Angel Songs

SKU: HL.14030980

ISBN 9788759871973. 12.0x16.0x0.285 inches.

Score available: KP00250 The composer writes: 'Even when I was writing Adieu, I knew that I wished to write Angel's Music. The title existed in an incomplete form in my mind and gradually more and more ideas and a few outlines became clear. The actual work on Angel's Music was started in Rome, where I spent the autumn of 1987 staying at The Danish Academy. Whether this stay has influenced the quartet or not is impossible to say. however, it is true to say that, in the Roman churches I visited, I saw countless angels playing in the top of frescoes and altars. Without these angels, together with the many crackled-gold paintings in this city and my general fascination with the Italian renaissance painter Fra Angelico, (in fact there are only a few paintings by him in Rome, but even his name..!) I am not sure my quartet would have been what it is. Anyway I do feel that there is a bit of Italy in the piece. The angels apart there are, in the short rhythmic agitating part of the quartet, reminiscences of the Italian medieval Trotto dance, and in the most expressive part of the piece there are flashes of Puccini-like music. From the very beginning of my work on the quartet, the distant, extremely muted sound in the high register which opens the piece, was on my mind. A sound satiated with a dense heterophonic and polyphonic texture of elegiac melody and vibrating trills. I imagined that little songs (maybe angel songs) could be created in this density, these songs constantly echoing themselves. Gradually as this sound got a more and more concrete musical and instrumental form, I felt, that not only should the little songs be created, played and die out in an echo, but also that the general pattern of the quartet should give the feeling of music which, from the distance, is getting closer and closer, culminates and at last disappears like an echo. Related to this, the general pattern of Angel's Music is divided into three: a pre-echo, culmination and echo.. The relationship between the three part is 5: 6: 4. The reason why I can say this precisely and prosaically is that it was necessary to me to mark the overall guidelines before I started to compose. I had to do this in order to enable the relationships to crawl from the general pattern almost fractionally into the smallest cells of the music, or more correctly; crawl from the small cells into the general pattern.'.

SKU: CA.744400

ISBN M-007-24692-1. Text: Peter Schindler; Eduard Morike; Maik Brandenburg; Hugo Ball; Friedrich Ruckert; Adelheid Wette.

Poets and composers have regularly been inspired by angels for texts, images or melodies. Peter Schindler has set to music an angel song cycle based on the wonderful lyrics of Hugo Ball, Martin Luther, Eduard Morike, Friedrich Ruckert, from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, as well as Psalm 91, which can be performed at any time of the year, as a whole or partially, as a concert interlude or an encore, and of course during Christmastime. The six angel songs can be performed with different vocal settings (1- to 4-part S, SA, SSA or SATB) and piano accompaniment. All four vocal versions can be combined as desired and sung simultaneously, as well as - additionally or alternatively - with string quartet/quintet. For each song there is a descant notated in C or B flat ad lib. In this way, the songs can be compiled individually for singers of all ages and easily rehearsed and performed. All possibilities are open for the joint concert experience of adult and children's choirs.

SKU: AP.37912

UPC: 038081423845. English. Words by Lyn Duddy.

Your ladies' angelic voices will sound heavenly on this pop hit single from 1962, originally sung by Shelley Fabares. A winsome, romantic lyric and a fun arrangement especially for your gals.

About Alfred Pop Choral Series

The Alfred Pop Series features outstanding arrangements of songs from the popular music genre. These publications provide exciting, contemporary, and educationally-sound arrangements for singers of all ages, from elementary through high school, to college and adult choirs.

SKU: HL.301272

ISBN 9781540064110. UPC: 888680964368. 9.0x12.0x0.337 inches.

The Strum Together series enables players of five different instruments – or any combination of them – to “strum together” on great songs. This easy-to-use format features melody, lyrics, and chord diagrams for five popular folk instruments: standard ukulele, baritone ukulele, guitar, mandolin, and banjo. This collection includes 70 all-time country favorites: Always on My Mind • Boot Scootin' Boogie • Could I Have This Dance • Deep in the Heart of Texas • Friends in Low Places • Green Green Grass of Home • Happy Trails • Hey, Good Lookin' • I Fall to Pieces • Jambalaya (On the Bayou) • King of the Road • On the Road Again • Ring of Fire • Sixteen Tons • Take Me Home, Country Roads • When Will I Be Loved • Your Cheatin' Heart • and more.

SKU: HL.282480

ISBN 9781540034373. UPC: 888680789244. 9.0x12.0x0.868 inches.

Over 80 songs from the decade of excess where Generation X came of age. This collection features arrangements for easy piano with lyrics. Songs include: Another Brick in the Wall * Billie Jean * Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) * Chariots of Fire * Don't Stop Believin' * Endless Love * Eye of the Tiger * Flashdance...What a Feeling * Girls Just Want to Have Fun * How Will I Know * I Love Rock 'N Roll * Jump * Karma Chameleon * Let's Hear It for the Boy * Like a Virgin * Missing You * Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now * One More Night * Pour Some Sugar on Me * Right Here Waiting * Sweet Child O' Mine * Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) * Take on Me * Time After Time * Up Where We Belong * What's Love Got to Do with It * When Doves Cry * With or Without You * and more.