Composed By: Kevin McChesney
Octaves: 3-5
Level: 3
Season: All Year
Classification: Secular, Church or Concert, Hope and Rememberance, Original Composition, Concert
Technique: Mallet, Pluck, Thumb Damp, Shake, Let Vibrate,
Selective Damp
Voicing: Handbells, No Choral
Bells Used: Three Octaves: 25 Bells; Four Octaves: 32 Bells;
Five Octaves: 41 Bells
If you are looking for a meaty composition for a concert setting, then this original work from Kevin McChesney is for you! Set in 3/4 time in the key of A Flat Major, this piece takes a simple theme through varying textural treatments - chordal, syncopated, rhythmic - and features various special effects, focusing on mallets on tabled bells. Written in Ab Major, "Anthem" is 175 measures.