(Correlates ith String Exlorer, ook 1, nit 13) Grade Level: 2 A oomhacker Christmas y Richard Meyer (ASCA) nstrumentation Conductor Score 1 Violin 8 Violin 8 Viola 5 Violin (Viola ) 3 5 String ass 5 iano Accomaniment 1 Soloists 8 magine our soloists laying eight oomhackers on the heads o eight brave audience members hile being accomanied by string orchestra That s the scenario o this hilarious sho-stoer Your audience ill love hearing Jingle ells, Good King Wenceslas, and Deck the Halls like never beore sed by the comoser ith his on orchestra and guest teachers, this simle yet highly eective novelty number never ails! Comlete staging instructions are included on the next age revie Only Legal se Requires urchase A DVSON OF lease note: Our band and orchestra music is no being collated by an automatic highseed system The enclosed arts are no sorted by age count, rather than score order
Standing Soloists: 8 Seated Guests: (Facing Audience) Music Stands: A oomhacker Christmas erormance nstructions Set-: ORCHESTRA Conductor Soloist #1 #2 #3 # #5 #6 #7 #8 X X X X ADENCE 1 egin the iece ith no guests or soloists on stage, only 8 emty chairs and music stands in ront o the orchestra and conductor (see Set-) The guest chairs should be equally saced and the music stands or the soloists set as lo as ossible so the audience can see the guests 2 Measures 1 2 should be treated as a vam reeat them as necessary hile guests and soloists march in rom the ings and get situated 3 The soloists stand u or the entire iece, holding their loer note in their right hand, and their higher note in their let hand The guests should ear some sort o head rotection hard hats, ootball helmets, bike helmets, etc revie Only 5 Measures 23 28 call or to additional ros: a G oomhacker-tye item such as large VC iing 5 6 long, and a HGE oomhacker-tye item o 12 or more! The tube inside a roll o caret orks great Don t orry about itch as they are never actually struck during the iece eore the iece begins, hide these to ros rom the audience behind the guest seats 6 Soloists 2 and 3 ut don their oomhackers and ick u these ros hen called or Legal se Requires urchase 7 n measure 2, a cellist dubs in the to quarter notes, hile antomimes them, never actually striking their guest s head (but getting close enough to make it look real) 8 Directors ishing to ski the theatrics can use the otional cut rom the end o m 18 to m 30
A oomhacker Christmas 3 CONDCTOR SCORE Duration - 2:00 Violins Viola (Violin ) String ass iano Accomaniment Soloist ( C) (G A) (E F) (C D) Molto moderato ( = 10) Vam as necessary izz izz Molto moderato ( = 10) Vam as necessary 1 2 3 3 simile 3 Richard Meyer (ASCA) revie Only Legal se Requires urchase 128S Coyright 201 by Highland/Etling ublishing, a division o ALFRED MSC All Rights Reserved rinted in SA
Vlns Vla (Vln ) Str ass no Accom Soloist ( C) (G A) (E F) (C D) izz izz izz J J J 5 6 7 8 revie Only Legal se Requires urchase 9 J J J 128S
5 Vlns Vla (Vln ) Str ass no Accom Soloist ( C) (G A) (E F) (C D) 11 11 # 10 11 12 13 1 # revie Only Legal se Requires urchase 128S
6 Vlns Vla (Vln ) Str ass no Accom Soloist ( C) (G A) (E F) (C D) 15 16 17 19 Otional cut to m 30* 19 Otional cut to m 30* 18 F F F F iù legato revie Only Legal se Requires urchase 19 128S
7 Vlns Vla (Vln ) Str ass no Accom Soloist ( C) (G A) (E F) (C D) 20 Soli F F 21 22 Soli 23 ick u G oomhacker Solo izz > > (oomhacker) ( ) > > antomime (in rhythm) revie Only Legal se Requires urchase 2 128S
8 Vlns Vla (Vln ) Str ass no Accom Soloist ( C) (G A) (E F) (C D) 25 - - - 25 Tutti - - - - - - - - - b b ick u HGE oomhacker 25 b N b N n # #n 26 N and reare to strike!, " # " b n " b x1 1 # " 2 # " n # " " # # " " " " 27 Conductor (agging inger and scolding ): No, no, no! (disaointed): A, man! revie Only Legal se Requires urchase 28 128S
9 Vlns Vla (Vln ) Str ass no Accom Soloist ( C) (G A) (E F) (C D) 29 izz 29 A temo izz A temo 29 *Otional cut rom m 18 *Otional cut rom m 18 izz izz izz 30 31 32 revie Only Legal se Requires urchase 128S
10 Vlns Vla (Vln ) Str ass no Accom Soloist ( C) (G A) (E F) (C D) sim # 33 3 35 36 # > 36 36 revie Only Legal se Requires urchase 128S
11 Vlns Vla (Vln ) Str ass no Accom Soloist ( C) (G A) (E F) (C D) 37 38 cresc cresc cresc cresc > > 39 > > 0 revie Only Legal se Requires urchase 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 128S
12 Vlns Vla (Vln ) Str ass no Accom Soloist ( C) (G A) (E F) (C D) 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 J, J,, J, J, J, J, J, J, J, J 5, J J, J,,, J 6 } } } } } revie Only Legal se Requires urchase æ æ æ æ 7 128S