A mammoth rib-tickling collection of more than 125 funny songs-A mammoth illustrated collection of more than 125 funny songs mostly in the folk tradition interlaced with a multitude of parodies jokes recitations and sayings collected by the author over a lifetime of performing. Each songhas complete lyrics melody line and suggested accompaniment chords. Included are Take My Bridgework Back To Mother Send Me To Glory In a Glad Bag The Housewife’s Lament and The Piddling Pup. The reading Why She Didn’t Becomea Baptist leaves even church groups roaring in laughter. More fun rib-ticklers include The Limerick Song (suitable for general audiences) Little Willie verses and the parody My Grandfather’s Feet Were Too Strong For HisShoes. A choice collection of photos and vintage illustrations add the final touch for the enjoyment of this top-notch collection. • More than 125 funny songs --- lyrics tunes and suggested accompaniment chords. •Plus rib-tickling parodies jokes readings and sayings. • Embellished with vintage photos and illustrations.

The Kids' Solo Vocal Collection contains 20 well-known songs, arranged for young voices.Featuring many popular tunes from musical theatre and movies, this book includes the favourites Over The Rainbow, Any Dream Will Do, When She Loved Me, Puff The Magic Dragon and more.The Kids' Solo Vocal Collection comes with a CD of recorded Piano accompaniments. / Voix

Rockschool is about singing the songs you love. Your Vocals Grade 3 book contains six of the biggest tracks from the past six decades arranged for you to sing for your Grade 3 exam. This book also includes examples of all the supporting tests found in the Rockschool Grade 3 exam.This book for male vocalists contains the songs:Radioactive - Imagine DragonsLove Me Again - John NewmanCrazy - Gnarles BarkleyLego House - Ed SheeranHeroes - David BowieHo Hey - The LumineersOther features include:Fact Files: band and artists background information with recommended listening.Backing tracks: high quality recordings to sing along to in Rockschool exams.Downloadable audio: use your download card for easy access to your audio.Vocal scores: easy-to-follow separate Vocals scores.Piano and Guitar parts: Piano notation and Guitar chords included to help with practice. / Voix

Laughter is a precious gift. In this heartwarming new nativity musical, the wise men bring joy a-plenty, along with their traditional gifts. Children will love the entertaining play and the seven catchy songs, including a hand-jiving finale and the cool backing tracks. Gold, Frankincense And Mirth! features all the favourite Christmas characters, from Gabriel to Herod, and creates a warm and uplifting end of term celebration for children, teachers and parents. It's another gem from Sheila Wilson, composer of 'Hosanna Rock!', 'Rock around the Flock!', 'Scrooge' and 'Christmas Stars (The Xmas Factor)'.This musical is for key stages: 1-2 (ages 5-11) and features songs in a variety of styles, including funky, rocky, a lullaby and a finale medley.This Music Book contains a Piano accompaniment, Guitar chords, Vocals, optional Harmonies, Kazoos, Handbells, Recorders, Glockenspiels and Sleigh bells. / Voix

Par MC NEFF STEPHEN. My research for Banished began with a small group of students during a Trinity Laban co-lab period in 2013, though the idea goes back over 30 years when I first saw Steve Gooch’s Female Transport and stored the idea of adapting it as an opera until the right opportunity arose. I have been involved in opera for a long time and it has always been a frustration for me that while there is an abundance of female talent (particularly so in conservatories and colleges) there is a noticeable lack of challenging roles available for young women. The roles most often undertaken are maids or innocent girls, compliant wives or tomboys. Not that the problem is necessarily confined exclusively to young women, but where good roles exist, the women are all too often merely passive or victims. Things happen to them rather than them making things happen. They are unable to influence their circumstances and are usually resigned to their fate. Worse still, they are often judged in some way responsible for what happens to them, culpable even because of their looks, their way of life or a streak of independence. Just think about Mimi, Carmen and Violetta (to name only three on a long list). All these characters die, and their attempts at individuality contribute to their demise in some way that they have no control over. With some exceptions female characters in opera are too often sad, mad or bad. Redressing this balance and taking advantage of the richness in vocal talent is only one reason to write an opera reflecting the reality of a group of strong women who work things out for themselves. The transportation of people to Australia at the beginning of the nineteenth century is not a particularly well understood part of history beyond a sort of folk myth. What were the circumstances, who were the people and what happened to them? Opera does not exist to completely answer these questions, but it can focus on the women as individuals and help tell their story. (All the women named in the opera actually existed.) My approach has to been to put the women’s narrative centre stage and, in the confines of an oppressive, dangerous environment go with them on their journey as they survive or sink. The demands on the women are huge. At every turn they are oppressed by their jailers, the system that brought them here and their own low expectations. They have to work out ways to overcome these odds. We discover them through their music in solos and ensembles, sometimes reflective, at other times boasting about their lives a petty criminals and trying to establish status and pecking order. Alongside this I have used references to music of the time to create another reality built on larger ensembles and choruses. This is a sort of collective consciousness aware of loss, longing and context – even of a broad political dimension to the realities of Transportation. Despite the acute awareness of their circumstances in these ensembles, there is also a resilience and strength that transcends the individual stories. Stephen McNeff / Instrumental Music / Répertoire / Voix

32 Schottische Lieder Für 1-2 Singstimmen, Violine, Vc Und Klavier. Par PLEYEL IGNAZ. The braes of Ballenden (Urfassung) - The braes of Ballenden (Zweitfassung) - She rose and loot me in - Tweedside - The mill mill O - The bush aboon Traquair (bisher unveröff.) - The bush aboon Traquair - Lochaber - The waefu' heart (bisher unveröff.) - The waefu' heart - I'll never leave thee (bisher unveröff.) - I'll never leave thee - Corn riggs - Donald - The last time I came o'er the muir - Gilderoy - The ewe bughts - Sae merry as we ha'e been/ Répertoire / Voix

Miss Fortune by British composer Judith Weir is a contemporary re-telling of a Sicilian folk story. Tina’s wealthy family lose all their possessions overnight and she is thrown into a life ofpoverty. When her life’s course turns from bad to worse she makes a date with Fate. Her fortunes mysteriously change and after several fortuitous happenings she regains wealth and possibly a husband.The opera exploreswhat it means to be rich or poor; the mysteries of everyday life; and the effects of chance luck and accident on human existence.Miss Fortune had its premiere at the Bregenz Festival in summer 2011.

