More Songs and Games for the Music Class (Songbook 2)-First We Sing! Songbook Two is a collection of 18 more children's songs rhymes and games from around the world selected transcribed and annotated by Dr. Susan Brumfield. Whether you are looking for new songs to add to your repertoire or for new ways to teach familiar favorites Songbook Two is loaded with more fresh ideas for the music class. This second volume in a series designed to bring delightfully singable songs and practical pedagogy together is perfect for use in both home and school. Songbook Two also features extension activities for the classroom historical references pedagogical indices and suggestions for including these songs in the First We Sing!literacy-based music series available from Hal Leonard. This second volume comes with a Sing-along CD recording featuring Inner Voices a group of 8-12 year old singers from The West Texas Children's Chorus. This enhanced CD also offers PDF songsheets for projection or print options. Songbook Two includes suggestions for Orff instruments and recorder along with seasonal and holiday songs singing games and songs just for fun. Ideally suited for teaching musical skills this collection provides a ???vocabulary??? of music and play from which children can draw today. Adults and kids of all ages will discover the fun and enjoyment of listening learning singing and playing these songs for generations to come!

Written to commemorate the Passion of Christ, this cantata is a moving tribute to His life and ministry. Composed for maximum flexibility and scored for SA(T)B voices, the optional cued notes make it possible for the cantata to grow with your choir. Smaller choirs will enjoy the rich textures and larger ensembles will be able to engage their full resources. For churches that desire an instrumental component, a very modest consort instrumentation creates a reverent accompaniment. The narration contains scriptures and prayers to convey the graceful theme of Christ's sacrificial love. Ending with the crucifixion, A Gathering of Grace will set the stage for Easter morning. Songs include: Prelude of Shadows- In the Stillness of This Moment- Ask of Me- Palm Branches- A Light in the Upper Room- Jesus, in Gethsemane- The Day the Cross Held Up the Sky- A Green Hill Far Away- Recessional. Score and Parts (fl, cl, hn, perc, pno, hp, vn, vc) available as a Printed Edition and as a digital download.

'I asked my friend, the poet Einar Askestad, if he could write a poem for me about love between father and son, brothers and God.I felt that these forms of love are seldom sung about. The poem moved me greatly and I have tried to put music to these words which is simple yet full of beauty. In the four movements of this suite-like piece, various aspects of these relationships are conveyed.? (Marten Jansson) / Choeur Mixte

First We Sing Songbook One is a collection of twenty children's songs rhymes and games from around the world. Whether you are looking for new songs to add to your repertoire or for new ways to teach familiar favorites FIRST WE SING is full of fresh ideas for the music class. First in a new series of volumes designed to bring delightfully singable songs and practical pedagogy together in one anthology this book is perfect for use in both homeand school. Teachers will find extension activities for the classroom historical references pedagogical indices and suggestions for including the songs in a literacy-based music curriculum. First We Sing includessuggestions for Orff instruments and recorder along with seasonal and holiday songs singing games and songs just for fun. Ideally suited for teaching musical skills this collection provides a ?vocabulary? of musicand play from which children can draw today. Adults and kids of all ages will discover the fun and enjoyment of listening learning singing and playing these songs for generations to come. Available: Book/CD. Suggested for grades1-5.

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.

Just as Mary and Joseph moved from darkness into light, so do all when accepting the One True Light. This new 40-minute adult Christmas musical from Mary McDonald features fresh settings of carols along with beautiful new songs, and celebrates the Light of Christ. An optional candlelight moment is included, along with inspired narration and lighting suggestions to heighten the darkness into light theme. Reproducible Rehearsal Trax feature part-dominant tracks. / Choeur

Four popular classics by the likes of Cecil Mack and Cole Porter have been lovingly arranged as close-harmony songs for men's voices. Capturing perfectly the mood and spirit of the original Broadway favourites David Nield presents a programme of guaranteed crowd-pleasers that continue to transcend fashion as the years go by brimming with the swing and swagger of the Barbershop style.Arranged for a quartet of Alto Tenor Baritone and Bass voices each piece includes a Piano accompaniment for easier rehearsal. Nield's ingenuous and effervescent writing sparkles with jazzy energy without ever becoming difficult to sing.The close-harmony style not only presents auniquely satisfying and playful challenge to the singers but will also delight and amuse audiences everywhere no matter what the occasion!

