SKU: AP.33999S
UPC: 038081376189. English.
Stretch your performance music budget further with a collection of pieces for the price of one! The Alfred and Belwin Signature Performance Series combine several best-selling pieces by our popular composers and arrangers into one set of score and parts. Made for young bands and orchestras, each set contains full-length pieces that can be used together in one concert or separately, with themes such as classic popular Christmas, movies, international, pop, and Classics appropriate for Contest. Also available for choir and handbell choir. Enjoy quality music at a great value price! Titles: Christmas Sampler * Christmas Joy * Holiday Magic.
SKU: AP.47478
UPC: 038081544847. English.
This lovely setting of three timeless and lively holiday tunes forms a festive trio of toe-tapping fun. Jaunty, rhythmic carols from Victorian-era England---Good King Wenceslas, Deck the Hall, and Here We Come A-Caroling---help form the cornerstone of traditional Christmas music. Set with both traditional and contemporary harmonies, and including optional percussion, your musicians and audience will be filled with the joy and pleasure of the season.
SKU: AP.47478S
UPC: 038081544854. English.
SKU: HL.35032262
ISBN 9781540027139. UPC: 888680746728. 9.0x13.5x2.261 inches. Joseph M. Martin/Heather Sorenson.
The Christmas story is told with fresh perspective in this collaborative cantata from Joseph Martin and Heather Sorenson. Throughout time, God has touched and motivated hearts through dreams and visions. Christmas Dreams visits these moments in scripture and connects the experiences of ancient times with our modern journey of faith, pointing to Christ, in whose birth the hopes, yearnings and dreams of all the world are fulfilled. Using traditional carols, newly composed seasonal selections and thoughtful narration, this rich work delivers a tapestry of sound and emotion. Share this cantata with your people and help them discover God's graceful touch in their lives! Songs include: Christmas Dreams Overture; Advent Dreams; The Promise and the Prayer; A New Morning of Promise; Zechariah's Song; Mary's Dream; All Through the Night; Hark! The Herald Angels Sing; The Magi's Epiphany; Christmas Dreams; A Gentle Christmas Blessing.
SKU: AP.44781S
UPC: 038081516936. English. Traditional German Carols.
A terrific multicultural addition to any beginning holiday concert, this arrangement by Sandra Dackow is a spirited rendition of three traditional German carols. These contrasting carols---Lasst uns froh und munter sein, O Come Little Children, and an unnamed traditional tune---are a fun way to introduce cut time and reinforce bow lifts to young string players. (1:45).
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Play great songs such as Over the Rainbow, Batman, This Land Is Your Land, and Star Wars (Main Title). Listen to and play a variety of styles of music: popular, traditional, classical, folk and patriotic. Read and write music; compose and improvise. Perform in a concert and play for your family and friends. Be a conductor of the orchestra. Learn about composers, such as Antonin Dvorak, Johann Pachelbel, Jacques Offenbach, Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Giuseppe Verdi, George M. Cohan, George Frideric Handel, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giacomo Puccini, Georges Bizet, Neal Hefti, and John Williams. Discover how music and art are related. Learn about a variety of musical ensembles including string orchestra, full orchestra, mariachi band, steel drum band, dixieland jazz band, rock band, and more. Play music from around the world, including North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa.
SKU: AP.44781
UPC: 038081516929. English. Traditional German Carols.
SKU: AP.44830S
UPC: 038081518213. English. Traditional American.
Snowy hilltops, timeless family traditions, and the warmth of a hearth---the atmosphere of a Smoky Mountain Christmas is captured in this arrangement of three traditional Appalachian carols arranged by Andrew Dabcyznski. The simple modal melodies of Star of the East and Babe of Bethlehem are passed throughout the orchestra, before concluding with the stirring spiritual Rise Up Shepherd and Follow. The keys, meters, and bowings are all playable by second-year string students, but intermediate and advanced students also will find this to be a satisfying holiday concert piece. (3:30).
SKU: AP.44830
UPC: 038081518206. English. Traditional American.
SKU: HL.226377
ISBN 9781495091506. UPC: 888680674618. 8.5x11.0x2.3 inches.
Composed in both traditional and blended choral stylings, this cantata weaves the historic symbolism of both the Lion of Judah and the Lamb of God into the Christmas story. Through original songs and traditional carols, singers and listeners are reminded that this story is not just an event in history, but a living story that still impacts the world today. Narration, solos, congregational participation and optional children's voices, along with gorgeous orchestrations by Keith Christopher, all work together to make this service a time of both celebration and worship. Songs include: Overture/Sing Christmas!; And So We Wait; It Came upon a Midnight Clear; Who's the Little Baby?; Sleep Little Lion, Sleep Little Lamb; Where Is Peace Tonight?; In This Moment; Angels from the Realms of Glory; Carol of the King. Score and Parts (fl 1-2/pic, ob, cl 1-2, bn, tpt 1-3, hn 1-2, tbn 1-2, tbn 3/tba, perc 1-2, timp, hp, pno, rhy, vn 1-2, va, vc, db) available as a Printed Edition and as a digital download.
