Sing Pop A Cappella is a collection of a cappella arrangements of fantastic pop songs old and new, by renowned teacher, singer and director Gitika Partington. Her arrangements are used by choirs across the UK, and she emphasises that being able to read music is not necessary. Rewarding and enjoyable, Book Three continues her project to bring people together through the power of song.What's great about Gitika Partington's Sing Pop A Cappella series is how she understands that to make great music or to sing a great song, it's not necessary to be able to sight-read. It may be useful, but she has learned that there are other ways to communicate music, namely through ear training, repetition and gesture. Her arrangements, five of which appear in this book, have enabled youth and community choirs to spring up across the country, making singing truly and universally accessible. Included in this book are wonderfully rich a cappella arrangements of Ain't No Sunshine by Bill Withers, Black Is The Colour Of My True Love's Hair, Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up, Adele's Rolling In The Deep and a huge favourite, Sway (Quien Sera). Vocal scores for these innovative and enjoyable arrangements are included in standard notation, although Partington recommends learning by ear as something equally beneficial. To aid with this, the accompanying download card includes five tracks of audio for each song. One features a full performance demonstration while the other four each focus on either soprano, alto, tenor or bass. The easy download of these tracks makes learning efficient and fun, as you are able to listen wherever you are.The great thing about a cappella singing is that it can be done anywhere, with limited resources, with members who don't necessarily have any musical training. Partington has created a book that can be used by a cappella choirs who love pop music that sounds great and will thrill audiences. Sing Pop A Cappella is not just a songbook, though, it also includes an extensive introduction by Partington, as well as performance tips for each song and information on voice care and learning the tunes. It's a personal book for Partington, who is passionate about the power of music to bring people together, and enthusiastic about getting people who wouldn't believe they had the confidence or ability, to sing pop!Sing Pop A Cappella is a brilliant book for choirs of any type or size who would enjoy singing five incredible pop tunes without accompaniment. The fantastic sound of a group of people singing a well-known song in a completely new and interesting way is something that Gitika Partington knows well, and something that she wants to impart to groups across the country. Songs like this were made to be sung, so pick up Book Three and Sing Pop A Cappella! / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Piano

Arranged for SATB, here are five all-time classic Christmas songs with a warm and nostalgic feeling.O Holy Night and Silent Night both originated in 19th century Europe while Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas was introduced by Judy Garland in a 1944 Hollywood musical. Silver Bells was a 1950 Livingston-Evans pop hit but surely the most famous of them all is Irving Berlin's White Christmas, the 1940 song for which its composer had high hopes the moment he completed it. Conceived as a nostalgic number, White Christmas was a slow starter but went on to become a huge success and, for many, the ultimate Christmas song.These arrangements lend themselves to being performed separately or in seamless succession for a Classic Christmas recital audiences will love. / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Piano

Arrangement: Runswick Daryl. Par RUNSWICK DARYL. These imaginative arrangements for SATB choir by Daryl Runswick group five of the best-loved American folksongs. They are both fun to sing and to listen to, guaranteed to enliven a choral programme at any point in the year. Ideal for choirs looking for fresh arrangements of traditional pieces. / Niveau : Assez Facile / Recueil / SATB

Weve Been Awhile Awandering. Par VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH. SATB unaccompanied or solo unison and piano Taken from Eight Traditional English Carols/ Feuillet / SATB

Par PITTS ANTONY. The Naxos Book of Carols is collection of both the very old and the very new. Commissioned by the leading international classical music label, Naxos, these twenty-four arrangements of traditional and original carols tell the Christmas story - from the hope of Advent and the message of the Angels, to the humble birth of the baby in Bethlehem and the coming of the King of kings. This collaboration between Naxos and Faber Music has brought this volume, containing all 24 carols in four narrative sequences, in new arrangements for SATB choir with minimum divisi. There is a good mix of accompanied and a capella (even the latter have optional accompaniments) and there is practical guidance on how the carols may be used by congregations, as well as choirs with varied resources. The original CD, performed by the award-winning choir Tonus Peregrinus and directed by the composer Antony Pitts, is included within the book making it incredible value for money. / Choral Music / Recueil / Voix Mixtes

