SKU: MN.10-047
UPC: 688670008887.
The melodic material for this composition comes from three African-American Spirituals, “Nobody Knows,†“Steal Away,†and “Deep River.†The melodies serve as the basis of the piece and are surrounded by a variety of textures. Jazz and blues harmonies and influences can be found throughout this exciting work.
SKU: CF.CPS13F
ISBN 9780825843617. UPC: 798408043612. 9 X 12 inches.
Commissioned by the South Carolina Chapter of Phi Beta Mu Band Fraternity in honor of Lorraine Paris, Band Director for 47 years at Newberry High School, Newberry, SC. Lorraine Paris is a native of Greenville, South Carolina, where she graduated from Parker High School. She received her B.S. in Music Education from Winthrop College and her M.A. from Furman University. She began her teaching career in 1948 in Newberry, South Carolina, where she taught for the next 47 years until her retirement in 1995. A member of numerous musical organizations, including Phi Beta Mu and the Theta chapter of Alpha Delta Kappa, she served as the first president of the South Carolina Band Directors Association and currently serves as their first Executive Secretary-Treasurer. She has been named Outstanding Bandmaster and Outstanding Contributor by the South Carolina Chapter of Phi Beta Mu, and was also named to that organization's Hall of Fame. Other honors include the South Carolina Career Service Award from ASBDA, the Silver Baton and Scroll of Excellence Awards from WBDNA, and the Band World Legion of Honor. In 1993, she was presented the Key to the City of Newberry, and at her retirement, was awarded the Order of the Palmetto from the State of South Carolina. It is to this legacy that the Phi Beta Mu fraternity commissions Prelude to an American Spiritual and it is Lorraine Paris' love of the hymn song that prompted this arrangement of My Lord, What a Momin'.Commissioned by the South Carolina Chapter of Phi Beta Mu Band Fraternity in honor of Lorraine Paris, Band Director for 47 years at Newberry High School, Newberry, SC.Lorraine Paris is a native of Greenville, South Carolina, where she graduated from Parker High School. She received her B.S. in Music Education from Winthrop College and her M.A. from Furman University. She began her teaching career in 1948 in Newberry, South Carolina, where she taught for the next 47 years until her retirement in 1995. A member of numerous musical organizations, including Phi Beta Mu and the Theta chapter of Alpha Delta Kappa, she served as the first president of the South Carolina Band Directors Association and currently serves as their first Executive Secretary-Treasurer.She has been named Outstanding Bandmaster and Outstanding Contributor by the South Carolina Chapter of Phi Beta Mu, and was also named to that organization’s Hall of Fame. Other honors include the South Carolina Career Service Award from ASBDA, the Silver Baton and Scroll of Excellence Awards from WBDNA, and the Band World Legion of Honor. In 1993, she was presented the Key to the City of Newberry, and at her retirement, was awarded the Order of the Palmetto from the State of South Carolina.It is to this legacy that the Phi Beta Mu fraternity commissions Prelude to an American Spiritual and it is Lorraine Paris’ love of the hymn song that prompted this arrangement of My Lord, What a Momin’.
SKU: WD.679143059321
UPC: 679143059321.
Christy and Daniel Semsen, celebrated writers and creators of innovative, best-selling musicals for children's choir are back, and they're at it again! Their latest adventure, Back to the Cross, will take your Kids Choir on an inventive, fun-filled, rousing romp through time, discovering the message of the Cross along the way! A Semsen musical is guaranteed to deliver big on FUN and even bigger on a spiritual message that speaks to each child! In Back to the Cross, the long-awaited sequel to their hit musical, Back to the Manger, we find Norman and our cast of characters embarking on a time-travel excursion relying on the questionable reliability of the H/O-2000 Temporal Displacement Modulator...otherwise known as time travel machine.
SKU: WD.080689460777
UPC: 080689460777.
SKU: WD.080689459771
UPC: 080689459771.
SKU: WD.679143059345
UPC: 679143059345.
SKU: WD.080689445774
UPC: 080689445774.
SKU: WD.080689875427
UPC: 080689875427.
SKU: WD.080689523090
UPC: 080689523090.
SKU: WD.080689917127
UPC: 080689917127.
SKU: WD.679143059383
UPC: 679143059383.
SKU: WD.679143059291
UPC: 679143059291.
SKU: WD.679143059352
UPC: 679143059352.
SKU: WD.679143059338
UPC: 679143059338.
SKU: WD.679143059314
UPC: 679143059314.
SKU: WD.080689458774
UPC: 080689458774.
SKU: WD.080689446771
UPC: 080689446771.
SKU: GI.G-10688
ISBN 9781622777044. Text by Alan J. Hommerding.
Writing prompts are well-known in the field of creative writing. They are a means for writers to concentrate on and explore particular topics or themes, with the intent of encouraging writers to write thoughtfully and creatively, even in times of “writer’s block,†or periods in which personal inspiration seems to be lagging. However, no collection of these prompts focused for writers in the religious, scriptural, spiritual, or liturgical fields has been available. The Pen of a Nimble Scribe was created for these writers. It uses the scriptures and rhythms of the Church’s lectionaries (Roman Catholic and Revised Common) toopen new and creative writing approaches. For anyone who writes religious/spiritual/scriptural/liturgical texts of any sort, it will be a valuable resource. Alan J. Hommerding brings more than thirty years as an editor, author, poet, and pastoral prayer practitioner to this collection.
