SKU: AP.36-52703614

ISBN 9781581069761. UPC: 654690687517. English.

This collection of folk songs from Latin America (Mexico, Costa Rica and Guatemala) are meant to expand young player's knowledge of music from other cultures or give them pride in the music of their own heritage. The music is mostly in 1st position with only Violin 1 and Violoncello wandering briefly into other positions. Players will use pizzicato and a variety of bowing styles.

Program Notes:

• Cielito Lindo (Lovely Sweet One) was popularized in 1882 by Mexican author Quirino Mendoza y Cortés. It is one of the most widely recognized tunes throughout the Spanish-speaking world as a symbol of Mexico.
• Naci en la Cumbre (I was Born on the Mountain) is a traditional Guatemalan folk song.
• Vuela, suspiro (Fly, My Sighs) is a traditional Costa Rican folk song.
• Ay! Tituy is a traditional folk song from Costa Rica.
• La Cucaracha (The Cockroach) is a traditional Spanish song, also trendy in Latin America. It is about a cockroach who can't walk. The song came to symbolize the Mexican Revolution (1910-20) and Pancho Villa.

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SKU: BR.CHB-5364-00

Sephardic Folk Songs, also suitable for non-professional choirs.

ISBN 9790004412947. 7.5 x 10.5 inches.

The Sephardic culture originates from the Jewish population of Spain that was banished at the end of the 15th century and afterwards spread to the whole of the Mediterranean area, the Balkan and North Africa. Its unique Spanish dialect Ladino was preserved, finding musical expression in ballads, lyrical and paraliturgical songs for the most part. The choir conductor and composer Ohad Stolarz took eight of these Sephardic Folk Songs and arranged them as a cappella settings for four-part mixed choir. These arrangements may be performed both as a cycle and individually, being also suitable for non-professional choirs due to their lack of difficulty. The musically and harmonically colorful, partly also exotic pieces therefore present an enrichment for the program of every interculturally interested choir. The informative preface and the translations of the lyrics into German and English enable the content-related engagement with Sephardic culture, too. Further choral literature on this topic can be found in the volumes Sepharad and Aschkenaz by Alon Wallach.Audio samples: RIAS Kammerchor, dir. Justin Doyle, recording by Deutschlandfunk Kultur

Sephardic Folk Songs, also suitable for non-professional choirs.

SKU: BR.CHB-5364

ISBN 9790004412947. 7.5 x 10.5 inches.

The Sephardic culture originates from the Jewish population of Spain that was banished at the end of the 15th century and afterwards spread to the whole of the Mediterranean area, the Balkan and North Africa. Its unique Spanish dialect Ladino was preserved, finding musical expression in ballads, lyrical and paraliturgical songs for the most part. The choir conductor and composer Ohad Stolarz took eight of these Sephardic Folk Songs and arranged them as a cappella settings for four-part mixed choir. These arrangements may be performed both as a cycle and individually, being also suitable for non-professional choirs due to their lack of difficulty. The musically and harmonically colorful, partly also exotic pieces therefore present an enrichment for the program of every interculturally interested choir. The informative preface and the translations of the lyrics into German and English enable the content-related engagement with Sephardic culture, too. Further choral literature on this topic can be found in the volumes Sepharad and Aschkenaz by Alon Wallach.Audio samples: RIAS Kammerchor, dir. Justin Doyle, recording by Deutschlandfunk KulturThe melodies are often quirky, the vocal ranges are unchallenging and there is plenty of material at the back of the volume to help with translation and pronunciation. A group of these a cappella pieces in a concert would be a most attractive proposition.(Jeremy Jackman, Choir and Organ)

Sephardic Folk Songs, also suitable for non-professional choirs.

SKU: HL.49023856

ISBN 9783795756826. 8.5x11.75x0.183 inches. German.

Seit einigen Jahren erlebt die irische Musik eine Renaissance auf nationalem und internationalem Terrain. Diese Sammlung irischer Folksongs fur Gitarre und Gesang knupft an den ersten Band an. Der Autor wahlte wieder 13 populare irische Trink- und Liebeslieder, Balladen und Emigrationssongs, die einerseits auf gute Klanglichkeit und andererseits auf leichte Spielbarkeit ausgelegt sind.Neben auflockernden und personlich gehaltenen Hintergrundinformationen zu den Liedern, der irischen Musik im allgemeinen und deren Geschichte finden sich zu allen Liedern das passende Zupfmuster zur Begleitung sowie eine eigens ausgearbeitete Solo-Gitarrenfassung. Irische Musik, so Patrick Steinbach, hat wegen ihrer Lebendigkeit, ihrer Frohlichkeit und Sentimentalitat uber all die Zeit nie ihren Reiz verloren. Horen wir hinein in die Musik der Iren, einem Volk am Rande Europas, das sich trotz Unterdruckung, Krieg und Hungersnoten niemals den Stolz und die Unbeugsamkeit noch die Liebe zum eigenen Land oder den Wunsch nach Freiheit hat nehmen lassen.