Whether for classroom sing-alongs adult community sings choral concerts or just riding in the car this Step One of the SING WITH US songbooks is an invaluable resource. Composer and song leader Nick Page who has led group sings and workshops at MENC ACDA AOSA and other conferences for many years has assembled this multicultural set of 28 easy and fun sing-along songs for all ages. The collection begins with Echo songs that are easy but with a simple challenge reinforcing Nick's belief that the first step in getting people of all ages to sing along is to make them better listeners. Along with this Nick encourages using lots of emotion particularly joy. TheCall and Response songs and the unison songs that follow offer well known gems as well as easy to learn new songs that can be sung in Unison or with harmony. Nick provides invaluable cultural information as well as essential tips for making the songs come alive. Reproducible lyric sheets are also included. Nick Page has received rave reviews for his SINGS and many workshops throughout North America and Europe. In addition to his song leading Nick is a choral composer with over fifty published works including Sing and Shine On and Music as a Way of Knowing that are very popular with music teachers and choral musicians. Singing is an act of compassion; we make the world a better place through our singing.

Hewitt Jones’ timeless new carol Baby In an Ox's Stall beautifully captures the joyful essence of Christmas and is sure to become a popular addition to choral seasonal repertoire.   Featuring text written by the composer this accessible carol is available in two formats – SATB and Organ/Piano and Unison Voices and Organ/Piano. 

Michael Flanders and Joseph Horovitz. This popular work for unison or two-part voices and piano with optional bass and drums opens with a splendid storm above which God can be heard muttering about the irritations he finds with mankind. Following the Old Testament story God then instructs Noah how to build the ark and select animals. In a profusion of fine solos and lively choruses we learn about the difficulty of living under hatches and the eventual drying-out of the world. Suggestions for vocal solos given in the score. Ideas for semi-dramatic effects or stagings suggest themselves. 26 mins.

The popular and lively traditional air arranged for Unison voices with descant and Piano accompaniment by Thomas Dunhill.

This selection of rounds has been arranged with care and is a welcome addition to the very familiar set of carols and popular songs of the season.Round singing is one of the simplest forms of polyphony and is an effective tool in teaching music in the classroom as each line can be taught by rote then assembled quickly into harmonies. Music educator Kenneth Simpson was a proponent of the Kodaly Method of music pedagogy and while this book of charming rounds is not a Kodaly publication it certainly fulfills the Method’s goal of using high quality music in short simple forms.

A unison arrangement of Katie Moran. Bart's spectacular setting of the popular Irish Blessing! Published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company.

Unison and keyboardWritten by a celebrated arranger and composer of popular classic Holy Moses this lively and inspiring cantata is a pageant of Christmas past and present - including 'An Elizabethan Christmas Present' 'Mysterious Handel' 'Mozart's Mince Pies' 'A Victorian Cockney's Lament' and 'Christmas Rapping'. Stuffed full of memorable tunes it ends with a rumbustuous 'Christmas Dinner'. Christmas Through the Ages lasting approximately 20 minutes was composed for Tring School and its simple yet colourful accompaniment can be imaginatively adapted to a wide variety of electronic or acoustic resources. There are many possibilities forcross-curriculum work with the chance to perform in period costume that will prove hard to resist!

The two volumes comprising Children’s Singing Games were first published in 1894. They were collected by Cecil John Sharp (1859-1924) and Alice Bertha Gomme (1853-1938) both of whom were highly regarded for their work in recording and preserving folk music and lore during the last years of the nineteenth century. Gomme was also one of the first people to study children’s games publishing two volumes of The Traditional Games of England Scotland and Ireland.Volume One of Children’s Singing Games contains six musical games for infant or junior age children. They are sure to bepopular with today’s children having entertained countless generations before them!

Nigel Ogden host of BBC Radio’s The Organist Entertains and one of Britain’s most talented popular musicians wrote the words and music for this delightful all-age Christmas carol.