Something To Live For

SKU: BT.MUSAM999251

ISBN 9781849383530. English.

Take centre stage and play along with a live rhythm section featuring Bass, Drums and Piano

This collection features 24 great songs, from Jazz and Blues standards through Soul and Gospel favourites and lively Swing andLatinnumbers.

The authentic CD backing tracks will help you achieve a more professional performance.

What's included:

• Printed music - 24 pieces in melody line arrangements
• Two audio CDs-Professional 'soundalike' performances of every piece featuring a live band on CD 1, plus backing tracks to play along with on CD 2.
  
  

SKU: HL.1443536

UPC: 196288205746. 6.75x10.5 inches.

Sparkling with the spirit of Broadway magic, �??Something About This Night�?� (from Finding Neverland) comes alive in this showstopping choral arrangement by Roger Emerson. Stellar vocal parts offer energetic harmonies and several opportunities for solo vocalists to shine. Easy to learn, yet instantly impressive.

SKU: HL.1443537

UPC: 196288205753.

Sparkling with the spirit of Broadway magic, �??Something About This Night�?� (from Finding Neverland) comes alive in this showstopping choral arrangement by Roger Emerson. Stellar vocal parts offer energetic opportunities for solo vocalists to shine. Easy to learn, yet instantly impressive.

SKU: CF.CM9549

ISBN 9781491150818. UPC: 680160908318. 6.875 x 10.5 inches.

Make Space for Life to Live by Michael John Trotta offers captivating, expansive melodies interwoven with a piano accompaniment that makes subtle allusions to the main theme. Its mesmerizing text resonates with the singer and the audience. Appropriate for concert or festival use throughout the year, this piece is also available for SA voices (CM9274), TB Voices (CM9283) and SAB voices (CM9289).
Editor's NoteAbout the WorkMake Space for Life to Live features expansive, yet accessible vocal lines perfect for choirs of all abilities and sizes. It offers compelling melodies and singable vocal lines interwoven with a piano accompaniment that makes subtle allusions to the main theme.About the TextThe text for this work was written while on an extended seashore retreat several years ago. It was the product of many long walks looking out into the vastness of the sea. It was a time in my life that was immediately preceded by great personal loss and turmoil. It was in that silence and space I was able to reconnect to that still, small voice within that reminded me that I was merely a part of something much bigger than myself. The text that was hewn from that experience is a reflection on the importance of allowing space in my daily life to experience the simple joys that every moment has to offer.Optional NarrationRegardless of race or creed the abundance that is found in the reality of the present moment is augmented by regular exposure to the arts. The capricious nature of time in the age of immediacy is that it is entirely flexible. Experience suggests that exposure to natural beauty, such as watching a sunrise unravel over the sea or a cloud formation sweep through a mountain range, allows an individual to feel part of something greater than themselves. Music has the ability to take time and slow it down, revealing to the participant their part in the whole. Taking part in choral music, whether as an audience member, singer, conductor or composer is an opportunity to slow down time long enough to allow the beauty of life to catch up with you.

SKU: AP.1-ADV11207

ISBN 9783892211228. UPC: 805095112078. English.

Something Borrowed, Something Blue is a broad survey of the wider principles of harmony, form, adaptation, and developmental technique underlying jazz composition in its various instrumental formats. This book examines compositions ranging from those for solo piano to large ensemble, from common forms such as blues and 32-bar song forms to extended through-composed pieces, to those based on adaptations of European classical forms such as fugue and rondo. Such topics as individuality of voice, cultural and historical influences, the contrafact, formal appropriation, pantonality, reharmonization, and the use of counterpoint are among those covered. Composers represented include a wide range of stylists, similar to Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Gil Evans, Mary Lou Williams, Herbie Hancock, Oliver Nelson, Hermeto Pascoal, and John Lewis, among many others. The extensive bibliography, discography, and end of chapter assignments are designed to provide students and faculty at either the undergraduate or graduate level with a flexible framework for analysis of additional compositions of their choice, as well as a basic set of useful research references and suggested compositional projects. Some questions the book poses are: What formal elements and musical characteristics are common to the diverse stylistic range of jazz composition? Which of these elements exist in any form of musical composition or artistic expression, and which are unique to composition in the jazz tradition? How do composers apply these techniques in a way that enables them to create an individual voice within the context of the jazz tradition?

Chapters: Forward * General Questions and Principles * Motivic Identiy and Reieration * The Blues * Harmony * Form * Compositional Uses of Rhythm * Appropriatiion and Adaption * Analysis of Selected Compositions * Index * Glossary * Bibliography * Discography * Copyright Notices * Acknowledgements of.

SKU: HL.35028009

UPC: 884088592028. 5.0x5.0x0.2 inches.

Perfect for rehearsal or performance, this CD includes 24 full-length piano accompaniments for: Alleluia! Sing! Rejoice! * An Angelic Christmas Medley * Ballinderry * Benedicamus Domino * Cantate Canticum! * Caterpillar * Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel? * Ding Dong! Merrily on High * Fly Away, Young Robin * Good King Wenceslas * Good Night, Ladies! * Hanukkah, the Season of Light * Hine Ma Tov (2-Part & 3-Part Mixed) * Hine Ma Tov (TTB) * My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair * Past Three O'Clock * Santa Makes the Rounds * Siam Lieti (Rejoice with Happy Singing) * Snowflakes Dance * Solitary Winter Star * Something About the Ocean * The Song Has Just Begun * Tiritomba * Wade in the Water.