Jazz Play-Along Series Volume 21. By Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart. Jazz Play Along. Play Along. Softcover with CD. Size 9x12 inches. 84 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

Fakebook (spiral bound) for Eb instrument and voice. With vocal melody, lyrics, chord names, black and white photos and introductory text. 574 pages. Published by Sher Music Company.

For voice, piano and guitar chords. Format: piano/vocal/chords songbook (spiral-bound). With vocal melody, piano accompaniment, lyrics, chord names and guitar chord diagrams. Broadway, vocal standards, standards and traditional pop. 479 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Hal Leonard.

Fakebook (spiral bound) for Bb instrument and voice. With vocal melody, lyrics, chord names, black and white photos and introductory text. 574 pages. Published by Sher Music Company.

By Kosnik. For organ. General, sacred. Published by Concordia Publishing House.
Level: Moderately Easy.

By Rose. For keyboard/instruments. Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, sacred. Level: Easy-Moderately Easy. Published by Concordia Publishing House.

Composed by Gerald Near (1942-). For organ. Chant-Based. Catholic Sequences, Complete Mass, Pentecost, Trinity, Communion. Medium. Published by Aureole Editions

Choral SSA choir, piano

SKU: CF.CM9773

Composed by Brady Weldon. Duration 2 minutes, 49 seconds. Carl Fischer Music #CM9773. Published by Carl Fischer Music (CF.CM9773).

ISBN 9781491164440. UPC: 680160923342. Key: C# minor. English. Christina Rossetti.

In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,                                                       Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;                                                               Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,                                                             In the bleak midwinter, long ago.What can I give Him, poor as I am?                                                                                        If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb;                                                                         If I were a Wise Man, I would do my part;                                                                        Yet what I can I give Him: give my heart.The text from this beloved poem of Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) was originally published in an 1872 issue of Scribner’s Monthly, under the title A Christmas Carol. In the first of its five stanzas, the speaker describes in great detail a bitingly cold winter scene, void of both warmth and light. By the final stanza, the speaker's thoughts turn inward, asking what gift they may offer the infant Jesus, meek though they believe themselves to be.The poem was later set by English composer Gustav Holst (1874–1934) as a contribution to the English Hymnal in 1906 and remains the most popular setting today.London-born Rossetti came to be regarded not only as one of the greatest female poets of her time, but as an outspoken advocate on several societal issues, including slavery and cruelty towards animals.In this setting, word painting is of the utmost importance. Careful attention to word stress throughout the course of the piece will make the performance all the more captivating. Descriptive lines such as “frosty wind made moan” should be conveyed with swelling crescendos, like frigid gusts of frozen air.While this piece features an original tune, the beloved Holst melody is also featured briefly, beginning in m. 28. Take care to bring this out.There are plenty of other allusions to wintry scenes scattered throughout the choral parts as well as the accompaniment. I encourage you to put your sleuthing “hats” on and find them all. It will make the learning experience much more memorable and fun.

Johann Sebastian Bach. Arranged by John Leavitt. (SATB). Methodology Chorals. Size 6.75x10.5 inches. 88 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

by William Bay. For all recorder. Sacred, duets. Level: Intermediate. Book. Solos. Size 8.75x11.75. 40 pages. Published by Mel Bay Pub., Inc.

Score Orchestra

SKU: HL.14030970

For Chamber Ensemble Score. Composed by Bent Sorensen. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Composed 2002. 82 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30142. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14030970).

ISBN 9788759805725.

Work for Chamber dating from 1988. The composer writes: MINNEWATER means 'love water'/'love lake', but when I began to compose the work, this direct meaning of the title was not very important to me. Rather the word itself had a magical sound. Later on, however, it occurred to me that the piece was full of mumbling swells and swarming cascades, and the sensation of water is perhaps most perceptible towards the end where lots of falling water movements are felt behind the emphasized rhythmic surface. Falls that moreover, quite literally at the end, sinks into the water. MINNEWATER has a subtitle: THOUSANDS OF CANONS, which directly refers to a compostion technique where all layers and elements in the music constantly are imitated; possibly waves imitating each other? The mudded and impalpable beginning of the work takes its starting point in one of my earlier pieces, the sextett LES TUCHINS (in fact the first 5 or 6 pages of the two pieces are quite identical but in MINNEWATER it is all 'blown up' to a larger ensemble). Quite soon, however, the thread to LES TUCHINS is cut off and it goes its own way; From the mumbling in the start - through swarming trills and pointilistic staccato movements - to a long section where the trumpet appears as a soloist and in a way conducts the movements of the remaining ensemble right to the rhythmic final section of the piece. MINNEWATER was commissioned by the Danish Radio for the German Ensemble Modern.

Band concert band - Grade 2.5

SKU: KJ.WB214

Composed by Chuck Elledge. Standard of Excellence in Concert. Score and set of parts. Neil A. Kjos Music Company #WB214. Published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company (KJ.WB214).

Spirited of the Land, the first of this four movement programmatic work, is inspired by the 1914 painting by Charles Russell, When the Land Belonged to God, and the composer's travel in the west. A Frontier Lawman, vividly depicts the swagger and demeanor of legendary lawman, Nathaniel Kimball Boswell. Cowboy Meditation, the third movement of West!, captures the spirit of the solitary life of the cowboy on the plains - his thoughts and the calls of the wild surrounding him. Railtown Jubilee, brings West! to a close representing the dramatic impact the railroad had on the West. Use this as an opportunity for making interdisciplinary connections.

About Standard of Excellence in Concert

Th e Standard of Excellence In Concert series presents exceptional arrangements, transcriptions, and original concert and festival pieces for beginning and intermediate band. Each selection is correlated to a specific page in the Standard of Excellence Band Method, reinforcing and expanding skills and concepts introduced in the method up to that point. Exciting parts with extensive cross-cueing are presented for every player. Accessible ranges, appropriate rhythmic challenges, and creative percussion section writing enhance the pedagogical value of the series.

Sold individually, each In Concert selection includes a full Conductor Score and enough student parts for large symphonic bands. Each student part also includes correlated Warm-Up Studies. The Conductor Score comes complete with rehearsal suggestions, a composer biography, program notes, a rehearsal piano part, several ready-to-duplicate worksheets and a duplicable written quiz.

SATB choir, piano

SKU: LO.10-5818MD

Composed by Mary McDonald. Choral. Sacred Anthem, Advent, Christmas. Medallion Music #10/5818MD. Published by Medallion Music (LO.10-5818MD).

ISBN 9780787789626.

From songwriters Matt Boswell and Matt Papa, this choral-led anthem for the Advent and Christmas seasons reflects on the anticipation of Christ’s birth and his return. Including a spectacularly executed segue into the hymn, Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty, this emotional and thought-provoking anthem is a standout programming selection for Christmas programs and services.