SKU: HL.14014856

ISBN 9781847727657. Lyrics by Jeremy Browne.

A fantastic Cantata by Nigel Hess, based on The Pied Piper Of Hamelin by Robert Browning, Rats! is a new take on the story with original, memorable music and witty lyrics. The rats who plague Hamelin are scurrilous punks but fortunatly the Pied Piper has the charisma of a rock star! Ideal for both middle and secondary schools with a genuine showbiz feel which has guaranteed appeal for audiences of all ages. Including eight parts plus chorus, the vocal score contains a Piano accompaniment with Flute solo, drums ad lib and optional Guitar. There are 15 modern songs including The Rat Race Rules, A Capital Fellow and Sing With the World.

SKU: BR.SON-455

ISBN 9790004803653. 9 x 12 inches.

Between 1834 and 1847 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy composed a total of 28 songs for mixed voices, i.e. for two female (soprano and alto) and two male (tenor and bass) voices each. The pieces are arranged so that they can be sung by four individual singers as well as by smaller ensembles or large choirs. The composer had almost two-thirds of these works published by Breitkopf and Hartel in the collections opp. 41, 48 and 59, combining partly already existing and partly newly composed songs into a loose cycle of six songs each. The purpose of such occasional music was clear to him: ... the most natural music of all is when four people go for a walk together, in the forest, or on a boat, and then immediately carry the music with them and in them. The present volume contains all the songs published and unpublished during his lifetime, as well as their versions, which owe their various performance contexts.