SKU: HL.44007692
UPC: 884088310486. 9x12 inches.
What a great energetic way to open your Christmas concert and bring focus to the joyful sounds of the season! Themes from Spain, Czechoslovakia, Poland, England and France lead us on a delightful Christmas tour, and James Curnow's outstanding orchestration technique ensures that all the musicians have rewarding parts to play. You'll enjoy the melodic twists and turns as the consistent unifying tempo charges implacably toward the exciting finale. (Grade 4).
SKU: AP.28697
UPC: 038081312415. English.
A rhythmic piano ostinato grows into an exciting choral celebration for the changing seasons of the year. Modal harmonies and accented rhythms contribute to the contemporary sounds of this joyful fanfare and tribute to nature. Program with other Andy Beck seasons songs to create a choral song cycle.
About Alfred Choral Designs
The Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.
SKU: HL.49047080
ISBN 9783795757755. UPC: 841886004733.
The Christmas Choirbook is a collection of up-to-date, colorful arrangements of 22 Christmas songs from throughout the world. Among classics, dressed in new harmonic sounds, you will enjoy jazz and pop intonations, as well as gospel renditions of Go Tell It and Joyful. The skandinavien Christmas songs are particularly special: contemplative and musical, even droll as in the story about the Christmas troll in the finnish Tomtarnass Julnatt. The Christmas Choirbook offers many stylistic choices for the Christmas and Advent season choir music, so let the available CD (ED9896-50) inspire you in the joyful singing of these pieces. Of course the recordings, meant only as a first and hopefully appealing impression, represent only a few of the many possible interpretations you will bring to the arrangements. Full verses were intentionally not recorded, although we did overlay simple instrumental accompaniments to the a cappella movements.In addition, the CD includes pure choire versions as well as some sing-a-longs, i.e. instrumental tracks for you to use as half-playback.
SKU: WD.080689611179
UPC: 080689611179.
The Very SimplyWord Series from Word Music & Church Resources once again brings you a seasonal musical both festive and worshipful, designed especially for Unison/Optional 2-Part Choirs. HERE WE COME a’CAROLING is the newest offering in this best-selling series, designed to make your choir’s Christmas musical a rousing success with its combination of dynamic song selection, “sounds-bigger-than-life” accompaniment tracks, and hallmark Easy-Learn, Easy-Sing vocal format, for which the Very SimplyWord Series is so well known.
Each year as December rolls around, one of the first reminders that Christmastime is upon us is the music that fills the air! We can’t help but join in as we sing songs of the season – songs that inspire the joy and spirit of Christmas, songs that will lead your choir and congregation in worship of the King – giving voice to the wonder surrounding the story of the birth of Christ.
Some songs take us back to the simple joys of childhood, others share the timeless truths of that first Christmas night. HERE WE COME a’CAROLING introduces inspiring new songs, such as the title song and the Gospel-flavored “Joyful, Wonderful News!”, along with popular Christian radio songs of the season, like Chris Tomlin’s “It’s Christmas.” And of course, with a title like HERE WE COME a’CAROLING, you just know there’s going to be plenty of opportunity to sing along with some of your favorite carols!
SKU: SU.32040080
6 tpts, 6 hns, 6 tbns, 2 euph, 2 tba, organ, timpani Duration: 3'30 Composed: 2014 Published by: Amy Mills Music, LLC Great as an opener or closer, the exuberant Festive Joy! opens with antiphonal brass ensembles playing the sounds of cathedral bells joyfully ringing in the Christmas season. Later, the organ takes over with a middle eastern style melody inspired by the land of Christ’s birth. Finally, the two musical styles embrace in a joyful, festive dance celebrating the birth of the King of Kings….huge ending! Works in a cathedral or in a concert hall. Appropriate for any joyful occasion! Difficulty Level: 4 (Advanced) See composer website for audio sample.
