Before The Doors Of Oz

This compelling a cappella setting of a poem by Henry van Dyke opens plaintively then moves into a dance-like tempo leading to the powerful high point where the “doors of daring” are thrown open before us and the final broadening tempo leading to the closing cadence. A challenging work for advanced choirs. Duration: ca. 3:00.

The Nashville Number System is the standard way for a professional country musician to notate a song. The system has been around since the 1950s, and it rapidly became widespread within the country music community because of how efficiently it can represent music. In essence, a Nashville number chart conveys the harmony, key, meter, rhythm, phrase structure, instrumentation, arrangement, and form of a song - all on a single piece of paper. An introduction is included that thoroughly explains how to use the book. Lyrics are not included. This valuable resource gathers together 200 country standards from yesterday's favorites to today's chart-topping hits, including: Achy Breaky Heart (Don't Tell My Heart) - Act Naturally - All the Gold in California - Always on My Mind - Amazed - Battle of New Orleans - Before He Cheats - Before the Next Teardrop Falls - Behind Closed Doors - Bless the Broken Road - Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain - Boot Scootin' Boogie - A Boy Named Sue - Breathe - Coal Miner's Daughter - Could I Have This Dance - Crazy - The Dance - Delta Dawn - The Devil Went down to Georgia - Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue - Elvira - Folsom Prison Blues - Friends in Low Places - The Gambler - God Bless the U.S.A. - He Stopped Loving Her Today - Hey, Good Lookin' - I Hope You Dance - I Walk the Line - I Will Always Love You - In Color - Jesus Take the Wheel - King of the Road - Live like You Were Dying - The Long Black Veil - Lucille - Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) - Mean - Need You Now - On the Road Again - Redneck Woman - Springsteen - Stand by Your Man - This Kiss - You're Still the One - Your Cheatin' Heart - and more! Spiral bound. / Guitare

The Mamas and The Papas' hymn to the West Coast state California Dreamin ' was actually written in chilly New York City by John and Michelle Phillips before they even formed the band that made them famous. Simon and Garfunkel were New York through and through and Simon's jaunty song about the Queensboro Bridge - aka Feelin' Groovy - uses its local colloquial name. Skeeter Davis, born Mary Frances Penick, was the survivor of a car crash that killed her singing partner Betty Jack Davis. They had enjoyed some success as The Davis Sisters but The End Of The World was the biggest hit of Skeeter's subsequent solo career. In My Room saw The Beach Boys moving indoors from all that sun and sand and recording one of their most reflective and lovely songs. Meanwhile the British invasion was threatening the pop status quo in America and Can't Buy Me Love , from the film Hard Day's Night, gave The Beatles yet another number one in the US charts. Novello Choral Pops: Sixties Hits contains these five decade-defining hits, newly arranged for SATB Choir with Piano accompaniment. / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Piano