SKU: HL.48023908

UPC: 888680642532. 6.75x10.5x0.069 inches.

Combining the Andean folk song Ojos Azules with folk songs from Ecuador and Peru, this is the sort of music that Stephen Hatfield has excelled at for so long. Scored here for choir and percussion – small and large shaker, guiro and floor tom – it will be impossible for your singers to refrain from moving to the music and the audience from dancing in the aisles.

SKU: AP.48861

UPC: 038081561851. English.

After a year with limited music making, there could be nothing better. Imagine throwing open the shutters to sing with your neighbors as this beautiful piece unfolds. It's consistently lyrical and legato, with peaks and valleys built into the dynamics to heighten emotions and capture joy. We love this expressive piano part, especially the delicate music box-inspired introduction. Don't miss the dramatic modulation before the pinnacle refrain crescendos to a big finish.

About Alfred Choral Designs

The Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.

SKU: AP.48432

UPC: 038081552552. English. Traditional Carol.

It's a high-energy, gospel-infused take on one of the most treasured Christmas carols of all time. Riveting rhythmic syncopation, triadic choral harmonies that climb in inversion, and plenty of melodic blue notes all add up to . . . well, sheer joy! Your piano player really gets to show off on the fully notated riff-like accompaniment. Plus, you can download free bass and drumset parts for the full effect. Not to be missed!

About Alfred Choral Designs

The Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.

SKU: HP.C5040B

UPC: 763628144739.

Brazilian folk tune This Hal Hopson piece incorporates the refrain from the popular multicultural song, Cantad al Senor. This setting, with the Brazilian folk tune's joyful, lilting spirit takes on added color with the addition of one or more of the many optional instruments: brass, timpani, handbells, guitar and tambourine.

SKU: GI.G-527

Text by Noel Goemanne.

Conversational Solfege is a dynamic and captivating first-through-eighth grade general music program that enables students to become independent musical thinkers with the help of a rich variety of folk and classical music. It is organized around increasingly complex rhythmic and melodic content. Each new rhythmic or melodic element is discovered first in patterns and then reinforced with folk songs, rhymes, and classical examples. Central to the Conversational Solfege program is the use of music harvested from our rich and diverse American musical history. This variety of music serves as a common thread that spans and bonds generations. Each book contains varied song material so the teacher can select appropriate music for the lower grades or older beginners. This 12-step teaching method carefully brings students from readiness to, ultimately, creating music through inner hearing and then transferring their musical thoughts into notation—in other words, to compose music! This CD provides 14 classical selections referenced in Conversational Solfege Level 2. These examples provide reinforcement for emerging literacy skills, and they also enable students to listen to wonderful classical examples with greater attention. Listening to classical music can be challenging for elementary students. With nothing to hang onto, the many notes can be too much to comprehend and attention soon wanes. But with minimal literacy skills, students will have enough musical information to discover that classical music can be accessible and appealing. In the included booklet, timings are given for each selection and the portions of the music that are readable by the students are reproduced. Whether using this CD with Conversational Solfege instructional materials or simply as a resource of classical music with simple to read rhythmic and melodic material, both teachers and students will delight in discovering this wonderful music through literacy. This series is a complete, innovative approach to teaching music that will stay fresh year after year. CONTENTS Conversational Solfege Unit 5: 1. Antonin Dvorak • New World Theme Conversational Solfege Unit 6: 2. Franz Joseph Haydn • Theme from  the Surprise Symphony, 3. Camille Saint-Sans • Turtles from Carnival of the Animals, 4. Ludwig van Beethoven • Symphony No. 7, 2nd Movement, 5. Josef Strauss • Feuerfest (Fireproof) Polka, Op. 269 Conversational Solfege Unit 7: 6. Jacques Offenbach • Can-Can, 7. Dmitry Kabalevsky • Pantomime from the Comedians, 8. Edvard Grieg • In the Hall of the Mountain King Conversational Solfege Unit 9 and Unit 11: 9. Jacques Offenbach • Barcarolle Conversational Solfege Unit 10: 10. Edvard Grieg • Morning Conversational Solfege Unit 11: 11. Ottorino Respighi • Ground in G Conversational Solfege Unit 12: 12. Johann Sebastian Bach • Jesu, Joy of Men's Desiring, 13. Jean Sibelius • Finlandia Conversational Solfege Unit 13: 14. Ludwig Van Beethoven • Symphony No. 6, Movement 5  John M. Feierabend is Professor Emeritus and former Director of Music Education at The Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford, Connecticut.