Just One Small Voice

Discovery Level 2-Let every voice be heard with this original ballad that shows the power that our combined voices can achieve! Opening with an optional solo and a simple message the song gradually builds to a fully harmonized refrain. Anexcellent selection for younger choirs as a concert closer or mass choir finale. Available separately: 3-Part Mixed 2-Part VoiceTrax CD. Duration: ca. 3:40.

A mesmerising collection of songs by English composer Sir C. Hubert H. Parry. Over the entire course of his life he wrote a vast number of works based on English Lyric poems; often concerning Love Romance; and this volume represents just a small portion of his remarkable output. This is the first book in the series and contains settings of songs for Medium Voice with Piano accompaniment.

Music Minus One Vocal-The winner of six Tony Awards® including Best Original Score and Best Musical Dear Evan Hansen has struck a remarkable chord with audiences and critics everywhere. With advanced ticket sales in excess of $20 million and its soundtrack debut at #8 on the Top 200 Album Billboard chart it is on track to be one of the most successful Broadway musicals of all time. The show officially opened on Broadway on December 4 2016 after a successful Off-Broadway run. The musical features a score by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul who were both personally involved in editing and approving the Hal Leonard Vocal Selections. Pasek and Paul won an Oscar forBest Original Song for being the lyricists behind ?City of Stars? from La La Land. They have also received numerous awards for their previous stage productions A Christmas Story The Musical; Dogfight; James and the Giant Peach; and Edges. This Music Minus One vocal folio includes audio tracks for demo and performance online for 13 songs from the soundtrack including: Anybody Have a Map? Disappear For Forever Good for You If I Could Tell Her Only Us Requiem Sincerely Me So Big/So Small To Break in a Glove Waving Through a Window Words Fail You Will Be Found.

The Performance Guide for Bands. The Gig Guides series is designed to provide musicians with a blueprint for building bands. We select the songs put 'em in order and show you how to play 'em. The format is simple; there are no unwieldy note-for-note scores to sightread or complicated theory to understand. Just here's the lead sheet here are the parts you really need to know and away you go! These book/CD packs are the ultimate do-it-yourself kit for gigging musicians and up-and-coming performers alike. Can be used by a full band or individual players. Modern Rock Set features 12 songs plus a CD with full-band demos so you can hear what you should sound like.Includes: All the Small Things · Drive · Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me) · Fly Away · Hanging by a Moment · If You Could Only See · The Middle · My Own Worst Enemy · Semi-Charmed Life · Slide · Smooth · Wherever You Will Go.

Par MC NEFF STEPHEN. My research for Banished began with a small group of students during a Trinity Laban co-lab period in 2013, though the idea goes back over 30 years when I first saw Steve Gooch’s Female Transport and stored the idea of adapting it as an opera until the right opportunity arose. I have been involved in opera for a long time and it has always been a frustration for me that while there is an abundance of female talent (particularly so in conservatories and colleges) there is a noticeable lack of challenging roles available for young women. The roles most often undertaken are maids or innocent girls, compliant wives or tomboys. Not that the problem is necessarily confined exclusively to young women, but where good roles exist, the women are all too often merely passive or victims. Things happen to them rather than them making things happen. They are unable to influence their circumstances and are usually resigned to their fate. Worse still, they are often judged in some way responsible for what happens to them, culpable even because of their looks, their way of life or a streak of independence. Just think about Mimi, Carmen and Violetta (to name only three on a long list). All these characters die, and their attempts at individuality contribute to their demise in some way that they have no control over. With some exceptions female characters in opera are too often sad, mad or bad. Redressing this balance and taking advantage of the richness in vocal talent is only one reason to write an opera reflecting the reality of a group of strong women who work things out for themselves. The transportation of people to Australia at the beginning of the nineteenth century is not a particularly well understood part of history beyond a sort of folk myth. What were the circumstances, who were the people and what happened to them? Opera does not exist to completely answer these questions, but it can focus on the women as individuals and help tell their story. (All the women named in the opera actually existed.) My approach has to been to put the women’s narrative centre stage and, in the confines of an oppressive, dangerous environment go with them on their journey as they survive or sink. The demands on the women are huge. At every turn they are oppressed by their jailers, the system that brought them here and their own low expectations. They have to work out ways to overcome these odds. We discover them through their music in solos and ensembles, sometimes reflective, at other times boasting about their lives a petty criminals and trying to establish status and pecking order. Alongside this I have used references to music of the time to create another reality built on larger ensembles and choruses. This is a sort of collective consciousness aware of loss, longing and context – even of a broad political dimension to the realities of Transportation. Despite the acute awareness of their circumstances in these ensembles, there is also a resilience and strength that transcends the individual stories. Stephen McNeff / Instrumental Music / Répertoire / Voix

