This traditional Mexican folksong is often sung at birthdays and this setting by Audrey Snyder retains the traditional flavor and adds some additional touches to make it even more special. Ideal for younger ensembles in a varietyof performance options.Available separately: 2-Part. Performance Time: Approx. 2:20.

This collection presents well-known folk songs - with a twist: the tunes, newly arranged for melodic instrument and piano, are slightly jazzy and mixed with pop music elements - making traditional songs sound fresh and interesting again! All pieces are very melodic in character and work well even without piano accompaniment, which makes them particularly suitable for use in the classroom. The piano accompaniment is available on CD as a PDF file and can be printed in professional quality. The CD also contains backing tracks for each piece - which lends a live feeling in performance! This collection is perfect for all lovers of the 'crossover' between folk, jazz and pop - by Schott's best-selling author Dirko Juchem who has been active as a saxophonist, saxophone teacher and specialist author nationally and internationally for many years./ Recueil / Trompette

FULL PERFORMANCES AND PLAY-ALONG-TRACKS - PIANO PART TO PRINT SPIELBUCH MIT CD - SPIELB CD - FLUTE ARRANGER: JUCHEM, DIRKO ARRANGER: BROCHHAUSEN, ACHIM ÉDITEUR: SCHOTT MUSIC DIFFICULTÉ: EASY TO INTERME PAGES: 26 THIS COLLECTION PRESENTS WELL-KNOWN FOLK SONGS - WITH A TWIST: THE TUNES, NEWLY ARRANGED FOR MELODIC INSTRUMENT AND PIANO, ARE SLIGHTLY JAZZY AND MIXED WITH POP MUSIC ELEMENTS - MAKING TRADITIONAL SONGS SOUND FRESH AND INTERESTING AGAIN! ALL PIECES ARE VERY MELODIC IN CHARACTER AND WORK WELL EVEN WITHOUT PIANO ACCOMPANIMENT, WHICH MAKES THEM PARTICULARLY SUITABLE FOR USE IN THE CLASSROOM. THE PIANO ACCOMPANIMENT IS AVAILABLE ON CD AS A PDF FILE AND CAN BE PRINTED IN PROFESSIONAL QUALITY. THE CD ALSO CONTAINS BACKING TRACKS FOR EACH PIECE - WHICH LENDS A LIVE FEELING IN PERFORMANCE! THIS COLLECTION IS PERFECT FOR ALL LOVERS OF THE 'CROSSOVER' BETWEEN FOLK, JAZZ AND POP - BY SCHOTT'S BEST-SELLING AUTHOR DIRKO JUCHEM WHO HAS BEEN ACTIVE AS A SAXOPHONIST, SAXOPHONE TEACHER AND SPECIALIST AUTHOR NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY FOR MANY YEARS. CONTENU - WADE IN THE WATER - SUR LE PONT D'AVIGNON - AURA LEE - LA FEMME QUI RIT - MEXICAN HAT DANCE - CARNIVAL OF VENICE - AMAZING GRACE - PLAISIR D'AMOUR - MORNING HAS BROKEN - SCARBOROUGH FAIR - HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN

Folksongs from Japanese Immigrant Workers in Hawai'i-Voices From The Canefields is a collection of folk songs from Japanese immigrant workers in Hawai'i. Folk songs are short stories from the souls of common people. Some like Mexican corridos or Scottish ballads reworked in the Appalachias are stories of tragic or heroic episodes. Others like the African American blues reach from a difficult present back into slavery and forward into a troubled future. Japanese workers in Hawaii's plantations created their own versions in form more akin to their traditional tanka or haiku poetry. These holehole bushi describe the experiences of one particular group caught in the global movements of capital empire and labor during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In Voices From The Canefields author Franklin Odo situates over two hundred of these songs in translation in a hitherto largely unexplored historical context. Japanese laborers quickly comprised the majority of Hawaiian sugar plantation workers after their large-scale importation as contract workers in 1885. Their folk songs provide good examples of the intersection between local work/life and the global connection which the workers clearly perceived after arriving. While many are songs of lamentation others reflect a rapid adaptation to a new society in which other ethnic groups were arranged in untidy hierarchical order - the origins of a unique multicultural social order dominated by an oligarchy of white planters. Odo also recognizes the influence of the immigrants' rapidly modernizing homeland societies through his exploration of the 'cultural baggage' brought by immigrants and some of their dangerous notions of cultural superiority. Japanese immigrants were thus simultaneously the targets of intense racial and class vitriol even as they took comfort in the expanding Japanese empire. Engagingly written and drawing on a multitude of sources including family histories newspapers oral histories the expressed