The 'Christmas Choirbook' is a collection of up-to-date, colorful arrangements of 22 Christmas songs from throughout the world. Among classics, dressed in new harmonic sounds, you will enjoy jazz and pop intonations, as well as gospel renditions of 'Go Tell It' and 'Joyful'. The skandinavien Christmas songs are particularly special: contemplative and musical, even droll as in the story about the Christmas troll in the finnish 'Tomtarnass Julnatt'.The 'Christmas Choirbook' offers many stylistic choices for the Christmas and Advent season choir music, so let the available CD (ED 9896-50) inspire you in the joyful singing of these pieces. Of course the recordings, meant only as a first and hopefully appealing impression, represent only a few of the many possible interpretations you will bring to the arrangements.Full verses were intentionally not recorded, although we did overlay simple instrumental accompaniments to the a cappella movements. In addition, the CD includes pure choire versions as well as some 'sing-a-longs', i.e. instrumental tracks for you to use as half-playback. / Choeur

Par BREWER HERBERT A.. Organist of Gloucester Cathedral from 1896 till his death in 1928, as well as composer, choir-trainer, adjudicator and teacher, Sir Herbert Brewer was involved for over three decades with the Three Choirs Festival, and his Memories of Choirs and Cloisters offers a vivid account of the planning and execution of the festivals in that time, those at Gloucester in particular. Though his professional life was spent exclusively in the provinces, his championing of contemporary music brought him into wide contact with composers and other artistic figures both from Britain and the continent, including Robert Bridges, Elgar, Glazunov, Rider Haggard, Parry, Quiller-Couch, Ravel, Saint-Saëns and Sibelius (whose Luonnotar he premiered). John Morehen's fine new edition places Brewer's lively and insightful recollections of these and other encounters and connections in context for the modern reader, making the book an important addition to our fuller understanding of a remarkable period in British music. Neither a conventional autobiography nor a diary, but a collection of reminiscences compiled towards the end of his life, Brewer's Memories reveals a scrupulous and astute musician of great integrity, warm-hearted with a devotion to social justice and civic duty, and with a mischievous sense of humour./ Recueil / Choeur

Choral Medley-The electro-pop groove in the music of Owl City is filled with whimsical and fresh sounds that choirs love to sing. This happy collection of tunes will please every choir and listener in this 7-minute medley that includes: Fireflies Good Time Shooting Star When Can I See You Again.

?I asked my friend the poet Einar Askestad if he could write a poem for me about love between father and son brothers and God. I felt that these forms of love are seldom sung about. The poem moved me greatly and I have tried to put music to these words which is simple yet full of beauty. In the four movements of this suite-like piece various aspects of these relationships are conveyed?. - Mårten JanssonBiography:My music is my own and I have never tried to be original. That has always been my motto and I have only tried to use music to express all the feelings life consists of. This has led people todescribe my music as both ?so sad that it sounds like birds who have lost their wings? and ?the happiest classical music we ever heard?. I have also always preferred beautiful music to atonal music and that is surely the reason why the most part of my music is more on the sad side but what a dream it would be to be able to create beautiful music that?s bubbling over with joy! My compositions consist of almost only sacral music. This is to express my own faith but also my appreciation and respect for the timeless texts that have been used for centuries after centuries.In 1994 I was lucky enough to start conducting the female choir Carmen and I conducted them until we decided to disunite 2010. This is of course the biggest reason why most of my compositions are for female choirs the knowledge that what I write during the night will be tested the next evening is a driving force that not so many are lucky enough to have.I work as a voice music theory and conducting teacher and conductor in Uppsala were I was born -65 and still live. My education is in short: two years of musicology at Uppsala University and a MFA in Music Education and Dalcroize Rhythmics at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm.- Choral works a cappella.- Sample pages for download: www.baerenreiter.com.

