Festival (Mass Festival Selection)

SKU: KJ.WB356F

Renaissance Rock and Courtly Dance, two contrasting selections, are optional beginning recorder features that can by played with or without the solo recorder part. Both compositions are also published separately for string orchestra (Kjos-SO241). The concert band and the string orchestra versions can be performed together. This is the perfect opportunity to feature recorder classes with the band and/or string orchestra to recruit new band and orchestra members. Also great for a mass festival finale! Renaissance Rock and Courtly Dance also appear on pages 27 and 47, respectively, in the Recorder Excellence method book by Bruce Pearson and Wendy Barden, published by the Neil A. Kjos Music Company.

About Standard of Excellence in Concert

The Standard of Excellence In Concert series presents exceptional arrangements, transcriptions, and original concert and festival pieces for beginning and intermediate band. Each selection is correlated to a specific page in the Standard of Excellence Band Method, reinforcing and expanding skills and concepts introduced in the method up to that point. Exciting parts with extensive cross-cueing are presented for every player. Accessible ranges, appropriate rhythmic challenges, and creative percussion section writing enhance the pedagogical value of the series.

Sold individually, each In Concert selection includes a full Conductor Score and enough student parts for large symphonic bands. Each student part also includes correlated Warm-Up Studies. The Conductor Score comes complete with rehearsal suggestions, a composer biography, program notes, a rehearsal piano part, several ready-to-duplicate worksheets and a duplicable written quiz.

SKU: BR.CHB-5385

ISBN 9790004413869. 7.5 x 10.5 inches. German / English / Latin.

The choir book for the youth choir festival of Pueri Cantores 2023 in Munster offers a diverse selection of choral settings and songs based on the motto of the choir meeting Give Peace!. Highlights from the book include the motto song O Lord, give peace. Da pacem, Domine, a newly created mass composition as well as other choral music arranged and composed especially for the choir festival. In addition to popular perennial favorites for the accompaniment of peace prayers, a wide range of diverse works is included: Peace Songs, English-language choral music, polyphonic song settings, as well as familiar and new spiritual songs. Most of the compositions are set for four-part mixed choir. The newly composed setting of the Ordinary and the motto song can also be sung by two-part children's and girls' choirs with organ accompaniment. Additionally, the diverse compilation of songs and chants offers numerous suggestions and ideas for choral work in the parishes beyond the choir festival.

SKU: AP.47545

UPC: 038081542386. English.

A warm adagio introduction breaks into a joyous Hosanna chorus in this 44-measure homophonic masterwork. Taken from Schubert's Mass No. 4, this edition offers sensible vocal ranges, editorial dynamic and metronome markings, plus a complete IPA guide for the brief Latin text. The orchestral parts have been reduced to a playable piano accompaniment while preserving the Classical characteristics of the original work.

About Alfred Choral Designs

The Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.

SKU: CL.012-4740-00

The River and the Rock depicts the rich history of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, settled in 1735. Each short movement paints a musical picture of the city’s history, opening with Beginnings, depicting a frontier that was settled very slowly as hostilities between England and France encouraged Indian bounty hunters to attack isolated garrisons in the region. Patriots suggests the city’s call to arms throughout history. Prosperity visits the industrial revolution and the city’s rapid growth at the turn of the 20th century. Movement IV and V, Decline and Revival, offer a musical insight into the city’s decline throughout the 20th century and rebirth in the 21st century. Exciting and emotional, The River and the Rock merges history and music into a setting that your students will enjoy preparing. Excellent selection for festivals and contests!

SKU: AP.48336

UPC: 038081551593. English. Words by Emma Lazarus.

These famous words are inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty: Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Emma Lazarus's timeless poem has been sensitively imagined for choir and piano, with optional French horn. A stirring opening solo blossoms into a beautifully crafted chorus with expressive tempo and dynamic shifts. Patriotic and inspiring. This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.

About Alfred Choral Designs

The Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.