Noël 2 is an exciting collection of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany music for mixed voice choirs, which follows on from the highly acclaimed Noël! Volume 1 (Catalogue No. NOV310800). The contents range from the Renaissance to the present: from Byrd and Sweelinck, via Bach, familiar settings of traditional and lesser known carols through the ages to Howells and Leighton, and work by today's composers including Richard Rodney Bennett, Eric Whitacre, John Tavener Tarik O'Regan and Richard Allain. Mixed voice choirs of all levels will find here new arrangements of favourite carols as well as stimulating works for the Christmas season, from the easy to learn to the more challenging and unconventional. Selected and edited by David Hill, Choral Advisor to Novello, Chief Conductor of the BBC singers, Musical Director of The Bach Choir, Chief Conductor of The Southern Sinfonia and Music Director of Leeds Philharmonic Society. He was awarded an honorary Doctorate by the University of Southampton in 2002 in recognition of his Services to Music. 'Noël was a welcome addition to the Christmas list for decent standard choirs - Noël 2 adds even more to the repertoire in a handy volume... The main enticements are some fantastic new arrangements of old favourites, a number of works previously only available in single sheets (Whitacre's Lux Arumque among others) and some fantastic new surprises. Adrian Peacock's Venite, Gaudete is a wonderfully original and vibrant setting, Richard Rodney Bennet's I Wonder as I Wander is both reflective and effective, and there are plenty more. Some of the pieces here will challenge your choir, but there's a vast amount to get the Christmas inspiration flowing. ' - Jonathan Wikeley, Music Teacher November 2009 '?an outstanding resource for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany ' Andrew Stewart, Choir and amp - Organ November/December 2010 Noel! 2 Interview With David Hill by Musicroom / Choeur SATB Et Orgue (Ou Piano)

Inspired by the huge Japanese temple bells and written to celebrate a royal wedding this two-minute fanfare by John Williams may be the ultimate concert opener! Originally conceived for brass and percussion it was later scoredfor orchestra by Williams and used by the Boston Pops. This edition for band features a festive aura and the splendidly powerful writing that we have come to expect from Mr. Williams.

Matching folio to the hit soundtrack album from the hugely popular motion picture starring Renee Zellweger. Includes songs by Chaka Khan Robbie Williams Shelby Lynne and Artful Dodger and the hit single from Geri Halliwell It's Raining Men. Arranged for piano and voice with guitar chord boxes.

The Oxford Book Of Christmas Carols has to be one of the most famous and complete of all carol collections. This book contains 197 carols. The majority are for the Christmas season but some are intended for Passiontide Easter or for other seasons of the year. All but 30 have traditional carol tunes mostly with traditional texts.

Kaleidoscope will save you time! Do you spend hours arranging music for odd assortments of instruments? Kaleidoscope is specially arranged to suit almost any instrumental combination and these varied ensembles are easy andenjoyable too. So much scope for virtually any combination of instruments!The series is successful with recorders guitars percussion and keyboard as well as with orchestral groupings. Whether there are five or fiftyplayers every Kaleidoscope title will work! Just make sure that melody and keyboard parts are included - all other parts are optional. Kaleidoscope is superb value for money - each set contains a score plus around 50 parts eachone carefully written to suit the needs of each instrument. For example easy string parts are in first position only whilst easy clarinet parts take care to avoid the break. There are more demanding parts too for experiencedplayers. To help you choose the right pieces for your players we have given the key of each Kaleidoscope in brackets. The complete performance option! These super-flexible arrangements of well-known titles are a must forevery school. Why not choose a theme for your concert and perform a selection of Kaleidoscope show titles and film themes or have an evening of classical favourites? In G. Edited by Nicholas Hare.

Paperback-Born 200 years ago this year and orphaned at the age of 3 Sterndale Bennett was brought up by his grandfather in Cambridge where he sang in the choir of King's College before entering the Royal Academy of Music to study the piano at the age of 10. He was later to become Professor of Music at Cambridge and Principal of the RAM. This fine eight-part setting of verses from Psalm 71 written towards the end of his life explores imitative and antiphonal textures.

