Choir Secular (SATB choir)

SKU: AP.31096

Composed by Mark Patterson. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles. Alfred Choral Designs. Christmas; Secular; Winter. Choral Octavo. 8 pages. Alfred Music #00-31096. Published by Alfred Music (AP.31096).

UPC: 038081338682. English. John Parker.

This contemporary winter choral brings a fresh approach to the genre. A lyrical minor-key verse, which becomes a canon the second time, sharply contrasts with the bright, uplifting chorus. Refreshing. Accompaniment included on PianoTrax 1 CD (00-31028).

About Alfred Choral Designs

Th e Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.

Arranged by David Marlatt. Various. For 4 F Horns. Mixed Instruments - Flexible Instrumentation. Level: Easy. Published by Alfred Publishing.

By Deborah Baker Monday. Orchestra. String Orchestra. String Orchestra. Christmas; Winter. Grade 1. Conductor Score and Parts. 74 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

Book. Published by Music Sales. (YK21004) A unique collection of 46 superb compositions by members of the Bach family.

Choir Secular (SAB choir/3-Part choir Mixed)

SKU: AP.48995

Composed by Adam Levine, Jacob Hindlin, Jonathan Bellion, Jordan Kendall Johnson, Michael Pollack, Stefan Johnson, and Vincent Ford. Arranged by Andy Beck. MakeMusic Cloud; Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles. Alfred Pop Choral Series. Pop; Radio; Secular. Choral Octavo. 12 pages. Alfred Music #00-48995. Published by Alfred Music (AP.48995).

UPC: 038081563190. English.

Maroon 5 has perfected their pop song template---a catchy tune, memorable hook, and genuine, relatable lyrics. Toss in hints of Pachelbel's Canon in D and you have an undeniable hit. This well-crafted arrangement sets a few accompanimental guitar figures in the voices, and offers some subtle text adaptations for all occasions. It's a perfect choice any time, but especially effective for end-of-year events, marking a changing era with heartfelt emotion. Download PartTrax MP3s for all the audio you need to rehearse and perform the SATB and 2-Part voicings. Each PartTrax package includes full performance, accompaniment only, and part-predominant mixes of every voice part. This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.

About Alfred Pop Choral Series

The Alfred Pop Series features outstanding arrangements of songs from the popular music genre. These publications provide exciting, contemporary, and educationally-sound arrangements for singers of all ages, from elementary through high school, to college and adult choirs.

Concert Band - Grade 2

SKU: AP.43109

Composed by Douglas E. Wagner. Concert Band; Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles. Belwin Young Band. Score and Part(s). 204 pages. Duration 3:00. Belwin Music #00-43109. Published by Belwin Music (AP.43109).

UPC: 038081507293. English.

Arguably the first American professional composer and arranger, Billings' legacy lives on today as fixed parts of our musical landscape. With the use of his canon techniques, this work is full of teachable moments within the music itself, as well as about the music and it's rich history. (3:00).

Band Bass Clarinet, Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2, Clarinet, Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2, Clarinet 3, Contrabass Clarinet, Contrabassoon, Double Bass, English Horn, Euphonium, Flute 1, Flute 2, Horn 1, Horn 2, Horn 3, Horn 4, Oboe 1, Oboe 2, Percussion 1 and more.

SKU: PR.16500101F

Mvt. 1 from Symphony No. 6 (Three Places in the East). Composed by Dan Welcher. Full score. 52 pages. Theodore Presser Company #165-00101F. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.16500101F).

ISBN 9781491131725. UPC: 680160680252.

