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

Par PEGLER HEIDI / WEDGWOOD P.. Have you always wanted to be able to sing? Then this book is for you - because it's never too late! This all-in-one tutor book covers approximately two years of singing lessons, and includes essential music theory and technical skills for beginners. The learning process is broken down into bite-sized, manageable chunks with two CDs containing a wealth of music from classical and folk to pop and jazz to sing along to. Additional piano accompaniments to the songs are downloadable from this website. Packed with information, teaching advice and top tips from the experts, this beginner singer's method is perfect for those keen to begin singing, but aren't sure where to start! / Niveau : Facile / Méthode / Voix

Learn to sing and open up a brand new world of musical knowledge with this exciting method from Alfred Music. Beginning with the fundamentals, you will learn about equipment used by singers, vocal health, and getting acquainted with reading music. You will then move right along to breathing, vocalizing, proper warm-ups, and singing songs, lesson by lesson, all while continuing to increase your knowledge of reading and understanding music. You will learn to sing an array of musical styles including pop, jazz, classical, and musical theater. Near the end of the book, you will be introduced to the idea of individual interpretation, which will help you color your songs with your own unique style. The book features a chord and scale chart for reference during and after your lessons. The DVD includes instructional video and TNT 2 software with audio accompaniments that let you adjust the audio levels, transpose accompaniments to any key, and adjust playback tempo. The video lessons, audio accompaniments, and software are also available to stream online. * For beginners with no prior musical training. * Learn to sing with a live band or group in any style. * Discover your own natural sound. * Covers breathing, posture, warming up, and more. * An easy and comprehensive approach to reading music. * Pop, jazz, classical, and musical theater styles covered. * Includes tips on performing like how to overcome nervousness and mind/body connections to singing. / Voix

Par L'ESTRANGE ALEXANDER. Singbook is an inspirational resource for all singing leaders working with children and young people, and contains 12 songs by some of today's most exciting songwriters. Suitable for established singing leaders seeking new repertoire, and those leading singing groups for the first time. Inspires young people with an exciting and vibrant mix of styles. Celebrates our cultural diversity, combining songs from Gujarati, Chinese and Albanian music with the best of the UK. Each song includes warm-ups, learning strategies and interviews with the songwriters. All vocal parts and lyric sheets are photocopiable. The songs are graded and colour-coded into three levels - Starting, Developing and Challenging. The book is complete with two professionally-produced CDs of complete demonstrations and backing tracks. Produced in association with Youth Music and NASUWT / Niveau : Facile / Recueil / Voix

This giant two-volume resource will be indispensable for teachers working with children singing solos. There is a large variety of material, from classic Disney songs to Broadway to movie favorites to songs from 'Sesame Street.? Each volume has songs for both girls and boys and includes a CD (Volume 2) or online audio (Volume 1) with Piano accompaniments for each song. In addition, the CD contains tempo adjustment and transposition software for use on your computer.Kids' Musical Theatre Collection: Volume 2 includes 30 songs from stage, screen and television musicals, these are by far Hal Leonard's largest collections of solos for children. Songs in this volume include: Baby Mine (Dumbo), Be Kind to Your Parents (Fanny), Bein' Green (Sesame Street), Dream for Your Inspiration (The Muppets Take Manhattan), Friend (Snoopy!!!), Gary, Indiana (The Music Man), Getting to Know You (The King and I), God Help the Outcasts (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), I Always Knew (Annie Warbucks), I Don't Want to Live on the Moon (Sesame Street), I Won't Grow Up (Peter Pan) and more. / Voix

Par MARSH LIN. Singbook is an inspirational resource for all singing leaders working with children and young people, and contains 12 songs by some of today's most exciting songwriters. Suitable for established singing leaders seeking new repertoire, and those leading singing groups for the first time. Inspires young people with an exciting and vibrant mix of styles. Celebrates our cultural diversity, combining songs from Gujarati, Chinese and Albanian music with the best of the UK. Each song includes warm-ups, learning strategies and interviews with the songwriters. All vocal parts and lyric sheets are photocopiable. The songs are graded and colour-coded into three levels - Starting, Developing and Challenging. This edition features full Piano scores for those wishing to accompany their singers themselves, or for Piano-based rehearsal. To be used alongside Singbook (Catalogue No. 0571523986) Produced in association with Youth Music and NASUWT / Date parution : 2005-06-23/ Recueil / Voix

