A Christmas Tale (Beware the Krampus) by Randall D. Standridge - Score & Sound

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A Christmas Tale
Beware the Krampus-for Narrator and Band
By Randall D. Standridge
Item: 00-44992
Series: Young Symphonic
Grade 2.5
Format: Conductor Score & Parts
In some European Christmas traditions, Saint Nick (Santa Claus) does not work alone. He travels with the ""Krampus,"" a ""Christmas Devil"" who doles out punishment to bad boys and girls on Christmas Eve. This work serves as a darkly delightful Christmas piece, intended to educate, entertain, and creep out your audience. The poem ""Beware the Krampus"" (written by the composer) helps frame the piece as familiar carols ""The Ukranian Bell Carol,"" ""Up on the Housetop,"" ""Jolly Old St. Nicholas,"" and other holiday favorites are distorted. (4:50)
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[@malcolmpearsebrooks114]

No one: Percussion: “wE nEeD ChAiNs aNd WhIPs”

[@frostedfire9972]

Malcolm Pearse brooks Now thats kinky

[@rowanoak433]

One of the best parts of being in percussion I mean-

[@frostedfire9972]

Geek Lord I get it

[@salvadortoscano2534]

You right

[@ow_.]

BRO SAME

[@voidofthevoidmv8530]

Santa: Breaks into your house and gives you toys and goodies Krampus: Gives you an amber alert

[@laurenadams3207]

I get to do the whip cracks chains and woodblock on this piece

[@crxssary]

I loved playing this! As a 2nd B-flat clarinet it was really fun to play!!

[@crxssary]

I'm in wind ensemble :]

[@Mike-di3mo]

I have first B-flat and Im playing this in 7th grade :( and its NOT FUN

[@kaylaann9265]

My band is playing this next year. I am so excited to play it.

[@sleepyfrog9259]

The high school band played this our winter concert and they made a baby cry.

[@oscarortiz583]

I love this song the famous Robert E Lee band is playing it this year 2019 chrismas concert. GO LEE!! GO TRUMPETS!!!

[@kaseyc356]

My sister played it this year and made 5 year olds cry. It doesn't settle well with the young ones

[@lilgoob2554]

I just pissed my pants

[@samwilliams874]

shouldve tried out for wind ensemble

[@jacobputnam5508]

Would have been nice if they didn't have 3/4 of the marimba line audition

[@larenlewski8967]

This one girl went so hard with the screaming part after our band director told us to scare little kids she actually lost her voice the next day. It was an amazing experience

[@emmettdennis8383]

We played this in our Christmas concert last year, and some of the kids in the audience were crying XD

[@mambacita4410]

were playing ares this year i play the flute

[@addisondurrence1431]

I hope that's the outcome for when my band plays it this year

[@Other_ace]

ITS SCREAMS OF JOY BECAUSE THEY GOT PRESENTS- I SWEAR-

[@greys153]

"Scrape bells with hard mallet and make as much noise as possible"

[@cameronkrumm8597]

I really want to play the chime part where i get to do the same thing but our director doesn't have this piece.

[@esparttt]

Its really fun to scream as hard as i can at my parts to.

[@davegamesgames42]

I don’t get to scream because I’m a trombone

[@imdumb8489]

my director doesn’t let us😭

[@omgimanowl7888]

I felt like i was going to pass out when i did it for my band concert(I did 3 blood curdling screams)

[@AverageDunce]

@@imdumb8489 Oof

[@Coolcoolcooldude]

Whoever is the voice of the narrator, bravo man, you got a good chilling voice. This piece and that voice would scare the kids.

[@chase6494]

Oh hey ik you...

[@theresadennis1623]

Fr tho

[@adamwojtasiak6204]

The concert band the year above me did this a few years ago, and our bd has a super low voice... kids went home crying

[@thesadfather1239]

hidden Alec rodriguez

[@indynile]

the feeling this gives you while playing it with a full band is truly extraordinary

[@ashtonwray5684]

i know right

[@katherinesoenen6280]

My school band is playing this song for our Christmas concert. Everyone in my band loves playing it. A boy in my band has the perfect high pitch girl scream.