Ever since the success of my series of wind ensemble works Places in the West, I've been wanting to write a companion piece for national parks on the other side of the north American continent. The earlier work, consisting of GLACIER, THE YELLOWSTONE FIRES, ARCHES, and ZION, spanned some twenty years of my composing life, and since the pieces called for differing groups of instruments, and were in slightly different styles from each other, I never considered them to be connected except in their subject matter. In their depiction of both the scenery and the human history within these wondrous places, they had a common goal: awaking the listener to the fragile beauty that is in them; and calling attention to the ever more crucial need for preservation and protection of these wild places, unique in all the world. With this new work, commissioned by a consortium of college and conservatory wind ensembles led by the University of Georgia, I decided to build upon that same model---but to solidify the process. The result, consisting of three movements (each named for a different national park in the eastern US), is a bona-fide symphony. While the three pieces could be performed separately, they share a musical theme---and also a common style and instrumentation. It is a true symphony, in that the first movement is long and expository, the second is a rather tightly structured scherzo-with-trio, and the finale is a true culmination of the whole. The first movement, Everglades, was the original inspiration for the entire symphony. Conceived over the course of two trips to that astonishing place (which the native Americans called River of Grass, the subtitle of this movement), this movement not only conveys a sense of the humid, lush, and even frightening scenery there---but also an overview of the entire settling-of- Florida experience. It contains not one, but two native American chants, and also presents a view of the staggering influence of modern man on this fragile part of the world. Beginning with a slow unfolding marked Heavy, humid, the music soon presents a gentle, lyrical theme in the solo alto saxophone. This theme, which goes through three expansive phrases with breaks in between, will appear in all three movements of the symphony. After the mood has been established, the music opens up to a rich, warm setting of a Cherokee morning song, with the simple happiness that this part of Florida must have had prior to the nineteenth century. This music, enveloping and comforting, gradually gives way to a more frenetic, driven section representative of the intrusion of the white man. Since Florida was populated and developed largely due to the introduction of a train system, there's a suggestion of the mechanized iron horse driving straight into the heartland. At that point, the native Americans become considerably less gentle, and a second chant seems to stand in the way of the intruder; a kind of warning song. The second part of this movement shows us the great swampy center of the peninsula, with its wildlife both in and out of the water. A new theme appears, sad but noble, suggesting that this land is precious and must be protected by all the people who inhabit it. At length, the morning song reappears in all its splendor, until the sunset---with one last iteration of the warning song in the solo piccolo. Functioning as a scherzo, the second movement, Great Smoky Mountains, describes not just that huge park itself, but one brave soul's attempt to climb a mountain there. It begins with three iterations of the UR-theme (which began the first movement as well), but this time as up-tempo brass fanfares in octaves. Each time it begins again, the theme is a little slower and less confident than the previous time---almost as though the hiker were becoming aware of the daunting mountain before him. But then, a steady, quick-pulsed ostinato appears, in a constantly shifting meter system of 2/4- 3/4 in alteration, and the hike has begun. Over this, a slower new melody appears, as the trek up the mountain progresses. It's a big mountain, and the ascent seems to take quite awhile, with little breaks in the hiker's stride, until at length he simply must stop and rest. An oboe solo, over several free cadenza-like measures, allows us (and our friend the hiker) to catch our breath, and also to view in the distance the rocky peak before us. The goal is somehow even more daunting than at first, being closer and thus more frighteningly steep. When we do push off again, it's at a slower pace, and with more careful attention to our footholds as we trek over broken rocks. Tantalizing little views of the valley at every switchback make our determination even stronger. Finally, we burst through a stand of pines and----we're at the summit! The immensity of the view is overwhelming, and ultimately humbling. A brief coda, while we sit dazed on the rocks, ends the movement in a feeling of triumph. The final movement, Acadia, is also about a trip. In the summer of 2014, I took a sailing trip with a dear friend from North Haven, Maine, to the southern coast of Mt. Desert Island in Acadia National Park. The experience left me both exuberant and exhausted, with an appreciation for the ocean that I hadn't had previously. The approach to Acadia National Park by water, too, was thrilling: like the difference between climbing a mountain on foot with riding up on a ski-lift, I felt I'd earned the right to be there. The music for this movement is entirely based on the opening UR-theme. There's a sense of the water and the mysterious, quiet deep from the very beginning, with seagulls and bell buoys setting the scene. As we leave the harbor, the theme (in a canon between solo euphonium and tuba) almost seems as if large subaquatic animals are observing our departure. There are three themes (call them A, B and C) in this seafaring journey---but they are all based on the UR theme, in its original form with octaves displaced, in an upside-down form, and in a backwards version as well. (The ocean, while appearing to be unchanging, is always changing.) We move out into the main channel (A), passing several islands (B), until we reach the long draw that parallels the coastline called Eggemoggin Reach, and a sudden burst of new speed (C). Things suddenly stop, as if the wind had died, and we have a vision: is that really Mt. Desert Island we can see off the port bow, vaguely in the distance? A chorale of saxophones seems to suggest that. We push off anew as the chorale ends, and go through all three themes again---but in different instrumentations, and different keys. At the final tack-turn, there it is, for real: Mt. Desert Island, big as life. We've made it. As we pull into the harbor, where we'll secure the boat for the night, there's a feeling of achievement. Our whale and dolphin friends return, and we end our journey with gratitude and celebration. I am profoundly grateful to Jaclyn Hartenberger, Professor of Conducting at the University of Georgia, for leading the consortium which provided the commissioning of this work.

