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The AGEHR, Inc.

This handbell reference booklet, recommended for directors and composers, is divided into two sections: Part A is the Handbell and Handchime Notation section. Part B is an explanation of Assigning Difficulty Levels to Handbell and Handchimes Music. Part A includes all the symbols for handbell techniques in common use. Solo and ensemble notation is also included. The guidelines presented in this booklet are a product of national conferences whose participants included composers, arrangers, editors, engravers, publishers, and performers of handbell music.

Handbell and Handchimes Notation and Difficulty Level System

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Hal Leonard Corporation

Whether you're an experienced musician or a nonreader, this step-by-step guide teaches the basic skills and techniques needed for ringing in a handbell or handchime choir. Instructions include ringing and damping, basic music reading, practice and performance pieces, staccato techniques, dynamics, stretches and warm-ups, and more! A helpful director's guide is included, offering insights and rehearsal suggestions for several pieces in the book. Instructional material is demonstrated clearly with photos and illustrations throughout.

Hal Leonard Handbell Method

3 Octave Book

Ensemble

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Hope Publishing Company

The 23 pieces in this collection take the beginning ringer on a journey starting with simplistic, straightforward ringing and gradually introducing the basic techniques used in ringing handbells. Written in the treble clef (D5–C7), each exercise introduces one new objective for the developing ringer to learn and master, and each piece can be rung with seven ringers. Contents include general sacred, spirituals, Christmas and Easter hymn titles.

Ring with Less for Beginners

Handbells Ensemble Collection

This educational resource will help teachers and directors teach new ringers and hone the technique of experienced ringers. Exercises that teach the basics of ringing and ringing technique are included, followed by short songs to reinforce the concept taught in each exercise. Designed for 2 octaves (G4 to G6) or 3 octaves (C4 to C7). QR codes link to short YouTube instructional videos teaching handbell and handchime techniques. All exercises and music are reproducible.

Ringing 101

Handbells Book

Editors Choice Year

Teaching music with chimes or bells from the very beginning has never been more fun! This reproducible teachers edition contains 56 pages of music, exercises, teaching pages, puzzles, and games that are perfectly geared to children's bell choirs. Creative and educationally sound, it is nicely paced to keep students involved and bring them to a level of proficiency that will give them a sense of real accomplishment.

Beginning Busy Ringers

3 Octave Collection

Jeffers Handbell Supply, Inc

Taught by the leading bell tree expert, this step-by-step how-to manual is for the ringer who would like to learn to ring a bell tree "keyboard." The keyboard setup is not needed for every piece of bell tree music; however, the more connections you can make to a standard setup, the quicker the learning process becomes.

Bell Tree Keyboard Manual

Handbells Book Bell Tree

This revolutionary approach to teaching music literacy with handbells or handchimes takes the ringer from rote and chord playing to reading part scores and the full grand staff! Written as a sequential music education method, Read 'n' Ring contains arrangements with separate two- and three-octave settings alongside classroom-tested exercises to develop note-reading skills and reinforce basic musical concepts. Teaching titles include: Debbie's Song; A Spring Carol; "New World" Symphony, Movement 2 (Dvorak); "Surprise" Symphony No. 94, Movement 2 (Haydn); Simple Gifts; Eine kleine Nachtmusik; Movement 2 (Mozart), and Symphony No. 7, Movement 2 (Beethoven).

Read 'n' Ring

2-3 Octave Collection

Choristers Guild

This collection offers music that teaches a specific musical element (in this volume, Articulations) to encourage success and foster growth in musicianship. These pieces have been carefully written or selected from folk, classical and sacred repertoire in order to spotlight particular techniques and articulations that are unique to handbells. All pieces in the collection are appropriate for church, school or festival settings. As an additional benefit for beginning ensembles, all of the selections have no page turns, with the exception of Berceuse. The ten pieces in this collection range in difficulty from level 1 through 2.

Pathways to Musical Ringing, Vol. 1 - Articulations

2-3 Octave Collection Vol. 1

Introducing the essential skills needed for ringing handbells and handchimes, this collection presents rote exercises for the ringers to drill each new skill. Music throughout the book, arranged in both 2- and 3-octave versions, includes hymn arrangements, classical transcriptions, and original pieces. The music provides all ringers the opportunity to put each newly learned technique into practice.

Basic Training for Bells

This landmark book offers up-to-date information and will be your go-to resource to help prepare your new or existing ensemble to make music. Subjects covered include adjusting, cleaning and maintaining handbells; planning and identifying needs and numbers; assignments; finding and training ringers; choosing literature; rehearsal techniques; conducting; notations; techniques and much more. Essential for all directors!

