SKU: PR.140401340

ISBN 9781491134450. UPC: 680160684953.

Best known for his settings of spirituals and influence on Dvorák, Henry T. Burleigh was a celebrated baritone, and a prolific composer of original works. FROM THE SOUTHLAND is a suite of six atmospheric scenes of the American south, inspired by Black musical and cultural traditions. FROM THE SOUTHLAND is within reach of intermediate pianists and artistically suited for professional recitals.
In 1835, Henry T. Burleigh’s maternal grandfather purchased his own release from slavery for the sum of $50, and traveled north out of Maryland to begin a new life as a free man. He established his family in Ithaca, NY, and then moved to the bustling lakefront city of Erie, PA, where three decades later his grandson Henry would be born and raised.For Burleigh, the “Southland” that inspired this collection of piano sketches was a distant place that could not have been more different from the physical world he knew, up there in the northern snowbelt. And yet these southern landscapes and vignettes must have been intensely present in his consciousness, absorbed through the stories and songs he first learned at his grandfather’s knee.The music of the South – the spirituals and work songs he heard as a child –would travel with Burleigh throughout his long and illustrious musical life. Even as he progressed through his early classical training, his career as a baritone soloist in Erie’s churches and synagogue, his move to New York to study at the National Conservatory of Music, and his rise to national prominence as a concert soloist, these ancestral melodies stayed firmly centered in his musical identity.When he wrote From the Southland, his only composition for solo piano, Burleigh was just beginning his career as a composer. The art songs that would establish him as one of America’s best known composers in the genre were still to come. And so were his iconic arrangements of spirituals that would bring the songs of slavery onto concert stages around the world, transformed into timeless and uniquely American music.These little piano sketches bring together all the things that made Burleigh the musician he was – the lush, late-romantic style of his time; a broad vision for American music; and a profound respect for his heritage, a memory of the world his grandfather left behind, and a love of the music he brought with him.

SKU: HL.4005059

UPC: 888680676360. 9.0x12.0x0.086 inches.

The upbeat animated film Sing features an entertaining story about a talent show and plenty of great music. Here is an appealing medley for band that includes a new song (Faith) by Stevie Wonder and Ariana Grande, along with the classic pop hits Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen), I'm Still Standing (Elton John) and Stevie Wonder's Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing.

SKU: GI.G-017290

UPC: 641151172903. English.

An excellent introduction to the basics of reading and sight-singing music, designed for adult learners with minimal or no music-reading ability who want to acquire or improve their skills for parish music ministry. Kerr Breedlove‚ common-sense approach, honed by use in the classroom, is presented in eight units. Lessons are of manageable size, with plenty of exercises and examples to assist new music readers in using their skills. The time choir directors spend teaching songs by rote can become a thing of the past and choirs can learn more music in a shorter amount of time when they can sight-sing with the help of this user-friendly workbook. And, quantity pricing makes it possible for each singer to have their own copy for note-taking and review. There‚ even a printed keyboard‚ in the appendix that can be used by new sight-singers to review concepts independently, outside of rehearsal, with greater confidence.