Vocal Selections-The winner of six Tony Awards® including Best Original Score and Best Musical  Dear Evan Hansen has struck a remarkable chord with audiences and critics everywhere. With advanced ticket sales in excess of $20 million and its soundtrack debut at #8 on the Top 200 Album Billboard chart it is on track to be one of the most successful Broadway musicals of all time.The show officially opened on Broadway on December 4 2016 after a successful Off-Broadway run. The musical features a score by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul who were both personally involved in editing and approving the Hal Leonard VocalSelections.Pasek and Paul won an Oscar for Best Original Song for being the lyricists behind “City of Stars” from La La Land. They have also received numerous awards for their previous stage productions A Christmas Story The Musical; Dogfight; James and the Giant Peach; and Edges.The folio is arranged for Voice with Piano accompaniment and includes 13 songs from the soundtrack including Anybody Have a Map? Disappear For Forever Good for You If I Could Tell Her Only Us Requiem Sincerely Me So Big/So Small To Break in a Glove Waving Through a Window Words Fail and You Will Be Found.

Belwin Jazz offers ten great jazz standards arranged for solo vocalist with a nine or ten piece combo accompaniment. These songs are superbly arranged by one of the finest writers in the business, Dave Wolpe. This collection is ideal for a vocalist who needs a smaller ensemble with four or five horns and rhythm section. The combo horns are trumpet, alto sax, tenor sax, trombone and baritone sax. The baritone sax part adds additional color to the texture but is optional. The rhythm section is scored for guitar, bass, drumset and a piano/conductor part which includes cues for the horns. Titles include: How High the Moon * I Get a Kick Out of You * I've Got You Under My Skin * Just Friends * My Funny Valentine * Night and Day * Something's Gotta Give * Summer Wind * They Can't Take That Away From Me * Too Close For Comfort Click On Each Image to Zoom. Click the larger image to close. Use the arrows on your keyboard to scroll left and right. There are no samples for this item There are no audio samples for this item.

