For Unison upper voices (with optional parts) Brass Quintet and optional Percussion.A Sporting Chance is a fun and lively choral work on the theme of sport games and exercise. Each of the seven movements celebrates a different sport - you'll find running soccer weightlifting and more - and words by the composer provide an entertaining narrative of each event. Look out for exciting choral effects such as panting rapping and grunting as well as active audience participation and even a slow-motion race from the trumpet players. Scored for unison voices with optional extra parts this crowd-pleaser will have both choir and audience cheering for theirhome team and willing the athlete to 'run for gold'!Bob ChilcottBob Chilcott has been involved with choral music all his life first as a Chorister and then a Choral Scholar at King's College Cambridge. Later he sang and composed music for 12 years with the King's Singers. His experiences with that group his passionate commitment to young and amateur choirs and his profound belief that music can unite people have inspired him both to compose full-time and through proactive workshopping to promote choral music worldwide.

Michael Hurd. The ill-fated friendship between Henry Plantagenet and Thomas Beckett forms the basis of this ballad cantata on one of the momentous clashes between church and state in English history. With his customary melodic skill and literary clarity Hurd provides a very direct and immediately appealing account of the events which is designed to provide a starting point for further creativity in primary and middle schools.Performable as a concert or stage piece the cantata can provide the basis for original work in art design dance drama history environmental and English literary studies.Duration: 21 minutes. Scored for narrator unison voices and piano for performance as either concert or stage piece. Woodwind and String parts on hire.

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.

A Prehistoric Musical Adventure for Cross-Curricular Fun in the Classroom-Have a rip-roaring time teaching your kids about some amazing prehistoric creatures! Sing and play your way through the early history of life on earth and discover science in a way you never thought could be thisfun!Dino Soaring! is an engaging cross-curricular resource of songs and activities for Grades 1-3 that explores the lives of seven exciting dinosaurs. It includes eight songs an easy rhyming script and fifteenfact-filled reproducible activities. Designed for music and general classroom teachers this collection will reinforce learning done in other disciplines across the curriculum and engage students in a riveting musical learningexperience. This collection also provides you with a “Dinosaur Vocabulary Guide ” “Life Science Curriculum Objectives ” and “Fast Facts for Teachers” for each of the seven dinosaurs to helpanswer basic questions and allow you to conduct fun and informed classroom discussions.Whether used as a musical revue or as a teaching tool for any classroom Dino Soaring! is sure to provide meaningful fun forboth you and your students.

Carol Collection-Carols for Everyone is a brand new collection of seven festive pieces written specifically for both adult and children's voices to sing together. Making Music commissioned Carols for Everyone to help fill the gap in choral repertoire for combined adult and children's voices and in doing so bring more people and communities together to make music.The collection funded by the Carnegie UK Trust and published by Novello includes six arrangements of well-known carols and six arrangements of well-known carols from Silent Night and Adam lay ybounden to The angel Gabriel and Rudolph the red-nosedreindeer and an original piece by Paul Mealor. Every piece can be performed by SATB adult choir and children or by children with piano accompaniment alone making this group of pieces flexible and approachable for all.   According to a review in Sunday by Sunday from the Royal School of Church Music 'the arrangement of Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer will bring the house down.'

Simple elegant piece for young voices_x000D_Consists of a beautiful melody with long legato lines works well as a solo too would be good for a school remembrance day event._x000D_From the jean Ashworth Bartle Choral Series for treble voices

Suitable to be sung as an Evensong anthem this is a very simple and practical setting for Keyboard and Voice - which might be a solo soprano or treble or unison - of a Victorian children's hymn that can still be found in numerous contemporary collections. Its flowing unforced melody is an ideal counterpart to Sabine Baring-Gould's words which like the poems of Robert Louis Stevenson's 'A Child's Garden of Verses' owe their enduring appeal to the sincere expression of a youthful innocence that rings no less true to the sensibility of adults. The Lullaby was written to celebrate the birth of the composer's godson at the request of his grandparents.

A wonderful well-researched musical about saving the planet as seen through the eyes of animals on land sea and air. Written by the successful partnership of Michael and Jill Gallina this is a superb one-act play to inspuire all! Through rhyming dialogue and creative characterisations the animals teach young people on a picnic the three R’s of ecology - recycle Replenish and Respect. The seven songs in unison and two-part demonstrate a variety of blues rap calypso ballad and funky rock styles. Students will enjoy dramatising the 12 animals (which are easily costumed) the eight young picnickers the conga-line of fish and the chorus which can be any size.This is the Performer's Part with all lyrics and the libretto. The Director’s Score (SP19649)includes staging costuming props and scenery suggestions.