God Gave a Song

The Vocal Library High Voice-Concert arrangements for voice and piano in an art song style of 35 great folksongs from the American heritage. These interesting and expressive settings are appropriate for collegiate recitals or advanced high school singers ascontest solos. The songs range from comic to sad from rowdy to inspirational and there are selections appropriate for women and men singers. The collection is primarily comprised of secular folksongs with a few sacred Americanfolk tunes. The same songs appear transposed in the editions for High Voice and Low Voice. There are three bonus duets. Includes fresh arrangements of ?Amazing Grace ? ?Black Is the Color of My True Love'sHair ? ?The Cruel War Is Raging ? ?How Can I Keep from Singing? ? ?I Gave My Love a Cherry ? ?Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier ? ?Shenandoah ? ?Soldier Soldier Will You Marry Me ? ?The Streets of Laredo ? ?Wayfaring Stranger ? ?Wondrous Love? and more.

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The Vocal Library Low Voice-The Vocal Library Low Voice. Concert arrangements for voice and piano in an art song style of 35 great folksongs from the American heritage. These interesting and expressive settings are appropriate for collegiate recitals or advanced high school singers as contest solos. The songs range from comic to sad from rowdy to inspirational and there are selections appropriate for women and men singers. The collection is primarily comprised of secular folksongs with a few sacred American folk tunes. The same songs appear transposed in the editions for High Voice and Low Voice. There are three bonus duets included. Includes fresh arrangements of Amazing Grace Black Is theColor of My True Love's Hair The Cruel War Is Raging How Can I Keep from Singing? I Gave My Love a Cherry Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier Shenandoah Soldier Soldier Will You Marry Me The Streets of Laredo Wayfaring Stranger Wondrous Love and more.

This collection for progressing students includes art songs as well as arrangements of folksongs and spirituals. ART SONGS Anonymous: Pastime with good company · Campian: Jack and Joan · Dowland: Come again sweet love · Dowland: What if I never speed · Gibbons: The Silver Swan · Ireland: Spring Sorrow · Lawes: How happy art thou · Morley: It was a lover and his lass · Morley: Now is the month of Maying · Purcell: I attempt from love's sickness · Purcell: Nymphs and Shepherds · Quilter: Weep you no more · Vaughan Williams: The Call · Vaughan Williams: Bright is the ring of words · FOLKSONGS/SPIRITUALS All Through the Night (arr. Nicholl) · The Gospel Train (Walters) · Greensleeves(arr. Stanley) · He's Got the Whole World in His Hands (arr. Boyd) · How Can I Keep from Singing (arr. Ruck) · I gave my love a cherry (arr. Dean) · Jacob's Ladder (arr. Walters) · My Lord What a Mornin' (arr. Burleigh) · Shenandoah (arr. Walters) · Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (arr. Walters) · This Little Light of Mine (arr. Ruck).

Contains 14 folk favourites including Bill Grogan's Goat The Cruel War Is Raging How Can I Keep from Singing I Gave My Love a Cherry (The Riddle Song) Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier Nine Hundred Miles Shenandoah The Streets of Laredo When Johnny Comes Marching Home and more. Includes two CDs with full performances and accompaniment tracks notes on each piece by the arranger and performer biographies. Great for recitals!

Trombone parts edited and recorded by Canadian Brass virtuoso Eugene Watts piano parts recorded by Bill Casey. Arrangements by Bill Boyd. Companion CD includes full performances and accompaniments. Contents: Amazing Grace · Canadian Brass Blues · Carnival of Venice · The Cruel War is Raging · Doxology · Finlandia · Give My Regards to Broadway · I Gave My Love a Cherry (The Riddle Song) · Just a Closer Walk with Thee · Marine's Hymn · My Country 'Tis of Thee (America) · Ode to Joy · The Skaters (Waltz) · Streets of Laredo · Take Me Out to the Ball Game · Volga Boat Song · Yankee Doodle.

