I Believe SATB

SATB-'When one by one we stand up and believe we can be children of peace' - based on a simple Swahili text this African-style original work will have an amazing effect on all who hear or sing. An excellent work for many types of choirs. Also available for SAB 2-Part and ShowTrax CD. Performance Time: Approx. 3:40.

Stuart Nicholson's arrangement of this well known 16th Century French tune with the traditional lyrics from George Ratcliffe Woodward.'Finally a new and vibrant arrangement of Ding Dong! Merrily on High!... Nicholson crosses off-beat rhythms a tonic pedal point and a florid accompaniment providing what I believe to be an inspired arrangement.' - David Hill Choir & Organ

An anthem for Passiontide written by Chapel Royal composer John Goss for full SATB chorus and Organ accompaniment. The piece moves with slow interweaving counterpoint and the text is perfect for the Easter and Ascension celebrations.

A Choral Cycle. Par CHASE DAVID. Perfect for International Women's Month performances! Washington Women is a collection of musical settings of speeches opinions and interviews of sixteen remarkable women from all across the political spectrum and throughout U.S. history from Abigail Adams to Kamala Harris. The composers took their words and set them to music with the hopes that performers and their audiences will learn more about these women and discover why they spoke those words when they did. Women featured include: Abigail Adams Madeleine Albright Barbara Bush Laura Bush Shirley Chisholm Hillary Rodham Clinton Betty Ford Ruth Bader Ginsburg Kamala Harris Elena Kagan Sandra Day O'Connor Michelle Obama Nancy Pelosi Condoleeza Rice Eleanor Roosevelt and Margaret Chase Smith. / Date parution : 2023-01-24/ Recueil / Choeur Mixte SATB

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 King And Country is part of a larger work entitled 'The Angel Of Mons' by composer Patrick Hawes dedicated to the memory of the British soldiers who Hawes believes witnessed an 'angel' during a battle in World War One. This is the Vocal Score arranged for SATB Chorus and Piano Accompaniment. This piece with a libretto by his brother Andrew Hawes was premiered in the latter's own church on the centenary of the date the 'angel' sighting was said to have occurred.  The inspiration comes from a mythical story around the Battle of Mons during World War One where a group ofsoldiers supposedly received divine help from 'angels'. The story arose from a fictional short story by a writer that came to be known as fact despite the author's desperate please otherwise. The music itself is beautiful perfectly capturing the crisis of conscience and cognitive dissonance that the soldiers must have experienced being told that they were fighting for King and country yet at the same time being terrified of their own lives. 

The question of authorship of this short St John Passion is somewhat vexed. Clearly the eminent Walford Davies was convinced of its authorship in writing the Foreword as was J Michael Diack in applying himself to editing it cutting out several movements that had appeared in the German version and adding others from other works of Handel. The 19th century musicologist Friedrich Chrysander believed in its authenticity as it was he who prepared the German edition.However most modern musicologists regard its attribution to Handel as spurious and are in general agreement that its composer is unknown.The St John Passion here is in early 18th century northern Germany churchstyle reverent sensitive and clearly the work of a gifted composer. It is also the first known example of a passion that was written in German though this edition is presented in English.

Spiritual from Suite for Chorus Op. 69 No. 1-This setting is new music to the words of an old spiritual. Believed to come from the Gullah language of the South Carolina sea islands this setting explores the rhythmic possibilities of the words and the striking musicalqualities of the consonants and vowels. Performance time: approx. 3:00.

Over the years, the need for a new edition of Mahler's Symphony #2 became apparent for several reasons. First, many new sources for this work have become accessible since 1970, when Erwin Ratz completed the first critical edition of this symphony, the most significant being Mahler's personal reference score in which he recorded changes to be made (his last entries were made in September 1910). The second reason was the significant strengthening of the editorial standards of the critical edition in recent years. The music is now computer-generated. Previously, changes to the score could be made only by retouching the film of old engravings. Computerizationalso ensures a concurrence between the score and performance materials. Editorially, the new edition benefits from expanded texts that describe and assess the source materials, document and explain the editors' decisions and provide detailed information on the work's origin, the history of the published scores, performance practices, etc. Over the past five years, Renare Stark-Voit and Gilbert Kaplan, editors of the new edition of Symphony #2, have identified, evaluated and analyzed every significant source, and as a result of their work a substantial number of errors have been corrected. (Reinhold Kubik, taken from the preliminary note) Oh believe, my heart, oh believe:Nothing is lost with thee!Thine is what thou hast desired,What thou hast loved, what thou hast fought for!(Gustav Mahler in the Finale of Symphony #2) / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Piano

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

Celtiques est un ensemble de dix arrangements de mélodies traditionnelles bretonnes ou irlandaises pour choeur mixte et piano,L'écriture varie les orchestrations (voix solistes, double choeur, choeur de femmes) et mêle les langages jazz et traditionnel dans un kaleïdoscope de couleurs musicales,Il existe une version pour choeur et orchestre de cette oeuvre rassemblant trio jazz (contrebasse, batterie, piano) et instruments traditionnels : uillean pipe, violon, whistle, flüte, guitare DADGAD 1, An hini a garan (5') : Complainte : celui que j'aime, je l'ai perdu à jamais,2, Ar Baradoz (3') : Cantique : le bonheur du Paradis,3, Believe me if all those endearing young charms (4'30'') Rien n'altère les sentiments du poète Thomas Moore envers sa femme atteinte d'une maladie de peau,4, Fiddlers green (5') : Le paradis des marins,5, Finnigan's wake (2'30'') : Réveil du défunt lors d'une veillée funèbre bien arrosée,6, Johnny I hardly knew ye (3') : La bien-aimée est fâchée de constater que son homme perd à la guerre son bras, son oeil, sa jambe,,,7, Me zo ur Serjant Major (2'30) : Kan a diskan (Chant à danser) pour le retour de l'armée du sergeant-Major,8, My singing bird (3') : Elle aimerait bien tenir un petit oiseau entre ses deux seins,9, The Kerry dances (4'30'') : Dans le bon temps jadis, c'était mieux,10, Tri martolod (3'50'') : Après la mer, nous nous marierons et vivrons d'amour / Jazz