

@yunfi.630 7 лет назад

Noel Still You mean best part for the band? ;)

@nate8998 5 лет назад

Yeah i agree with Evan that i'd say is probably is one of the best parts of the performance

@ambrose145 9 месяцев назад

2:30 English horn solo

@gavinhayes5442 6 лет назад

my band is playing this for Christmas ( north point symphonic band)

@nate8998 5 лет назад

So is my band

@samuelwalker9855 2 года назад

Love a good clap at the ending

@LocoJojo98 8 лет назад

2:03 sounds like Sally's Song. Love this.

@pups123ism123 7 лет назад

I've always thought that too!

@knottedpeach 7 лет назад

There are a lot of quotes. Sally's Song is one of them, also Shostakovich's Waltz No.2, the Looney Tunes theme song, If I Were a Rich Man and several others. I love this piece to no end.

@im.aubrie 11 месяцев назад

this would be like if tim burton wrote christmas carols.

@scorch1597 5 лет назад

My middle school band is playing this....... my band director will probably drop the piece though

@xicad1533 4 года назад

did he

@cspdelta8457 3 года назад

did he

@soupman907 3 года назад

did he

@raisinmilk3423 3 года назад

Did he

@gamingnuggets5465 2 года назад

DID HE

@keegan6356 7 лет назад

My band is playing this for our Christmas collage concert.

@casoncloud8755 7 лет назад

Keegan your collage concert! wow it sounds great! I love collages! you can put so many pictures all together at once! lmao learn how to spell college if you're in college

@keegan6356 7 лет назад

Carson Cloud lmao maybe you should look at other definitions of collage or maybe ask me what I meant before you look like a dumbass. A collage, while also being a piece of art made of various things, it can also be a collection of things, such a the band, orchestra, and choir coming together for one concert instead of 3 different ones.

@casoncloud8755 7 лет назад

Keegan LOL I really don't think so

@pocketsizeforyourtravelcon3325 Год назад

My community brass band is playing an all-brass arrangement of this song, it’s so weird but so fun. I love the ending where it transitions to the nutcracker after here we come a wassailling

@ntsazazel 4 года назад

We’re playing this for the current concert and I got put on first clarinet (help)

@flexiblesmolbean 4 года назад

We got it for our window ensemble I play 2nd cornet

@SmilingKitty 4 года назад

NTS Azazel I’m playing first clarinet part for our concert too ^^; Good luck to us both

@ntsazazel 4 года назад

Smiling Kitty1011 funny that you reply now, we actually just finished our concert and it went pretty well! I wish you good luck!

@maxousnine5640 4 года назад

Lol watching my clarinet friends struggle for this piece was great 😂

@hopeboland3116 2 года назад

Ahh, the solo. I'm sure you did awesome!! We just got the music today, and our first clarinet was perfection

@scottyskywalker5768 2 года назад

When sightreading this I did t realise it was cut time instead of common time till measure 55 and had a oh sh*t moment in my head when they wer already at measure 110 .

@cianapopolizio3937 4 года назад

My band class played that last month and my mom and my brother said it sounded like it's from Nightmare before Christmas!

@megatonin420 7 лет назад

My band had played this a bunch of times and we're playing it again this year!

@joshuasamek8531 2 года назад

To everyone listen to this on Christmas Day, I hope you guys have a merry Christmas and a happy new year!

@nik1531 4 года назад

David Loverien is a genius

@AriOrSomething 2 года назад

Playing this this year. My part is so much fun (I play Bassoon)

@VividlySkip Год назад

played with my high school band, would recommend to anyone it is truly amazing- especially in person

@thovex Год назад

Just heard this on WRTI. Great stuff! The only way to make these saccharine pieces we've all heard a million times tolerable!

@swordartonlinefan5142 7 лет назад

I had listened to this piece before, and when I was told my school was doing it for a concert, I was extremely happy. I play alto sax, so I'm not excited for the little solo:/

@direyna 6 лет назад

Sword art online Fan it's super easy 🙂 I'm playing it this year for my christmas concert and I got to play it because they wanted to challenge me as a freshman

@AdiforistheInsane 6 лет назад

Love it!! I appreciate it even more because i'm playing it! @panther Owl, I agree!

@rachelshoemaker3561 7 лет назад

I LOVE this! What I would give to play it!

@SlavicDoom 2 года назад

1:33 to 1:44 sounds Soviet as hell so does 3:30 and 4:24 and 5:27

@brojo8515 3 года назад

played this at a school Christmas concert, best concert by far

@mr.guitarpicker Год назад

Bass Trombone part goes Crazy!!