The unprecedented commercial success of the CD of Henryk Miko aj Góreckis Third Symphony in 1991 fifteen years after the date of its composition not only drew the Polish composer to the worlds attention arousing interest in his earlier works but also gave rise to a discussion about the state of culture in what might be described as a decadent period. So was the Third Symphony ahead of its time? Was it justifiable to regard the work as an end-of-the-seventies piece of aesthetical provocation? Should the wilful confusion of high and low aesthetic orders be considered a symbol of the end of post-Enlightenment utopia when the idea of progress in all fields including art constituted the fundamental criterion for evaluation? Attempts to answer these questions have given rise to a certain intellectual confusion leading occasionally to the advancing of false theses such as the attribution of Góreckis compositional output to the New Age spiritual landscape or the comparison of his compositional procedures with those of American minimalist composers. In fact the Third Symphony Symphony of Sorrowful Songs reflects both the composers individual exploration of technique and his attempt to determine his own Christian spiritual identity. The composition is a new manifestation of the sonoristic reductionism technique and the idea of simple music in line with Krzysztof Drobas designation of these phenomena according to which all details and modifications of tone colour are significant. By conferring on the three movements of the composition a form of mystery which negated a rational sense of time and made the work dissolve in a seemingly infinite continuum the composer managed to bring the Symphony within the sphere of folk ceremonial tradition. Anguish the principal theme of the composition presented here through both the mothers suffering after her sons death and the image of a woman prisoner in a Gestapo prison makes real sense only in the light of faith and the drama of Golgotha. Góreckis Third Symphony Symphony of Sorrowful Songs for soprano solo and orchestra dedicated to the composers wife was written in 1976. Commissioned by Südwestfunk in Baden-Baden it was premiered on 4 April 1977 during the 14th International Festival of Contemporary Art in Royan with Stefania Woytowicz as soloist. The same singer has made several recordings of the composition with different orchestras. The CD with Dawn Upshaw as soloist and the London Sinfonietta conducted by David Zinman won a Golden Disc award in 1991. The first movements outer sections (Lento sostenuto tranquillo ma cantabile) consist of an austere ten-part canon on strings. Its Aeolian theme was derived from a Kurpian song notated in Rev. Father W adys aw Skierkowskis collection. The canon is characterized by continual repetition of the theme (and its counterpoint) all its answers being tonal and thus not going beyond the notes of the scale. In this way a vibrating sound magma

Praise and worship leader Don Moen gave us this song a few years ago and Cliff Duren has put into a new and fresh setting for our time. Available separately: SATB ChoirTrax CD. Score and parts (fl 1-2 ob cl 1-2 tpt 1-3 hn tbn 1-2 tbn 3/tba perc rhythm vn 1-2 va vc db) available as a CD-ROM and as a digital download. Duration: ca. 6:00.

Hawaii gave the world the Ukulele - a craze that eventually spread from the West Coast of the USA all over the world. This selection of songs arranged for the heroic little four-stringed instrument spans authenticHawaiian compositions like Aloha Oe and Hi'ilawe through cheerful pastiches like Everybody Does It In Hawaii and Sweet Leilani to Israel Kamakawiwo'ole’s inspired Hawaiian treatments ofOver The Rainbow and What A Wonderful World proving that any style of song sounds good played on a Uke.

Strawberry Fields Forever was John Lennon’s homage to the garden of a Salvation Army children’s home in Liverpool. It gave The Beatles a psychedelic hit in 1967. The name was eventually adopted for a small memorial garden on the West Side of New York’s Central Park opposite Lennon’s final address The Dakota apartment building. Here this evocative song is arranged for SATB with piano accompaniment by Jeremy Birchall.

For unaccompanied choir SAATTBB.This work was commissioned by Jonathan Manners and DeChorum who gave the first performance at the Cancer Research UK Carol Service at All Saints Church Weston-super-Mare on 20th December2010.Words by William Blake. John Tavener - A Cradle Song by musicroom

a Christmas carol-Sweet was the Song is a traditional English carol dating from the 16th century depicting the Virgin Mary singing a lullaby to the new-born Jesus. This setting for mixed voices (no divisi) and organ reflects the text with gentle rocking phrases static harmonies and a simple melodic line. The music is coloured by soft dissonances conveying a sense of mystery and uncertainty.This piece is taken from a larger work An Old Belief which deals with the subject of religious faith in times of crisis. It was commissioned by Alan Brookes for Twickenham Choral Society who gave the first performance in March 2013 conducted by Christopher Herrick.