Choir Secular (SAB choir/3-Part choir Mixed)

SKU: AP.48981

Composed by Penny Rodriguez. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles. Alfred Choral Designs. Secular. Choral Octavo. 12 pages. Alfred Music #00-48981. Published by Alfred Music (AP.48981).

UPC: 038081563053. English. Words by William Butler Yeats.

Lilting music resembles a folk song from the British Isles in this happy setting of Yeats' text, inspired by memories of childhood summers spent in the Irish countryside. The 12-line poem expresses a city-dweller's longing for the simple, tranquil life of Innisfree. Includes proven part-singing strategies---the tune first appears in unison, then becomes a canon; a peaceful bridge passes the melody through lower voice parts, while others sing sweet counterlines; and a modulation leads to full triadic harmony.

Guitar

SKU: BT.MUSAM1008029

By Toby Knowles. The Complete Guitar Player. Pop & Rock. Book Only. Composed 2015. 146 pages. Wise Publications #MUSAM1008029. Published by Wise Publications (BT.MUSAM1008029).

ISBN 9781783055364. English.

The Complete Guitar Player Acoustic Songbook features a huge collection of 50 acoustic hits from all genres for Guitar. Each song includes full lyrics and Guitar chords as well as strumming and picking patterns, making this perfect for the aspiring acoustic Guitarist. Every song included in this Guitar songbook is a bona fide acoustic classic, perfect for singalongs at parties or just a strum on a summer's day in the park. Songs like Hey, Soul Sister   by Train, Wonderwall  by Oasis and Ho Hey   by The Lumineers represent the best in unplugged and fun chill-out music. 'The book is designed to be accessible and enjoyable, showcasing the best songs by the best songwriters like Bob Dylan, Mumford & Sons, The Beatles and Adele. Songs from the past and the present are included, so there will be something for everyone in this acoustic songbook. Each song has been carefully arranged for Guitar and Voice, including the melody, lyrics and Guitar chord shapes. Not only this, but there are also suggested strumming or picking patterns to help you nail the exact sound of the song straight away. This acoustic Guitar songbook is ideal for beginners and intermediate Guitarists looking to expand their repertoire with acoustic songs new and old, whereas absolute beginnersnew to the Guitar might find that the four books of the famous Complete Guitar Player series by Russ Shipton will help them out with the basics.  With these 50 acoustic Guitar songs, you'll be singing, strumming andfingerpicking your way through the folk, pop and rock canon in no time at all. The Complete Guitar Player Acoustic Songbook would make a stellar addition to any guitarist's bookshelf, and every one of these great songs will make sure that everyone is singing along.

(For Organ, Keyboard and Voice). Edited by Rollin Smith. For Organ. Organ - Method or Collection. Dover Edition. Wedding. Book. Published by Dover Publications

Choir Secular (SAB choir/3-Part choir Mixed)

SKU: AP.50140

Composed by Penny Rodriguez. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles. Alfred Choral Designs. Secular. Choral Octavo. 12 pages. Alfred Music #00-50140. Published by Alfred Music (AP.50140).

UPC: 038081573106. English. Words by Emily Dickinson.

This charming setting of the famous Emily Dickinson poem reminds us that hope never stops at all. A memorable melody is first sung in unison before layering into a buoyant two-part canon. From the brisk opening piano motive to the exuberant full-voiced ending, it's a stellar selection overflowing with joy. Careful and conservative part writing ensures success for developing choirs.

Composed by Tom Franzak. Lent 5 B. Leavensong Series. Sacred. Octavo. With guitar chord names. 12 pages. Published by GIA Publications (GI.G-7448).

Composed by Sally K. Albrecht. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles. Alfred Choral Designs. Christmas; Secular; Winter. Choral Octavo. 12 pages. Alfred Music #00-45418. Published by Alfred Music (AP.45418).

Grade 3

SKU: CL.LDP-7148-00

Composed by Gene Milford. Concert Band. Score and set of parts. Composed 2013. Duration 4 minutes, 13 seconds. Daehn Publications #LDP-7148-00. Published by Daehn Publications (CL.LDP-7148-00).

