Jenkyns’s songs for children can best be described as art songs for the youngest singers. Their ranges and technical requirements are just right for the younger age groups and their lyrics as in The Little Elf are perfectly gauged for their performers.Peter Jenkyns was a 20th century British composer singer and educator who wrote a series of songs for primary-aged children sensitively arranged and with appropriate lyrics. Jenkyns was the headmaster of two primary schools outside of London for whose choirs he composed songs for the St Albans’ Schools Music Festival. He was also a highly-regarded Gilbert and Sullivan patter-song singer and he founded a localGilbert & Sullivan society which is still thriving.

Sixteen sparkling new musical items for Easter and Springtime from some of today's best-loved children's composers including Sheila Wilson Niki Davies Alison Hedger and others.This invaluable resource provides teachers andleaders of youth singing groups with songs and instrumentals suitable for all children within the Primary age range.The first part of the compilation follows the Biblical story and can be used as a musical framework for a sacredEaster presentation. The second part of the selection contains more general Easter and Springtime songs for use in class and concerts. Also includes a class activity - making a Mini Easter Egg Box from a cross!

Suitable to be sung as an Evensong anthem this is a very simple and practical setting for Keyboard and Voice - which might be a solo soprano or treble or unison - of a Victorian children's hymn that can still be found in numerous contemporary collections. Its flowing unforced melody is an ideal counterpart to Sabine Baring-Gould's words which like the poems of Robert Louis Stevenson's 'A Child's Garden of Verses' owe their enduring appeal to the sincere expression of a youthful innocence that rings no less true to the sensibility of adults. The Lullaby was written to celebrate the birth of the composer's godson at the request of his grandparents.

An easy and versatile piece for Epiphany written in unison good for youth or female voices with organ accompaniment

This short cantata set in a jazz idiom makes an ideal end-of-term concert which should be performed strictly for fun! Scored for unison voices with up to four short solos piano accompaniment plus guitar chords. The chorus gives enthusiastic youngsters the opportunity to growl as the lions in the den and click fingers to the blues! The now famous series of Novello pop cantatas originated from this well-known work. Words by Vachel Lindsay.

Discovery Level 1-Share the sights and sounds of December with this cheerful holiday original that will warm every heart! Easily learned for younger choirs in elementary and middle school. With flute. Available separately: 3-Part Mixed Unison/opt. 2-Part VoiceTrax CD. Duration: ca. 2:30.

Level 2-Sing on Sight is a comprehensive sight-singing method by Audrey Snyder. Volume Two builds on the skills established in Volume One and moves step by step to full choral sight-singing. The recorded accompaniments include awide variety of styles from classical to contemporary and folk music to pop and jazz. Exercises are written so that two or more lines may be sung simultaneously so students gain sight-singing independence and develop theirpart-singing skills. With just a few minutes a day Sing on Sight can help your choirs learn to read music and have fun in the process! Student and Teacher Editions available separately: both Unison/2-Part Treble and2-Part/3-Part Mixed. Accompaniment CD (coincides with both voicings) also available. Classroom Kits include 25 Student Books 1 Teacher Edition and 1 Accompaniment CD.

The Toy Soldier is a delightful little piece taken from Fancy-Fair a collection of eight songs for young children by Peter Jenkyns. It is scored for unison Voices with Piano accompaniment. English singer composer conductor and musical director Peter Jenkyns (1921-1996) wrote many of his well-known songs with children in mind for the choirs of the schools he was headmaster of to perform at the annual St. Albans Schools' Music Festival. The excellent pieces by this writer of little art songs for the under 12s are well received and much anticipated by audiences and performers alike.

Stuart Young's Butterfly is an arrangement of Schumann's Papillons Op.2 No.8 and set to the words of Margaret Rose for Unison Voice with Piano accompaniment.

Another beautiful and original setting of the well-known Sabbath eve text. The modal harmony is Shukiar's own changing when you least expect it. Yet this piece for solo or unison choir and keyboard will be easily learned by amateur choirs - and quickly picked up by congregations who will enjoy its style. Level: Meduim

Simple elegant piece for young voices_x000D_Consists of a beautiful melody with long legato lines works well as a solo too would be good for a school remembrance day event._x000D_From the jean Ashworth Bartle Choral Series for treble voices

Vocal score for Thomas Hewitt Jones' Come To The Stable for Unison choir and Piano accompaniment.Thomas Hewitt Jones is an award-winning composer of contemporary classical and commercial music. Winner of the 2003 BBC Young Composer Competition his music has been published by Boosey & Hawkes Oxford University Press Banks Music the RSCM Encore Publications Universal Music and is frequently heard on radio  TV and the cinema in the UK and abroad.

This is an entertainment for upper voices and Piano and the song is ideal for any young chorus group to perform perhaps at a musical show a school function or in a revue group. This song tells of the ghostly and mysterious goings on one night in a country churchyard. There are pauses for a narrator to set the scene for the next part of the song. There are solo lines for a sexton a sexton's wife a bishop and the mysterious Tom Cat.

A truly special offering this unison Christmas moment allows for inter-generational presentations heightening the emotional impact. Very easy to learn for both young voices and adults the weaving together of these elements is handled with careful attention to detail. A beautiful piano part supports and adds color while the innocence of the Christmas saga unfolds. The addition of a few echoes of the beloved Silent Night completes the package.

A graceful and spirited song for Unison Voieces with Piano accompanimnt Spring will bring a beatifully pastoral feel to your choir's concert repertoire.