Special Songs For All Year Long - CD Preview Pak

SKU: WD.080689741722

UPC: 080689741722.

This budget-stretching children's collection is filled with creative, singable songs for use at a variety of special occasions and general worship throughout the year! NEW! DIRECTOR'S RESOURCE KIT The reproducible Director's Resource Kit is a complete resource containing: *Printed music pages with vocals and piano accompaniment *Enhanced CD Rom containing Split-Track Accompaniment CD and singer pages on unlimited reproducible PDF files Also available separately is an Instructional DVD with suggested movements for each song, making Special Songs for All Year Long a resource you'll use time after time, season after season.

SKU: PR.312416820

UPC: 680160050376. 8.5 x 11 inches.

Chen Yi’s most performed and most beloved choral music is a series of 10 Chinese folk songs adapted for S.A.T.B. Chorus (published in 3 volumes: 312-41731, 312-41732, 312-41733). This special version is a setting of the familiar collection, adapted for children’s chorus and strings.
Remembering when I studied composition in the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, I learned to sing hundreds of Chinese folk songs collected from more than twenty provinces and fifty ethnic groups, and went to countryside to collect original folk music every year.  I got to know that the folk songs are a mirror of people’s daily lives, their thoughts and sentiments, local customs and manners.  They are sung in regional dialects and use the idioms of everyday speech with their particular intonations, accents and cadences.  This correlation between speech and music distinguishes folk songs of one region from another.  I learned all songs by heart and sang them back in the exams every week.  They melted in my blood and became my natural music language.  The more I walk into the music life,the more I treasure the rich culture I have learned from my homeland. When I became the Composer-in-Residence of Chanticleer and was invited to write the first work for its concert program, as well as another version for its Singing-In-The-Schools program, I decided to introduce A Set of Chinese Folk Songs to my American audiences, and add a new flavor to Chanticleer’srich repertoire.  The work includes ten folk songs, taken from eight provinces (Anhui, Shaanxi, Yunnan, Shanxi, Taiwan, Sinkiang, Jiangsu and Guizhou) and five ethnic groups (Han, Hasake, Uighur, Miao and Yi).  I arranged them for choirs (men’s or children’s chorus) with various combinations in voices, to be sung mostly in Chinese, some in English.   From the mysterious mountain songs originally sung in the open air with high and long notes that can carry over great distances, the sweet and delicate melodies of young love compared with nature, the humorous antiphony by little children, and the lively dancing tune by villagers, you may get an idea of various music styles in Chinese folk songs according to geographic, ethnic and linguistic differences, and appreciate the beauty of the Chinese folk music.  The pure choir sound and the sophisticated singing by Chanticleer, in terms of pitches, language and musical expressions, really attract and inspire me to create some more new works in the years to come.  In thisedition of A Set of Chinese Folk Songs for standard SATB mixed choir (with piano rehearsal score), I divided these ten songs into three volumes.  They are Fengyang Song, The Flowing Stream, Guessing, Thinking of My Darling, Mayila, Jasmine Flower, Riding on a Mule, Awariguli, Diu Diu Deng, andMountain Song and Dancing Tune.—Chen Yi.

SKU: CA.240900

ISBN 9790007186104.

Anyone looking for a wide-ranging selection from the classic treasury of songs from German-speaking countries in a beautifully-produced volume will strike lucky with this song book. Families with children will enjoy using this volume over the years. The choice of songs is as colorful as life itself: songs for celebrations, for telling stories, playing, laughing and dancing, enjoying the seasons, friendship, the pleasures and pains of love, going to sleep. As well as folk songs, the book also contains songs from other countries which have already become standards, plus lots of rounds. The song book contains over 160 songs with melodies, texts, and chord symbols. The singalong CD (mp3 format) contains one or two verses of all the songs recorded on different instruments. An invaluable support for learning and singing together. Frank Walka has produced numerous expressive paintings specially for the song book. Scattered throughout the music pages as double page illustrations, these invite you to explore the songs and tell their stories in a unique way. Die schonsten Lieder (The most beautiful songs) is part of the prize-winning LIEDERPROJEKT. There is a voice and piano volume for the song book containing accompaniments to all the songs, as well as two CD collections.