The task: to write a piece that could involve children as players singers and composers alongside a professional symphony or chamber orchestra. The solution: a peace-cry for the biosphere in which the collaborative nature of theenterprise is a metaphor for a wished-for human enlightenment to the ways of the natural world. Davies provides five musical elements and five ways of development and uses these to illustrate five branches of life on earth:water-plants trees fish birds and mammals (including man). There is a space for answers from children's instrumental groups and then a larger space in which the children can develop the given ideas perhaps with members of theorchestra. Davies returns as composer to depict through an excess of development creation turned sour. Finally everyone comes together with a unison hymn with orchestra and instrumental groups celebrating the turn of thetide.This work for young instrumentalists children's chorus and orchestra was commissioned by the Association of British Orchestras as the centrepiece of an education project which coincided with the implementation of theNational Curriculum for music in schools in England and Wales echoing similar developments in Scotland and Northern Ireland.Score. Duration c. 25mins.

The signature tune for the award-winning Swedish a cappella group Vocado HÃ¥ll Mig Kvar/Hold Me Fast is characterized by mixed messages: the lover wants to leave but can't quite bring himself to walk out the door. The flavour of the music reflects the dilemma with emotions ranging from muted acceptance in the verses to highly charged indecision in the passionate chorus. With classic a cappella rhythms and textures along with melodies that will stay with you for days this dual-language publication in the Voice Junction series is perfect for vocal groups and choirs singing in Swedish or English.HÃ¥ll mig kvar has been recordedby Vocado on the CD Northern Lights.

Dizzy Dogs and Curious Cats is filled with engaging, easy-to-use, fun music activities. Designed for both teachers with little or no music background and seasoned professionals seeking fresh ideas, Dizzy Dogs and Curious Cats will introduce your students to familiar tunes, chants, and delightful new songs and poems. With several of the enchanting activities connecting directly to popular preschool literature books, there is a consistent thread of language and literacy awareness throughout the book. The audio CD contains much of the music included in the book---music arrangements for singing and playing instruments in class, dancing music, music for listening, and other songs needed for teaching these activities. Additional songs are precisely referenced to be readily located on iTunes. Fully reproducible, patterns for corresponding manipulatives and fun crafts are also included. Engage and delight your students with the charming lessons in Dizzy Dogs and Curious Cats! Recommended for Pre-K--grade 1. / Choeur

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

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes-Four popular classics by the likes of Cecil Mack and Cole Porter have been lovingly arranged as close-harmony songs for men's voices. Capturing perfectly the mood and spirit of the original Broadway favourites David Nield presents a programme of guaranteed crowd-pleasers that continue to transcend fashion as the years go by brimming with the swing and swagger of the Barbershop style.Arranged for a quartet of Alto Tenor Baritone and Bass voices each piece includes a Piano accompaniment for easier rehearsal. Nield's ingenuous and effervescent writing sparkles with jazzy energy without ever becoming difficult to sing.The close-harmony style not onlypresents a uniquely satisfying and playful challenge to the singers but will also delight and amuse audiences everywhere no matter what the occasion!

Four popular classics by the likes of Cecil Mack and Cole Porter have been lovingly arranged as close-harmony songs for men's voices. Capturing perfectly the mood and spirit of the original Broadway favourites David Nield presents a programme of guaranteed crowd-pleasers that continue to transcend fashion as the years go by brimming with the swing and swagger of the Barbershop style.Arranged for a quartet of Alto Tenor Baritone and Bass voices each piece includes a Piano accompaniment for easier rehearsal. Nield's ingenuous and effervescent writing sparkles with jazzy energy without ever becoming difficult to sing.The close-harmony style not onlypresents a uniquely satisfying and playful challenge to the singers but will also delight and amuse audiences everywhere no matter what the occasion!