200 Exercises for Chorus and Solo Singers-What choral conductor or soloist has not looked around for new ideas for warming up the voice? Here are 200 suggestions all at once!And these creative exercises do more than just warm up the voice: they help to relax the body train the ear and develop an awareness of dynamics and rhythm.Klaus Heizmann's collection is a wonderful new resource of ideas and techniques: practical varied challenging relaxing and stimulating. I am always looking for new ideas as I like to use a different set of warm-ups at every rehersal with my choirs and I tend to choose specific exercises to suit the repertoire for the day. This collection gives us 200 excellent tools-of-the-trade; they areclearly lebeled intelligently set out well-designed and extremely useful. (Simon Carrington Director of Choral Activities New England Conservatory since 2001; Director of Choral Activities The University of Kansas 1994-2001; Founder and co-director of the King's Singers 1968-1993)

Compiled by Ron Middlebrook. Cowboys have always held a special place in the hearts and imaginations of Americans. Images of riding bravely and happily into the sunset fending off dangerous enemies and singing around the campfire evoke a sense of pride and respect for a lifestyle nearly forgotten in this age of progress. Relive the days of the cowboys bringing the herds home in this interesting compilation of facts and music. 53 songs celebrate the life and times on the range by such noted writers as Doc Denning Chris LeDoux Rusty Richards Roy Rogers Jr. and others. Their music is an actual view into their daily adventures tribulations and entertainment. This uniquepublication also features articles on black cowboys cowgirls cowboys' Spanish ancestry and more.

30 Songs from the Stage and Screen With Access to Online Audio of Piano Accompaniments-This giant two-volume resource will be indispensable for teachers working with children singing solos. There is a large variety of material from classic Disney songs to Broadway to movie favorites to songs from ?Sesame Street.? Each volume has songs for both girls and boys and includes online audio tracks with Piano accompaniments for each song. In addition the audio contains tempo adjustment and transposition software for use on your computer. Kids' Musical Theatre Collection: Volume 2 includes 30 songs from stage screen and television musicals these are by far Hal Leonard's largest collections of solos for children. Songs inthis volume include: Baby Mine (Dumbo) Be Kind to Your Parents (Fanny) Bein' Green (Sesame Street) Dream for Your Inspiration (The Muppets Take Manhattan) Friend (Snoopy!!!) Gary Indiana (The Music Man) Getting to Know You (The King and I) God Help the Outcasts (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) I Always Knew (Annie Warbucks) I Don't Want to Live on the Moon (Sesame Street) I Won't Grow Up (Peter Pan) and more.

Pro Vocal Women's Edition Volume 57-This exciting volume of the Pro Vocal series enables you to sing along with sound-alike tracks to 10 Grammy award-winning female pop songs between 1990 and 1999.Whether you're a karaoke singer or preparing for an audition the Pro Vocal series is for you. The book contains the lyrics melody and chord symbols for eight classic songs. The CD contains demos for listening and separate backing tracks so you can sing along. The CD is playable on any CD but it is also enhanced for PC and Mac computer users so you can adjust the recording to any pitch without changing the tempo! Perfect for home rehearsal parties auditions corporateevents and gigs without a backup band.  Songs include: All I Wanna Do • Building a Mystery • Constant Craving • I Will Always Love You • I Will Remember You • My Heart Will Go On • and more!

Par MC NEFF STEPHEN. My research for Banished began with a small group of students during a Trinity Laban co-lab period in 2013, though the idea goes back over 30 years when I first saw Steve Gooch’s Female Transport and stored the idea of adapting it as an opera until the right opportunity arose. I have been involved in opera for a long time and it has always been a frustration for me that while there is an abundance of female talent (particularly so in conservatories and colleges) there is a noticeable lack of challenging roles available for young women. The roles most often undertaken are maids or innocent girls, compliant wives or tomboys. Not that the problem is necessarily confined exclusively to young women, but where good roles exist, the women are all too often merely passive or victims. Things happen to them rather than them making things happen. They are unable to influence their circumstances and are usually resigned to their fate. Worse still, they are often judged in some way responsible for what happens to them, culpable even because of their looks, their way of life or a streak of independence. Just think about Mimi, Carmen and Violetta (to name only three on a long list). All these characters die, and their attempts at individuality contribute to their demise in some way that they have no control over. With some exceptions female characters in opera are too often sad, mad or bad. Redressing this balance and taking advantage of the richness in vocal talent is only one reason to write an opera reflecting the reality of a group of strong women who work things out for themselves. The transportation of people to Australia at the beginning of the nineteenth century is not a particularly well understood part of history beyond a sort of folk myth. What were the circumstances, who were the people and what happened to them? Opera does not exist to completely answer these questions, but it can focus on the women as individuals and help tell their story. (All the women named in the opera actually existed.) My approach has to been to put the women’s narrative centre stage and, in the confines of an oppressive, dangerous environment go with them on their journey as they survive or sink. The demands on the women are huge. At every turn they are oppressed by their jailers, the system that brought them here and their own low expectations. They have to work out ways to overcome these odds. We discover them through their music in solos and ensembles, sometimes reflective, at other times boasting about their lives a petty criminals and trying to establish status and pecking order. Alongside this I have used references to music of the time to create another reality built on larger ensembles and choruses. This is a sort of collective consciousness aware of loss, longing and context – even of a broad political dimension to the realities of Transportation. Despite the acute awareness of their circumstances in these ensembles, there is also a resilience and strength that transcends the individual stories. Stephen McNeff / Instrumental Music / Répertoire / Voix

Rockschool is about playing the styles of music you love.This pack contains the songs for Level 2, covering grades 4 and 5. This level is tailored to those of you who are building upon the fundamentals as a vocalist. Each book is a standalone resource that features sound-alike backing tracks with top line melody featuring a wide range of artists including Robbie Williams, Coldplay and The Beatles.The level 2 book features:Aural testsRhythm examples and exercisesQuick study piecesBacking vocals techniqueFull mixes and backing tracks over 2CD'sDuel key backing tracksRockschool students are always encouraged to be creative with the Rockschool tunes so feel free to improvise and adapt them to suit your own vocal style. / Voix