This songbook celebrates the legacy of Pete Seeger with 41 favorites presented with words, melody lines, and chord symbols: All Mixed Up · The Bells of Rhymney · Blue Skies · Goodnight, Irene · Guantanamera · If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song) · Lonesome Valley · Michael Row the Boat Ashore · Midnight Special · Over the Hills · So Long It's Been Good to Know Yuh (Dusty Old Dust) · This Land Is Your Land · Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) · We Shall Overcome · Where Have All the Flowers Gone? · and more.

Here are sixteen all-time favourite Danish songs including several written by the great Hans Christian Anderson himself. With lyrics in Danish and English as well as musical arrangements of for Voice and Guitar/Piano this is a unique celebration of Denmark’s musical traditions and love of communal singing. Each song is beautifully performed on the accompanying CD and this bi-centennial edition of this fabulous volume has been illustrated by British artist Paul Cox. From lyrical songs and anthems to folk themes and the popular I’m Hans Christian Anderson this is a unique portrait of a nation with a time honoured love of singing.

55 song highlights from the history of ASCAP celebrating their representation of some of the best songwriters of all time. Songs include: Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life · Ain't No Mountain High Enough · As Time Goes By · At Last · Before He Cheats · Bleeding Love · Blue Skies · Defying Gravity · Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) · I Will Survive · Just the Way You Are · Livin' on a Prayer · Moon River · My Funny Valentine · Over the Rainbow · Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head · Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) · Someone to Watch over Me · Tenderly · The Way We Were · We've Only Just Begun · You Are the Sunshine of My Life · and more. Includes an introduction by ASCAP a foreword by Paul Williams song notes by decade plus photos!

for Soprano and Orchestra-Dedicated to the city of Pasadena on the occasion of its centennial celebration. Premiered by the Pasadena Chamber Orchestra Robert De conductor and Juliana Gondek soprano. Contains four song settings each by a different author: 1. Confronting a Longing (Sappho) 2. The Autumn Mountain (Princess Oku) 3. The World (Lady Mary Wortley Montagu) 4. Greatly Shining (Julia de Burgos)

This hymn is a national treasure! Written originally for the American Centennial this celebrated song has adorned many patriotic gatherings through the years. The choral writing full of confident gestures and intense crescendos will showcase your choir at its sonic best and a soaring final stanza invites the congregation to join the music before surrendering to an epic epilogue of joyful amens! Score and Parts (fl 1-2 ob cl 1-2 bn hn 1-2 tpt 1-3 tbn 1-3 tba perc 1-2 timp pno hp vn 1-2 va vc db) available as a digital download.

1 Years - 1 Songs-2012 would have been the 100th birthday of American singer/songwriter Woody Guthrie. To mark his extraordinary achievements in songwriting this souvenir centennial songbook is now available. Woody Guthrie wrote over 3 000 songs in his lifetime yet only 300 or so were ever recorded. At the invitation of Guthrie's daughter Nora Guthrie contemporary singer/songwriters have set music to Guthrie's previously unpublished lyrics. Musicians such as Billy Bragg Wilco Dropkick Murphys Jonatha Brooke Jay Farrar Tom Morello Lou Reed The Klezmatics Hans-Eckardt Wenzel Madeleine Peyroux Janis Ian SarahLee Guthrie & Johnny Irion and Woody's son Arlo Guthrie have shown us how timeless Woody's words are.Every 100 Years is a compilation of 100 Woody Guthrie songs that run the gamut from work songs love songs and union & protest songs to topical songs and children's songs.

(Fanfare-Overture for Band)-Commissioned to celebrate the sesquicentennial of the state of West Virginia Forever Free incorporates indigenous elements of the state's musical heritage capturing a robust and celebratory spirit. Cast in a singlemovement in three sections the title is inspired by the state motto “Montani semper liberi” (“Mountaineeers forever free”). The work is unified at the outset and closing by a ceremonial fanfare based onthematic figures from the state song West Virginia Hills. A contrasting middle section features a lyric variant accompanied by a militaristic snare drum and timpani cadence before all thematic elements are combined for thebuoyant and festive conclusion. Dur: 4:25

for Symphonic Band-Tattoo is the stirring Finale of Legacy commissioned for the bicentennial celebration of West Point. The opening theme is based on the bugle call which signals a return to quarters at day's end. The score includes antiphonal effects with optional offstage Bugles and field Drum creating an authentic military sound. The old West Point song Benny Havens leads into the reemerging Tattoo theme now answered by other Bugle calls bringing the work to a rousing conclusion. Dur: 6:00.

'Yankee Doodle' with variations is the most concise way to describe the piece commissioned by the New Haven Symphony Orchestra to commemorate Conneticut's participation in The United States Bicentennial. 'Yankee Doodle' a tune dating back to the Middle Ages in Holland and England (and used by the British as early as 1755 to poke fun at untrained American troops in the French and Indian war) is interwoven with other folk and national melodies to stitch a patchwork or a musical collage. It is a personal view of American history.'To explain my approach to They All Sang Yankee Doodle I must explain my own background because the piece is made up ofmusical memories imprinted from early childhood.My earliest musical memories are a juxtaposition of sounds - hymns and Bach chorales from the church next door where my mother was choir director; early twenties jazz from my oldest brother's dance band; classical piano from my middle brother and my mother's piano studio; and cowboy songs and turn-of-the-century ballads that I have always identified with my father. Concord California where I was born was once part of a land grant from the Mexican government and the Spanish-Mexican influence remained strong even as the town expanded from a sleepy settlement into an American microcosmos with a wide variety of ethnic groups. Over fifty years ago most of us who sang 'Yankee Doodle' in Concord could not trace our ancestry to the founding fathers. Those of us with Anglo-Saxon names were at the end of the Westward push our forefathers having left behind the Eastern cities a few generations before settling for a time mid-continent then restlessly pushing further West. Little is known of my paternal grandfather for instance except that he had come to California from Indiana walking across Nevada desert to become one of the first settlers in Mordoc Indian territory.Of course the native American the Indian was there to greet each new migration and it is his

This work comprises of two linked songs setting extracts of Rimbaud's L'Orgie parisienne composed in 1989 for La Traversée de Paris an audio-visual exhibition held at the Grande Arche de la Défense to celebrate thebicentennial of the French Revolution.

Par WEILL KURT. Classique / Rép International / Répertoire / Chant, Piano et/ou Guitare