[@evebutler7706]

When I knew that there were supposed to be screams in this piece. I said to my friend, 'I'm gonna audition for a scream'

[@bobbyfr911]

same here

[@bonesforlunch]

Katherine Soenen same

[@amiahedmondson6320]

Same here

[@ellawilliamson6166]

@@evebutler7706 onions

[@mehecanleader9559]

we are playing this in our winter concert and my band director wants to play it to scare little kids 😂 he's the best band director ever

[@randallstandridge]

He sounds awesome. Hope you enjoy the piece! - Randall Standridge, composer "A Christmas Tale (Beware the Krampus)"

[@tiellochridge]

same haha

[@kaylarossmiller]

Same lol

[@jadenhead7364]

I'm dying laughing

[@evebutler7706]

My band director is scared to scare the little children, so he's gonna send them out into the hallway to play musical games during the concert😂

[@michaelwoodvine7711]

Favorite part is when the trombones just blast

[@aashadavis2923]

Michael Woodvine Lol we love it to. Our band director tells us to get big

[@dickpickles1925]

The tubas do it aswell. I don’t think I have played that hard since I started

[@Happe44]

Yep the glisses are the best

[@JBJunior2]

um actually, us sophisticated low brass play blastissimo, the only true dynamic

[@FabidaughterofYeshua]

@@dickpickles1925 YESSS!

[@oliverboswell8859]

I remember playing this in band as a low brass player and my band director screaming at us "BE LOUD BE NASTY BE KRAMPUS!"

[@madelynreecer2920]

Wise words indeed

[@loganmullet6577]

Dude I'm a bari sax player and you wouldn't believe how many much compliment I've had for doing it so loud it actually feels terrifying I hope this piece makes my little bro cry

[@FanofMultiple]

I’m about to send that to my low brass section 😭

[@tjimmy9373]

I like when they use the stick slapper thingy to make it seem like whips

[@theresadennis1623]

It's called a slapstick

[@furyandstrife9634]

I played that part in our band class when we did our winter concert

[@charlie4046]

My band director gut a ton of emails from parents because it was "too scary"

[@charlie4046]

Got

[@boomvapor6641]

*pussies*

[@riothin8376]

lmfao

[@aidanfrevert9535]

ours did too 😂

[@FabidaughterofYeshua]

Wowwww

[@josteakehigashikata6788]

I was at a winter concert ( my band was going to play next, but the 7th grade was playing atm), and I was absolutely astounded by how well the music was played. The principal wore a krampus costume to read the voice lines, and it was simply an amazing performance. Love this song.

[@JG0923]

Im playing flute for this it sounds really nice 👌🏼

[@cyanstrawberryplays9829]

gonzAlez FtW me too!

[@kaylarossmiller]

Piccolo lol

[@michaelham4032]

I wish my low brass was that good

[@theresadennis1623]

DONT HATE ON LOW BRASS

[@Oliver-fw6rc]

@Theresa Dennis It's hard not to when half of my low brass can barely play a simple scale.

[@icifeye4]

Damn as a baritone player this hurts

[@mambacita4410]

just give them time

[@Courtney004]

Oooo yes I hear the clarinets. Yes boo they on point🤤🤤😍

[@katiejones3894]

YEASSSS

[@naturalginger23]

we are goin to play this piece the year (2k17) we have to warn parents with young one to not be frightened

[@thewarlord6529]

wtf is 2k17. 2017? y

[@zuoelu]

Denzel Zhao k means thousand so it means two thousand seven teen

[@thewarlord6529]

no dip sherlock but why say 2k17? it's dumb, just do 2017 Sorry, I'm pissed off when someone explains something to me that I already understand. Ignore this.

[@zuoelu]

@@thewarlord6529 oh uhh ok

[@heartymcdurianz]

@@thewarlord6529 ok edgelord

[@the_realpapajohn]

Man the Bass Clarinet part is so rad in the 1st 8 measures, I love 8 measures of non stop playing.

[@frostedfire9972]

the_realpapajohn Its torture

[@sarahkinzel9451]

YES

[@pandamana7915]

It’s the best thing ever

[@thecowslayer118]

The tuba has it as well

[@ScalexLive]

Dude my band director keeps yelling at me because I play too loud but I have to carry the tubas, imma bass clarinet too

[@rolanslide8509]

I think this was the most fun me (and my band classmates) have had with a song in the past three years. This was a BLAST to do

[@emanuelmartinez1403]

We played this song at our concert and it was so much fun. Our band got excited every time we played this song in practice. The bass clarinet part is the best part.