This exclusive collection brings together 12 of Nico Muhly?s sacred works for mixed-voice choir. These vivacious fresh and dramatic pieces will make an impact whether in the church or in the concert hall and range from the intimate Lord keep us modest when we claim to the effervescent Bright Star Carol alongside service music such as Muhly?s Third Service. All are accessible to learn and offer choirs a new slant on contemporary choral music at its very best.  'Choral music has always been at the emotional core of my musical output. Even when I?m writing large-scale orchestral works (or indeed chamber music) I alwaysfind myself returning to techniques and textures I?ve greedily stolen from centuries of music from Tye to Howells early and recent. I try to design my own choral music primarily for use in worship where the measure of the success of the piece is if it helps guide the listeners? ears upwards and elsewhere as sacred architecture and the various rituals of the church themselves are meant to do. The specificity of music heard only in certain seasons is for me an important and thrilling element of the choral tradition: a Beethoven Symphony is welcome at any point in the year but an anthem for Candlemas works only then at a certain time of day and on a certain day of the year. With this functional spirit at the heart of the compositional process I hope that the music collected here makes equal sense in a concert setting. These works range from ordinaries of the mass to hymns to motets and represent a decade and a half of output.' - Nico Muhly

Pop Warm-ups & Work-outs For Choir was created by Roger Emerson to provide a series of warm-ups for all choirs utilising classic rock and pop melodies to build vocal skills while having fun! Each of the ten warm-ups provide a focus objective suggested learning outcomes and related choral literature for younger and developing ensembles. Warm-ups may be used with changed or unchanged voices.Concepts covered include: vowel shapes resonance breath control head voice and falsetto articulation and diction and much more!Warm-ups are based on these pop classics: At the Hop Do-Re-Mi Don't Stop Believin' GoodVibrations Hound Dog Lean on Me The Longest Time Spinning Wheel Thriller Witch Doctor.

This 1969 pop hit by Dusty Springfield is set in a smoky gospel blues. It's a perfect feature for showchoir!

And Other Classic American Folk Songs-Oh Shenandoah & Other American Folksongs forms part of the Choral Basics series which has been carefully designed to provide rewarding varied repertoire for beginner choirs from world music to pop classics and showtunes.These American folk songs are arranged for soprano alto and combined men's voices - ideal for beginner choirs and for choirs in which the male singers are few or at the stage when their voices are changing. The straightforward piano accompaniment provides good support for the singers. Included are the beautiful title song an enchanting version of the Shaker hymn Simple gifts and a barn-storming medley of US country dances Low-down onthe Hoe-down! Stetsons at the ready...

This entertaining and straightforward arrangement for choirs was written by master arranger Philip Lawson and will be popular with choirs and audiences alike.

Festive fare for a Christmas of close harmony-The Boosey & Hawkes Concerts For Choirs series is an innovative approach to concert planning for choirs. Each volume contains a wealth of material to help the choral director assemble a concert programme - all from one volume. The anthology draws on the vast Boosey & Hawkes archive and also includes many specially-composed or newly-arranged pieces. The information included at the end of each book will give the choral director invaluable material for brief concert announcements or program notes. Christmas In Blue is a collection of familiar and not-so-familiar festive songs brought together by Nigel Short former member of the King's Singersand conductor of Tenebrae. His own new arrangements join those by Christopher Norton (Microjazz) Karl Jenkins Will Todd Geoff Richards Carol Canning (a former member of the Swingle Singers) and Ward Swingle himself.

The lively melodies of the traditional French carol Sing We Now Of Christmas play one with another in a brilliant ChoirTrax CD that is perfect for school church and community choirs. Festive and filled with joy!

The Six and Seven-part Motets (nos. 13-29)-The Heinrich Schütz: Sacred Choral Music collection can be performed vocally and/or instrumentally. These motets offer smaller choirs and ensembles new possibilities to perform these works based on historically-informed performance practice.The Basso Continuo realisation follows the composer?s intention of using the score merely as a basis for performance but with its relatively simple realisation it allows performers to create their own version.Heinrich Schütz was a German composer and organist widely regarded as the most important German composer before Bach and one of the most important composers of the17th century. Schütz is said to have written what is considered to be the first German Opera in 1627 titled Dafne (Opitz- Shütz).

The signature tune for the award-winning Swedish a cappella group Vocado HÃ¥ll Mig Kvar/Hold Me Fast is characterized by mixed messages: the lover wants to leave but can't quite bring himself to walk out the door. The flavour of the music reflects the dilemma with emotions ranging from muted acceptance in the verses to highly charged indecision in the passionate chorus. With classic a cappella rhythms and textures along with melodies that will stay with you for days this dual-language publication in the Voice Junction series is perfect for vocal groups and choirs singing in Swedish or English.HÃ¥ll mig kvar has been recordedby Vocado on the CD Northern Lights.

Instrumentation: 12voc a cappella (3 choirs)'BC ad lib Format: Sheet Music Details: (Lat.) Motet from 'Sacrae Symphoniae 1579'. Vocal Score