A Life

SKU: HL.1295037

UPC: 196288169994. 6.75x10.5x0.019 inches.

Turn back the clock roughly a century with Kirby Shaw's bright and appealing arrangement of “The Best Things in Life Are Free,” a jaunty jazz-age anthem with a timeless message of positivity. This classic by the legendary songwriting trio of DeSylva, Brown, and Henderson encourages us with the reminder that the greatest treasures - life, love, and the beauty of the world around us - can be ours at no cost.

SKU: HL.1295039

UPC: 196288170013. 6.75x10.5x0.019 inches.

Turn back the clock roughly a century with Kirby Shaw's bright and appealing arrangement of “The Best Things in Life Are Free,” a juanty jazz-age anthem with a timeless message of positivity. This classic by the legendary songwriting trio of DeSylva, Brown, and Henderson encourages us with the reminder that the greatest treasures - life, love, and the beauty of the world around us - can be ours at no cost.

SKU: HL.287937

UPC: 888680909239. 5.0x5.0x0.164 inches.

Wayne and Karey Kirkpatrick made an instant impression on Broadway with their hilarious send-up of musicals in Something Rotten. Here, they take on the common themes of life and love and give them a poignant and memorable pop number sung by Zendaya in Warner Animations' Smallfoot.

SKU: HL.35031901

ISBN 9781540013149. UPC: 888680718282. 6.75x10.5 inches.

Our lives are surrounded by music and this choral celebrates that fact in a gentle, contemporary ballad. Perfect for young voices and developing choirs with its message and easy part writing. “We know that life is better when you live it with a song!&rdquo.

SKU: HL.147432

UPC: 888680073817. 6.75x10.5x0.024 inches.

Your pianist takes an equal role in this exquisite ballad that is tinged with melancholy. A superb selection for a more mature or community ensemble. Here's to life, here's to love and here's to you..

SKU: HL.370290

UPC: 840126993608. 6.75x10.5x0.029 inches.

A Life Well Lived is the first publication in the Emily Crocker Emerging Composers Series. The piece uses the Edgar Albert Guest poem, Compensation, to consider what we would like to be able to say about our lives, looking back in old age. The melody has a familiar folksong sound similar to those heard in Ireland and Scotland. The addition of a pennywhistle or flute enhances the warm, comfortable tone of the piece.

SKU: HL.379343

ISBN 9781705151198. UPC: 196288017820. 6.75x10.5x0.036 inches.

“It's the Hard-Knock Life,” from the musical, “Annie,” expresses the hardships children face living in a depression-era orphanage. As punishment for trying to escape from the orphanage during the night, Miss Hannigan has Annie and the other orphans clean their room all night.

SKU: HL.1414555

UPC: 196288197126. 6.75x10.5 inches. III John 1:12, James 1:17, John 1:6.

A beautiful affirmation of an abundant life, this anthem is a lovely choice for reminding us all to be grateful. Graceful melodic contours and moments of harmonic surprise add warmth and dimension to this pleasing soundscape.

SKU: PR.11441998S

UPC: 680160681730. 9 x 12 inches.

The ancient Egyptian empire began around 3100 B.C. and continued for over 3000 years until Alexander the Great conquered the country in 332 B.C. Over the centuries, the Egyptian empire grew and flourished into a highly developed society. They invented hieroglyphics, built towering pyramids (including the Great Pyramid of Giza, the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the World), and the created many household items we still use today, including toothbrushes, toothpaste, eyeliner, black ink, and the forerunner of modern-day paper. Included among their achievements were a series of highly developed funerary practices and beliefs in the Afterlife. As the average lifespan of an Egyptian hovered around 30 years, living past the death of oneAs physical body was a legitimate concern. Egyptians believed that upon death, their souls would undertake a harrowing journey through the Netherworld. If they survived the horrific creatures and arduous trials that awaited them, then their souls would be reunified with their bodies (hence the need to preserve the body through mummification) and live forever in a perfect version of the life they had lived in Egypt. To achieve this, Egyptians devised around 200 magical spells and incantations to aid souls on the path to the Afterlife. These spells are collectively called The Book of the Dead. Particular spells would be chosen by the family of the deceased and inscribed on the tombAs walls and scrolls of papyrus, as well as on a stone scarab placed over the deceasedAs heart. Subsequent collections of spells and mortuary texts, such as The Book of Gates, assisted a soul in navigating the twelve stages of the Netherworld. Not only did these spells protect and guide the soul on this dangerous path, but they also served as a safeguard against any unbecoming behavior an Egyptian did while alive. For instance, if a person had robbed another while alive, there was a spell that would prevent the soulAs heart from revealing the truth when in the Hall of Judgment. Rites for the Afterlife follows the path of a soul to the Afterlife. In Inscriptions from the Book of the Dead (movement 1), the soul leaves the body and begins the journey, protected by spells and incantations written on the tombAs walls. In Passage though the Netherworld (movement 2), the soul is now on a funerary barque, being towed through the Netherworld by four of the regionAs inhabitants. We hear the soul slowly chanting incantations as the barque encounters demons, serpents, crocodiles, lakes of fire, and other terrors. The soul arrives at The Hall of Judgment in movement 3. Standing before forty-two divine judges, the soul addresses each by name and gives a A!negative confessionA(r) connected to each judge (i.e. A!I did not rob,A(r) A!I did not do violence,A(r) and so on). Afterwards, the soulAs heart is put on a scale to be weighed against a feather of MaAat, the goddess of truth. If the heart weighs more than the feather, it will be eaten by Ammut, a hideous creature that lies in wait below the scale, and the soul will die a second and permanent death (this was the worst fear of the Egyptians). But if the heart is in balance with the feather, the soul proceeds onward. The final stage of the journey is the arrival at The Field of Reeds (movement 4), which is a perfect mirror image of the soulAs life in ancient Egypt. The soul reunites with deceased family members, makes sacrifices to the Egyptian gods and goddess, harvests crops from plentiful fields of wheat under a brilliant blue sky, and lives forever next to the abundant and nourishing waters of the Nile. Rites for the Afterlife was commissioned by the Barlow Endowment on behalf of the Akropolis Reed Quintet, Calefax Reed Quintet, and the Brigham Young University Reed Quintet. -S.G.

SKU: AU.9780806642703

ISBN 9780806642703.

The LifeSongs songbook includes early childhood songs, rounds, hymns, spiritual songs, and appropriate service music, all supporting the Life Together themes and integrating learning and worship. Also included are suggestions for teaching songs and using instruments, advice on incorporating the songs into worship, background information, and comprehensive indexes.

SKU: HL.49046857

ISBN 9781705162309. UPC: 842819115397.

The piano gods of my youth were Dinu Lipatti and Clara Haskil, both mysterious, enchanting. While I only knew Lipatti from his records, I was able to see Clara Haskil live in concert twice, in Burgdorf and in Lucerne. Well, I even begged to get her autograph. er unerringly precise, almost weightless playing has remained my ideal to this day. My piano piece, written for the Concours Clara Haskil, attempts to trace the lines of her lonely, pain-stricken life, marked by relentless self-criticism and selflessness. Die Linien des Lebens sind verschieden [The lines of life are different (Scardanelli/Holderlin)] Lebenslinien (Life Lines) is dedicated to Gyorgy Kurtag on the occasion of his 95th birthday .Heinz Holliger.