The infamous census of the ages has made Bethlehem a busy and crowded spot, and there are some guests at a local inn who aren't very happy. F. W. Woolworth (a rich wool salesman), and Rock Starling (a hip star singer), among others, have made it clear they want no part of the 'lower class' staying at the inn (or otherwise). By the end of this 20-minute, easy-to-prepare and present musical, we learn that Jesus came for everyone, and that because of Him, we're all included in God's Kingdom. For grades K--6. / Choeur

Francis Pott’s My song is love unknown sets all of Samuel Crossman’s famous verses but one (commonly omitted when the poem is sung metrically as a hymn). The music begins with offbeat repeated chords prompted—not inappropriately—by the opening to Richard Strauss’s tone poem  Death and transfiguration. In its early stages only trebles and altos are heard. The sequential flow of Crossman’s poem is soon disrupted with particular dramatic ends in mind. After a seemingly anxious harmonic distortion of the opening chords the word ‘crucify’ arises initially as a mere mutter from the lowervoices so timed as to afford assonance with other words in the upper parts and thus remain barely discernible as if only imagined. In due course however cries of ‘Hosanna’ find themselves on a collision course with a rising tide of ‘Crucify’ during which the ‘Hosanna’ faction gradually loses heart and sheep-like defects until a single treble voice—plaintively daring to repeat the ‘offending’ word—is swept aside by a murderous outcry. In due course ‘Crucify’ recurs as a further angry climax before the opening music returns this time expanding into an extended polyphonic final section for double choir and SATB soloists. The principal climax of the work subsides into a form of epilogue crowned sorrowfully by a treble soloist to whom the music in toto has by now presented many challenges. The anthem ends in the key and mood of its opening. The character of its demanding organ part reflects the possibility that it may one day be orchestrated.   My song is love unknown was composed in memory of Michael Renton a craftsman and largely self-taught ‘Renaissance’ man who was not only a member of the Winchester cathedral congregation but also the cathedral’s stonemason. He was beloved of many in the Cathedral community; a true and

A One-Act Musical-It's a snow day! Samantha tweets her friends with an invitation to hang out. The friends bury themselves not in the snow but in their individual electronic devices. Although resistant to play outdoors in the snow the childrensoon find themselves face-to-face with a walking talking sunglass-wearing snowman!Happy the Snowman used a slush fund to come to life to learn about today's technology. Quite frankly up until now he's been frozen out!Very quickly Happy is lost in a blizzard of techno-speak and electronic devices. After posting a video online of the snowman's song and dance Happy's adventure takes a dramatic turn as the video goes viral! When chased byscientists reporters and paparazzi his new friends text everyone they know to join in a friendly flash mob to distract his pursuers and to rescue our hero.Happy the High-Tech Snowman can be used anytime betweenlate fall and the end of the winter months and it lends itself to many community and instructional settings. For Grades 4-8. Available: Teacher Edition; Singer Edition 5-Pak; Listening CD; Enhanced StudioTrax CD; Preview Pack;Performance Kit.

Veteran church music composer/arranger and congregational worship specialist Benjamin Harlan has crafted solid arrangements of 40 favorite praise and worship songs in Sanctuary Praise and Worship. This outstanding reproducible collection is designed to be a flexible and practical resource for blended worship. A CD-ROM included in the book contains reproducible instrumental parts, lead sheets, and PowerPoint files for projection. / Choeur

This exclusive collection brings together 12 of Nico Muhly?s sacred works for mixed-voice choir. These vivacious fresh and dramatic pieces will make an impact whether in the church or in the concert hall and range from the intimate Lord keep us modest when we claim to the effervescent Bright Star Carol alongside service music such as Muhly?s Third Service. All are accessible to learn and offer choirs a new slant on contemporary choral music at its very best.  'Choral music has always been at the emotional core of my musical output. Even when I?m writing large-scale orchestral works (or indeed chamber music) I alwaysfind myself returning to techniques and textures I?ve greedily stolen from centuries of music from Tye to Howells early and recent. I try to design my own choral music primarily for use in worship where the measure of the success of the piece is if it helps guide the listeners? ears upwards and elsewhere as sacred architecture and the various rituals of the church themselves are meant to do. The specificity of music heard only in certain seasons is for me an important and thrilling element of the choral tradition: a Beethoven Symphony is welcome at any point in the year but an anthem for Candlemas works only then at a certain time of day and on a certain day of the year. With this functional spirit at the heart of the compositional process I hope that the music collected here makes equal sense in a concert setting. These works range from ordinaries of the mass to hymns to motets and represent a decade and a half of output.' - Nico Muhly