SKU: AP.46686S
UPC: 038081533322. English. Traditional.
A Joyful Christmas is based on the popular Christmas carol Joy to the World. Victor López has masterfully written an arrangement that has a Latin flavor and will delight audiences. The piece effectively presents an original rhythmic style, and the use of expanded harmonies will certainly give your winter holiday concert a refreshing touch.
SKU: AP.49901
ISBN 9781470657376. UPC: 038081575520. English. Traditional Carol Tunes.
This musical celebration of the season is an upbeat, creative mix of five traditional, school-friendly carol tunes that include (in order of appearance): Ding! Dong! Merrily on High, Deck the Hall, Good King Wenceslas, Here We Come A-Caroling, and Jingle Bells. Fresh and varied scoring techniques create a seamless two-minute work perfectly suited as a program or set opener that rings out with unbridled joy from beginning to end. (2:05).
SKU: AP.44808S
UPC: 038081517384. English. Traditional.
Written in a bossa nova style, this fresh take on the classic O' Tannenbaum, arranged by Victor López, will add a little Caribbean flavor to your Christmas concert, and will be easy to learn and teach. (2:20).
SKU: AP.44808
UPC: 038081517377. English. Traditional.
SKU: AP.35957S
UPC: 038081420264. English. Traditional; by James Lord Pierpont.
Have a jolly, jingly holiday, but bring out the blue jeans and red bandanas for a country Christmas! Jolly Old St. Nicholas and Jingle Bells shine in this fun, foot-stompin' piece.
SKU: AP.44826S
UPC: 038081518152. English. Traditional.
Showcase your cellos! This piece, arranged by Bob Phillips, will make them sound great! Featuring What Child Is This?, Oh Come, Oh Come Emmanuel, and Angels We Have Heard on High. A perfect training exercise for third and fourth positions for the cellos, this lovely medley also includes a bit of easy third position for the first violins. The melody for the cellos is mostly on the A-string. (3:20).
SKU: AP.43852S
UPC: 038081506951. English. Traditional.
Each of the 12 days brings a snippet from a different holiday tune in this fun arrangement that uses the easy keys of G and D. As the days are added, it becomes a fun-filled challenge. Surprise comes on the12th day with Hallelujah Chorus! (7:00).
SKU: AP.47435S
UPC: 038081542119. English.
This arrangement of lovely ballads, vigorous fiddle songs, and simple shaped-note tunes is deeply rooted in early-American folk traditions. The three Christmas tunes The Babe of Bethlehem, Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head, and Star in the East will carry you to the wind-swept, snow-covered Appalachian Mountains. Beautiful orchestral scoring will provide a full sound for any ensemble.
SKU: AP.47435
UPC: 038081542102. English.
SKU: AP.35983S
UPC: 038081414959. English.
At my friend's house, they celebrate both Christmas and Hanukkah. Now you can too, with the same piece of music. Two traditional seasonal songs, Christmas Is Coming, the Goose Is Getting Fat and The Dreidel Song, are combined. Discuss with your students some of the compositional techniques (imitation, augmentation) or tonalities that are used to fit these two tunes together. The many teachable moments make this a blast to teach and play!
SKU: AP.31580
UPC: 038081349817. English. Traditional.
Let the earth receive her King! So rings the closing chord of this lovely setting of Good King Wenceslas, We Three Kings and Joy to the World. Unison parts and varied section features provide interest and skill building for all instruments in this truly easy holiday piece. Correlates with String Explorer Book One, page 32.
SKU: AP.BFOM00012C
UPC: 654979184683. English. Setting by Robert W. Smith.
Based upon the traditional carol Away in a Manger, this setting for full orchestra explores contemporary harmonies and textures. The carol is structured in 4/4 time as opposed to the customary 3/4 time, which allows the listener to enjoy the melody from a totally new perspective. This innovative arrangement will complete any holiday program. (3:50).
SKU: LO.30-3708MD
UPC: 000308154146.
Orchestral Score and CD with Printable Parts for 10/5316MD Marty Parks gives us a high-energy arrangement of the always-popular traditional French carol “Sing We Now of Christmas.†Written in the style of Mannheim Steamroller, it is the perfect anthem to open worship. Fun and festive throughout, it will inspire your choir to sing of Christmas as they never have before!