[@jazzytheotakugamer]

Emanuel Martinez all the parts are the best part 😍😍

[@thatoneguynooneknows8187]

trumpet

[@gamescast6198]

Amen my brother

[@taylorprichinello5633]

GOTTA TELL MY BAMD DIRECTOR ABOUT THIS

[@aneurysm.865]

Taylor Prichinello he said no.

[@johnfortner357]

SnipxCluC band*

[@baileysoutherland8831]

My director showed us this piece and we were talking since we cant have a concert we would record it as a quick Christmas special. One of the trombone players has a deep voice so he would be the narrator, then we said that the trombone player could chase around the trumpet player(who does the girl screams😂[Daniel, a guy] )at the end. I seriously love band.

[@juggernaut6663]

Same here I played this piece with my band and omg it's soooooo freaking awesome I played percussion 2

[@andyrangel5315]

Randall Standridge never disappoints.

[@c_erra]

NEVER

[@pandyy]

@@c_erra NEVER!!!

[@t1m0thyduk3]

fr his pieces are so unique and i love it

[@shesjustanothergeek164]

My band director would never let us play this and it makes me want to even more.

[@ProfessionalDweller]

Our band did death whistle shrieks, shout-out to the one guy who could do them without the actual whistle. He carried hard ngl

[@tysonmarcum7117]

My sister played this song in one of her winter concerts, and her science teacher did the creepy voice. It was scary how good he was. A lot of the little kids started screaming and crying.

[@kingdededelicious]

picking the _science_ teacher was a good choice

[@yomamadeeznnuts]

Oh man I’m gonna get all my siblings to go. Hoping they’ll cry too I’ve got this piece for my winter concert this year. Great piece.

[@spuddudz8331]

played this my freshman year for a group of elementary students and one of them cried so hard he threw up lmao

[@connorwadkins7]

As a trombone player this is a amazing and fun song to play

[@oliverboswell8859]

I played euphonium and I loved blasting the notes it made it more fun

[@Al3xalovesmusic]

I'm so excited I play trumbone and I'm learning this we get to perform in December!

[@Composer_Piggy]

The tuba part in “Jolly Old Saint Nick” reminds me of Standridge’s other piece Danse Bohemien

[@butter503]

We're playing this for our concert this year. We have the perfect narrator and one of our trumpets has the perfect blood-curdling scream. It's so fun to play!

[@loganmullet6577]

Same and I fucking love it

[@aleamcfarren2996]

my high school is also playing this

[@scootyscoot3585]

This was deadass the only fun I ever had in band and it was only the part where I got to do the funny trombone part

[@AychSkwaird]

The symphonic band in my school played this for our Christmas concert. I am not apart of that band, I am apart of the wind ensemble. I am not at all exaggerating when I say the first time I heard them play this piece I had chills running down my spine the entire time.

[@omgimanowl7888]

We are playing this for my winter concert in band and I'm ecstatic Edit: And I get to do the scream!!! Edit 2: Ok um I felt like I was going do pass out when i did the screams (3 blood curdling ones)

[@libbygrant6120]

My band is playing this too for our winter concert and it's amazing

[@toyoman1652]

We are playing this in band class and I have the krampes

[@Ameleahs]

Our band gets so into the screaming we get back to our mouthpieces late lol

[@AverageDunce]

My band is the opposite lmao, There is no emotion because we're too socially anxious even about our screams.

[@Ameleahs]

@@AverageDunce we started out like that

[@AverageDunce]

@@Ameleahs Fair.

[@trombonenerd02]

I am playing this in concert band. I am a trombone player and I got to say, I enjoy playing those random glissandi.

[@CherryFreckles02]

Dude i wish i could play this song just for that😂

[@TheJazziestNightwood]

Played this for my 2023 Christmas Concert, I was on the baritone sax it was really enjoyable to play loud and nasty on it :D

[@pendingauthor2536]

I played this once in band-was the most fun Christmas piece ever; would play again in a heartbeat

[@alyson2103]

My band is playing this for the winter concert. It's cool, but difficult.

