Whether for classroom sing-alongs adult community sings choral concerts or just riding in the car this Step One of the SING WITH US songbooks is an invaluable resource. Composer and song leader Nick Page who has led group sings and workshops at MENC ACDA AOSA and other conferences for many years has assembled this multicultural set of 28 easy and fun sing-along songs for all ages. The collection begins with Echo songs that are easy but with a simple challenge reinforcing Nick's belief that the first step in getting people of all ages to sing along is to make them better listeners. Along with this Nick encourages using lots of emotion particularly joy. TheCall and Response songs and the unison songs that follow offer well known gems as well as easy to learn new songs that can be sung in Unison or with harmony. Nick provides invaluable cultural information as well as essential tips for making the songs come alive. Reproducible lyric sheets are also included. Nick Page has received rave reviews for his SINGS and many workshops throughout North America and Europe. In addition to his song leading Nick is a choral composer with over fifty published works including Sing and Shine On and Music as a Way of Knowing that are very popular with music teachers and choral musicians. Singing is an act of compassion; we make the world a better place through our singing.

A Prehistoric Musical Adventure for Cross-Curricular Fun in the Classroom-Have a rip-roaring time teaching your kids about some amazing prehistoric creatures! Sing and play your way through the early history of life on earth and discover science in a way you never thought could be thisfun!Dino Soaring! is an engaging cross-curricular resource of songs and activities for Grades 1-3 that explores the lives of seven exciting dinosaurs. It includes eight songs an easy rhyming script and fifteenfact-filled reproducible activities. Designed for music and general classroom teachers this collection will reinforce learning done in other disciplines across the curriculum and engage students in a riveting musical learningexperience. This collection also provides you with a “Dinosaur Vocabulary Guide ” “Life Science Curriculum Objectives ” and “Fast Facts for Teachers” for each of the seven dinosaurs to helpanswer basic questions and allow you to conduct fun and informed classroom discussions.Whether used as a musical revue or as a teaching tool for any classroom Dino Soaring! is sure to provide meaningful fun forboth you and your students.

Uses: ChristmasScripture: Luke 2:1-20; Matthew 2:1-12Optional handbells and conga drums (or hand drums) join in this song of celebration announcing the birth of Christ. Melodic snippets from theFrench carol “Il Est Né ” bring a charming surprise in the song's mid-section before instruments join the choir as they conclude the piece singing “Noel Noel Noel!” Available separately:Unison/opt. 2-Part Treble CelebrationTrax CD. Duration: ca. 2:05

A wonderful well-researched musical about saving the planet as seen through the eyes of animals on land sea and air. Written by the successful partnership of Michael and Jill Gallina this is a superb one-act play to inspuire all! Through rhyming dialogue and creative characterisations the animals teach young people on a picnic the three R’s of ecology - recycle Replenish and Respect. The seven songs in unison and two-part demonstrate a variety of blues rap calypso ballad and funky rock styles. Students will enjoy dramatising the 12 animals (which are easily costumed) the eight young picnickers the conga-line of fish and the chorus which can be any size.This is the Performer's Part with all lyrics and the libretto. The Director’s Score (SP19649)includes staging costuming props and scenery suggestions.

Jenkyns’ songs for young singers can best be described as art songs for the youngest singers. Their ranges and technical requirements are just right for the younger age groups and their lyrics as in The Snowman are perfectly gauged for their performers. Peter Jenkyns was a 20th century British composer singer and educator who wrote a series of songs for primary-aged children sensitively arranged and with appropriate lyrics. Jenkyns was the headmaster of two primary schools outside of London for whose choirs he composed songs for the St Albans’ Schools Music Festival. He was also a highly-regarded Gilbert andSullivan patter-song singer and he founded a local Gilbert & Sullivan society which is still thriving.

Roger Quilter (1877-1953) was a British composer best known for writing many gentle and beautiful songs. Along with Henry Balfour Gardiner and Percy Grainger he was a member of the Frankfurt Group a group of friends who studied composition together at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. Slumber Song is a gentle lullaby scored for Unison Voices with Piano accompaniment. The lyrics were written by the little-known poet Clifford Mills. It makes the perfect closing number or even an encore for any choral concert.

Jenkyns’ songs for children can best be described as art songs for the youngest singers. Their ranges and technical requirements are just right for the younger age groups and their lyrics as in The Five Little Mice are perfectly gauged for their performers. NB The Five Little Mice come to a sad end in this tale courtesy of a watchful cat.Peter Jenkyns was a 20th century British composer singer and educator who wrote a series of songs for primary-aged children sensitively arranged and with appropriate lyrics. Jenkyns was the headmaster of two primary schools outside of London for whose choirs he composed songs for the St Albans’ Schools Music Festival. He wasalso a highly-regarded Gilbert and Sullivan patter-song singer and he founded a local Gilbert & Sullivan society which is still thriving.

