Celebrate America! (NFMC)

Celebrating America from Armistice to the Moon-Celebrate the American Century and the character of a nation that had become a world power and defender of freedom and liberty. By the beginning of the 20th Century America was turning into a place where everybody wanted to be!From World War I through the Great Depression war and peace to abundant harvests America rolled up its sleeves and got to work. Its leaders challenged the nation to set lofty goals and by 1969 the first American walked on themoon. Present a century of American history on stage with this 35-minute musical revue featuring 8 original songs and some traditional favorites with connecting script and over 65 speaking parts designed for performers in upperelementary and middle school. Available separately: Teacher Edition Student Edition 5-Pak Preview CD (with vocals) Preview Pak (1 Student book 1 Preview CD Performance/Accompaniment CD and Performance Kit/CD (1 Teacher 20Student books P/A CD). Performance Time: approx. 35 minutes. Suggested for grades 4-8.

Celebrate America with some of the most beloved patriotic songs in one book! These 19 selections capture the American spirit and are sure to instill pride in anyone wishing to play or sing along. Each song, arranged for easy piano by Dan Coates, includes lyrics and chord symbols so anyone can join in the fun! / Piano

A Coast-to-Coast Musical Tribute-The music of America tells its story... from Nashville to Seattle New York to L.A. and everywhere in between the heart of America is beating in its music! Whether you're a fan of Rock and Roll or Country Broadway or Motown...you'll find it all right here! Perfect for classroom or on stage these 6 songs and short connecting narration combine for an entertaining and educational showcase! The all-in-one Teacher Edition features piano/vocal arrangements choreography and reproducible dialog and songsheets for your performers! To expand the road trip reproducible student articles are also included on Motown (Memphis & Detroit) The Country Music Hall of Fame and Grand Ole Opry the Experience Music Project in Seattle Broadway and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. So get on board for a musical road trip as we celebrate America and its song! Available: Teacher Edition ShowTrax CD and Classroom Kit(Teacher ED & CD). Performance Time: Approx. 20 minutes. For Gr. 4-8.

with America the Beautiful-Ed Lojeski's stirring arrangement of a classic American anthem is paired with an exciting new song which celebrates America's liberty and the immigrant experience. An excellent feature for many types of programs.Availableseparately: SATB SAB 2-Part and ShowTrax CD. Performance Time: Approx. 3:45.

This delightful medley of four well-known rounds with all new lyrics celebrates America as the land of opportunity. With the additon of a descant and America the Beautiful to cap off the piece Rally Round America is perfect foryour young singers' patriotic performance!

The American Songbook for Piano Voice and Guitar (PVG) Edition is modeled after one of our best-selling series for brass and reeds, Patriotic Melodies. This remarkable collection, published by Santorella Publications, contains the most requested Patriotic Songs ever assembled. Get America singing with the uplifting songs which helped to build this great nation. Whether you want to honor every branch of our military in song, sit by the fire strummin' some good ol' folk songs, or dance up a storm as if you're on Broadway by celebrating the life and times of the one and only George M. Cohan, the American Songbook has it all! This great new collection includes a 'one-of-a-kind? sing along CD that will make any gathering or event a memorable occasion. Celebrate our independence and freedom by singing these great songs of pride and triumph. / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG)

ShowTrax CD-Celebrate America - past and present - with this musical salute to America's First Ladies. From Martha Washington to Laura Bush (and easily adaptable to future First Ladies) explore the vital leadership roles these women haveplayed throughout history the challenges they faced and their commitment to America and the world. As a centerpiece the musical features John and Abigail Adams and their famous correspondence while John served as America's 2ndpresident. Through six original songs and a well-crafted script the lives of other key presidents unfolds seamlessly. The Teacher Edition includes the accompanied songs dialog staging suggestions and choreography and the SingerEdition includes vocal lines and dialog only. Songs include: Hail to the Chief (with We Are the Ladies of the White House) Dear Abby Behind Every man Dinner at the White House Together We've Come a Long Way.

