SKU: HL.303776
ISBN 9781540066145. UPC: 888680969004. 9.0x12.0x0.398 inches.
The Strum Together series enables players of five different instruments - or any combination of them - to strum together on 70 great songs. This new, easy-to-use format features melody, lyrics, and chord diagrams for five popular folk instruments: standard ukulele, baritone ukulele, guitar, mandolin, and banjo. This collection includes 70 folk songs: Amazing Grace * Beautiful Dreamer * Camptown Races * (Oh, My Darling) Clementine * Danny Boy * The Drunken Sailor * The Erie Canal * Home on the Range * In the Good Old Summertime * Kumbaya * Michael Row the Boat Ashore * My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean * On Top of Old Smoky * The Red River Valley * Shenandoah * Take Me Out to the Ball Game * When the Saints Go Marching In * Yankee Doodle * and more.
SKU: HL.49032875
ISBN 9790001126106. 9.0x12.0x0.241 inches. Eva Balthazar.
This collection is an invitation to a musical voyage of discovery around the entire globe. Starting with well-known European folksongs, the itinerary continues via Scandinavia and the Balkans to more exotic destinations - with tunes from the Congo, Mexico and China among others - and ends with American Spirituals. Thanks to the easy settings even beginners get a good impression of the fascinating kaleidoscope of folksongs of the world and can absorb unfamiliar styles in an easy-going playful manner.
SKU: HL.49043945
ISBN 9790220133503. 8.25x12.0x0.3 inches. English.
Sea Songs, commissioned jointly by Ars Nova Copenhagen and Glasgow Concert Halls, is a kind of sequel to Martland's Street Songs (originally written for the Kings Singers and Evelyn Glennie). As with the earlier piece, Martland made use of to the library of the English Folk Song and Dance Society at Cecil Sharp House in north London.I wanted specifically to find texts that were not just the usual nautical heave-ho sort of thing, but instead explored the dangers and hardships still being experienced by sailors as recently as the early 19th century. I was also very happy to see in these texts the sense of camaraderie and mutual support that existed between the sailors. (Steve Martland)Dance to your Daddy sets the scene of a sailor's wife at home, dandling her baby son and singing to him about his daddy away fishing, and about the future. Both the tune and the words come from the Northumberland area around Newcastle. This song is very well known in the UK and gave the title to a famous television series When the boat comes in.Fire Down Below is about the effects of fire - a constant danger on board wooden ships. At the end of this song the words take on an extended meaning: Fire in our hearts for the friends that we love.The Dead Horse is about the initial month of work without pay in which all seamen had to take part. They referred to it as the dead horse - hence the expression to flog a dead horse when something is a waste of time. The seamen resented this unpaid time, and the text expresses their frustrations metaphorically by listing what they would do to the horse! The music's frantic gallop alludes to the horse's desperation.Although The Sea Martyrs presents itself as a ballad, this text has a more literary feel, and unlike the other songs it doesn't include a chorus refrain. It concerns the sailors' lack of pay, the consequences of asking for pay (being hanged!), and the poverty of their families at home. The poem portrays the sailors' deaths as an almost religious sacrifice to help future seamen.At the end of the work, the opening of Dance to your Daddy returns as a kind of descant, sung by an angel calling to the hanged men. Paul Hillier, 2012.
SKU: BT.MUSAM1011604
ISBN 9781921029783. English.
This newly updated edition of the bestselling Uken Play Ukulele book will get beginners of any age strumming chords and playing songs in no time. Written by professional player and educator Mike Jackson, the book features his instant play methodtogether with downloadable play-along audio. The book begins with the basics - chord diagrams and tuning - before delving into Mike Jacksons unique method that will help you remember where to put your fingers for different chords. Once youve mastered this, Uken Play will teach you 25 greatsongs. The songs get progressively more challenging with each featuring chord diagrams, lyrics and chord symbols, helping you to learn to play the Ukulele by practising strumming the chords while also playing 25 recognisable tunes. The accompanying audio downloads will let you tune up, hear the songs how they should sound, then let you play along with a full backing band. Some songs feature Mikes handy hints so learning the Uke goes as smoothly as possible. If youve struggled to learn to play the Ukulele because you cant remember the chords, or you just want to polish up the basics while playing songs like You Are My Sunshine, Drunken Sailor and Que Sera Sera, Uken Play is an instant play method thattruly does work. Mike Jackson is a professional Ukulele player and multi-instrumentalist who has sold over 250,000 albums and performed extensively across Australia and the rest of the world.
SKU: HL.14022962
ISBN 9788759810941.
Tunes from the movie - Musical, melodrama, farce and comedy - well known film genres have through the last 70 years produced film songs, that deserve to be remembered, played and sung. Many of which have become beloved evergreens. Toner fra filmen contains 100 songs that explain why. Tunes from the movie - Toner fra filmen is the first Danish song book, that concentrates on songs written directly to the film medium - from 1932 until 2002. From swing music to a sailor's waltz, from rock'n'roll to rap music, and the publication contains 100 compositions and lyrics and with that the answer to why a specific film song book is relevant. The answer is quality and diversity.Toner fra filmen is a song book that is supposed to strengthen the joy of singing and the memory of everyone interested in songs and films. Predictable catchy tunes by eg. Sven Gyldmark standing side by side with surprises that have almost been forgotten by most but deserve a renaissance. Toner fra filmen is released now as the quality in the national film production makes people walk away from the television and into the darkness of the movie theatre to laugh and cry. Back at the television screen we enjoy the old Danish movies that make us wish to refresh the film songs. Most of us seldomly remember more than the refrain, and then the need to look at the score arises. The songs chosen to Toner fra filmen has of course been an integrated part of the movies' set up, but they can manage on their own. There are a lot of love songs, but there are also songs for every taste and temperament, nice as well as sexy, short, long, poetic etc etc. The book makes you want to sing and play and is at the same time a piece of Danish cultural history.
SKU: AP.41333
ISBN 9780739097762. UPC: 038081462264. English.
Over the course of ten years, legendary young-band composers John O'Reilly and Mark Williams composed and arranged over 100 creative works that correlate with specific pages in their highly successful band method, Accent on Achievement. Alfred Music is now proud to make these arrangements available in a book format that includes 22 full arrangements in each collection. The Light Concert Collection includes creative arrangements of folk, rock, jazz, and Latin-American music. Titles: Rockin' la Bamba * Sailors Holiday * River Trilogy * No Drummer Left Behind * African Marching Song * Stand Up and Swing * and 16 others.
SKU: AP.41335
ISBN 9780739097786. UPC: 038081462288. English.