This Fantasia is founded on the following traditional English carols: The Truth Sent From Above (Herefordshire) words and tune; Come All You Worthy Gentlemen (Somerset) words and tune; On Christmas Night (Sussex) words and tune; There Is A Fountain (Herefordshire) tune only; together with fragments of other well-known carol tunes. The work is scored for ordinary full Orchestra with Organ and set of bells (ad lib.) or String Orchestra with Organ or Piano. Alternatively it may be accompanied by Organ or Piano alone played from the Vocal score with an optional solo Cello part (H212). A chorus part for performance bysolo Baritone and TTBB is also available (W41). The chorus is required to sing in four different ways:1. Singing the words.2. Singing with closed lips.3. Singing \'Ah\'.4. Singing with half-closed lips i.e. with a short \'u\' sound as in the word \'but\'. Watch Pasadena Master Chorale performing Ralph Vaughan Williams\' Fantasia On Christmas Carols:

The Black Knight (Op.25) is a secular cantata for chorus and orchestra composed in 1893. It takes its text from a poem from H. W. Longfellow which is itself a translation of a poem in German by Ludwig Uhland. The choral parts act as a backing to the orchestra showing how Elgar was developing his orchestration techniques and talents although this development went unnoticed until the sudden success of the Enigma Variations in 1899. Edward Elgar (1857-1934) is one of England’s best-known and most-loved composers. He was self-taught as composer coming from outside the musical and social establishment which allowed his music to be fresh and unencumbered.

Both a dedicated carol singer and an authority on the history of English music Nicholas Temperley here offers a unique book of 37 carols dating from the fifteenth century to the present.For over fifty years he has sung edited and composed carols each Christmas and in Christmas is Coming the fruit of his enthusiasm is combined with his wealth of knowledge to produce an outstanding and original new collection. As John Rutter observes in his Foreword the book does not pointlessly duplicate what can be found in many other carol books but has a personality and purpose of its own.Twenty-two fresh and practical arrangements include carols from Austria France Germany Mexico Poland and the USA alongside music both rare and familiar from the rich heritage of the English carol tradition. As well as eight of his personal favourites from J. S. Bach to Charles Ives the author includes seven new compositions of his own settings of medieval and traditional texts that reveal his skill as a choral composer whose command of style ranges from the humorous to the profound.In addition to sample programmes and translations there are invaluable notes on the performance and history of individual items plus an historical summary of the genre as a whole: everything in fact to make Christmas is Coming an indispensable companion for singers who wish to enrich the seasonal repertoire for concerts churches and traditional Yuletide carolling.

March of the Men of Harlech is the unofficial national anthem of Wales there is an official one -- and is well known there. The rest of the world may know the piece from films like Zulu The Corn is Green and The Englishman WhoWent Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain as well as from regimental songs.The rousing tune with its double-dotted rhythms and inspiring Choral cadence is a favourite with Welsh men’s Choruses. The words which have appeared inseveral forms concern the longest siege on British soil at the Castle of Harlech in 1468 though some insist they refer to an earlier siege during which the future King Henry V of England defeated Owen Glendower.This arrangementfor Men’s Chorus TTBB is sure to awaken patriotic fervour in Welsh audiences and appreciation in all others. Welsh lyrics are included in the bass line.

Beatboxing und Vocal Percussion sind heute aus Chören und Vokalensembles kaum noch wegzudenken. Dieses Buch bietet eine strukturierte und praxisnahe Anleitung fu?r das Erlernen aller relevanten Techniken und zeigt, wie man als Beatboxer sein eigenes Ensemble begleiten kann. Es ist dabei sowohl für Neueinsteiger als auch Fortgeschrittene konzipiert. ?Beatbox Your Choir' eignet sich gleichermaßen, um Techniken systematisch und schrittweise zu erlernen oder gezielt ausgewählte Lieblingssounds und -patterns zum Üben herauszupicken. Mit dabei sind zahlreiche Video-Tutorials - sie lassen jede Technik und jeden Sound anschaulich werden. / Choeur

Dieses Praxisbuch begleitet Kinder ab vier Jahren in Kitas, Grundschulen und Musikschulen durch die Winter- und Weihnachtszeit. Mit Versen, Liedern und Bewegungsvorschlägen, mit Basteltipps und Tanzbeschreibungen bietet das Buch viele Anregungen. So lässt sich die Zeit zwischen Sankt Martin und dem Eislaufen im Januar abwechslungsreich und fantasievoll gestalten.Neben traditionellen Liedern bietet das Werk auch zahlreiche neue Lieder, enthält viele Musiziervorschläge sowie Instrumentalmusik zum Bewegen und Tanzen. Es umfasst vier Kapitel: Sankt Martin - Bald nun ist Weihnachtszeit - Fröhliche Weihnacht überall - Endlich liegt genügend Schnee. Alle Lieder und Musikstücke sind auf der zum Buch gehörenden Begleit-CD enthalten. / Choeur