This outstanding series is an encouragement to beginning singers in preparing a vocal solo. Songs have been carefully chosen for each voice type after consulting many official state contest repertoire lists. All the songs for instance are on the Texas list. The series will be useful to any novice singer not just limited to those preparing an actual contest solo. Each volume contains 10 songs: 5 art songs in English an African-American spiritual 2 songs in Italian a song in German and a song in Spanish. There are new editions and engravings of all songs. Biographical information is included on each composer. Interpretive suggestions are given for each song and the prefaceon Learning a Song is especially instructive. Each companion CD includes beautiful performances of all the songs by a professional singer and excellent accompaniments by pianist Laura Ward. Also on the CD are pronunciation guides in Italian German and Spanish. Mezzo-Soprano Book Contents: An die Musik · The Blue-Bell · He Shall Feed His Flock · My Lord What a Mornin' · Now Is the Month of Maying · Nymphs and Shepherds · Ombra mai fù · Porque toco el pandero · Silent Noon · Vergin tutto amor.

Vocal ScoreCantata for Baritone Solo SSAA chorus and orchestra Following the revelatory release of A London Symphony in its original version the publication of Willow-wood is another landmark in our deepening understanding of the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams.Last performed in 1909 the year of The Wasps and On Wenlock Edge this setting of four sonnets by the Victorian poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti has recently been reconstructed from the autograph score and orchestral material made available on hire from the publisher. Reflecting the veiled eroticism and sombre atmosphere of the texts the music is dark-hued andsensuous its wordless female choir looking forward to the Five Mystical Songs A Sea Symphony and Flos Campi. In this heightened atmosphere of Pre-Raphaelite passion the composer\'s richly chromatic harmonies sound an unfamiliar note and the piece which lasts about 14 minutes will not only fascinate specialists but also have a broad appeal to many lovers of English music for whom it will be a significant discovery. A recording of Willow-wood on the Naxos label is scheduled for release early in 2006.

Welcome to Slap Bass In 6 Weeks. These DVDs are designed to help you achieve the motor skills and technique that are necessary to master this style of bass playing. Unlike written tuition this style is perfect for DVD as all the examples are visual and broken down into manageable and easy to follow chunks.If you have been frustrated or confused by other educational material covering this style this course is for you. It reveals the hidden concepts behind one of the most exciting styles of bass playing. You will be able to map your progress week by week and focus in on the areas you feel need work using simple and effective examples andtechnique builders with the slap bass in 6 weeks bass course.This material is presented to you in easy to absorb chunks. At the end of these DVDs you WILL be playing slap bass.WEEK 6Tips and Tricks. drop D tuning.Solo Exercises using technique within the pentatonic scaleUse of technique learnt so far.Increasing the tempos.

Welcome to Slap Bass In 6 Weeks. These DVDs are designed to help you achieve the motor skills and technique that are necessary to master this style of bass playing. Unlike written tuition this style is perfect for DVD as all the examples are visual and broken down into manageable and easy to follow chunks.If you have been frustrated or confused by other educational material covering this style this course is for you. It reveals the hidden concepts behind one of the most exciting styles of bass playing. You will be able to map your progress week by week and focus in on the areas you feel need work using simple and effective examples andtechnique builders with the slap bass in 6 weeks bass course.This material is presented to you in easy to absorb chunks. At the end of these DVDs you WILL be playing slap bass.WEEK 5More complex bass lines at faster temposTechnique builders using 8 bar exercisesIntroduction of melody style riffs in the style of Marcus Miller/Stanley ClarkeWorking up non open string slap style and fretted note fast funky thumb hits.

Welcome to Slap Bass In 6 Weeks. These DVDs are designed to help you achieve the motor skills and technique that are necessary to master this style of bass playing. Unlike written tuition this style is perfect for DVD as all the examples are visual and broken down into manageable and easy to follow chunks.If you have been frustrated or confused by other educational material covering this style this course is for you. It reveals the hidden concepts behind one of the most exciting styles of bass playing. You will be able to map your progress week by week and focus in on the areas you feel need work using simple and effective examples andtechnique builders with the slap bass in 6 weeks bass course.This material is presented to you in easy to absorb chunks. At the end of these DVDs you WILL be playing slap bass.WEEK 3Use of more ghost note muting and dead note pops and pullsTechnique builders using 8 bar exercisesFretted and muted popped notesFretted and muted popped notes with triplets.Ghost note shuffles in the style of Mark King/ Stanley Clarke

Wind Of Change (Scorpions) gives its name to this new volume, joining other top titles of absolute rock veterans like Metallica (Nothing Else Matters) and The Beatles (From Me To You).For film music fans, the volume contains the ballad It Must Have Been Love (Roxette) and the melancholic song Mad World by Gary Jules.The arrangements are written specially for the violin so they are easy to play and sound impressive. / Violon