Songs Of The Year: Voice: Vocal Album

Voicelinks is an innovative teaching resource for music in early years and primary education. It embraces singing as a means of accessing all areas of the curriculum to develop the whole child with natural progression and links between age groups and subject matter.At the heart of the book are 24 carefully written songs covering popular school topics. Each song is tailored to Early Years (3-5) Key Stage 1: Year 1 (5-6) or Key Stage 1: Year 2 (6-7) and comes equipped with a host of activity ideas designed for classroom use. Suitable for specialists and non-specialists alike Voicelinks guarantees successful learning outcomes across thecurriculum.24 songs about colour the weather travel celebrations and much moreTailored to children aged 3-5 5-6 and 6-7 (early years and lower primary)Comprehensive teaching notes for preparing-teaching-developing the song and topicAn outline of the curriculum links for each song showing related skills and areas of learningProfessionally recorded CD with demos for all songs and backings for KS1 songsSongs with notated Piano accompaniments or optional pupils' percussion partsAdditional learning resources including picture-cards and illustrationsPhotocopiable vocal scores percussion parts and supporting resourcesSue Nicholls and Peter HuntPeter Hunt is Head of Voice for Berkshire Young Musicians Trust and the inspiration behind OUP's successful Voiceworks series. He has a wide experience of school teaching at primary and seconday levels and was co-founder of the highly acclaimed Oxfordshire Youth Chamber Choir. From 2000-2002 he was also an Advisory Teacher for the county's vocal strategy. His extensive experience as a choral animateur workshop leader conductor and arranger and his career in education have contributed directly to his understanding of the needs of young singers.Following a

This 1963 setting of three well-known folksongs honours the melody line in the Soprano while adding brilliant texture and accompaniment in the clarinet and Piano. In Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier McCabe moves his harmonies away from the certainty of the minor tune for an intriguing dislocation that reflects the loss in the lyrics. In the lullabye Hush-A-Ba Birdie Croon Croon the clarinet provides a rippling undertone to the singer while D’Ye Ken John Peel carries as much musical acknowledgement of the ‘death in the morning’ as it does the romping ‘hounds and Horn’.Contemporary British musician John McCabe has been a prolific composer since his earliest years and an activepianist recording extensively and performing across the globe. His compositions tend toward large scale works there are seven symphonies so far but he has composed for every size and type of ensemble. He is particularly well known for his concerti.

Twelve Poems op. 35 Set of Songs on Texts by Kerner-As with the Dichterliebe (HN 549) Frauenliebe und Leben (HN 547) or the song cycles with texts by Heine and Eichendorff (HN 548 and 550) the Kerner Cycle op. 35 was written in 1840 Schumann?s ?Liederjahr?. Yet ithas a special place: it was composed in the time immediately following Schumann?s marriage to Clara Wieck.Schumann set a series of poems to music in November during a ?quiet week which went by withcomposing and much loving and kissing? and the cycle was complete by the turn of the year. It contains a great deal of intimate musical innuendos. The first edition of 1841 was soon followed by a second issue many of the songswere published individually and the ?Wanderlied? soon became a core piece in the repertoire. With this edition the songs in Schumann?s cycle are once again being published together in a single volume.

33 Songs for Voice and Piano - Critical edition-Numbering more than 100 in total and composed across a 60-year period Gabriel Fauré's songs form the single most influential contribution to the field of French art song.Despite their importance the songs have long been riddled with misprints and inconsistencies. This first complete critical edition is based on study of hundreds of manuscript and printed sources along with evidence and interpretative advice from artists who worked with Fauré;. Above all it is a practical edition informed by extensive work with musicians in performances masterclasses and workshops.This second volume comprises the songs of Fauré's creative maturity including popular favourites (Les Roses d'Ispahan Clair de lune) alongside some lesser-known gems together with his three vocal duets and the delightful four-voice Madrigal.

Schumann was the first to set a complete cycle of Heinrich Heine?s poems to music. His literary ?forks of lightning? had already fascinated Schumann when he was 17 years old. However he only wroteOpus 24 in 1840 in his ?year of song? choosing to set a cycle of poems from the ?Buch der Lieder?. He wrote the following to his fiancée: ?Ah Clara what bliss it is to write for the Voice?. This enthusiasm isreflected in each of the nine songs. This is Kazuko Ozawa?s third edition of a Schumann cycle to be published in Henle Urtext.

18 Lieder-Roger Quilter is one of England's finest art song composers and his songs have remained firmly in the vocal repertoire since their appearance early in the 20th century. In these songs he demonstrates an extraordinary skill in setting English poetry and shows what can be achieved in the miniature form.Specially compiled to mark the 50th anniversary of the composer's death this new collection includes well-known favourites alongside works which have been unavailable for many years and three previously unpublished songs.This is the High Voice edition containing arrangements all for High Voices.

A four-part collection of songs for female vocalists as sung by some of the great female artists of the last 50 years arranged for piano and voice complete with lyrics and guitar chord boxes.