Sixteen sparkling new musical items for Easter and Springtime from some of today's best-loved children's composers including Sheila Wilson Niki Davies Alison Hedger and others.This invaluable resource provides teachers andleaders of youth singing groups with songs and instrumentals suitable for all children within the Primary age range.The first part of the compilation follows the Biblical story and can be used as a musical framework for a sacredEaster presentation. The second part of the selection contains more general Easter and Springtime songs for use in class and concerts. Also includes a class activity - making a Mini Easter Egg Box from a cross!

A charming and entertaining choral song for Unison voices by Elizabeth Poston includes full Piano accompaniment.

When 18th century British composer Thomas Arne included his song Rule Britannia! in a masque based on the life of Alfred the Great that was presented at Cliveden the country home of Frederick Prince of Wales he could not have imagined that more than two hundred seventy years later his ditty would be known throughout the British Isles and beyond. Rule Britannia! is widely used in the Royal Navy and British Army and is featured each year at the Last Night of the Proms in the Royal Albert Hall as a national sing-along.At the time of writing the Dutch actually ‘ruled the waves ’ so this song was more an exhortation than a status report. The lyrics were also a statement ofcivil liberty. Since Cromwell’s time Britain had had a standing army which could be turned against the native population. A standing navy however existed solely to protect the nation from invaders protecting a free populace.Rule Britannia! has been quoted extensively by other composers among them Beethoven Wagner Strauss and Arthur Sullivan. Thomas Arne also penned a version of God Save The King which came to be the British national anthem.

Unison Song with Piano Accompaniment arranged from the original figured bass by Percey E. Fletcher.

Seiber arranged The Handsome Butcher from a folksong that was collected by Bartok. The body of the song concerns the striking attributes of the butcher in fanfare-like tonic-dominant structures but there is a staccato prestosting the tail.The Hungarian composer and teacher Matyas Seiber who spent most of his life in Britain had a remarkably broad musical understanding. In his oeuvre can be discerned influences of Schoenberg Bartok jazz and clearly in The Handsome Butcher folksong both British and Continental.