Building a Successful Handbell or Handchime Choir

Themes & Variations

A follow-up to Exploring Handbells Book 1, this book proceeds to the next level of techniques that ringers will encounter in handbell music: echo, ring touch, hand damp, table land damp, martellato lift, mallet roll, suspended mallet, gyro, weaving, and singing bell. The music incorporates techniques from Book 1 as well as these new ones and features all original compositions other than the Huron Carol, which is an arrangement. The music may be played on either handbells or handchimes, though not all techniques are applicable to handchimes.

Exploring Handbells, Book 2

This instructional book is a highly specialized practice book focusing on using mallets on handbells. Exercises progress from basic mallet strokes to advanced sticking techniques. In just a few practice sessions, musicians will see significant improvement in speed, flexibility, ambidexterity, precision, coordination, and musical control.

Mastering Mallet Techniques

Bellissimo Publications

This reproducible set of rhythm development exercises is designed to grow and strengthen your ringers' rhythmic reading skills as well as independence of the hands. Great for weekly warm-ups or at-home ringer practice. There are five sets of exercises: Whole and Half Notes; Quarter Notes; Eighth Notes; Sixteenth Notes; Triplets/Bell Changes. Each set includes individual one-page/ten-line exercises on notes, rests, ties, marts, and shakes.

Rhythmic Development For Ringers

2 Octave Handbells

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Ring True

This reproducible series features workshop and class notes from experienced handbell educators who share their insights to help make your rehearsals more productive and your ringers more confident. This first volume introduces the concepts and theory behind Unison Exercises (UE) and how to create and use them in rehearsal and classroom settings, teaching note-reading and new skills. Seven reproducible practice sheets are included, plus a blank template for you to create your own. The author shares her precisely sequenced pedagogical approach, beginning with this edition covering a wide range of Level 1 skills.

Building Blocks: Unison Exercises

If you've ever wanted to take your ensembles into repertoire that goes beyond simple meters, this collection will remove the fear and allow your ringers to feel more at ease when encountering music that incorporates compound or complex meters. Following in the success of their previous volumes in the Pathways series, Sandra Eithun and Michael Joy continue with Volume 3, offering music that teaches specific musical elements (in this volume, meter), encourages success, and fosters growth in musicianship. These songs are short and offer repetitive patterns to ingrain the "feel" of the meter being highlighted. The pieces have been carefully written and/or arranged from folk, classical and sacred repertoire in order to approach the teaching of meter sequentially. Reproducible.

Pathways to Musical Ringing, Vol. 3 - Meters

2-3 Octave Collection Vol 3

These pieces have been carefully written or selected from folk, classical and sacred repertoire in order to approach the teaching of rhythms sequentially. In addition to being excellent teaching pieces, they are intended to be flexible for use in a variety of school, festival and sacred settings. As an additional benefit for developing ensembles, there are no page turns for any of the selections. Contents include: A Brahms Waltz; Homage to Pachelbel; Londonderry Air; and more.

Pathways to Musical Ringing, Vol. 2 - Rhythms

2-3 Octave Collection Vol. 2

Thoroughly educate students on the basics of ringing handbells and handchimes. Note reading and good ringing techniques are emphasized throughout in a thoughtful progression. Sixteen lessons are included, as well as repertoire and a poster for recognizing pitches of specific bells. Both teacher and ringer editions are included, along with a code for a downloadable version to be used on a tablet, whiteboard, or screen. The Sampler contains a Level 1 solo piece, Painted Desert, which uses Square One methodology. The capstone three-piece Suite is also available in a separate folio for concert, worship, or festival use. Almost all techniques and theory covered in the lessons are included in one of these three engaging pieces.

Square One

2-3 Octave Full Score Teacher's Manual & Ringer's Edition

This reproducible collection contains pieces that have been carefully written or selected from folk, classical, and sacred repertoire to teach musical expression. In addition to being excellent teaching pieces, they may be used in a variety of school, festival, and sacred settings. They have limited page turns and are available in compatible settings. Contents include Clair de Lune; Largo; Somebody's Knocking at Your Door; 'Tis the Gift to Be Simple and more.

Pathways to Musical Ringing, Vol. 4 - Musical Expressions

A sequel to the best-selling Tunes That Teach, this collection features seventeen handbell selections with separate two-octave and three-octave arrangements. Tanzanian, Israeli, Afro-American, Brazilian, Swahili, Argentine, Hasidic, Cuban, Chinese, Bohemian and Latin American tunes are all represented in this reproducible collection which moves pedagogically from Level 1 to Level 2.

Multicultural Tunes That Teach

Shawnee Press

A step-by-step approach to the art of handbell or handchime ringing for the non-reader or experienced musician.  The basics of music and bell ringing are explained, then followed through with practical application in exercises and short, varied pieces designed for quick success, and confidence and skill building.

Ringing Basics

3 Octave Handbells

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