In 1906, Ralph Vaughan Williams, editor of the English Hymnal, asked his friend and colleague, Gustav Holst, to write these hymns. This work combines the melodies in a richly-colored concert setting of fanfare, canon, chorale and processional. A noble Holst tribute!

Violin. Arranged by Various. Play-Along; Solo; String Series. Instrumental Solos Series. Masterwork Arrangement. Book; CD. 40 pages. Alfred Music #00- 47065. Published by Alfred Music

Arranged by Dan Coates. For Piano. Book; Piano - Easy Piano Collection; Piano Supplemental. Easy Piano. 148 pages

Choir Secular (2-Part choir)

SKU: AP.48993

Arranged by Andy Beck. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles. Alfred Choral Designs. Folk; Secular. Choral Octavo. 12 pages. Alfred Music #00-48993. Published by Alfred Music (AP.48993).

UPC: 038081563176. English. American Folk Song.

Thoughtfully crafted to make your 2-part singers sound their best, this Andy Beck arrangement reads like a solid choral lesson plan, with built-in teaching tools. The lyrical tune is sung first in unison, then in canon, a gentle call and response bridge introduces a new key, eventually some parallel harmonies arrive, and an optional middle note at the end offers one three-part chord. Adapted lyrics honor the bond of friend to friend.

About Alfred Choral Designs

Th e Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.

2-part mixed voices, keyboard accompaniment - Beginning

SKU: GI.G-9790

Composed by Carlton R. Young. Children. Simple Gifts. Tune Name: Numbers 6:24. Sacred. 4 pages. GIA Publications #9790. Published by GIA Publications (GI.G-9790).

UPC: 785147979005. English. Text Source: Numbers 6:24&ndash,26. Scripture: Numbers 6:24–26.

Thr ough attractive simplicity and a beautiful line, this brief setting of the Aaronic blessing is a great alternative to other, older settings of the text—especially when the total number of tenor-bass singers in your choir is considerably less than that of the sopranos and altos. The two parts sing in octaves mostly, with just a hint of a canon in the final measures.

Favorite Piano Classics (CC10) by Various. For Piano. Published by Santorella Publications (SP.78200). ISBN 1-58560-526-3. There is certainly an abundance of Classical piano literature in print. Every publisher has a collection of piano classics in their catalog and the differences are determined by several factors. When we narrow the field to include only "unedited original works" of the greatest composers, the largest difference is content. Favorite Piano Classics from Santorella Publications contains the finest assortment of "unedited original" piano works in print. Let's let the titles and their fathers speak for themselves.

SATB vocal soli, SATB choir, 3 oboes, bassoon, 3 trumpets, timpani, 2 violins, viola, basso continuo

SKU: CA.3114911

Cantata for St. Michael. Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Edited by Ingrid Jach. Arranged by Paul Horn. This edition: urtext. Stuttgart Urtext Edition: Bach vocal. German title: Man singet mit Freuden vom Sieg. Sacred vocal music, Cantatas, Special days. Single Part, Violin 1. BWV 149. 4 pages. Duration 22 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 31.149/11. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.3114911).

ISBN 9790007208561. Key: D major. Language: German/English. Text: Henrici (Picander), Christian Friedrich. Text: Christian Friedrich Henrici (Picander).

In composing the Cantata BWV 149 Bach reverted to parts of an earlier work: The opening chorus is a parody of the Jadgkantate BWV 208 (Hunting Cantata). In addition to smaller changes which were made necessary due to the text, Bach used trumpets instead of horns. For this purpose he transposed the movement from F major to C major. Musically, the form of the three arias and their instrumentation is rich in variety. The bass aria (2nd mvt.) is characterized by an active continuo accompaniment. After the secco recitative an extended dance like soprano aria with string accompaniment follows. The third aria (6th mvt.) is impressive due to the animated melody and the forming of a canon between the voices, and especially through the entry of the bassoon as the instrumental counterpart to a duet between the alto and tenor. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3114900.

Alto Sax. Arranged by Various. Instrumental Series; Play-Along; Solo. Instrumental Solos Series. Masterwork Arrangement. Book; CD. 40 pages. Alfred Music #00-47050. Published by Alfred Music

91 Selections from Keyboard Literature, Concertos, Oratorios and Operas. By Various. World's Greatest Classical Music. 224 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.