Every year, members of the community combine with the students of my alma mater, MSSU (Missouri Southern State University) to form the Southern Symphonic Chorus, and alongside the Southern Symphony Orchestra, we perform beautiful orchestral works from Beethoven's 9th to Orff's Carmina Burana, and everything in between or of a similar nature. Performing these great masterworks does a great service to my hometown of Joplin, MO, in that it brings class to what some folks claim would otherwise be a classless town. (I'm not so sure about that, but that's what the people have said so in the past about it.)

These tracks are remixes of other tracks I previously used to help me rehearse, but done in order to make them instrumental tracks, since I generally prefer instrumental music over music with text.

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In 2016, the masterwork was Chichester Psalms by Leonard Bernstein, but because that was so much shorter than other masterworks we've done, we sang a few extra songs as well. One of them was this one, "Ching-a-Ring Chaw," by Aaron Copland.

I used the usual instrumentation I use for all these rehearsal tracks:

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Alto saxophone (representing soprano part)
Tenor saxophone (representing alto part, although it sounds lower because I put the notes in the exact places they appeared in the regular score I used to make this one)
Baritone saxophone (representing bass part)
Glockenspiel (representing tenor part)
Vibraphone (doubling bass part for treble clef)
Marimba (grand staff; accompaniment)
Piano (playing same as marimba)

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This transcription was done by me and me alone. No copyright infringements are intended, as this was solely done to help me practice for the big day.
Original music © Copyright 1954, 1955 by The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc. Copyright reserved.
Choral Arrangement this score is based on © 1982 by The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc., and arranged by Irving Fine.
Boosey & Hawks, Inc. Sole License.
Copyright for all countries. All rights reserved.

The score I used to make this score was distributed by the undisputed king of music publishing, Hal Leonard.

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Ching-a-Ring Chaw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOcBYZXyc3Q