40 Fun Warm-Ups Using Songs from Across the United States. Keeping singers in our ensembles excited and energized during the warm-up process is a consistent hurdle for educators across the nation. By using songs that are indigenous to different parts of our country, teachers in choral classrooms can help students prepare their minds, bodies and voices while sharing a bit of our culture and history from different areas of the United States. All of the songs can be used with both inexperienced beginners and advanced singers. The lesson suggestions introduced with each song are intended to be aspringboard for teachers to modify and adapt to their own students' needs and skill levels. Each melody includes strategies that are accessible for those who are just learning how to use their voices, and also for those more sophisticated singers who enjoy a good challenge. Keeping singers in our ensembles excited and energized during the warm-up process is a consistent hurdle for educators across the nation. By using songs that are indigenous to different parts of our country, teachers in choral classrooms can help students prepare their minds, bodies and voices while sharing a bit of our culture and history from different areas of the United States. All of the songs can be used with both inexperienced beginners and advanced singers. The lesson suggestions introduced with each song are intended to be aspringboard for teachers to modify and adapt to their own students' needs and skill levels. Each melody includes strategies that are accessible for those who are just learning how to use their voices, and also for those more sophisticated singers who enjoy a good challenge. / Musique traditionnelle d'Amérique du Nord / Etude / Voix

Soprano/Alto Edition. Par EMERSON ROGER. The Hal Leonard Vocal Method is designed for anyone interested in learning the basics of singing, using vocal exercises and popular songs. Complete with demonstration audio tracks, accompaniment tracks, and step-by-step video instruction, this easy-to-use beginner's guide serves as an introduction to everything needed to begin singing with proper technique. Topics covered include: posture, breathing, warm-ups, consonants, vowels, phrasing, vibrato and range extension. Songs in this edition for soprano and alto singers include: At Last · Dancing Queen · Don't Know Why · I Will Remember You · Rolling in the Deep · A Thousand Years · and more. Audio and video are accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK , a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right. / Date parution : 2022-04-05/ Méthode / Soprano ou Alto

Description Margaret Hamilton. This unique collection of songs from South Africa contains 35 songs of the people, performed in churches, workplaces and at gatherings. This book provides the first opportunity for churches, schools and colleges to perform these wonderful songs of liberation and Christian praise. Transcribed and introduced, including performance notes, by Maggie Hamilton and written for unaccompanied voices with guitar symbols for use with unison or two-part singing. The simplicity of many of the tunes and remaining parts makes them suitable for playing on glockenspiels, recorders or other melodic instruments. Published by Novello in association with Christian Aid. Songlist A Ndi Bonanga Umfana (I Did Not See The Shepherd) Abasundu Nabamhlope (Blacks And Whites) Afika Baba Mandela Daai Stones (Those Stones) Ehlatin'e Lusaka (In Lusaka Bush) Hamba Kahle (Go Well) Hamba Vangeli (Spread The Word) Hayo O Tshwanang Le Yena (There's No-one Like Him) Inzima Lendlela (This Road Is Heavy) Klim Op Die Wa (Get Onto The Wagon) Lerato Ia Jeso Le A Makatsa (The Love Of Jesus Is Wonderful) Mandela Prescribes For Freedom Mandela Wethu (Our Mandela) Manyanani Basebenzi (Workers Unite) Monateng Kapele (In Joy We Will Be Together) Nkosi Sikelel' Iafrika (Lord Bless Africa) Organize And Mobilize Parna Junda (The Flag) Release Mandela Rolihlahla Mandela Say'ilim Ingqolowa (We Are Ploughing Wheat) Senzenina (What Have We Done') Siku Rin Gwana (One Day) Siyay Epitori (We Are Goin To Pretoria) Songena Sirubuluza (We Enter Crawling) Stop Killing Our Children Studente Sal Nooit Verloor (Students Will Never Lose) Thula Sizwe (Be Silent, Nation) Thuma Mina (Send Me) Tshollela Moya Wa Hao, Jesu (Pour Down Your Spirit, Jesus) Tumelo Yaka Ha Nkeke Ka E Lathla (My Faith, I Will Never Lose It) Umzabalazo (We Are The Woman) Uthando Lwakhe (God's Love) We! Mshlamane Uzungakholwa (Hey! My 'Friend', Don't Foget)

