The King And I - Vocal Score

This is billed as 'an opera for children of all ages'. It is best suited to being performed by adults or teenagers to younger children as the vocal parts are quite challenging yet the story taken from a Grimm fairy tale is simple and childlike. Limited vocal and instrumental forces are employed making it ideal for amateur dramatic groups on a tight budget!The story is that the Princess of a small kingdom leaves home to be married to the Prince of the next kingdom taking with her an attendant (the Waiting-Woman) a magic cloth with three wishes and Falada the talking horse. On the road the attendant steals the magic cloth and wishes herself Princess; when theyarrive at the Kingdom she is betrothed to the Prince - much against his will as she is old and complaining - while the Princess is put to work as a goose-girl and Falada's head is cut off. Still able to speak he and the Princess complain of their fate and are overheard by the good King who steals the cloth back from the Waiting-Woman and marries the Prince and Princess happily to each other. The last wishes are used to bring the Princess's mother to the wedding and to put Falada back together then cookies are passed to the cast and audience.This is the Schirmer edition of the Vocal Score and is in English only.

Rockschool is about singing the songs you love. Your Vocals Grade 5 book contains six of the biggest tracks from the past six decades arranged for you to sing for your Grade 5 exam. This book also includes examples of all the supporting tests found in the Rockschool Grade 5 exam.This book for male vocalists contains the songs:Money On My Mind - Sam SmithHall Of Fame - The Script ft. Will.i.amViva La Vida - ColdplayYou Give Me Something - James MorrisonUse Somebody - Kings Of LeonTake me out - Franz FerdinandOther features include:Fact Files: band and artists background information with recommended listening.Backing tracks: high quality recordings to sing along to in Rockschool exams.Downloadable audio: use your download card for easy access to your audio.Vocal scores: easy-to-follow separate Vocals scores.Piano and Guitar parts: Piano notation and Guitar chords included to help with practice. / Voix

Music-theatre works-The poems which form the basis of this work were inspired by a miniature mechanical organ playing eight tunes once the property of George III. A scrap of paper sold with it explains that 'This Organ was George the Third for Birds to sing'.Peter Maxwell Davies then set these poems to music and devised them as a semi-theatrical work for Male Vocalist Piano Violin Cello Flute Clarinet and Percussion. The songs are to be understood as the King's monologue while listening to his birds perform and incorporate some sentences actually spoken by George III. The resulting work Eight Songs for a Mad King was completed in 1969 and stands as one of the mostdistinctive and arguably one of the most disturbing musical works from the twentieth century.This is the vocal score which includes a Piano accompaniment.

Per Gli Sponsali Di Teti e Peleo - HWV 73-The main text of this edition of Handel?s wedding serenata ?Parnasso in festa per gli sponsali di Teti e Peleo? (HWV 73) is based on the version used for the work?s first performances in March of 1734. Three appendices retrace the complex history of the work significantly different versions of which were used for revival performances in 1737 1740 and 1741. Included are abandoned and modified parts of the score as well as a documentation of changes made to the characters.Handel composed ?Parnasso in festa? for the wedding of Anne Princess Royal and Prince William of Orange which took place on March 14 1734 in London. As Handel?s contribution to the publicfestivities the serenata was performed the evening before the nuptials at King?s Theatre in the Haymarket. The bridal couple attended the performance.While the Italian text of the serenata was newly set most likely by Giacomo Rossi most of the music was drawn from pieces of Handel?s earlier works among them ?Athalia? from ?Radamisto? (HWV 12a) ?Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno? (HWV 46a) and ?Delirio amoroso? (HWV 99). Newly composed parts are limited to eight vocal pieces the sinfonia at the beginning of part 3 and the beginning of the overture. The available source material reflects the history of the work: There is no autograph composition score while the conducting score reflects a collaboration between Handel and his main copyist John Christopher Smith senior. However composition scores of individual newly composed pieces have been preserved.New edition based on the latest research after thorough examination of all relevant primary and secondary sourcesExtensive editorial Foreword about the work?s conception mythological background transmission reception and a survey of sources (Ger/Eng) with extensive critical report (Eng)Selected musical facsimiles as well as complete facsimile of the printed libretto of 1734Urtext of the Halle Handel EditionFull score (BA10718-01) and vocal score (BA10718-90) available for salePerformance material (BA10718-72) available for hire

Christopher Robinson's The Infant King is scored for Children's Voices SATB Choir and Piano. It was commissioned by Making Music and funded by the Carnegie UK Trust. A full performance of this arrangement of a Basque Noël lasts around 3 minutes.A review in the September 2016 issue of Organist's Review states that this piece 'will provide choirs with their own challenge and delight.'

