These two spirituals -- Steal Away and Were You There? -- have become staples in the gospel repertoire and have been skillfully and sensitively combined into a quodlibet for male Voices with Piano accompaniment. Twentieth centuryEnglish Organist Hazel Hudson has published many of these combinations of separate tunes into one work as well as works for student musicians and arrangements of religious music.The work is of intermediate difficulty and is anappealing piece for Choral programmes.

King Leo is a victim of the corporate jungle! He has money power and fame but he still has not found happiness. His trusty servants Spot and Stripes ever loyal to the King begin a quest for the key to happiness. Do the monkeys have the answer? Or maybe the hyenas? Perhaps the secret lies with the elephants. Who knows? This heart-warming musical play will help your students see that the true meaning of happiness is not money power and fame but treasured friendships and life's simple pleasures. It's a Jungle Out There features six unison songs and easy-to-learn dialog. Available: Teacher's Manual Singer's Edition 5-Ppak Preview Cassette Performance/Accompaniment CD.Performance Time: 20 minutes. For Grades K-4.

Everything You Need to Organize Your Choral Program-Who knew that when you set out to be a choral conductor that your life would be completely filled with so many other activities and a plethora of roles other than just conductor? One of the main jobs of a choral director is that of a juggler... or a multitasker in the contemporary vernacular! The only way to survive and thrive in this world of music is to keep yourself organised. In The Perfect Choral Workbook: Everything You Need To Organize Your Choral Program by Timothy Seelig you will find the tools to organise your choral program and your career. There are over 40 forms and lists on the CD-Rom with printable PDF and Word files that willassist you with a range of tasks such as making sure you are in the right place possessing the necessary tools and cultivating magic in your music program. This workbook provides the necessary tools to help you tailor the forms to your specific program.

This new collection of folk songs - 'Laula kultani' (Finnish for 'Sing, my sweetheart') - offers choirs attractive literature to expand their repertoires and to perform concerts for many different occasions. The creative choral director has many possibilities for performing this music: thus instruments can be added, or - if there are difficulties due to pronouncing a foreign language - a small ensemble can sing the song, while the remainder of the choir hums the music in the background. The selected songs about themes of love and love's sorrow, dance, festival and celebration, are traditional folksongs which are well-known and popular in the countries of their origin. In puttingtogether this collection special emphasis has been placed on the musical quality of the settings. In addition to traditional settings, many songs in new arrangments by contemporary composers have been included. The settings range in difficulty from easy to moderately difficult. / Musique traditionnelle / Répertoire / Choeur

Les Troyens - The Trojans: Opera in 5 Acts Berlioz composed Les Troyens towards the end of his life drawing on Virgil?s epic poem The Aeneid which he had admired since his childhood. In his Memoirs he recounts how his father a country doctor read Virgil to him and how the story of Dido?s tragic fate reduced him to tears which he tried hard to conceal. The score was finished in April 1858 but he was unable to persuade the Paris Opera to mount it (his earlier opera Benvenuto Cellini had been a failure there in 1838) and eventually he agreed to allow the last three acts to be performed under the title Les Troyens à Carthage. This took placeat the Théâtre-lyrique an enterprising but ill-equipped theatre in November 1863 and although it was much admired there were no more performances before Berlioz?s death in 1869. In the history of French music Les Troyens stand out as a grand opera that avoided the shallow glamour of Meyerbeer and Halévy but therefore paid the price of long neglect. In our own time the opera has finally come to be seen as one of the greatest operas of the 19th century. Urtext of the New Berlioz Edition Full score (BA5442) and vocal score (BA5442-90) available for sale Performance material (BA5442-72) available for hire

Jephtha is Handel’s last oratorio. Handel had to break off from composing several times because of his increasing blindness in 1751. The first performance at the Covent Garden Theatre in February 1752 was the last performance he conducted before he went completely blind. In Jephtha Handel succeeded in achieving the perfect fusion between a biblical plot and the spirit of classical tragedy. With great intensity and dramatic expression he highlighted in particular the fates of Jephtha and Iphis thereby portraying convincing and complex characters. The chorus How Dark O Lord are Thy Decrees at the end of parttwo is of crucial importance in the work and is regarded as the dramatic high point of the oratorio. The vocal score is based on volume I/30 of the Halle Handel Edition (BA 4014) which contains the complete critical version of the music of the oratorio for the first time. It contains a detailed foreword in German and English and a clear straightforward Piano reduction.

