For Percussion. Band Method. Expressions Music Curriculum[TM]. Book & CD. 228 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Choral (VoiceTrax CD)

SKU: HL.286419

Discovery Level 2. Composed by Camille Saint-Saë and ns. Arranged by Audrey Snyder. Discovery Choral. Christmas, Concert, Festival, Holiday. CD. Duration 110 seconds. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.286419).

UPC: 888680895075. 5.0x5.0x0.148 inches.

Excerpted from the beautiful Christmas Oratorio by Saint-Saens, this movement is a wonderful addition to any Christmas, Winter or general middle school concert program. The optional string quartet accompaniment lifts this work to the top of your program.

By Jamies Biery. For SATB choir, organ, optional solo. Lent. Medium-Easy. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers

By Greg Gilpin. For SATB choir and piano. Secular Christmas. Octavo. Published by Heritage Music Press. (15/2282H)

By Various. E-Z Play Today. Softcover. Big note notation. 880 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Performed by Amy Grant. For voice, piano and guitar chords. Format: piano/vocal/chords songbook. With vocal melody, piano accompaniment, lyrics, chord names, guitar chord diagrams and black and white photos. Christian rock, adult contemporary and contemporary christian. 64 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Hal Leonard.

Arranged by Richard Bradley. For Piano. Piano - Five Finger Collection. Level: Five Finger. Book. Published by Alfred Publishing.

2-Part Choral (2-Part)

SKU: HL.1152179

Composed by Emily Crocker. Voices Together. Christmas, Concert, Spanish, Winter. Octavo. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.1152179).

UPC: 196288119388. 6.75x10.5x0.029 inches.

This Spanish song is a type of Christmas song called a “villancico.” The title suggests a rhythm that is played on various rhythm instruments. This is a wonderful first song to introduce part singing to your choir.

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.

Arranged by Eugenie R. Rocherolle. For Piano. Piano Collection. Level: Intermediate. Book. 28 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Performed by Garth Brooks. Garth Brooks. For Piano/Vocal/Chords. This edition: Piano/Vocal/Chords. Personality Book. Country. Book. 94 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Singer's Jazz Anthology - High Voice with Recorded Piano Accompaniments Online. Composed by Various. Singer's Jazz Anthology. Christmas, Jazz, Standards. Softcover Audio Online. 104 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Arranged by Tom Roed. Collection for solo piano and solo piano duet (optional). Includes a bonus section of Christmas piano duets. 160 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Chamber Music High voice, Piano

SKU: PR.111402890

Composed by Ricky Ian Gordon. Full score. 44 pages. Duration 20 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #111-40289. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.111402890).

ISBN 9781491134672. UPC: 680160685264.

What� �??s in a name? While the title is French for â??Eight Flower Songs,â? the texts are all in English. The poemsâ?? flowers metaphorically evoke fragrance, love and loss, life and death, rebirth and regrowth. Perhaps the texture and beauty of Gordonâ??s music are themselves French. The 20-minute song cycle draws on poems from Wordsworth to Dorothy Parker, as well as from contemporary poets including the composer himself.
When So-Chung Shinn came to me with the idea of commissioning a song cycle with her spectacular husband Tony Lee, she had in mind something having to do with flowers. Tony had asked her what she wanted for her birthday, and she said she wanted to be behind the creating of a new work. Lucky me, I was the recipient of the commission. So-Chung sent me a little description of all the flowers she loves, but I had to take the idea and create a narrative in my head.It is always a matter of pleasing the commissioner, yet coming up with something you can get behind and hear music for as well. I already knew I wanted to use my â??Tulipsâ? poem which is really about the arc of a relationship as represented through the life span of the Tulips, and, in many ways, disappointment; and Dorothy Parkerâ??s â??One Perfect Rose,â? which is wry, bitter, cynical, and funny, in a way only Dorothy Parker can so pithily express.I thought of Jane Kenyonâ??s exquisite â??Peonies at Dusk,â? because knowing she died so young (46) of leukemia, the poem has such a particular resonance, almost humanizing the Peonies, casting the moon as a sentient being, illustrating so beautifully how connected everything is, alive here, and revolving around these exquisite blossoms. Then, I remembered her husband Donald Hallâ??s poem â??Her Garden,â? which he wrote after Jane died, his grief intermingled with his inability to care for what she had created, to keep alive what so represented her aliveness, broken as he was, and I felt I already had a story.I found the Wordsworth, because it felt like pure joy to me, but also, if each of the songs has a color in my head, â??The Daffodilsâ? is pure yellow and a good place to start. My partner Kevin and I live on a lake, and every year, the first Daffodils, the shock of yellows, the oranges, the blinding whites, after the long snowy winters, sing of the newness that is about to enfold us in its green miraculousness.At first, the cycle ended with the Langston Hughes poem â??Cycle,â? or â??New Flowers,â? because it was lovely, and about rebirth, which is obviously optimistic, and apt, but then, my friend Telmo Dos Santos, a wonderful Canadian poet whom I met at Banff, sent me his poem â??Afterlife With Lilacs,â? having no idea what I was working on. I felt I had to add it because it is so dazzling, and it immediately felt like the missing link. Finally, there were unfortunately rights issues, namely, we could not, no how, get in touch with the Langston Hughes Estate, after so many happy collaborations.After almost a yearâ??s frustration, I wrote my own text, â??Play, Orpheus,â? which ended up being fortuitous, because the first time I met So-Chung, she entered the room and the most exquisite scent of Lillies of the Valley, Muguet de Bois, filled the room. I went right over to her and rudely put my nose to her neck, for the intoxication of the scent. So â??Play, Orpheusâ? is for So-Chung, to remind us of the precious treasures of this world flowers remind us of. Everything and everyone lives and dies, lives and dies. Death and resurrection.And of course, this is music, this is song, so the inclusion of the God of music, Orpheus, seems apt. Huit Chansons de Fleurs is really about what flowers represent, their radiance, their flickering impermanence, the way they are used to celebrate, as well as to mourn...... and of course, their fragrance. Their fragrance.Ricky Ian GordonJuly 28, 2021.