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

Learn the art of jazz vocal improvisation! This book will help you hear, understand and apply jazz theory so that you can solo as a complete musician?in the same way that instrumentalists do. Each lesson offers a core musical concept related to harmony, melody, and rhythm, integrating skills such as conducting and analysis. All concepts are reinforced with practical exercises. The accompanying audio tracks demonstrate techniques and let you practice improvising along with a piano accompaniment.
You will learn to:
Develop your sense of timing and swing
Understand jazz harmony, such as tensions and non-diatonic chords, as well as chord progressions such as II V and cycle V progressions, and use harmony as your basis for creating expressive solos
Navigate song forms, such as AABA, blues forms, turnarounds, and other common jazz structures
Improve your ear for jazz harmony through studying intervals and chord progressions, and by memorizing emblematic jazz melodic patterns
Create expressive vocal lines that work well over jazz chords and integrate well within the context of a jazz ensemble
?Mili Bermejo?s Vocal Jazz Improvisation is the most comprehensive vocal book I have ever seen on improvisation. Her years of research and her wisdom and artistry leave no stones unturned. I would recommend this book to instrumentalists as well, to develop their ears and breadth of expression.?
?Jerry Bergonzi, Jazz Saxophonist, Composer, Author, Educator

?I have been a huge fan of Mili as an artist for many years now, and have admired her impeccable skills as a teacher for just as long. Seeing Mili perform in duo with Dan Greenspan is one of the great wonders of the world. They make voice and bass seem like an orchestra, harmonically rich and complete, and emotionally compelling. How lucky for us that Mili has written a book on improvisation from her own assured and gracious vantage point. Her approach is accessible, organic, personal, and best of all, inspiring! She takes the fear factor out and provides tools to make improvisation a truly creative and joyful experience.?
?Peter Eldridge, Jazz Singer, Pianist, Composer (New York Voices)

?Creating awareness is at the core of this beautiful material that was very much needed in the vocal jazz field. Here is a book with clever, effectively organized information for all vocalists to develop a practical framework that covers the foundation to find confidence, strength and ultimately freedom as a vocal improviser.
Mili?s music speaks to the heart, overflowing with humanity, joy, and compassion, and this book does the same. Mili traces a clear path, guiding us step by step along the way. She draws on her own experience, which I must say reflects all vocalists? experience, as we walk this fascinating journey of jazz singing.?
?Magos Herrera, GRAMMY-nominated Jazz Singer

?How lucky for all of us that Mili Bermejo put her decades of experience and skill as both performer and teacher into this book. What a gift! Thank you, Mili.?
?Tierney Sutton, Multi-GRAMMY Nominated Jazz Singer
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As a work of historic interest of the period The March of the Women is an essential work.British composer Ethel Smyth was a prolific important composer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1910 she joined the Women’sSocial and Political Union for whom she wrote this anthem. It was taken up and sung everywhere including Holloway Prison where Smyth and other suffragettes had been imprisoned for breaking windows and other acts of politicaldisorder. When Sir Thomas Beecham visited her there he found the women marching around the inner yard and singing while Smyth directed the impromptu Chorus with her toothbrush.

Just imagine Mark Twain interacting with the vivid characters from his classic Americana novel! In this cross-curricular, 20-minute, riser-ready musical, the Missouri author takes the stage with the likes of Tom, Huck, Becky, and Aunt Polly. Five unison songs and selected vignettes highlight memorable moments from Twain's masterpiece. Discussion questions/writing prompts add to the educational value for grades three and up. / Voix

Pro Vocal Mixed Edition-Singing requires putting the rest of your busy life aside and focusing on both the physical and creative components of making art through sound. Just like athletes musicians must warm up to be limber relaxed and ready to perform and to prevent strain or injury.These 25 warm-ups are designed to take your voice and body from their everyday habits and routines and to focus and prepare them to sing well. The exercises begin with broad large-muscle relaxation techniques and breathing work and move on to a gradual relaxed warm-up of your voice and strengthening of your vocal skills. The CD contains demos for listening and separate backing tracks so youcan sing along. Three songs are also included for practice.

