SKU: HL.322944

ISBN 9781540070111. UPC: 888680977009. 9.0x12.0x0.165 inches.

If you've been taking Glockenspiel lessons for a while, you're probably eager to learn some familiar songs. The First 50 Songs You Should Play on the Bells/Glockenspiel includes a wide variety of favorite songs, from pop hits and movie themes to folk songs and classical melodies, several of which originally featured bells! Songs include: All of Me • All You Need Is Love • Canon in D • Carnival of Venice • Fight Song • The Fool on the Hill • God Bless America® • The Godfather (Love Theme) • Hallelujah • Happy • Hello • I Will Always Love You • Just Give Me a Reason • Let It Go • Pure Imagination • Roar • Rolling in the Deep • Satin Doll • Shake It Off • Shallow • Stand by Me • Stay with Me • This Is Me • Ukranian Bell Carol • What a Wonderful World • and more.

About First 50

You've been taking lessons, you've got a few chords under your belt, and you're ready to buy a songbook. Now what? Hal Leonard has the answers in its First 50 series. The First 50 series steers new players in the right direction. These books contain easy to intermediate arrangements for must-know songs. Each arrangement is simple and streamlined, yet still captures the essence of the tune.

SKU: HL.402077

ISBN 9781705160084. UPC: 196288056829. 9.0x12.0x0.276 inches.

The Right of Your Senses is a set of nine songs for children's voices, solo soprano, and orchestra written for the National Children's Chorus, American Youth Symphony and Los Angeles Philharmonic Association. The texts are primarily 17th-century, by Thomas Traherne and George Herbert, but two of them come from the 11th-century Enchiridion by Byrhtferth. The overarching theme is the story of creation, but not just the list of objects created: the texts deal with the emotional resonances of the sun, the sea, the air, and the moon with all their mysterious, bright, and dark potential. There is a recurring gesture in the strings, introduced at the very top: a simple descending pattern which binds many of the movements together, even when hidden in the more tumultuous sections. The first two movements are bright, whereas the middle three movements are violent and deal with the angrier natural elements. The seventh movement is the most abstract and playful, and here a direct nod to Benjamin Britten's A Ceremony of Carols, with a fast three-part canon depicting the behavior of the atom. The eighth movement, Night, is the slowest, and depicts the night sky. The final movement is calm, and encourages us: Be faithful in a little, and you shall be master over much. The piece ends with five strokes of high bells. x Nico Muhly.