Format : Score and Parts
SKU: GI.G-J13
ISBN 9781579994806. English.
This vast collection of 680 songs stands alone as a resource for the general music classroom no matter what music series you use. It is even a required text at universities around the United States. Together in one place is a vast assortment of songs for the general music teacher, including virtually all the classics, dozens of Orff orchestrations, keyboard accompaniments, and more—everything from “Ally Bally” to “Eleanor Rigby” in one convenient place.
SKU: HL.1315784
ISBN 9798350110289. UPC: 196288179030. 9.0x12.0 inches.
Even if you've just started to learn how to play keyboard, you can play nearly 50 beautiful pop and standard songs with iconic melodies thanks to this Super Easy Songbook. These arrangements feature no page turns, simple right-hand melodies, letter names inside each note, and basic left-hand chord diagrams along with lyrics. This edition features 46 songs, including: All Is Found ? Bridge over Troubled Water ? Canon in D ? Crazy ? Dos Oruguitas ? Easy on Me ? Faithfully ? Fields of Gold ? Fur Elise, WoO 59 ? Hey Jude ? I See the Light ? Let It Be ? Lift Me Up ? A Million Dreams ? Open Arms ? Reflection ? Sunrise, Sunset ? Unchained Melody ? What Was I Made For? ? You Raise Me Up ? You Will Be Found ? and more.
SKU: HL.282481
ISBN 9781540034380. UPC: 888680789251. 9.0x12.0x0.965 inches.
The 1990s saw the rise of R&B, boy bands and alternative rock as the 20th century came to a close. This collection features 80 songs from the decade arranged for easy piano with lyrics: Always Be My Baby * As Long As You Love Me * ...Baby One More Time * Black Velvet * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Dreams * Fields of Gold * Friends in Low Places * Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) * How Am I Supposed to Live Without You * I Need to Know * I'm the Only One * Ironic * Livin' La Vida Loca * Losing My Religion * More Than Words * Only Wanna Be with You * Smells like Teen Spirit * Smooth * Tears in Heaven * Under the Bridge * You Must Love Me * You're Still the One * and more.
SKU: PR.111402890
ISBN 9781491134672. UPC: 680160685264.
What??s in a name? While the title is French for ??Eight Flower Songs,? the texts are all in English. The poems?? flowers metaphorically evoke fragrance, love and loss, life and death, rebirth and regrowth. Perhaps the texture and beauty of Gordon??s music are themselves French. The 20-minute song cycle draws on poems from Wordsworth to Dorothy Parker, as well as from contemporary poets including the composer himself.When So-Chung Shinn came to me with the idea of commissioning a song cycle with her spectacular husband Tony Lee, she had in mind something having to do with flowers. Tony had asked her what she wanted for her birthday, and she said she wanted to be behind the creating of a new work. Lucky me, I was the recipient of the commission. So-Chung sent me a little description of all the flowers she loves, but I had to take the idea and create a narrative in my head.It is always a matter of pleasing the commissioner, yet coming up with something you can get behind and hear music for as well. I already knew I wanted to use my ??Tulips? poem which is really about the arc of a relationship as represented through the life span of the Tulips, and, in many ways, disappointment; and Dorothy Parker??s ??One Perfect Rose,? which is wry, bitter, cynical, and funny, in a way only Dorothy Parker can so pithily express.I thought of Jane Kenyon??s exquisite ??Peonies at Dusk,? because knowing she died so young (46) of leukemia, the poem has such a particular resonance, almost humanizing the Peonies, casting the moon as a sentient being, illustrating so beautifully how connected everything is, alive here, and revolving around these exquisite blossoms. Then, I remembered her husband Donald Hall??s poem ??Her Garden,? which he wrote after Jane died, his grief intermingled with his inability to care for what she had created, to keep alive what so represented her aliveness, broken as he was, and I felt I already had a story.I found the Wordsworth, because it felt like pure joy to me, but also, if each of the songs has a color in my head, ??The Daffodils? is pure yellow and a good place to start. My partner Kevin and I live on a lake, and every year, the first Daffodils, the shock of yellows, the oranges, the blinding whites, after the long snowy winters, sing of the newness that is about to enfold us in its green miraculousness.At first, the cycle ended with the Langston Hughes poem ??Cycle,? or ??New Flowers,? because it was lovely, and about rebirth, which is obviously optimistic, and apt, but then, my friend Telmo Dos Santos, a wonderful Canadian poet whom I met at Banff, sent me his poem ??Afterlife With Lilacs,? having no idea what I was working on. I felt I had to add it because it is so dazzling, and it immediately felt like the missing link. Finally, there were unfortunately rights issues, namely, we could not, no how, get in touch with the Langston Hughes Estate, after so many happy collaborations.After almost a year??s frustration, I wrote my own text, ??Play, Orpheus,? which ended up being fortuitous, because the first time I met So-Chung, she entered the room and the most exquisite scent of Lillies of the Valley, Muguet de Bois, filled the room. I went right over to her and rudely put my nose to her neck, for the intoxication of the scent. So ??Play, Orpheus? is for So-Chung, to remind us of the precious treasures of this world flowers remind us of. Everything and everyone lives and dies, lives and dies. Death and resurrection.And of course, this is music, this is song, so the inclusion of the God of music, Orpheus, seems apt. Huit Chansons de Fleurs is really about what flowers represent, their radiance, their flickering impermanence, the way they are used to celebrate, as well as to mourn...... and of course, their fragrance. Their fragrance.Ricky Ian GordonJuly 28, 2021.
