This is such a creative concept using the tune The Water is Wide with original words to create a thoughtful and musical choral for the holidays. The supportive piano is accompanied with optional flute and glockenspiel under vocals filled with lovely unison harmonic and echo-singing writing. Instrumental parts available for download on the Closer Look page. This is such a creative concept using the tune The Water is Wide with original words to create a thoughtful and musical choral for the holidays. The supportive piano is accompanied with optional flute and glockenspiel under vocals filled with lovely unison harmonic and echo-singing writing. Instrumental parts available for download on the Closer Look page.

A wonderful collection of chorales from Disney’s best-loved films attractively arranged in 2-parts (SA). Instrumental accompaniment parts for small ensembles are available in packs or show trax cassettes provide recordings of afull performance (side A) and accompaniment only (side B) making them ideal for both rehearsals and concerts. Other choral arrangements are listed in our separate Disney catalogue.

A delightful Christmas cantata for children’s voices (and ensemble/electronic backing tracks) with or without narrator: reggae jazz rock ballad and pop numbers to witty text by Richard and Thomas Allain. Caesar has called a census in the Holy Land. So everyone is crowding back into Bethlehem a town where they read Shalom! Magazine where suddenly there are donkey traffic gridlocks and hotels where you can't get a room for love or shekels. Tom works doing odd jobs at the Fun Big Inn which isn't much fun at all. This busy night he decides to leave the landlord in the lurch and head for the bright lights of Jerusalem. But he doesn't get far running first into reggae singing shepherds and then three groovy wise dudes following a star. Tom can hardly ignore the remarkable things they have to tell him. So what does he do next? What would any of us do? Richard and Thomas Allain retell the story of the Nativity in a new and individual way with immediacy and wit in a string of unforgettable tuneful songs and sharply clever words in an idiom accessible to everyone. Manger Tom can be performed with unison voices someone to narrate highly effective with just Piano or Keyboard accompaniment. But there are parts available too for instruments you might want to add. Included with the score of Manger Tom is a CD which comprises of a full performance of the musical numbers by professional singers and players as well as just the accompaniments for everyone to sing along to if they prefer. Additionally lyric sheets and a script are available as free downloads - visit www.hybridpublications.com to access the bonus material. Lyric sheets enable easy rehearsals and the script allows Manger Tom to be performed as a full nativity play. Review from Andrew Stewart of Classroom Music says: 'Manger Tom manages to squeeze within the space of eight numbers everything from big-band and rock numbers to reggae and in ‘Star of the

Richard Graves's choral song Hymn Habanera has an entertaining Latin feel with the option for extra instruments such as Castanets Guitars Recorders and others. Written for the upper voices with a full Piano accompaniment.

Dietrich Buxtehude’s Cantata for fourpart chorus is suited remarkably well fort he Christmas services as well as the general religious services which choruses take part in every year.This opulent-sounding work possesses its every own special Christmas magic. It is a piece which can claim a place in the repertoire of many choruses. Besides the score with enclosed instrumental parts the choral score and supplementary parts can be obtained seperately

There are seven songs and an instrumental interlude making all together an entertainment that provides opportunity for very simple stage action and dancing: nothing at all elaborate is needed in the way of scenery and costumes.The voices are in unison throughout and their part is always doubled by instruments which should make it relatively easy for quite young children to learn their way into Davies's delightful tunes. The references to Hoy areincidental and could possibly be adapted to suit the locality of a particular performance. In any event most of these tall stories and rhymes will appeal to children everywhere.Set of instrumental parts (8 descant recorderparts 4 tuned percussion parts and 4 unpitched percussion parts).

Festival Procession-This buoyant work is based on a two-part medieval song and is suitable for a wide variety of programming including madrigal dinners processionals holiday concerts and other festive occasions. Flexible optional instrumentation (Cand B flat instrumental parts). Available: 2-Part any combination Instrumental Pak. Performance Time: Approx. 3:00.

Arranged by Mark Hayes this familiar Stephen Foster standard is available as SATB SAB and 2-part voicings. Mark Hayes has written instrumentation for fiddle banjo guitar bass and drums. “Oh Susanna” is brightand upbeat with a few knee slaps making this a strong selection for your folk song teaching and performance needs. Available separately: SATB SAB 2-Part StudioTrax CD Instrumental parts for guitar bass/drums banjo andfiddle.

In this South African folk song the singer asks ?Aunt please open the door for me. I am getting wet with rain.? Percussive and rhythmic in its vocal arrangement with lots of three-part harmonies it also includespercussion instrumental parts adding more interest to the ensemble. A terrific selection for multicultural programming. Available separately: 3-Part Mixed Percussion; 2-Part Percussion; StudioTrax CD. Duration: ca. 1:53.

Brass Treble Clef E Flat-As I sit myself down to write this brief foreword I ask myself can there be music more stirring than these old Cornish folk melodies? Though not Cornish myself (I confess to being born a little further up the road in Bristol) I feel I have spent sufficient time in these 'ere parts to resonate with the sturdy brass band tradition that continues to permeate this incomparably beautiful rugged county. One can almost detect a French 'accent' when listening to the piano music of Debussy and likewise speaking as a lapsed brass player there is undoubtedly something of the Cornish twang about Trelawny when played on a cornet or euphonium. Then again one gets a different yetentirely convincing effect upon hearing these melodies rendered on woodwind instruments; hence with a little gamesmanship on my part I am pleased to see my collection of these fifteen delectable ditties come to fruition in the form of arrangements for treble clef brass instruments (in B flat and E flat) trombone and tuba (bass clef) horn in F flute clarinet and bassoon.While many will find themselves humming the likes of Going up Camborne Hill Lamorna or The Helston Furry Dance even before they have turned to the first page - for these are indelibly intertwined with Cornish culture I wonder if I might draw your attention to The Cornish Squire The Pool of Pilate and Cold Blows the Wind Today Sweetheart which are quite simply sublime melodies perhaps needing that extra bit of help in bringing them to mind nowadays. In the best tradition of musical hand-me-downs Cornish folk music works equally sung or played and only by doing so on a regular basis can such traditions hope to continue forward with vigour and authority. A legitimate way of achieving this is to revitalise the harmonic scheme of these ancient tunes and bring them up to date for a modern audience; after all it was such an approach that fuelled the imagination of Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams in decades past while skilfully paying homage to the underlying charm

Written for Celtic Woman as a thank you to their American audience this song captures the essence of the American spirit and the legacy of freedom in the world. A wonderful inspirational selection for choral groups of all levels! Available separately: SATB 3-Part Mixed 2-Part ShowTrax CD. Instrumental parts available digitally (tpt vln syn perc). Duration: ca. 3:55.

Here is a traditional Andalusian/Arabic song arranged for 2-part voices (any combination) piano optional violin cello and dumbek or any combination of these instruments. Very well crafted it includes notated ornaments toachieve a more authentic performance as well as educational information pronunciation translation and instrumental parts.