Noted jazz pianist, composer, recording artist and educator Andy LaVerne has drawn from his decades of experience playing with master musicians from Getz to Lovano to create this comprehensive compendium of contemporary moving voicings. Quartal, quintal, drop 2, dominant 7b9/diminished, triadic, whole tone and chromatic performance proven voicings pioneered by McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, and Andy himself are presented and fleshed out in all twelve keys. This book picks up where others leave off, enabling you to replace static chords with voicings that move melodically, dramatically, and gracefully over the entire range of the keyboard. Firmly rooted in contemporary jazz theory, the emphasis is on practical performance applications. Andy ties it all together with illustrations of comping choruses for five standard jazz tunes. Chords in Motion satisfies a long awaited need in actual comping situations, and shows you how to move chords through varying harmonic rhythms. FINALLY ? a book that gives you moving voicings, and sets them in motion in all twelve keys. Chords in Motion is a valuable resource for all keyboardists, arrangers, and instrumentalists. Activate, animate, and energize your comping with this encyclopedic volume. 156 pages, spiral bound for easy opening. Andy carries the flame of jazz piano tradition and just great music. He always inspires me. Chick Corea This is a great book! I am going to sit down and play through this!! I am always telling my non-piano playing students how important it is to work with (and internalize) the sounds that we live with all our lives as Jazz musicians. Coltrane spent years sitting at the piano and so should all of us!!! John Patitucci Berklee College of Music One thing about Andy?he is complete as can be and has been consistently so for years in both his teaching materials and playing. He is completely knowledgeable in such a way that when I play with him, I know he KNOWS!! Plus he is one of the smoothest and polished of players around. Great book?encyclopedic in content. Dave Liebman Founder, Artistic Director, International Association of Schools of Jazz (IASJ) I've played and recorded with Andy LaVerne many times over the years and in many different settings and he's always come up with the hippest, most interesting chords in the most musical way! His way of playing and looking at chords inspires me as a drummer and his rhythm section partner to play things that are in turn inspiring to the rest of the band. This book, helps musicians, understand, in a clear thoughtful presentation, how to go about getting this together. Billy Drummond Jazz Drummer, Educator, Juilliard, NYU Chords in Motion is an outstanding and comprehensive guide by Andy LaVerne, whose encyclopedic knowledge, decades of experience and brilliance as a performer and educator make this an invaluable handbook of modern jazz piano harmony. Its user-friendly, intelligent design enables musicians to expand their harmonic palette and potentially transform their playing, writing and arranging. Chords in Motion is an invaluable contribution to jazz musicians! Lynne Arriale Jazz Pianist, Composer, Educator, Associate Professor of Jazz Piano, Director of Small Ensembles, University of North Florida Chords in Motion is exactly the book I'd expect from Andy LaVerne. It's clear, openhearted and inspiring, as has been every conversation I've had with Andy over the years. Long a fan of his playing, I have enjoyed this look behind the curtain at how Andy LaVerne formulated his signature style. One other thing -- any pianist, no matter his/her approach, will gain insight into what will surely be new and exciting musical directions. Pete Malinverni Jazz Pianist, Educator, Director of Jazz Studies, SUNY Purchase College Conservatory of Music What a great resource for expanding the harmonic palette! Chords in Motion is a must have for the aspiring young jazz pianist as well as the seasoned veteran. Another winner from Andy! Paul Schmeling Jazz Pianist, Educator, Chair Emeritus, Piano Department, Berklee College of Music In Chords in Motion, I recognize chords and sounds that have inspired me to compose and play: harmony from the music of Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and McCoy Tyner. This book is well organized, and from the beginning gets you playing. Each chord structure is explained and developed. There is plenty to practice. I especially like the exercises using contrary motion, arpeggiation

for 1-2 instruments (violins, recorders, flutes, oboes, trumpets in C) and piano (guitar), voices ad lib., arranged and edited by Dagmar Wilgo and Nico Oberbanscheidt. Unknown, yet very beautiful Christmas songs from off the beaten path that are well suited for integration. Small surprises from Belgium, England, Greece, Luxemburg, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Rumania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Czechia, and Hungary will musically enrich both school lessons as well as promote the growing together of different cultures. Can also be used to advantage with voices only (and, for example, guitar) in the primary school, and also viable just with piano/guitar. Inclusive Play-along-CD.Volume 1 (40 pages, score and parts) / Ensemble Divers

A Holiday Musical for Young Voices-Decorations are all in place and everything is set for the upcoming holiday part except for an old dilapidated sleigh off in the corner with a sign that reads “Marvelous Magical Sleigh.” It's nothing but a piece ofjunk! What was that noise? Did the sleigh just move? Join the holiday adventure of one small child who believes in the true meaning of the holiday and is taken for a marvelous ride on one very important and magical sleigh!This 20-minute easily-produced holiday revue is perfect for the teacher on the go! Suggested for students in grades 2-5 the program features 6 songs and connecting dialog for a large cast that combine for a humorous yet touchingperformance that requires minimal rehearsal time. The Teacher Edition includes piano/vocal arrangements dialog and choreography by John Jacobson. Young performers will enjoy the full-color singer editions for extra visualappeal. The value-packed Classroom Kit comes complete with a Teacher book 20 singer editions and a P/A CD. Available separately: Teacher Edition Singer 20-Pak (full color) Performance/Accompaniment CD Classroom Kit (Teacher Singer 20-Pak P/A CD). Duration: ca. 20 minutes. Suggested for grades 2-5.

Bossa de Brasil. In late 1950s Brazil, a new music style influenced by jazz arose out of the samba: the bossa nova. This composition by Peter Kleine Schaars sounds just like a bossa nova should sound: catchy, warm, relaxed and with a touch of sensuality. Starting with a small group of players with only one soloist and minimal accompaniment, this bossa nova leads to a style-conscious grand orchestration for the whole ensemble, in which all voices participate equally. In addition to the rhythmic cells 2 and 4 of the Brazilian 2-3 clave, the cells 7 and 10 in particular are featured.