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

Par CAMPBELL NORMAN / HARRON DON. The musical, Anne of Green Gables is based on the book by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. Although written as fiction for readers of all ages it has, in recent decades, become considered as a children's book. Montgomery found her inspiration in a newspaper article describing a couple that were mistakenly sent an orphan girl instead of a boy, yet decided to keep her. The music is by Norman Campbell and the lyrics by Don Harron. It is Canada's longest running musical, having been performed every year since 1965 at the Charlottetown Festival at the Confederation Centre of the Arts. / Vocal Music / Répertoire / Voix

Par SULLIVAN SIR ARTHUR SEYMOUR. W.S. Gilbert's complete libretto for H.M.S Pinafore, which opened May 28, 1878, at the Opera Comique and ran for 571 performances. Subtitled 'The Lass That Loved A Sailor', the story concerns a captain's daughter and a common sailor that fall in love./ Recueil / Voix

Tenor/Bass Edition. Par EMERSON ROGER. Hal Leonard Vocal Method est conçue pour toute personne souhaitant apprendre les bases du chant, à l'aide d'exercices vocaux et de chansons populaires. Ce guide du débutant, facile à utiliser, sert d'introduction pour commencer à chanter avec une bonne technique. Les sujets abordés sont les suivants : posture, respiration, échauffements, consonnes, voyelles, phrasé, vibrato et extension de la gamme. Le prix de ce recueil comprend l'accès à l'audio et aux vidéos en ligne, à télécharger ou à visionner en streaming, en utilisant le code unique qui se trouve à l'intérieur. L'audio comprend une piste de démonstration professionnelle ainsi qu'une piste d'accompagnement pour la performance. Des instructions vidéo étape par étape sont incluses pour chaque sujet. Les chansons de cette édition pour les chanteurs ténor et basse comprennent : Can't Help Falling in Love - Fire and Rain - Hallelujah - Mad World - Stand by Me - Take Me Home, Country Roads - Yesterday - et bien d'autres. / Date parution : 2021-12-09/ Méthode / Voix Ténor ou Basse

An exciting and entertaining collection of contemporary pop songs arranged especially for mixed chorus. Each song includes a full piano accompaniment, with songs by Phil Collins, Robbie Williams and others. / Voix

Eine echte Novität: Erstmals gibt es ein Liederbuch, das ausschließlich für die Klassenstufen 5 und 6 konzipiert ist. In der Repertoireauswahl, der Ansprache der Schülerinnen und Schüler und im Zuschnitt der Angebote geht dieses neuartige Liederbuch gezielt auf die Belange genau dieser Altersstufe ein. Es ist dabei weit mehr als eine reine Repertoiresammlung: Zu vielen Titeln gibt es weiterführende Optionen rund um die Themen Klassenmusizieren, Tanz, Choreografie, Stimme und vieles mehr.- 150 Titel aus allen stilistischen Bereichen, Kontinenten und Zeiten - zahlreiche Zusatzangebote zu Klassenmusizieren - Tanz und Bewegungsanleitungen, Begleitsätze und -patterns - Hintergrundwissen / Voix

Step inside the door of Log Cabin Pioneers as Wayne Erbsen takes you on a personal journey of finding and restoring a historic log cabin. By the magic of a crackling fire he'll introduce you to authenticpioneers who will sing you ancient songs spin yarns about Davy Crockett Daniel Boone and Thomas Jefferson and tell spell-binding tales of bear hunting with moonshine or give you advice on how to buy a mule.You'll joinother settlers in a house raising sourcing new logs for a cabin find a red ear of corn at a husking bee and kick up your heels at an old-fashioned barn dance. They'll take you inside an old-time general store and a one-roomschoolhouse and will feed you molasses crips and ash cake. If you're sickly they'll heal you with remedies and superstitions; ladies will learn how to catch a man and gents will learn how to pick a wife.The book includes143 vintage black and white photos and melodies lyrics and chords to 19 songs.

20 vocal selections from the Broadway musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Four Seasons. This is the story of how a group of blue-collar boys became the biggest American pop sensations of all time selling over 175 million records worldwide. Songs include: Big Girls Don't Cry • Can't Take My Eyes off of You • December 1963 (Oh What a Night) • My Boyfriend's Back • Rag Doll • Walk like a Man • Working My Way Back to You • and more.

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.

You Got The Love (Florence and the Machine)  from the album Lungs. Here arranged for upper voices with piano accompaniment. This arrangement is taken from the popular Choir Rocks! series which offers flexible arrangements of contemporary pop hits. All pieces are written for soprano and alto with an optional third part of limited range for baritone or low alto with straightforward piano accompaniments perfect for the amateur pianist. Also includes chord symbols.