A Guide to Authentic and Adventurous Song Interpretation. Par ECKERT ROSANA. Great singing can inspire us, surprise us, make us laugh, or make us cry. It can draw the listener in, creating a shared experience of stories and emotions, communicating the singer's unique point of view. Singing with Expression presents a step-by-step guide to help vocalists of any style or genre find their voice and connect with their audience. This book has five sections: Timing, Tone, Melodic Alteration, Style and Other Factors, each with several chapters detailing various concepts and exercises. You'll find over 145 downloadable listening tracks with the author's demonstrations, as well as backing tracks in three different keys. Spontaneity exercises are featured inseveral chapters, aimed at helping singers sharpen their real-time-reaction reflexes in a performance situation. Included in the back of the book is a listening list of songs that specifically demonstrate a groove or approach discussed in th book. Great singing can inspire us, surprise us, make us laugh, or make us cry. It can draw the listener in, creating a shared experience of stories and emotions, communicating the singer's unique point of view. Singing with Expression presents a step-by-step guide to help vocalists of any style or genre find their voice and connect with their audience. This book has five sections: Timing, Tone, Melodic Alteration, Style and Other Factors, each with several chapters detailing various concepts and exercises. You'll find over 145 downloadable listening tracks with the author's demonstrations, as well as backing tracks in three different keys. Spontaneity exercises are featured in several chapters, aimed at helping singers sharpen their real-time-reaction reflexes in a performance situation. Included in the back of the book is a listening list of songs that specifically demonstrate a groove or approach discussed in th book. / Pédagogie / Etude / Voix

Ever wonder how to put together the vocal parts in bluegrass 3 part harmony singing? In this very intimate lesson, Jenny Lester puts her band mates through the paces of finding their harmony parts. They very generously comply in an honest, open-hearted session that takes you right into what could easily be one of their private vocal practice sessions. Soon you will be practicing lead, tenor and baritone singing, each on it's own and then with the other 2 parts through this instructional DVD. In this lesson, Jenny takes two songs (Friends Like You and The River, Mother Nature and Me) and touches on the following techniques for good harmony singing - --finding a good harmony note by learning how to find the root, 3rd and 5th of the chord you are singing over --basic harmony theory for singers --octaves --tips on when and when not to use vibrato --blending and tone --harmony singing with men and women --singing consonants with a group --the tenor and baritone parts that make basic bluegrass harmony --closing off with harmonies to Will The Circle Be Unbroken --and more / Voix / Dvd - Format: 7,5 X 5,25

Singbook is an inspirational resource for all singing leaders working with children and young people, and contains 12 songs by some of today's most exciting songwriters. Suitable for established singing leaders seeking new repertoire, and those leading singing groups for the first time. Inspires young people with an exciting and vibrant mix of styles. Celebrates our cultural diversity, combining songs from Gujarati, Chinese and Albanian music with the best of the UK. Each song includes warm-ups, learning strategies and interviews with the songwriters. All vocal parts and lyric sheets are photocopiable. The songs are graded and colour-coded into three levels - Starting, Developing and Challenging. The book is complete with two professionally-produced CDs of complete demonstrations and backing tracks. Produced in association with Youth Music and NASUWT / Voix

Young Women'S Edition. Par DIVERS AUTEURS / ARR.LOUISE LERCH. These popular publications are compiled especially for the tastes and abilities of the talented teenage singer/actor. Songs span from classic stage musicals, to 'the golden age of Hollywood,? to the stage and cinema of the 1980s and '90s. Indispensible for teaching young singers, these book/CD packs also include notes on each selection./ Recueil / Chant

20 of the best Grades 4-5 Songs selected by the major Examination Boards. Par PEGLER HEIDI. The Best Of Singing Grades 4-5 (Low Voice) celebrates the wealth of exciting repertoire featured on the current ABRSM and Trinity College London singing syllabuses. As well as carefully selected range of classical, contemporary and folk songs, these books bring together some of the greatest jazz standards and Broadway hits ever written, all edited to the highest standard and complete with accompanying CD./ Recueil / Chant

Kenneth Simpson. This collection is divided into ten sections: music - learning music - times and seasons - Christmas - greetings - gusto - drollery - getting around - birds and beasts - and miscellanea. Most of the items are musically straightforward and of moderate compass. / Voix