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2 Pianos, 4 hands
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7
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Myriad Flowers of Spring (Downloadable)
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Baritone voice, Piano
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John Conahan
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Myriad Flowers of Spring
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E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital
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SheetMusicPlus
Baritone voice and piano - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8824-6E Composed by John Conahan. Instrument part. 7 pages. E. C. Schirmer Mus...
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Baritone voice and piano - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8824-6E Composed by John Conahan. Instrument part. 7 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8824-6E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8824-6E). English.John Conahan's art songs are unique expressions that enable us to understand and explore many things simultaneously. In this collection, you will find settings of texts that speak genuinely to express our shared thoughts and questions, expressing in song why a particular poet’s work may mirror our own tragedies and triumphs.Contents:The Warm Deeps of the Sky:
$5.00
Jump Right In! (Downloadable)
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Baritone voice, Piano
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Gospel/Spiritual
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Gwyneth W
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Jump Right In!
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E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital
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Baritone voice and piano - Moderately Easy - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8826-3E Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. African American Heritage. 6 pages. E. C. Sc...
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Baritone voice and piano - Moderately Easy - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8826-3E Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. African American Heritage. 6 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8826-3E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8826-3E). English.I’ve Known Rivers is a multi-movement work, comprised of songs based on four different poems by Langston Hughes (1902–1967). Though he lived much of his life in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, Hughes was born in Missouri and raised in Kansas, Illinois, and Ohio. At age seventeen, he traveled to Mexico to live with his estranged father. As he crossed the Mississippi River, he was inspired to write The Negro Speaks of Rivers, which begins “I’ve known rivers….,†and is the text for the first movement, “My Soul Has Grown Deep.†It reflects upon rivers of historic and geographical importance—the Euphrates, Congo, Nile, and Mississippi. As the rivers have endured over time, so has the human soul. The waters—the blood—runs deep.In contrast to the universal message of the first song, “Troubled Water,†which uses the poetry of the same title, is contemporary and personal. Water becomes an image of the unsettled and uncertain nature of love. The journey of love is a journey of troubled water. There is no resolution.Undaunted by the elusive nature of love, the poet, heard via the chorus, turns flippant, displaying a persevering and humorous outlook in “Jump Right In!†(to the river) from Hughes’ poem Life is Fine. Romantic misadventures will not conquer the spirit. “I could’ve died for love, but for livin’ I was born.â€â€œIn time of silver rain,†once more using the poem of the same title, is a song of healing. With the regeneration of spring, the poet marvels at the wonder of life.Though intended to be performed as the complete multi-movement work I’ve Known Rivers, each song may be performed separately. Duration: 12:00.Contents:My Soul has Grown DeepTroubled WaterJump Right In!In Time of Silver Rain.
$4.00
My Soul has Grown Deep (Downloadable)
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Baritone voice, Piano
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Gospel/Spiritual
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Gwyneth W
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My Soul has Grown Deep
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E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital
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Baritone voice and piano - Moderately Easy - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8826-1E Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. African American Heritage. 6 pages. E. C. Sc...
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Baritone voice and piano - Moderately Easy - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8826-1E Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. African American Heritage. 6 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8826-1E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8826-1E). English.I’ve Known Rivers is a multi-movement work, comprised of songs based on four different poems by Langston Hughes (1902–1967). Though he lived much of his life in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, Hughes was born in Missouri and raised in Kansas, Illinois, and Ohio. At age seventeen, he traveled to Mexico to live with his estranged father. As he crossed the Mississippi River, he was inspired to write The Negro Speaks of Rivers, which begins “I’ve known rivers….,†and is the text for the first movement, “My Soul Has Grown Deep.†It reflects upon rivers of historic and geographical importance—the Euphrates, Congo, Nile, and Mississippi. As the rivers have endured over time, so has the human soul. The waters—the blood—runs deep.In contrast to the universal message of the first song, “Troubled Water,†which uses the poetry of the same title, is contemporary and personal. Water becomes an image of the unsettled and uncertain nature of love. The journey of love is a journey of troubled water. There is no resolution.Undaunted by the elusive nature of love, the poet, heard via the chorus, turns flippant, displaying a persevering and humorous outlook in “Jump Right In!†(to the river) from Hughes’ poem Life is Fine. Romantic misadventures will not conquer the spirit. “I could’ve died for love, but for livin’ I was born.â€â€œIn time of silver rain,†once more using the poem of the same title, is a song of healing. With the regeneration of spring, the poet marvels at the wonder of life.Though intended to be performed as the complete multi-movement work I’ve Known Rivers, each song may be performed separately. Duration: 12:00.Contents:My Soul has Grown DeepTroubled WaterJump Right In!In Time of Silver Rain.