[@nicholasstewart8021]

my band was going to but our director said it was a little to scary for a younger audience

[@alyson2103]

My school is a middle and highschool so the youngest kids are the six graders.

[@nicholasstewart8021]

same but the bands little brothers and sisters might get scared

[@alyson2103]

They most likely won't be listening to it anyway. The only ones really paying attention will be the adults. Not even the other bands (Sixth, seventh, eighth and highschool) really listen to the other bands.

[@nicholasstewart8021]

I guess your right I will talk to my band teacher tomorrow what instrument do you play?

[@sonniminni]

i love playing this in highschool im a flute btw

[@squeegeeandcrew8619]

I played the French Horn for this piece at my school christmas concert, and it was really an enjoyable part. It felt good to have the melodies and harmonies tied together so perfectly! It’s really a great learning piece that I highly recommend! Also, we made some kids in the room cry, so that’s always a bonus

[@rella9416]

This is my favorite piece of music I’ve ever played! I love this

[@unfitqueenz2504]

I’m quite excited to play this for our Christmas concert

[@hannahg1158]

We are playing it for my marching band winter concert and the directors said we’re going to have screaming auditions for the screaming parts 😂 like I kinda want to sneak into the band room to listen to everyone auditioning screaming 😂

[@ladypossum1776]

Had all region with the composer. We all asked him out of the songs he’s composed which were his favorite. This one was one of his top three. Apparently he also got hate mail and he made several children cry in the audience when he performed this live.😂

[@ceinwenhemmer9274]

We played this song last year for a band concert and someone’s hella Christian grandma harassed us for it 💀

[@juggernaut6663]

Imma buy a tesla and program the lights to do a light show while playing this masterpiece

[@madelynbinder5792]

Can't wait until I play this full band... so excited... waiting on metal chains lol

[@evangarrison6313]

I love this piece (we’re playing it in band rn) but I kinda hate the narraration because flit just ruins the music for me

[@nerochalkey9057]

My band director is playing this with us, and at her last school she said some kids in the audience cried- amazing

[@HolySoapSpirit]

My high school band is going to play this for the Christmas concert! I can't wait to see them play it! :D

[@jadenhead7364]

TrapCityMangon I'm playing this in middle school

[@mikailaleonard]

our band is playing this song this year! (8th grade) but the disappointing thing is our principal was fine with the narration but now someone decided not to do the narration! and we are only a week from our concert and they just know decided not to narrate! there’s no point to the song without the narrator!

[@carleenmiyamoto8314]

i just performed this piece last night!!! it was sooo much fun!! we had a narrator and O M G it sounded SOOO goooood. have fun performing this!!!!

[@reddxtc]

This song takes me back to when i was in band

[@carleenmiyamoto8314]

i play the bass drum for this and i know you cant hear the bass in this recording but OH MY GOSH i played mine so hard last night that i REAALLLY got into this song. LOL. now im sad that we can't play this song anymore. :'((( in the piece above, im considered as percussion 2 and at measure 109 and 113 i get to play EIGHTH NOTES!! aghhhhhh!! i've obvi. played eighth notes before but OH MY GOSH i've never loved them as much as I have last night. LOL

[@kalebumlor5286]

That’s cool! I played snare for this song in 8th grade and wowser it’s a brain workout.

[@yomamadeeznnuts]

Anyone know what instrument the WOO WOO part is? 1:09

[@leylachavarria5857]

I remember playing the woo part as a clarinet

[@yomamadeeznnuts]

@@leylachavarria5857 Oh that’s what I play. Thanks :)

[@caderyan07]

​@@yomamadeeznnuts if I remember correctly, it's also trumpet

[@AK-oo5cj]

Good child st Nick is here for present! 0:12

[@lemonfizz2897]

When I played this, I can scream so loud I’ve been asked if I can whistle(which I can’t), and it was so much fun playing in the center downtown Seats over 3000 and perfect for the holidays That and our narrator had a Corpse voice(if you know who that is)

[@wraithmedaberry5795]

Dad?

[@michaelwoodvine7711]

Wraithmeda Berry son?