Christopher Robinson's The Infant King is scored for Children's Voices and Piano. It was commissioned by Making Music and funded by the Carnegie UK Trust. A full performance of this arrangement of a Basque Noël lasts around 3 minutes.

Handel?s four anthems were all composed during his London period in the Chapel Royal. ?As pants the hart? his fifth setting of this Psalm text was written in March 1738 for performance at a benefit concert for the King?s Theatre in the Haymarket. Until just before Handel?s first visit to England the only instrument permitted to accompany the service in the Chapel Royal was the Organ.These four works (O sing unto the Lord HWV 249a I will magnify thee HWV 250b As pants the hart HWV 251e Let God arise HWV 256b) with their orchestral accompaniments thus represent something akin to a new genre in English church music.The four anthems arepresented in clearly laid out Vocal scores with easy-to-play Piano reductions based on the Urtext from the ?Halle Handel Edition?. Their winningly varied and self-sufficient orchestral writing provides a suitable framework for the festive chorus and the equally festive solo numbers. Today they sound as splendid as ever before. The full scores and Vocal scores also contain a German translation along with the original English.Scoring:- HWV 249a: soloists (AB) chorus (SATB) Flute 2 Oboes 2 Trumpets Strings Continuo.- HWV 250b: soloists (SATB) chorus (SATB) Oboe Strings Continuo.- HWV 251e: soloists (SAATBB) chorus (SAATBB) 2 Oboes Strings Continuo.- HWV 256b: soloists (AB) chorus (SATB) Oboe Strings Continuo.- Urtext from the ?Halle Handel Edition? at the forefront of musical scholarship.- First separate editions for performance purposes.- Clear and easy-to-play Piano reductions.- Original English text with underlaid German translation.- Full scores vocal scores and performance material available for sale.

Opera in 3 Acts. Also available for sale hardback full score (BA4076) and performance material for hire.Handel started writing ?Serse? on 26 December 1737 and completed the third act on 6 February 1738. The première took place on 15 April of the same year at the King?s Theatre in the Haymarket. Four performances followed after which the work was not heard again until 1924.The opera focuses on the Persian king Serse who rather than serving as a military commander or statesman appears at the centre of a highly complex love story. Handel provided an admixture of buffo elements (the antics of the servantElviro the stupidity of the soldier Ariodate) to the standard ingredients of opera seria such as the broadly declaimed woes of Serse Romilda Arsamene and Amastre.This interweaving of seemingly incompatible stylistic resources arose in Naples and can already be found in the 17th century librettos that served as the principal sources of Handel?s Serse.Though unsuccessful at the time today ?Serse? is prized precisely for its comic undertones and is regularly seen on stage.Our new Urtext vocal score is based on the volume edited by Terence Best for the ?Halle Handel Edition? (series II/volume 39).Straightforward performance-oriented vocal score based on the Urtext of the ?Halle Handel Edition?Original Italian text with singing German translation

The King'singers pay tribute to the Comedian Harmonists a groundbreaking vocal group from the 1930s in this Duke Ellington classic. Available: SATB divisi a cappella.

The ground breaking vocal jazz ensemble Lambert Hendricks & Ross laid the groundwork for all the vocal jazz groups that have followed. Often using their voices like instruments and inventing Vocalese they are examples of what can be accomplished with the voice. This arrangement swings hard and updates the harmonies making it a great bridge between what was and what is.

A Meditation on the Sacred Passion of the Holy Redeemer for Tenor and Bass solo SATB Choir with Organ accompaniment with hymns for congregational participation. The text was selected and written by Reverend J. Sparrow-Simpson and revised by Michael Pilkington. The crucifixion was first performed in 1887.This Novello edition of the vocal score is clear and well presented with thoroughly accurate and detailed editorial markings and suggestions as edited by Michael Pilkington.

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 ground breaking vocal jazz ensemble Lambert Hendricks & Ross laid the groundwork for all the vocal jazz groups that have followed. Often using their voices like instruments and inventing Vocalese they are examples of what can be accomplished with the voice. This arrangement swings hard and updates the harmonies making it a great bridge between what was and what is.