SKU: GI.G-10054
ISBN 9781622774548.
We all need creativity in our lives. It is key to our happiness. Music, according to author Clint Randles, is one of the best ways to feed our longing for self-growth through engagement in creative processes. And music brings us together for the purpose of making beauty with sound. It provides us with a pathway to the good life. In To Create, Randles answers the critical question: What can I do with my time that will give me the best chance at achieving daily happiness? This amazing book unpacks what it means to engage in creative processes. Since story is the best way of feeding our imagination, the book unfolds by way of life stories that express the author’s unique perspective of the hero’s journey. Along the way, Randles inspires us to think about creativity and music as a pursuit that is not only truly worthy, but accessible. He addresses rules for creative performance, what we can learn from exceptional musicians and teachers, the link between spirituality and creativity, understanding our own stories in light of the meta-story, and the art of trust and starting small. To Create is a book that is unlike anything written on the topic—entertaining, wise, inspiring, and layered. It is for anyone who is interested in pursuing creativity through music but can’t quite figure out how or where to start. States Randles: “It is my hope that you will be able to imagine the good life through music, that you will be inspired To Create!†Clint Randles, PhD, is Associate Professor of Music Education at the University of South Florida, husband, father, multi-instrumentalist, and passionate lover of music.  Full of resonating stories, To Create is a profoundly pedagogical book about potential pathways into life’s learnings through and in music. To Create seeks and embraces the value embodied in the multiple, individual, and sociocultural authoring of diverse creativities. By analogising the good life (‘eidaimonia’), with lived-through experiences by which our desire (and drive) to create, to grow, to navigate, and to achieve extraordinary things in life is inextricably linked, Clint Randles stories his own journey of being awakened ‘To Create,’ by creating and living ‘the good life’ in and through the symbiotic domains of music and music education. —Pamela Burnard, Professor of Arts, Creativities and Educations   University of Cambridge, UK To Create is the rare achievement that seamlessly blends how-to curriculum with why-so philosophy, making the case that creative activity is an essential right that all children deserve from an education in music. Randles’ vivid illustrations prod us to think differently about teaching when well-being—when the good life—is both destination and design. —Randall Everett Allsup, Professor of Music Education   Teachers College Columbia University Randles takes readers on a real and figurative road trip during which he demonstrates how to live life to its fullest by embracing creativity and repeating a mantra of possibility. He shows us how the good life is achievable, walking readers through deeply personal accounts of creativity in everyday situations over a lifetime. This book binds the individual and cultural, imaginative and practical, tangible and intangible, light and dark, yin and yang. It’s all about the power of three, weaving through everything the vital, intangible element of spirituality, energy, chi to achieve eudaimonia. Through the lens of his experiences as a musician and teacher, the author celebrates relentlessness and hard work, providing a window into what it means to engage in the good life. Open that window to hear life’s call to adventure! —Gareth Dylan Smith, Assistant Professor of Music Education   Boston University Professor Randles’ stimulating book prompts memory of the seminal work of Joseph Schumpeter who suggested the importance of creative deconstruction in a democracy. Both authors focus on attaining the good life through a fuller understanding of the logic of the process of change—change that is driven by knowledgeable and innovative entrepreneurs. The immediate application of Randles’ suggested dynamic creativity processes applies to both teacher education and professional development, although both he and Schumpeter advance general ideas in creativity designed to achieve the highest level of human growth. —Richard Colwell, Professor Emeritus of Music Education   University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign In recent years, Aristotle’s concept of ‘Eudaimonia’—meaning Happiness in the robust sense of full human flourishing (a life of joy, fellowship, self-growth, meaningfulness, ethical ‘good work,’ and more)—has entered and transformed the philosophy and practice of music education. To Create: Imagining the Good Life through Music is a highly original, emotional, practical, and exciting journey through the natures and values of creativity in/for music education and life itself. —David J. Elliott, Professor of Music and Music Education   New York University.
SKU: AP.48896
UPC: 038081562209. English.
Written as a prompt for discussing diversity, equity, and inclusion, this heartfelt song favors no group over another, but rather emphasizes the value of each individual. Follow the ever-changing texture as an earnest unison melody blossoms into a fully harmonized bridge, before new and compelling lines are introduced and interwoven. In the end, you'll have a patchwork quilt with many unique squares joined together to create one thing of beauty.
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: AP.48895
UPC: 038081562193. English.
SKU: AP.48893
UPC: 038081562179. English.
SKU: AP.48894
UPC: 038081562186. English.
SKU: BT.DHP-1094828-070
ISBN 9789043133357. 9x12 inches. International.
Jan de Haan koos voor deze prachtige medley de bekende gospelsongs: Go, Tell It on a Mountain • Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho • Swing Low, Sweet Chariot • Down by the Riverside. Bezetting: 2 trompetten, trombone (F-hoorn), tuba (trombone) en percussie (optioneel). Ein gelungenes Medley aus bekannten Gospelsongs für Blechbläserquartett (2 Trompeten, Posaune (Horn in F), Tuba (Posaune) und opt. Percussion). Medley des spirituals Go, Tell It on a Mountain, Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, Down by the Riverside. Instrumentation : 2 Trompettes Sib, 1 Trombone (Cor en Fa), 1 Tuba (Trombone) et Percussion opt.
