Kjos String OrchestraGrade 3½

Full Conductor ScoreSO377F

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Jeffrey S. BishopThe Christmas Symphony

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Jeffrey S. Bishop is currently the director of orchestras and division coordinator of fine arts at Shawnee Mission Northwest High School in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City. Jeffrey has presented sessions at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic and the American String Teachers Association National Conference. He is in demand as a clinician, conduc-tor, and composer across the country. He has served as on-line mentor for the Music Educators National Conference Online Orchestra Forum. His articles have appeared in the first three volumes of the GIA Publication “Teaching Orchestra through Performance,” The Instrumentalist magazine, and Orchestra News. Orchestras from Shawnee Mission Northwest have consistently earned the highest ratings at KSHSAA State Festivals and regional competitions across the country and have appeared at the Kansas Music Educators Association In-Service Workshop and the ASTA National Orchestra Festival.

Jeffrey’s compositions for string orchestra, full orchestra, concert band, and choir have been commissioned and performed in the United States, Mexico, and throughout Europe. The recipient of the 1997 National School Orchestra Association Composition Contest Award with his “Symphony for Strings No. 1,” Bishop has nearly one hundred pieces published by the Neil A. Kjos Music Company, Wingert-Jones Music, C-Alan Publications, and Alfred publishing. Jeffrey’s music is marked by strong pedagogical influ-ences along with a traditional style that is at times reminiscent of the Renaissance period. He values melody and structure and strives to engage the audience as much as the performers through his music. He has appeared as a conductor/clinician for region-al and state orchestras in Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Minnesota, Texas, and Oregon. His conducting style is marked by attention to detail, a strong sense of humor, and the realization that every ensemble has different challenges and strengths. He believes that every ensemble is capable of reaching their ultimate potential through hard work, dedication, and practice!

Jeffrey is currently completing coursework toward a Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction (Music Education Cognate) at Kansas State University where he studies composition with Dr. Craig Weston. Jeffrey also studied composition with Dr. Walter A. Mays, Distinguished Professor of Music at the Wichita State University School of Music. An accomplished conductor, Bishop earned his M.M. in Orchestral Conducting from WSU in 1995. He graduated with his B.S. in Music Education from Northwest Missouri State University in 1993. Jeffrey and his wife SueZanne are the proud parents of two children, Aaron and Emily.

Jeffrey completes between three and five commissions every year for a divergent range of ensembles, from college/university/civic orchestras to middle school bands and orchestras. Samples of his music can be found online at his YouTube Channel, www.you-tube.com/jeffreysbishop. For more information on how to commission a piece for your ensemble, please visit www.jeffreysbishop.com.

About The Composer

About The CompositionThe Christmas Symphony was composed to celebrate the holiday season while also serving as homage to Haydn’s famous “Surprise Symphony.” Each movement follows Haydn’s original, but in this treatment, Christmas carols serve as the thematic material.

The third movement, Menuet and Trio (Allegro con brio), follows the traditional form of the title. “We Three Kings” serves as the primary theme, and “I Saw Three Ships” serves as the secondary theme in the menuet. The trio section features “Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella.” An audience pleaser, but also an excellent teaching tool for learning form and analysis, this piece will become a favorite during the holiday season!

Instrumentation List (Set C) 8 – 1st Violin 8 – 2nd Violin 5 – Viola 5 – Cello 5 – String Bass 1 – Full Conductor Score Additional scores and parts are available.

To hear a recording of this piece or any other Kjos publication, please visit www.kjos.com.

Jeffrey earned his PhD in Curriculum & Instruction (Music Education Cognate) at Kansas State University in 2015. While at Kansas State he studied composition with Dr. Craig Weston. Jeffrey also studied composition with Dr. Walter A. Mays, Distinguished Professor of Music at the Wichita State University School of Music. An accomplished conductor, Bishop earned his M.M. in Orchestral Conducting from WSU in 1995. He graduated with his B.S. in Music Education from Northwest Missouri State University in 1993. Jeffrey is married to SueZanne and they are the proud parents of two children, Aaron and Emily.

The Composition Good King Wenceslas is a Christmas carol that was first published in 1853. English priest and hymn writer J.M. Neale wrote the lyr-ics, and set them to a much older melody from the sixteenth century.

When Neale wrote his lyrics, he drew upon St. Wenceslas’s legend. The carol’s lyrics tell the story of Wenceslas on a wintry night, seeing a poor peasant (see verse 1, below). Wenceslas gives him food and shelter. The last line of the last verse gives the moral of the song, which says that when those who have plenty give to the poor, they also end up receiving a gift of blessing: “Ye who now will bless the poor, shall find yourselves blessing.”

Verse 1Good King Wenceslas looked out, on the Feast of Stephen,When the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even; Brightly shone the moon that night, tho' the frost was cruel,

When a poor man came in sight, gath'ring winter fuel.

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SO377

Kjos Music’s Guide to © CopyrightComposers rely on the income that their compositions generate, and it is the job of the copyright holder to protect the work from infringement. Copyright laws can be pretty tricky to navigate, so here are a few helpful tips to guide you through the process.

Adjudicator CopiesDuring contest and festival season, the majority of the inquiries we receive concern making photocopies of scores to meet specific requirements for the judges at a festival.If you’re performing a concert selection out of one of our method books (Tradition of Excellence, String Basics: Steps to Success, First Place for Jazz, among others), permission may already be given to make the necessary photocopies for judges at these festivals. Please refer to the notices printed in the teacher score on the specific piece.If a student is performing a solo from one of the method books listed above, permission is already given. In addition, a photocopy may be given to the accompanist.Extra scores for our band and string repertoire (Beginning BandWorks, BandWorks, Conservatory Editions, StringTracks, and Steps to Successful Literature, among others) are available for purchase from your favorite music dealer. If you’re performing a work from a series that’s not listed above, please contact us for permission.

Making an Audio or Video RecordingA license is required any time you make an audio or video recording of a copyrighted work. Audio recordings are compulsory, meaning, we can’t deny your request; you just need to apply for the Mechanical License and pay the royalty. The royalty rate is set by the Library of Congress. For current rates, please visit www.copyright.gov.The license to make a video of a performance, known as a Synchronization License, is not compulsory. Permission must be obtained from the copyright holder before distributing any copies, regardless if they are being sold or given away for free.

Arranging for Marching Band or Another EnsembleWe’re pleased to grant licenses to make a marching band (or other) arrangement of one of our concert works. However, permission is required before work can begin, and there are a few works whose composers have indicated that they do not want their compositions to be altered. Please contact us to make sure the piece you’re interested in is available for licensing.If you’re planning to play the original piece without any alterations or additions, then a license isn’t needed. However, for example, if you’re rewriting the brass parts for marching instruments (mellophones, bugles), or adding marching percussion, or making cuts, adding repeats, or creating a medley with another composition, a license is required.

What If I Want To … ?If you’d like to use a composition in any other way, please contact us and we would be glad to advise you.Contest and festival season is a busy time for our Copyright Office. Please contact us at least three weeks before your concert date so that we may help you in time. Please visit www.kjos.com and click on the Licensing tab to find out more information or to submit a license request.We’re so pleased that you’ve chosen to perform one of our pieces! We appreciate your support and we want to make the licensing process as easy as possible for you.

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Credit: The jacket and score photograph was taken at Robertson & Sons Violin Shop, Inc., Albuquerque, NM. For more information about their services, visit: www.robertsonviolins.com.

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