The Long Day Closes

SKU: HL.44006696

UPC: 884088142070. 9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.

Although Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) is best known for his collaboration with W.S. Gilbert on their famous operettas, he also wrote much instrumental, chamber and orchestral music, church anthems and around 20 secular part songs. One such song was The Long Day Closes, which remains in the popular repertoire of many mens and mixed choirs. The melody is a combination of hushed hymn-like reverence and emotional intensity, which provides the young band the opportunity to work on dynamics, ensemble, intonation and balance in chorale style.

SKU: HL.14003399

ISBN 9780711941618. English.

Based on historical fact, this refreshing musical takes place in Austria and tells how the carol Silent Night came to be written. As winter closes in, Barny the church mouse chews the organ bellows to curb his hunger. When the organ no longer plays all the notes, Barny fears that he has spoilt Christmas for the villagers, but there is a way round the problem! This work contains songs, dance, narration and dialogue, and is suitable for perormance in church or school. There is a large cast list, with four principal characters plus narrator. Duration: 30 mins. Script available in student book. If you need to license a school/youth theatre performance of this product, please use the online application form.

SKU: BT.MUSRSK091404

ISBN 9781910975039. English.

Rockschool is about singing the songs you love. Your Vocals Grade 4 book contains six of the biggest tracks from the past six decades arranged for you to sing for your Grade 4 exam. This book also includes examples of all the supporting tests found in the Rockschool Grade 4 exam.

This book for female vocalists contains the songs:

• Skinny Love - Birdy
• Warwick Avenue - Duffy
• One Day I'll Fly Away - Moulin Rouge!
• If I Were A Boy - Beyonce
• Rolling In The Deep - Adele
• The Closest Thing To Crazy - Katie Melua

Other features include:

• Fact Files: band andartists background information with recommended listening.
• Backing tracks: high-quality recordings to sing along to in Rockschool exams.
• Downloadable audio: easily access audio content online.
• Vocal scores: easy-to-follow separate Vocals scores.
• Piano and Guitar parts: Piano notation and Guitar chords included to help with practice.

SKU: HH.HH448-FSP

ISBN 9790708146551.

In Sonata 7, in D major, Balicourt opens with a suave, intricately rhythmic Adagio. The following Presto, with its delightful interplay between flute and bass, including both octave doubling and stretto imitation, is the most skittish movement to emerge from the composer’s pen. The finale is a ‘sandwich’ movement, in which a Minuetto encloses a duple-metre Cantabile in D minor. Although the minuet could be said to exemplify one of those ‘easy’ movements referred to in Balicourt’s prospectus for subscribers, its complex, prescribed ornamentation requires sensitive handling. Sonata 8, in E minor, is strategically placed as the final work in the set, being one of the longest as well as the most conservative; adopting the traditional four-movement configuration, it continually harks back to the grand Handelian style. An eloquent Andante ushers in a Presto containing many, slightly academic, contrapuntal touches and much chromaticism. The subsequent Largo is only five bars long: its plain melodic line in minims and crotchets is the skeleton around which the flautist is expected to weave an elaborate embroidery. For the finale Balicourt introduces, in effect, a new version, in triple metre, of the second movement. The fact that all four movements are in E minor heightens the sense of unity, which is expressed very concretely through their sharing of some thematic material.

SKU: CL.RWS-2115-00

Start each day with a little hustle! With one page of eight exercises, this routine enhances your beginning band’s ensemble sound. This musical workout utilizes long tones, low and high range extensions, finger challenges and scale patterns The workout closes with a chord and chorale exercise to improve balance, intonation and basic phrasing.

SKU: LO.10-5727L

ISBN 9780787777661.

A lilting 6/8 meter is the perfect backdrop for this expressive Bert Stratton text. While the words paint a picture of the angels visiting the shepherds and the shepherds hastening to worship the Christ-child, Patti's melodic writing is full of ethereal grace and beauty. A brief, but meaningful Alleluia section closes out each refrain, and the music culminates with the choir singing, We lift our voices high, we celebrate His birth, a long-awaited sign to all across the earth..

SKU: TM.03259SC

Key of A; Chorus in Ab only.

SKU: HL.44007487

UPC: 884088256036. 9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.

Symphonic Metamorphosis was commissioned by the Sierra Vista High School Symphonic Band, Las Vegas (NV). The composer was given free hand to choose the style of the new commission and originally planned to use the opportunity to fulfil a long-held ambition to write a set of variations on the famous chorale from Saint-Saens' Third Symphony (Organ); in beginning work he was so moved by the work's highlights that he decided to include more than just the chorale melody. Therefore, while Symphonic Metamorphosis starts out as an original set of variations for concert band, it is gradually subsumed by other elements in the symphony (particularly the slow movement), and the piece closes with a finale that has been reorganized and rescored from the majestic closing pages of the symphony.