[@michaelwoodvine7711]

Wraithmeda Berry is that you?

[@dantedante2735]

Best part is definetly 4:27

[@Shae.nanigans16]

In our band, the narrator is gonna be a girl with this super creepy high pitched voice instead. Also, as a clarinet player, measure seventeen (clarinets and altos know what I’m talking about) killed us when we first started playing.

[@VipIkeaWorkeelr]

we’re playing this any advice

[@Serdog]

We are playing this in our Christmas concert this year

[@camthefemalefont9801]

We're playing this at our Halloween concert in a few weeks and I'm really excited!

[@squiggydeets8578]

Tuba rocks this song!

[@SeanLikesDinos]

How bout' the euphonium solo? Hmm? Best part or just me? I totally don't play the euphonium.

[@iatetheentirelasagna9224]

Rip Bonita high didn’t get to play this song 😢 feels bad

[@ohiotalk1475]

My band is playing this right now. We have it mastered! Sounds so cool!

[@josiep6699]

This was so fun to play as trumpet! We had to change a few of the lyrics, but it was so good regardless

[@emma-san420]

Our school played this and it was so great, just the screams were so loud sounded right out of a horror movie sadly I'm a different band group and didn't get to

[@acaciabrinkmann6586]

So my band has so much fun when we play this so we made it a band tradition to play it every Christmas concert. Its been going on for 6 years (that I know of)

[@bunnybird9342]

I first heard this in a high school concert (my younger sister doesn't play band) and the screams in the school performance scared the actual crap out of me

[@mattharrington8387]

The sleigh bells where fun to play.

[@stormthe7seas]

We just played this song tonight and this song goes so hard, I absolutely thrived off the trombone part

[@kiro1540]

TIMPANI ALL THE WAY!

[@titandweevil7891]

gocaps Kiro Accura CLARINETS

[@netherlillyarts1642]

SNARE DRUM FTW

[@yellowguy4331]

gocaps108 YO IM PLAYING TIMPANI FOR THIS SONG

[@thewrongones2800]

I got y’all all beat, chimes boi

[@michaelwoodvine7711]

Sus cymbals y'all are beat

[@rhy]

Any Trombone Players here?

[@michaeltoastman]

Probably.

[@agav224]

i think i hear some

[@alexiabarrett5230]

I usually don't like playing glockenspiel but this song has such fun mallet parts it's not even funny

[@saturnsayori]

My band is playing this for winter concert I play a trumpet 2 but didn't hear its recording

[@Mrmemer7777-sm8dh]

One time the grade above me played this and I saw my little sister have a mortified look on her face 🤣

[@thecartercrew3725]

I help at the HRS facility in my area and some of the animals we get in have been terribly abused by children. One rabbit came to us after her young "owner" cut her ears off with scissors! I think this piece might set the little sadists straight.

[@bunnybird9342]

I'm sorry to hear that but the thing is that least little kids abusing animals are stupid rather than actively malicious. As awful as it is, it is unfortunately just stupid kid behavior. It's not the same thing as an older person who enjoys hurting animals on purpose. This is why young kids shouldn't be allowed to have pets unless their parents are willing to supervise them and teach them that pets are living creatures and not toys. It's ultimately their parents' fault for not doing their job. (Btw this is coming from somebody who still feels insane guilt about basically abusing so many of his pet budgies as a kid.)

[@Noh406]

We got band from Playing this bc we caused kids to cry last year I had bells part

[@AK-oo5cj]

Crampus

[@marebearsoawesome2087]

My band is playing this song for out holiday concert!! We are so honored to play this song and we get goose bumps every time we rehearse it!

[@lordgaming1315]

My band teacher showed my band grupe this today

[@jellybean_ghost9920]

Playing this song last year at our concert was legit

[@laurenwatsonvideo]

we played this at our band concert in high school and the kids in the bathroom thought there was a school shooter

[@yehaw5723]

We played this for our winter concert but the audio wasn’t school appropriate 🥲

[@glancy0616]

Yeah lol, it sounds like he’s describing a predator LMAO

[@kundyzoralkhan4284]

Мен қазақпын!😜😎

[@georgelara9013]

Where my bass trombones at? 😏