This Calypso-style arrangement is set in a joyful a cappella voicing that will be a total blast to rehearse and perform. A great addition to holiday concerts, caroling and community performances!
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Walt Disney's Mickey's Christmas Carol brings us this joyful seasonal salute. From bells ringing to frosted window panes, this song is easily-learned and will put everyone in the holiday spirit!Available separately: 2-Part and ShowTrax CD. Performance Time: Approx. 2:00.
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The famed sacred classic by César Franck is lovingly set for choir in a graceful rendering that allows sanctuary singers to linger with its delicate melody and enriching harmonies. The traditional text is ideal for Lent or communion.
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With a repeating and rhythmic piano accompaniment that reflects the emotional tumult of the poetry, the vocal lines soar and intertwine in an impressive flurry of sound, before suddenly coming to rest. An exciting work for high school women's voices.
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This wonderful American folk song arranged by Marie Pooler is available in SAB, SSA and TTB.
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Text: anon.
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Difficulty level: 3
The Ceremony of Carols is one of Britten's best-known and most-performed works. It is a brilliantly conceived and dramatic concert work which sees the voices process to their places singing unaccompanied plainsong and, at the end, processing out again to the same chant. These movements can also be accompanied but strictly only if the voices do not process. The final Alleluia can be repeated as many times as necessary to get the singers to and from their destination.The carols are for three-part childrens voices (though, of course they can be sung by female adults as well) and they form a two-part work around a central Interlude for harp which is based on the plainsong from the Procession. Variety is the key word here as all the carols have such individual identities. The forthright Wolcum Yole!, the deliciously lyrical There is no Rose, the swinging Balulalow, the fiery and dramatic This little Babe all contribute to a work which is a feast of discovery throughout. Lovely solos and duos add further colour and the harp part, an inspired choice of accompaniment, enriches, colours and surrounds the voices with its pictorial musical imagery. If anything shows Britten's genius for writing for voices it must be this work.
The challenges here are in creating a real equality between voice parts, fielding a confident pair of soloists, and making the most of the wonderfully colourful poems Britten has chosen to set. Pronunciation is not really an issue, but when I recorded this work with the Finzi Singers I decided to follow the example of Sacred and Profane and use authentic medieval pronunciation for which an expert coach was necessary. It brings an added element of colour to a familiar aural experience.
Duration [A Ceremony of Carols, complete]: 22 minutes
Paul Spicer, Lichfield, 2011
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The creative genius of the late Marvin Hamlisch is unmatched in the world of movie music! This lovely setting of the theme from the 1970s film Ice Castles features a soloist and warm, expressive choral parts and supportive accompaniment. String bass part included.
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From the powerful and dramatic Spielberg motion picture Amistad, this song offers a simple but uplifting and noble message. Available: SATB, SAB, 2-Part, Instrumental Pak, Concert Band, String Pak. Performance Time: Approx. 3:40.
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One of Yeats most well loved poems from his third volume of poetry, The Wind Among the Reeds, is exquisitely set in this thoughtful choral work of romance and dreams. Careful painting of the text throughout creates a musical landscape for advanced choirs as well as developing voices.
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Ever awakened from a dream and wished you could return to it? British composer Paul Ayres begins with whispering noises before divulging his text, and later brings some Chinese text into the mix. His creativity earned him the winner of the North Dakota State Edwin Fissinger Composition Competition and a placement in the Jo Ann Miller Series. Great artistry emerges in this composition that works beautifully for advanced high school, college and community choirs. Medium.
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