Purcell Society Volume 25.This volume contains all Purcell's secular solo songs which have no known association with the theatre. It also includes those songs which though mainly for solo voice end with a short duet section. The first edition of this volume was prepared for the Purcell Society by Arthur Somervell published in 1928. This new edition is not just a revision but the outcome of a fresh examination of the sources. A new editorial continuo part more suited to the harpsichord has also been provided.

A Selkie Tale is a short music-theatre work (duration about 25 minutes) designed for performance by seven- to eleven-year-olds year olds. Four solo roles and several separate chorus groups give scope for the participation of a large number of children of all ability levels.The story is a humorous version of the Orkney folk-tale of an islander kidnapping a Selkie wife - a creature who is a seal in the sea and a woman on the land. Things go hilariously wrong with the Selkie wife escaping to rejoin her companions in the sea and Mansie the islander facing a most uncongenial alliance with his cousin and housekeeper Miss Trowie-Tattibogle.Vocal part.Thisis a special item which is made to order. Please e-mail our Mail Order Department for further information.

The Spiders' Revenge is a short music-theatre work (duration about 25 minutes) designed for performance by primary school children. The work was written for Evie Primary School a small rural school in Orkney of about 60 pupils between the ages of five and eleven and was specially devised to enhance an environmental studies project on 'mini-beasts'. All the pupils in the school took part in the first performance. Two children playing in a garden delight in tormenting ladybirds snails spiders and other living creatures who they claim 'have no right to be'. The spiders teach the children a salutary lesson during the course of which they learn a great deal aboutthe ways of these creatures finally recognizing the wonder of the insect world and acknowledging that all 'have their place on the earth'.The songs include simple recorder and percussion parts and guitar chords. Vocal part. This is a special item which is made to order. Please e-mail our Mail Order Department for further information.

How To Blitz! Sight Singing is the perfect training for your eyes and ears - a fantastic start for vocalists who are learning to read and sing at the same time. Featuring listening and singing activities athorough introduction to pitch and rhythm notation as well as other resources this book is great for all choirs conductors music teachers and vocalists. Blitz! Sight Singing alsoincludes rounds and short two-part pieces composition and improvisation exercises activities based on pitch and rhythm and all presented in a wonderfully clear and logical order. Vocalists will move through rhythm and notevalues to melodies and scales before combining the two with tunes. Written by renowned educator and author Samantha Coates the BlitzBooks series has brought fun and laughter tomusic theory technique and sight reading making them more accessible and enjoyable for all. As the most popular range of theory and sight reading books in Australia this series is finally available in the UK perfectlysupporting students learning with the main exam boards.

A fresh approach-This book sets out to build on the initial aspects of singing at sight in reading both the rhythm and pitch accurately as begun in Sight-Singing 1.Sight-Singing 2 is divided into two parts. Part 1 comprises 95 exercises in either single or 2-part form. These cover methods to secure the line of the pitch sequences singing a lower part ties awareness of chord structure canons chromatic movement modulations and tone rows. A section of 2-part exercises is also included using treble and bass clefs.Part 2 consists of 16 solo pieces which are presented in the treble clef and aim to develop the singer???s ability to pitch independently from their accompaniment. These shortpieces are based on chords intervals the Dorian mode pentatonic scales melodic minor scales chromatic movement and changing time signatures.The aim of this volume is to develop a secure sense of pitch providing a comprehensive range of styles and challenges which will be of value not just to singers but to all dedicated musicians. The skill of being able to ???vocalise??? a melody independently and accurately is a valuable asset for all musicians regardless of vocal ability or instrument played. The ability to ???hear??? a phrase before it is sung or played is especially useful.- 95 solo/2-part exercises- 16 accompanied solos- 1 wide range of challenging styles- valuable both to singers and instrumentalists

Santa Retires! Before he leaves he enters a time machine and visits 50 years into the future. What he finds is enough to convince him to call off his short-lived retirement plans and get back to work!

Of all the operas written by Handel Acis and Galatea originally possibly written as a masque or little opera has never passed from the repertoire since its first public performances in 1731. It is considered the pinnacle of English pastoral opera and has been adapted and arranged many times.This Soprano aria As When the Dove Laments Her Love is frequently performed as a recital piece requiring a Vocal dexterity in a short cadenza-like phrase before the cadence.

A song composed for Letters Riddles and Writs directed by Jeremy Newson in 1990/1. Devised for the Artifax/BBC 'NOT MOZART' series commemorating the bicentenary of Mozart's death the film takes as song texts extracts fromMozart's letters and a set of riddles he wrote and distributed in Vienna during the 1787 Carnival. This song combines one such riddle with a remark Mozart made about his professional prospects shortly before his death and isbased entirely on extracts from two of his Haydn quarters.

Six vocal selections from the Lorenz and Hart musical based on Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. Songs include: Falling in Love with Love · Oh Diogenes! · The Shortest Day of the Year · Sing for Your Supper · This Can't Be Love · You Have Cast Your Shadow on the Sea.