A gentle pastoral text by Barbara Softly set for unison voices with a beautifully lilting piano axccompaniment by Betty Roe. Ideal for young singers and school choral groups.

Uses: General LentScripture: I Corinthians 12:27Based on a stirring 16th century text this gentle anthem reminds us that Christ uses us to show the world His love and grace. Repetition of melodic phrases as well askey text phrases allow singers of all ages to learn the piece quickly and easily. The well-crafted melody flowing accompaniment and inspiring message of service make the piece an excellent selection for use during Lent or any time of year.Available separately: Unison CelebrationTrax CD. Duration: ca. 3:06

Volume 2-Sing on Sight is a comprehensive sight-singing method by Audrey Snyder. Volume Two builds on the skills established in Volume One and moves step by step to full choral sight-singing. The recorded accompaniments include awide variety of styles from classical to contemporary and folk music to pop and jazz. Exercises are written so that two or more lines may be sung simultaneously so students gain sight-singing independence and develop theirpart-singing skills. With just a few minutes a day Sing on Sight can help your choirs learn to read music and have fun in the process! Student and Teacher Editions available separately: both Unison/2-Part Treble and2-Part/3-Part Mixed. Accompaniment CD (coincides with both voicings) also available. Classroom Kits include 25 Student Books 1 Teacher Edition and 1 Accompaniment CD.

Rolling Down To Rio first appeared in The Beginning of the Armadillos one of the Just So stories by Rudyard Kipling. It was set to music in 1903 by Edward German arranged for unison or solo Voice with Piano accompaniment. The arrangement has remained highly popular ever since.Edward German was an English musician and composer of Welsh descent best remembered for his extensive output of incidental music for the stage and as a successor to Arthur Sullivan in the field of English comic opera. While French influences are clearly apparent in his music all in all his style is usually considered to be‘quintessentially English’.

Praise has much in it to interest and challenge the amateur singer in particular the variety of phrase lengths and the elongation of the theme phrase in each of the repetitions.Composer and educator George Dyson was a writer of ambitious and critically well-received works that were allowed to languish and are now in the process of reassessment and renewed performance. Praise and the unison songs like it have kept his musical memory alive among the generations who sang his songs as part of their school music curriculum.

For Narrator Children's Choir And Instrumental Accompaniment (Piano Version)-Following on the success of her two operatic works for children and teens – Douce et Barbe Bleue Les Fables Enchantées Little Thummie and Cendrillon (based on Perrault) as well as the adaptation of Maupassant’s short story The Dumpling (2014) – Isabelle Aboulker once again hits the bull’s eye with Myla And The Boat-Tree a commission from the Villecroze Music Academy. In 2015 this musical tale for Narrator Children’s Choir and Instrumental Accompaniment was awarded the “Music for Young Performers Prize” by the French Music Publishers Association. Both in the French version and MarciMeth’s excellent English translation it provides the material for an enthralling educational adventure in which children between the ages of five and eight are invited into their first experience of opera and choir singing. With her trademark finesse and sensitivity the composer tells the story of a little girl dealing with the death of a person she’d cherished above all: her grandfather. Written for choir in unison this tale wafts shimmering melodies over an instrumental accompaniment suffused in turn with gentle melancholy and light humour. An art that speaks from an open heart. The work was written in three versions: for Narrator Children’s Choir and Piano (AL30732) for Narrator Children’s Choir and Trio (Clarinet in Bb Cello and Piano: AL30733) for Narrator Children’s Choir and Instrumental Ensemble (Flute Oboe Clarinet in Bb Bassoon Horn Trumpet in C Trombone Percussion 2 Violins Alto Cello Bass: AL30734) Choral score: AL30743 Listen to Isabelle Aboulker talking about “Myla and the Boat-Tree”:

Michael Hurd. An enormously fun pop cantata for narrator unison voices (with divisions) and easy piano with guitar chord symbols. The work is divided into six sections opening with a lively description of Samson himself. It explains his enormous strength and outlines his prowess on the field of battle. Highlights of the cantata include the scene in a barber’s shop with a background of snipping scissors. This is followed by a splendid music-hall song in which the whole audience can join! The finale describes the Philistine’s party - set as a square dance - at the end of which Samson pulls down the whole building! 10 mins.

Carol Collection-Carols for Everyone is a brand new collection of seven festive pieces written specifically for both adult and children's voices to sing together. Making Music commissioned Carols for Everyone to help fill the gap in choral repertoire for combined adult and children's voices and in doing so bring more people and communities together to make music.The collection funded by the Carnegie UK Trust and published by Novello includes six arrangements of well-known carols and six arrangements of well-known carols from Silent Night and Adam lay ybounden to The angel Gabriel and Rudolph the red-nosedreindeer and an original piece by Paul Mealor. Every piece can be performed by SATB adult choir and children or by children with piano accompaniment alone making this group of pieces flexible and approachable for all.   According to a review in Sunday by Sunday from the Royal School of Church Music 'the arrangement of Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer will bring the house down.'