29 Faithful Arrangements for Piano Solo and Piano, Vocal and Guitar. Par L'ESTRANGE ALEXANDER. Hans Zimmer's film scores are bold and unmistakable. Over the course of his prolific career, he has provided music for some of the world's most beloved films, including Disney's The Lion King and Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight. This collection features faithful arrangements of some of the best known titles by this brilliant composer. Titles: 160 BPM (Angels and Demons) * Ah, Putrefaction (Sherlock Holmes) * All of Them! (King Arthur) * The Burning Bush (The Prince of Egypt) * Can You Hear Your Heart? (Winter's Tale) * Cheldorado (The Road to Eldorado) * Chevaliers de Sangreal (The Da Vinci Code) * Corynorhinus (Batman Begins) * The Dark Knight Overture (The DarkKnight) * Days of Thunder (Main Title) (Days of Thunder) * Discombobulate (Sherlock Holmes) * Doomsday Is Family Time (The Simpsons Movie) * Dream Is Collapsing (Inception) * Drink Up Me Hearties (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End) * Driving Miss Daisy (Driving Miss Daisy) * Homeland (Main Title) (Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron) * Honor Him (Gladiator) * In the Beginning (The Bible) * It's So Overt It's Covert (Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows) * Krypton's Last (Man of Steel) * Life Goes On (A League of Their Own) * Maestro (The Holiday) * The Nativity (The Bible) * Now We Are Free (Gladiator) * Roll Tide (Crimson Tide) * Tennessee (Pearl Harbor) * This Is Clark Kent (Man of Steel) * This Land (The Lion King) * What Are You Going to Do When You Are Not Saving the World (Man of Steel). Hans Zimmer's film scores are bold and unmistakable. Over the course of his prolific career, he has provided music for some of the world's most beloved films, including Disney's The Lion King and Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight. This collection features faithful arrangements of some of the best known titles by this brilliant composer. Titles include 160 BPM (Angels and Demons), Ah, Putrefaction (Sherlock Holmes), All of Them! (King Arthur), The Burning Bush (The Prince of Egypt), Can You Hear Your Heart? (Winter's Tale), Cheldorado (The Road to Eldorado), Chevaliers de Sangreal (The Da Vinci Code), Corynorhinus (BatmanBegins), The Dark Knight Overture (The Dark Knight), Days of Thunder (Main Title) (Days of Thunder), Discombobulate (Sherlock Holmes), Doomsday Is Family Time (The Simpsons Movie), Dream Is Collapsing (Inception), Drink Up Me Hearties (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End), Driving Miss Daisy (Driving Miss Daisy), Homeland (Main Title) (Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron), Honor Him (Gladiator), In the Beginning (The Bible), It's So Overt It's Covert (Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows), Krypton's Last (Man of Steel), Life Goes On (A League of Their Own), Maestro (The Holiday), The Nativity (The Bible), Now We Are Free (Gladiator), Roll Tide (Crimson Tide), Tennessee (Pearl Harbor), This Is Clark Kent (Man of Steel), This Land (The Lion King), What Are You Going to Do When You Are Not Saving the World (Man of Steel). / TV, Film, Comédie musicale / Répertoire / Choeur

Par BLAKE HOWARD. La série ' Faber jeunes voix ' présente une liste exhaustive des chansons, parfaitement adaptés aux besoins des jeunes ou nouvellement formé chorales recherchant facile, mais il est gratifiant de nouveau répertoire. Chaque volume offre un groupe cohérent de pièces arrangé pour soprano et alto avec une ligne de baryton facultatif pour voix récemment modifié ou instable. La série vise à couvrir le plein éventail possible d'un répertoire et contribuera à développer des part-singing dans une façon amusante et variée. Dans ce volume 'Marche dans l'Air' a été aménagée avec trois autres chansons délicieuses par Howard Blake pour la saison d'hiver: ' Faire croire ', ' Winter Games ' et ' Ring ! Anneau ! Nous sommes des chanteurs Carol./ Feuillet / Choeur

Il est souvent les chansons qui sont associés de cinéma qui sont les plus exquis : Moon River, Somewhere Over The Rainbow, piano de ragtime de Scott Joplin dans ' Clou ' ou sourire de Charlie Chaplin dans les temps modernes. Ce volume contient une sélection de legendar / Choeur Mixte