A Holiday Musical for Young Singers-A Holiday Musical for Young Singers. It's holiday time and the clock is ticking! The elves are happily bustling around putting the final touches on the presents that Santa will soon be delivering to children all around the world. Everyone is excited - except for lead elf Carol. Holiday Time? Big deal! Carol is the definition of the word grump. In the dictionary under the word grump there are no words just Carol's picture! Join the fun as the ghosts of holiday past present and future each pay a visit to Carol and help her see why holiday time IS a big deal and that it's never too late to change! This delightful 30-minute holiday musical features 6 songs for unison voices withoptional harmony and a script with 20 speaking parts easily adapted to casts of varying sizes. The Teacher Edition includes piano/vocal arrangements choreography dialog and helpful production guide. Singer books provide vocal lines and dialog. Top off your performance with the professionally-produced orchestrations on the Performance/Accompaniment CD. Available: Teacher Edition Singer Edition 5-Pak Preview CD (with vocals) Perf/Accomp CD. Performance Time: Approx. 30 minutes. For Gr. 3-6.

Content : All Night All Day - Amazing Grace - Deep River - Down By The Riverside - Get On Board (Gospeltrain) - Go Down, Moses - Go Tell It On The Mountain - Good News - Joshua Fit The Battle Of Jericho - Joyful, Joyful - Kum Ba Ya My Lord - My Lord What A Morning - Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen - O Happy Day - Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child - Swing Low - Somebody's Knocking At Your Door - The Little Light Of Mine - Were you there - When The Saints Go Marching In

with Accompaniment. Take your performances of rounds to a new level: as satisfying, characterful concert items. Old and new, they are provided with piano accompaniments for unison and part singing, introductions, and endings. Graded in difficulty from ?Row, Row? to ?Summer Is A-Coming In?, there is something for everyone.

A Christmas Musical-The Flower of Holy Night is based on the Mexican legend of the poinsettia. Lots of good tunes keep everything moving along. There are eight main parts lots of special speaking parts and plenty of non-speaking parts.

Corpus Christi is an anonymous Middle English Carol first written down c.1500. It was re-worked as a carol for Soprano and Tenor Soloists with SATB chorus by Peter Walock (1894-1930) in 1919. It wasdedicated to Thomas Strong later Bishop of Oxford who had been Dean of Christ Church College during Warlock's brief time studying there and who is better known for encouraging William Walton's musicalcareer. While he is best remembered for his scandalous lifestyle and his large-scale Capriol Suite the Corpus Christi carol ranks alongside Bethlehem Down as one ofWarlock's most sensitive and beautiful creations.

Autograph: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz-?I have never experienced such silence or seen an audience moved in this way.?(Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy)Up to the present day there has scarcely been a work in the history of music which has fascinated listeners and performers more than Bach?s ?St Matthew Passion?. Originally composed for Vespers on Good Friday and even longer in duration than the ?St John Passion? it reconstructs the story of Christ?s Passion with immense musical emotional and spiritual intensity.And so this monumental and complex composition has come to rank amongst the high points of Western culture. For good reason the ?rediscovery? of Johann Sebastian Bach?s music began in 1829 with theperformance of this work by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and the Berlin Singakademie.The autograph manuscript is regarded as one of Bach?s most beautiful the fair copy demonstrates the importance he attached to the careful preservation of the work for posterity. A further special feature is the coloured ink with which he wrote the biblical text and the music of the chorale ?O Lamm Gottes unschuldig?.This facsimile edition reproduces the autograph score of the ?St Matthew Passion? for the first time in high-quality colour printing. The Bach specialist Christoph Wolff introduces the background to the work?s composition and the characteristics of the manuscript.Martina Rebmann (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) provides further details regarding the history of the autograph manuscript; with a preface by Barbara Schneider-Kempf general director of the Staatsbibliothek.BÄRENREITER FACSIMILEThe seal is used exclusively for facsimile editions published by Bärenreiter which meet the highest demands in both scholarly and technical terms.The distinguishing features include:- a facsimile in high-quality colour printing- scholarly commentary- attractive cover designFacsimile of the authograph score in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz.With a commentary by Christoph Wolff Martina Rebmann and Barbara Schneider-Kempf.Documenta musicologica II 47166 pages of facsimile and approx. 30 pages commentary (Eng/Ger)Format: 37.5 x 24cm; Half-leather binding hardbackISBN 978-3-7618-2294-4

Take My Life, and Let It Be Consecrated was written by hymnist, Frances Ridley Havergal, daughter of the well-known English hymnist William Havergal. Francis wrote that it was on occasion of visiting the home of a friend that the hymn was composed. It seems there were ten persons in the home that she was visiting, some converted and some still unconverted. She prayed, 'Lord, give me all in this house!' At the end of her visit, all were converted. It was then that she penned the hymn that ends with 'Ever only, all for Thee!' Multiple voicings, instrumental parts and a beautiful fully-orchestrated accompaniment track are available. / Choeur

The infamous census of the ages has made Bethlehem a busy and crowded spot, and there are some guests at a local inn who aren't very happy. F. W. Woolworth (a rich wool salesman), and Rock Starling (a hip star singer), among others, have made it clear they want no part of the 'lower class' staying at the inn (or otherwise). By the end of this 20-minute, easy-to-prepare and present musical, we learn that Jesus came for everyone, and that because of Him, we're all included in God's Kingdom. For grades K--6. / Choeur