$4.00
The Little Vagabond, poem by William Blake
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Baritone voice, Piano
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INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED
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Mary Ann Joyce
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The Little Vagabond, poem by W
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Mary Ann Joyce-Walter
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Baritone Horn TC,Vocal Solo,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.989219 Composed by Mary Ann Joyce. 20th Century,Contemporary. 6 pages. Mary Ann Jo...
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Baritone Horn TC,Vocal Solo,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.989219 Composed by Mary Ann Joyce. 20th Century,Contemporary. 6 pages. Mary Ann Joyce-Walter #6203609. Published by Mary Ann Joyce-Walter (A0.989219). The Little Vagabond is from Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience. However, this poem was considered to be to subversive of authority and was omitted. The vagabond child tells his mother that he'd rather be in a warm ale-house, not a cold church. He suggests that ale be served in church: The Parson might drink & preach & sing, and the parishoners would be warm and happy as birds in the spring. The music is as playful as the poem!
$4.99
Angels
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Baritone voice, Piano
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INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED
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Larry A
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Angels
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Larry A. Schacher
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SheetMusicPlus
Baritone Horn TC,Vocal Solo,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1003858 Composed by Larry A. Schacher. Christian. 8 pages. Larry A. Schacher #3106...
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Baritone Horn TC,Vocal Solo,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1003858 Composed by Larry A. Schacher. Christian. 8 pages. Larry A. Schacher #3106839. Published by Larry A. Schacher (A0.1003858). 2017 Choral Contest entry. A sweet lullaby for children of all ages. Tinkling piano,and soaring vocal line, with beautiful lyrics. Performing rights: August Wine Publishing,B.M.I.Larry Schacher on FacebookLarry Schacher is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, arranger and composer. Larry is fluent on piano, sax, clarinet, flute, guitar and bass. While in college, Larry also learned the violin, viola, trumpet, trombone, and bassoon.Larry taught public school music, and gifted classes in music for high schoolers at Eastern Oregon University, and Montana State; Larry also taught adult classical and folk guitar classes at Mt. Hood Community College. Larry also developed a rock and roll boot camp for middle schoolers that ran for several years during spring breaks at the Overlake School in Redmond, Wa. Larry was commissioned to to write the Overlake School anthem. Larry’s students have earned scholarships to the Berkeley School of music; attended the Thornton School of music; New York University and many others. Larry is a recording studio musician and besides the 5 albums he has published on CDbaby, he has appeared on many other albums, produced jingles for commercials that received air play in the Seattle market, and was the pianist for a syndicated gospel TV show. Larry has performed from Hawaii to New York city. One of Larry’s fondest memories is writing and conducting an arrangement of our national anthem that was sung by Seattle Opera at a Sonics/Sun basketball game. https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/larryschacher2http://fandalism.com/mystro1020
$5.00
Troubled Water (Downloadable)
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Baritone voice, Piano
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EASY
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Gospel/Spiritual
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Gwyneth W
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Troubled Water
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E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital
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SheetMusicPlus
Baritone voice and piano - Moderately Easy - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8826-2E Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. African American Heritage. 5 pages. E. C. Sc...
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Baritone voice and piano - Moderately Easy - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8826-2E Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. African American Heritage. 5 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8826-2E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8826-2E). English.I’ve Known Rivers is a multi-movement work, comprised of songs based on four different poems by Langston Hughes (1902–1967). Though he lived much of his life in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, Hughes was born in Missouri and raised in Kansas, Illinois, and Ohio. At age seventeen, he traveled to Mexico to live with his estranged father. As he crossed the Mississippi River, he was inspired to write The Negro Speaks of Rivers, which begins “I’ve known rivers….,†and is the text for the first movement, “My Soul Has Grown Deep.†It reflects upon rivers of historic and geographical importance—the Euphrates, Congo, Nile, and Mississippi. As the rivers have endured over time, so has the human soul. The waters—the blood—runs deep.In contrast to the universal message of the first song, “Troubled Water,†which uses the poetry of the same title, is contemporary and personal. Water becomes an image of the unsettled and uncertain nature of love. The journey of love is a journey of troubled water. There is no resolution.Undaunted by the elusive nature of love, the poet, heard via the chorus, turns flippant, displaying a persevering and humorous outlook in “Jump Right In!†(to the river) from Hughes’ poem Life is Fine. Romantic misadventures will not conquer the spirit. “I could’ve died for love, but for livin’ I was born.â€â€œIn time of silver rain,†once more using the poem of the same title, is a song of healing. With the regeneration of spring, the poet marvels at the wonder of life.Though intended to be performed as the complete multi-movement work I’ve Known Rivers, each song may be performed separately. Duration: 12:00.Contents:My Soul has Grown DeepTroubled WaterJump Right In!In Time of Silver Rain.
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