Learn the art of jazz vocal improvisation! This book will help you hear, understand and apply jazz theory so that you can solo as a complete musician?in the same way that instrumentalists do. Each lesson offers a core musical concept related to harmony, melody, and rhythm, integrating skills such as conducting and analysis. All concepts are reinforced with practical exercises. The accompanying audio tracks demonstrate techniques and let you practice improvising along with a piano accompaniment.
You will learn to:
Develop your sense of timing and swing
Understand jazz harmony, such as tensions and non-diatonic chords, as well as chord progressions such as II V and cycle V progressions, and use harmony as your basis for creating expressive solos
Navigate song forms, such as AABA, blues forms, turnarounds, and other common jazz structures
Improve your ear for jazz harmony through studying intervals and chord progressions, and by memorizing emblematic jazz melodic patterns
Create expressive vocal lines that work well over jazz chords and integrate well within the context of a jazz ensemble
?Mili Bermejo?s Vocal Jazz Improvisation is the most comprehensive vocal book I have ever seen on improvisation. Her years of research and her wisdom and artistry leave no stones unturned. I would recommend this book to instrumentalists as well, to develop their ears and breadth of expression.?
?Jerry Bergonzi, Jazz Saxophonist, Composer, Author, Educator

?I have been a huge fan of Mili as an artist for many years now, and have admired her impeccable skills as a teacher for just as long. Seeing Mili perform in duo with Dan Greenspan is one of the great wonders of the world. They make voice and bass seem like an orchestra, harmonically rich and complete, and emotionally compelling. How lucky for us that Mili has written a book on improvisation from her own assured and gracious vantage point. Her approach is accessible, organic, personal, and best of all, inspiring! She takes the fear factor out and provides tools to make improvisation a truly creative and joyful experience.?
?Peter Eldridge, Jazz Singer, Pianist, Composer (New York Voices)

?Creating awareness is at the core of this beautiful material that was very much needed in the vocal jazz field. Here is a book with clever, effectively organized information for all vocalists to develop a practical framework that covers the foundation to find confidence, strength and ultimately freedom as a vocal improviser.
Mili?s music speaks to the heart, overflowing with humanity, joy, and compassion, and this book does the same. Mili traces a clear path, guiding us step by step along the way. She draws on her own experience, which I must say reflects all vocalists? experience, as we walk this fascinating journey of jazz singing.?
?Magos Herrera, GRAMMY-nominated Jazz Singer

?How lucky for all of us that Mili Bermejo put her decades of experience and skill as both performer and teacher into this book. What a gift! Thank you, Mili.?
?Tierney Sutton, Multi-GRAMMY Nominated Jazz Singer
/ Méthodes et pédagogie / Chant / / BERKLEE

From Latin America to the Philippines discover a diverse sampling of musical heritages with this global collection of songs articles and activities for the music classroom and beyond! Experience authentic folk songs children's songs and work songs along with some of the native instruments used to accompany them. Read about traditions and cultures and how they have influenced music around the world. The all-in-one package features reproducible songsheets articles and activity sheets step-by-step instruction for each song piano/vocal arrangements lyric translations and a CD recording of each song with both vocal and accompaniment tracks... a great budget saver!Featured songs and articles include:Guantanamera (The Music of Cuba)Las Posadas (Christmas Latin-Style!)Imo Gal (Instruments from Latin America)Mi Caballo Blanco (Music from the Andes Mountains)Hala lala layya (Music of the Arab People)Shiri yakanaka (Africa: Music and More!)Bahay kubo (Music in the Philippines)Gypsy in the Moonlight (Sounds of the Caribbean)

High Voice Compiled by Joan Frey Boytim-Sacred Solos For All Ages for High Voice compiled by Joan Frey Boytim. Boytim who compiled the widely-used series The First Book of Solos is the most respected name in publications for the developing singer. She brings her expertise and vast knowledge of vocal literature into the sacred genre with these collections which present traditional sacred solos for classical Voice and Piano. Ranging from classics by Bach and Mozart to early 20th century favorites and rarities the 43 songs - some long out of print - span from easy to more challenging but all are within the realm of a reasonable classical solo for a church service.

Big Band Arrangements for Male Singers-Example vocals and separate background tracks on CD are provided in this collection of 9 big band standards voiced for men: There'll Be Some Changes Made · God Bless the Child · How High the Moon · Why Don't You Do Right! · Come Fly with Me · I Apologize · Volaré · Candy Man · The Way She Makes Me Feel.

Songs by the Divine One Sassy (Sarah Vaughan)-Whenever Sarah Vaughan sang the reaction she would often inspire in was amazement. This collection features ten of her best in vocal arrangements with an accompanying CD containing a demonstration and play-along track for each song: Can't Get Out of This Mood · Whatever Lola Wants · Misty · Moonlight in Vermont · It Might As Well Be Spring · Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year · Lullaby of Birdland · Nice Work If You Can Get It · It's Alright with Me · Yesterdays.