Handbell Music Published by Linda McKechnie

NEW!! Rousing, Patriotic arrangement of AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL

Includes 3-5 octave handbells, 6 optional Handchimes, with Piano accompaniment with optional Synthesizer, 2 optional Bb Trumpets. A 4-part choir arrangement is available separately.

Music Sample of Full Score

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Music Sample of optional 4-part choir part
Order and Download 25 copies or more for $25

Please note, individual choirs participating in festivals or with other choirs must purchase their own copy of the choir part.

Please note the addition of "DOWNLOADABLE HANDBELL ARRANGEMENTS" in the above menu bar. These arrangements are designed for 2 or 3 octave handbell choirs for level #1+-2+. You will be able to view the entire arrangement and order from this sight. These are musically creative, giving the ringers confidence and delighting the listener.

Linda McKechnie is well known for her significant contribution to the art of handbell ringing. She served the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers as the fourteenth President from 1987-1989.

The music of Linda McKechnie has reached thousands of people through her 50 handbell titles and over 80 piano published arrangements with organ, solo instruments, and orchestra. Linda’s Published handbell music covers a wide spectrum, from Music for the First Time (a method book for beginning ringers) to arrangements ranging from easy to difficult levels for 3-6 octave handbells. Many incorporate other instruments such as brass quintet, timpani, keyboard, treble solo instruments, and most recently full orchestra accompaniment. Recently, she was commissioned to write for handbells and a big band!

As a volunteer, Linda has a compassionate heart to make a difference in the lives of the functionally disabled, underprivileged, and the elderly. Realizing that her music is therapeutic and heals the spirit, Linda has been involved in the Junior League Singers, performing at assisted living and community centers. Presently, Linda is involved in helping Brookwood, a community for functionally disabled adults, to form a handbell/handchime program, to teach them music skills and build their confidence to perform in the Houston area.

Linda and her husband, David, have initiated the D. Linda McKechnie Handbell Musicians of America Scholarship to help fund opportunities for educators in the field of the Special Needs Community and elementary education with handchimes and handbells.

Linda’s arrangements for handbells and orchestra have been performed by major symphonies to include the Detroit Symphony, Orlando Symphony, and Charlotte Symphony. During Christmas 2003, the Boston Pops and the Ring of Fire handbell group performed Linda’s arrangement, We Three Kings with Farandole from L’Arlesienne.

As a Steinway Artist and prolific publisher and arranger of handbell and keyboard music, she continues to be a recipient of the ASCAP special awards. Linda was named “2002 Composer of the Year” by Jeffers Handbell Supply.

Linda maintains a heavy schedule throughout the world as a concert pianist and recording artist. Her recordings, with a signature style of blending classical themes with Christian music, remain very popular in the Christian instrumental division: Hymnworks I and II, A Hymnworks Christmas, Symphony of Praise I and II, A World of Praise, Rhapsody of Love, Rhapsody of Christmas I and II, Reflections and Worship Collage. Moments With the Savior, recorded with the London Festival Orchestra, received a 2000 Dove Nomination.

Through her published and recorded music, Linda endeavors to bring joy to people’s lives in a refreshing and new way.

Come, All Ye Shepherds/The First Noel,   

                                           

AGEHR Publishing, arr. Malia Johnson/D.Linda McKechnie

Order handbell music from publisher. Information is available below

Music for the Beginning Handbell Choir, 3 oct Chorister Guild #CGB57

(book of 3 selections plus rehearsal notes, hymn tunes)

Music from the above book available separately: 

   #CGB90 Come Christians, Join to Sing
   #CGB91 Lord, I Want to Be a Christian
   #CGB92 Lead On O King Eternal

Ringing for the First Time, 3 oct Flammer Publishing #HP5232
A method book for the beginning handbell ringer with exercises and bell techniques along with 13 music selections for class, worship service, or festival: German Folk Song, Jubilate Procession, Thanksgiving Celebration, Jacobs Ladder, Peace, Variations on a French Tune, Bell Round, Over the River and Through the Woods, Christmas Medley, Sarasponda, Creation, Faith of Our Fathers, If You’re Happy and You Know It #HP5233; Director’s Supplement #NC5039, recording of all music

-Listen to sample performance originally recorded with piano and orchestra and now transcribed for handbells and orchestra

-Listen to sample performance with handbells and orchestra, flute or organ

-Please note: with some titles, the handbell music must be ordered directly from the publisher. However, with other titles, handbell music is included in the cost of the arrangement, with permission to make multiple copies.

-Included in the orchestration is a conductor’s score and one copy of individual parts. Permission is given to make multiple copies of individual parts.

-These arrangements can also be performed with piano and orchestra. View under "piano and orchestra"- under Published music



-Arrangements are recorded on Hymnworks Christmas and Rhapsody of Christmas II and may be purchased under "CDs"