@robertramos645 5 лет назад

Playing alto part on this one! Absolutely love this piece

@nancyjordan7510 9 лет назад

Just performed this at our Xmas concert. Loved it.

@arrowprincess12 9 лет назад

Loved playing this at our Winter Concert last year

@AbedSMA 2 года назад

1:16 I imagine "You better not run, you better not hide. You better stay silent when he comes inside. _Santa Claus is comin' to town._ When Santa Claus comes through, down the chimney, you better hope no one's under the tree. _Santa Claus is comin' to town._ He watches when your sleeping, he knows when you're awake, if you haven't been *good this year* then you put your life at stake. Oh, you better not run, you better not hide. You better say silent when he comes inside. _Santa Claus is comin' to town._

@virgiltheghost 2 года назад

I always wished ballet studios would do a little preshow before the nutcracker with droselmeyer’s toys and the mice just scheming and partying to this while everyone’s asleep

@mpsmguerrero7576 6 лет назад

Playing this for Christmas concert next week :3 🎺

@Dan_Finnegan Год назад

Would anyone happen to know a full song-by-song or track-by-track list of what songs are featured in this piece from beginning to end? I wish that the score/info about the piece had some sort of breakdown, but it doesn't.

@KieranDurand 3 года назад

I got bells xylo and marimba on this song for the Christmas concert

@rayuuko4801 Год назад

I like the sleigh ride

@cretingaming1202 Год назад

This shit was banging blud 💯🔥🔥

@cripplingdepression2177 5 лет назад

A Russian Christmas

@optikid0373 4 года назад

Why Would people dislike

@NarCoocoobrainTeam 6 лет назад

I’m playing this in concert band and we all think it sounds like klesmyr (sp?) music. So far we have Rudolph the Jewish raindeer

@gabbipulasky2563 4 года назад

we wish you a merry christmas sounds like chim chim cheree from mary poppins

@codyriddle1424 4 года назад

I just want to point out that basically no one is complimenting that sweet glissando.

@lylelamboley2630 Год назад

Joseph Stalin's coming to town.

@aaroncannon5233 9 лет назад

Just preformed this tonight faster than it is right here

@isaiahshelley 6 лет назад

Aaron Cannon I’m Ready to do it again. Dougs last epic Christmas concert.

@orthohawk 9 лет назад

I've been doing this to church hymns for years.

@arnabkhan883 9 лет назад

Dat tuba tho

@medeas_number_1_fan 9 лет назад

I get to play that part :)

@arnabkhan883 9 лет назад

Me too

@Funko_pop_josh 2 года назад

Which one is the Tchaikovsky at the end I cant remember the symphony #

@Grim82114 4 года назад

What is the part that starts at 5:16 ? It turns into "tidings of comfort and joy" but I cant place the song ?? It sounds super familiar too

@paxorion4906 4 года назад

Try ‘here we come a caroling’ sounds like it

@Anedelgardstan 2 года назад

That part is God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

@Grim82114 2 года назад

@@Anedelgardstan THANK YOU SO MUCH OMFG

@kyleighhardiman7314 5 лет назад

Did anyone notice a little Sally’s song melody

@larcaidz8372 3 года назад

Anyone know what all the original songs are called?

@mittromney568 2 года назад

if youre still interested: 1. deck the halls 2. up on the housetop 3. santa claus is coming to town 4. jolly old st. nicholas 5. here comes santa claus 6. we wish you a merry christmas 7. silver bells 8. jingle bells 9. rudolph 10. sleigh ride 11. here we come a wassailing 12. nutcracker

@GarrettMitchener 2 года назад

@@mittromney568 I love this piece. The puns were inescapable: 1. Hit the deck 2. Up on the housetop, reindeer prowl 3. Krampus is coming to town 4. Grouchy old St. Nicholas + Sally's song from Nightmare Before Christmas 5. Here lies Santa Claus + Shostakovich Waltz #2 from Jazz Suite 6. Bring us some liver pudding 7. For whom the silver bell tolls + Chim chim cheree from Mary Poppins 8. Fleeing through the snow + Chim chim cheree from Mary Poppins 9. Rudolph the red-eyed reindeer 10. Hearse ride (maybe + traffic from American in Paris by Bernstein?) 10.5 Echo carol, the lost verse: Do you smell what I smell? 11. Here we come a wassailing among the poison ivy 12. Kalashnikov dance by Tchaikovsky's evil twin + Hit the deck, reprise