All Around A Cappella

A unique guide to teaching unaccompanied singing!Gitika Partington's a cappella arrangements are used by youth and community choirs around the world.Gitika believes in the sensational power of group singing bringing people together to express joy and celebration through song. Not being able to read music is no obstacle and Gitika's tips and the original arrangements included here demonstrate just how rewarding and inclusive teaching a cappella by ear and gesture can be!Gitika Partington is a singer/songwriter vocal arranger teacher and choral director. She has an MA in choral education and holds many other musical qualifications. Sheruns regular 'popular and world style' singing workshops as well as national training sessions for adults and children. In addition she runs three adult community choirs where all the music is learned by ear and is mostly self arranged.One of Gitika's major loves is a cappella vocal arranging which she does for her three choirs and her vocal workshops. Her arrangements are used by youth and community choirs across the UK and internationally. This book contains the first of many of her arrangements she would like to share even more widely.She is a member of the Natural Voice Practitioner Network an organisation that believes in singing as a spontaneous way of expressing joy celebration and grief and as a medium for binding communities together. Gitika shares the network's belief that singing together should be available to all and is not about having 'a good voice'. All of her groups are non-audition and open to anyone who wants to sing.

for Pop and Jazz Choirs. What choral conductor or soloist has not looked around for new ideas for warming up the voice' Here are over 39 creative exercises which do more than just warm up the voice: they help to relax the body, train the ear and develop an awareness of dynamics and rhythm. Two top authors, Deke Sharon and J.D. Frizzell, have provided a wide array of warm ups specifically designed for pop and jazz choirs but these warm ups will work well for contemporary a cappella groups of all sizes and styles. Every vocal ensemble has its strengths and weaknesses which vary from year to year. The warmups within can to help polish your weak spots and hone your strengths. Regardless of your group_x001A_s strengths, this book is can help you address the full range of skills required for great musicmaking. Topics include: Rhythm, Syllables, Tone, Intervals, Dynamics, Intonation, Blend, Balance, Pitch, Improvisation, Solo Techniques, and Vocal Percussion.

for mixed voices a capella. Par BRYARS GAVIN. Laude' were short mediaeval devotional songs to the Virgin Mary, and Gavin Bryars has kept to the pure, lyrical style of the originals. Following the successful publication of Bryars' first volume of laude which singers around the world have added to their repertoire, this second volume for various combinations of a cappella voices provides new opportunities for performers and audiences to experience these devastatingly beautiful works. / Date parution : 2009-11-20/ Répertoire / Voix Mixtes a Cappella

Masterpiece was written by British composer conductor pianist and teacher Paul Drayton and sung by the King's Singers in their 2005 DVD release 'From Byrd to the Beatles'. Arranged here for SATB Voices with Piano accompaniment.The King's Singers are a British a cappella vocal ensemble founded in 1968. They are named after King's College in Cambridge England where the group was formed by six choral scholars. In the United Kingdom their popularity peaked in the 1970s and early 1980s. Thereafter they began to reach a wider international audience. Today the ensemble travels worldwide for itsperformances appearing in around 125 concerts each year mostly in Europe the U.S. and the Far East.

A thrilling setting of English, Basque and Latin texts that proclaim the joy of singing to God. Already much-loved around the world from various performances at the 2011 World Choral Symposium and the 2013 Tolosa International Choral Festival / Choeur SATB A Cappella

With both an English and a Swedish text, this simple tune and comforting text are perfect for general church services or the concert stage. The melody is passed around from one voice part to another but the part writing is deliberately simple, with no divisi except at the very end. / Choeur SATB A Cappella

POD-The Lamb is a work by Julian Marshall for Unaccompanied SATB Choir. A setting of a William Blake poem from 'Songs of Innocence' this work lasts around 3 minutes.

Paul Mealor's Behold A Tender Babe is a work for Unaccompanied SATB Choir commissioned by the Hauser-Oberschneider family to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Summer Fields School. The work sets extracts from Robert Southwell's 'In Freezing Winter Night' and lasts around 4 minutes. A review in the September 2016 issue of Organist's Review states that the 'music responds sensitively and dramatically to the lines of the lyric it chooses to set rising triumphantly at the words 'with joy approach' before gently falling away as it repeatedly insists 'behold a tender babe'.' No less difficult but also no less rewarding is PaulMealor’s Behold a tender babe written a year earlier. But it is carefully written so that the difficulties are manageable. The two places where sopranos have a top C are the only points where sopranos divide so only the first sopranos ascend there. The music follows the details of the words with drama at ‘do homage to thy King’ and then falling away most beautifully to ‘behold a babe’. - Julian Elloway

Weep You No More Sad Fountains is Clarke's adaptation of a song she composed around 1912 based on words from John Dowland's Third Book Of Songs. It is arranged for SATB unaccompanied.

The Holly And The Ivy is a work by Julian Marshall for Unaccompanied SATB Choir. A setting of the traditional poem a performance lasts around 2 and a half minutes. 'Not an arrangement but a newly composed tune to familiar words this is fun. With its jazzy rhythms and blue notes choirs and audiences will enjoy this setting – but in order for it to sound effortless and natural much preparation will need to be given to the details not least the chromaticism starting in the first bar!' 'Sunday By Sunday' December 2017

Solus Ad Victimam is a work by John Joubert for Unaccompanied SSATBB Choir written for the Elizabethan Singers. The work sets text by medieval philosopher Peter Abelard and lasts around 10 minutes.

My Lord Is Alone is a work for Unaccompanied SATB choir with words and music by composer Jonathan Wikeley. It was first performed by the Choir of All Saints Church in Fulham and it lasts around 4 minutes.A review in the June 2016 edition of Organist's Review states that 'the harmonies for the verses are largely straightforward and consonant but the refrain introduces atmospheric dissonance.'

A Thing Of Beauty is a work by Julian Marshall for Unaccompanied SATB Choir. A setting of an extract from a poem by John Keats a full performance of this work lasts around 3 minutes.

Paperback-for SATB unaccompanied This expressive anthem is set to an unusual Zachariah text revealing the celebratory vision of the new Jerusalem. Centred around a strong flowing melody and punctuated with many glorious moments choirs will find this a highly approachable and rewarding anthem.