Will Todd, born in 1970, is forging a strong reputation for himself as a composer who is equally at ease in opera, oratorio, church music and jazz. His style is instantly accessible and lastingly memorable. He spent his formative years steeped in both jazz and the English choral tradition so in his choral music he is able to juxtapose strong rhythmic drive and rich harmonies with exquisitely lyrical vocal lines.The composer writes of this piece: 'Angel Song II is inspired by the idea of angels singing on Christmas night. The music weaves a gentle melody over the aleatoric textures of the accompanying voices. The text is designed to create the echo of the word 'Hosanna', but with no consonants, so that the music feels as if it comes from 'on high'.' / Choeur SATB A Cappella

John Tavener Anthems favoris pour choeur SATB présente quelques-unes des oeuvres les plus populaires de John Tavener de son catalogue remarquablement vaste et variée d'oeuvres pour choeur. Sont également inclus les belles miniatures et des hymnes radiants qui tracent une ligne au cours des ans à compter de la simplicité exquise de son cadre de William Blake L'Agneau à la voile monumentale du temple et au-delà. John Tavener a connu la gloire en 1969 lorsque son oratorio La baleine a été enregistrée sur The Beatles 'étiquette Apple. Après sa conversion à l'Eglise orthodoxe en 1977, sa musique déplacé dans le sens de la spiritualité et de l'intensité toujours plus grande. Il a marqué un succès populaire en 1989 avec la première Proms de The Protecting Veil, suivie par la production de son opéra Marie d'Egypte au Festival d'Aldeburgh.Son titre de chevalier a été annoncé dans la Liste du Millénaire de distinctions honorifiques. Plus tard, en 2000, il a fait l'objet d'un festival au South Bank Centre. Depuis lors, sa musique a adopté une approche universaliste, qui englobe de nombreuses traditions religieuses, y compris les puissantes oeuvres chorales Le voile du Temple ainsi que l'automne et de la Résurrection, Ikon d'Eros, Lament for Jerusalem, Les Beaux Noms, ses Sollemnitas de masse dans Conceptione immaculata Virginis Mariae Beatae et un ensemble Requiem dans une variété de langues, dont l'anglais, l'arabe, le grec, l'hébreu et le sanskrit ainsi que le texte plus familier en latin. En aucune manière limitée dans sa production d'oeuvres chorales, Tavener a également produit d'innombrables orchestre, soliste instrumental et pièces vocales et a collaboré à des projets de danse et de musiques de film. / Choeur Mixte (SATB)

Par ARCHER. Une ressource unique accessible et complet pour une utilisation dans les services de l'église et concerts à travers l'année liturgique. 50 Le volume de pièces SATB, tous deux accompagnés et non accompagnés, sont appropriés pour les chorales de toutes tailles et capacités. Fournit un excellent choix de pièces pour les principales fêtes nouveaux champions, accessible, et injustement négligé le répertoire couvrant toutes les périodes et les traditions, tout en évitant la musique largement disponibles ou difficiles comprend de nombreux hymnes inédits ou récemment commandé, les arrangements, et les éditions de compositeurs importants et musiciens d'église contient utiles introductions musicales et liturgiques en plus des index complet, des glossaires d'utilisations supplémentaires pour le répertoire, et des listes d'autres pièces appropriées ne figurent pas dans le livre. John Scott est né en 1956 à Wakefield dans le Yorkshire, où il était un chantre de cathédrale. En 1974, il devient chercheur d'orgue au Collège St-Jean, à Cambridge. En quittant Cambridge, il fut nommé organiste adjoint à Londres deux cathédrales anglicane St-Paul et de Southwark, devenant finalement organiste et directeur de musique de Saint-Paul en 1990. Il est maintenant directeur de musique de St Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York, et bénéficie également d'une longue carrière comme organiste de concert international. Il a été nommé Lieutenant de l'Ordre royal de Victoria (LVO) durant l'année Palmarès 2004 Nouvelle. Malcolm Archer a été instruit à l'école King Edward VII, Lytham, le Royal College of Music, et Jesus College de Cambridge, où il a été chercheur d'organes. Il a étudié l'orgue avec Ralph Downes, Gillian Weir et Nicolas Kynaston, et la composition avec Herbert Sumsion et Alan Ridout. Il est un compositeur prolifique avec plus de 200 ouvrages publiés, qui reçoivent régulièrement des spectacles sur la BBC radio et de télévision. Archer était auparavant organiste et directeur de musique à la cathédrale St Paul et est maintenant directeur de la musique chapelle à Winchester College. / Niveau : Facile à Moyennement Difficile / Recueil / Chant

Par KNORR IWAN. Dans les Ukrainian Love Songs d'Ivan Knorr, le chant à quatre voix avec piano correspondent aux Liebeslieder-Walzern op. 65 de Johannes Brahms. On peut les comparer en termes de qualité de composition. Inspiré par la tradition des Cosaques ukrainiens, ce cycle en neuf parties séduit par la combinaison attrayante de voix dirigées par des paroles lyriques et romantiques et par un accompagnement au piano virtuose et fougueux. Les textes parlent d'amour passionné, de guerriers héroïques et d'attentes anxieuses. - pour choeurs de toute taille ou quatuor vocal - première édition moderne basée sur la première édition de 1890 - avec une préface de Jochen Stankewitz, chef de choeur allemand, professeur et animateur d'ateliers - avec les textes en allemand et en anglais/ Répertoire / SATB et Piano

An early fragment of this song appeared in Mike Nichols' 1967 hit film The Graduate. The following year the song was included in its finished form on Simon and Garfunkel's album Bookends.Despite Simon's intention to make it a tribute to traditional American heroes, it had already become synonymous with Anne Bancroft's married seductress of the film. Arranged by Jeremy Birchall for SATB choir with Piano accompaniment. / SATB

Kikapust. Par TRADITIONNEL. The Salley Gardens is a traditional Irish song, which has been arranged here for SATB chorus a cappella by Ben Parry. The Kikapust Choral Series offers choirs an extensive choice of close-harmony a cappella arrangements. All of our arrangers / composers – Jonathan Rathbone, Ben Parry & Mark Williams – were long-standing members ofthe Swingle Singers. / Niveau : Assez Facile / Ben Parry / Feuillet / A Cappella

The Long And Winding Road is one of the most popular ballads of The Beatles' late-period. A melancholic song written by Paul McCartney and inspired by the growing tensions within the group, it's a dramatic track that creates a sense of emotional drama by modulating between minor and major keys. This new choral arrangement for SATB choir with piano accompaniment by Simon Foxley is an intriguing proposition for ensembles with its non-traditional chorus and ambiguous yet emotive melodies and lyrics. / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Piano

The original version of this setting of the well-known traditional English folk song was completed in 1974, and was commissioned by Rachel McMillan College of Education (where Gregson was a lecturer at the time) for its Music Department Choir (female voices). It then had the somewhat unusual instrumentation of spinet, flute and string quartet.In 2017 Gregson was asked to revise it for performance and publication in a new version for upper voices and piano. Arranged for SATB with Piano accompaniment. / SATB

With likely origins in the southern China provinces, the soothing pentatonic melody of this traditional folk song is reminiscent of the simple beauty of a white jasmine blossom. This lovely choral setting, layered with independent voice lines, is effective with the shimmering piano accompaniment or the optional string orchestra parts. / Choeur Mixte (SATB)

text from Christmas Poem by George Mackay Brown. Par DAVIES PETER MAXWELL. As Master of the Queens Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has written a new carol for Her Majesty the Queen each Christmas since his appointment began in 2004. Kings and Shepherds is the fourth and like An Heavenly Song, Wonder Tidings and The Yule-tide Bell, will be published as part of the Schott Royal Collection. Written for the 2008 Christmas service and performed in the Ballroom of Buckingham Palace, Kings and Shepherds is a short traditional setting of Christmas Poem by George Mackey Brown, a poet who lived near to Maxwell Davies on the Orkney Islands. A wonderful addition to the carol repertoire and ideal for amateur choirs looking to programme new pieces./ Recueil / Choeur Mixte SATB