Judith Clurman Choral Series-In 1814 Francis Scott Key (1779-1843) wrote new words for a well-known drinking song by John Stafford Smith (1750-1836) 'To Anacreon in Heaven' to celebrate America's recent victory over the British. In 1931 Congress passeda law proclaiming 'The Star Spangled Banner' to be the national anthem of the United States.This arrangement by Doug Katsaros was first performed at the Macy's 4th July Fireworks Spectacular onNBC television July 4th 2014. The performers were soloist Idina Menzel Judith Clurman's Essential Voices USA and Sherrie Maricle's Dive Jazz Orchestra. The recording of that performance has been added to the permanent archivesat F. McHenry in Balitmore MD.Text (Defence of Fort M'Henry by Francis Scott Key):O! say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?Whose broadstripes and bright stars through the perilous fight O'er the ramparts we watch'd were so gallantly streaming And the rockets' red glare the bombs bursting in air Gave proof through the night that our flag was stillthere-O! say does that star-spangled banner yet waveO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Transcriptions from Buckley's Banjo Guide of 1868. Par TWISS TIM. Early American Banjo by Tim Twiss provides complete banjo tablature transcriptions of the instrumental solos that first appeared in standard notation in Buckley's Banjo Guide of 1868. This modern tablature edition of over 100 mid-19th century jigs, waltzes, polkas, hornpipes and reels provides insight to the transition between the African down-stroke technique, which preceded claw-hammer style and the newer, more refined plucking technique. James Buckley (1803 â' 1872), sometimes referred to as the 'Father of the Classical Banjo,â? was one of the most prolific transcribers of early banjo music. His compositions and arrangements were performed on the minstrel stage, andhis scholarly discipline produced a lasting record of banjo music of his era. This repertoire collection includes easy tunes as well as more complex pieces suited for the concert stage. The player will delight in discovering how fresh and unusual some of this music sounds, even todayâ'all in modern banjo tab. While best experienced on a period reproduction, gut-string fretless banjo in a lower tuning, any 5-string banjo in C tuning (gCGBD) may be used to interpret this collection. Includes access to online audio. Early American Banjo by Tim Twiss provides complete banjo tablature transcriptions of the instrumental solos that first appeared in standard notation in Buckley's Banjo Guide of 1868. Thismodern tablature edition of over 100 mid-19th century jigs, waltzes, polkas, hornpipes and reels provides insight to the transition between the African down-stroke technique, which preceded claw-hammer style and the newer, morerefined plucking technique. James Buckley (1803 and ndash - 1872), sometimes referred to as the and ldquo - Father of the Classical Banjo, and rdquo - was one of the most prolific transcribers of early banjo music. His compositions andarrangements were performed on the minstrel stage, and his scholarly discipline produced a lasting record of banjo music of his era. This repertoire collection includes easy tunes as well as more complex pieces suited for theconcert stage. The player will delight in discovering how fresh and unusual some of this music sounds, even today and ndash - all in modern banjo tab. While best experienced on a period reproduction, gut-string fretless banjo ina lower tuning, any 5-string banjo in C tuning (gCGBD) may be used to interpret this collection. Includes access to online audio. / Niveau : Intermédiaire à Avancé / Musique traditionnelle d'Amérique du Nord / Date parution : 2018-05-04/ Recueil / 5-String Banjo

When the Second World War began the British March King Kenneth J. Alford (pseudonym for Major F. J. Ricketts R.M.) was increasingly in bad health and had composed relatively little music recently. As Hitler's armies marched victoriously across Europe Britain was soon alone facing the Nazi peril. Alford's great contribution to the war effort was the composition of two of his great masterpieces ARMY OF THE NILE celebrating the first Allied victories over the Germans in North Africa and EAGLE SQUADRON. The latter of these marches celebrates American airmen who travelled to England during the early years of the war (before the entry of the United States into the conflict) tovolunteer for service with the Royal Air Force serving with great distinction during the Battle of Britain. Alford skillfully weaves a number of well-known tunes into the fabric of the music including the Royal Air Force March and The Star-Spangled Banner while also including a reference to the Siegfried motive from Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung. Mark Rogers' edition of this classic march includes a handsome full score and concert size set of parts.

Transcriptions for Guitar of well-known works by J.S Bach as performed by celebrated American guitarist Christopher Parkening. Includes Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring Sheep May Safely Graze and preludes from the Well-Tempered Clavier.

Best-known for his innovations in musical theater celebrated American composer Richard Rodgers would have been 100 years old in the year 2002. This adventurous work includes a varied cross-section of his compositions from thecollaborations with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II to his Emmy award-winning film score Victory At Sea. Includes: Song of the High Seas Oklahoma The Sound of Music Bewitched The Carousel Waltz and Climb Ev'ry Mountain. Amarvelous tribute to one of the masters of melody.

Pastorale for Christmas-Though lesser known than some Christmas melodies this stately pastoral work incorporates the chorus of O Come All Ye Faithful (or Adeste Fideles) into the writing. The original melody by Yon is rather remarkable in its elegant beauty and sounds timeless and enchantingly ancient though it was written rather recently in 1917. Pietro Yon was an organist who spent most of his career at the St. Patrick Cathedral in New York. Yon was well regarded in his lifetime by fellow musicians notably among his pupils was the celebrated American songwriter Cole Porter and upon his passing in 1943 Arturo Toscanini himself was among those who attended his large funeral. This arrangementbegins solftly with a simple statement of the melody in the trumpets. The theme expands as it is passed around the various instrumental choirs with increasing use of counterpoint. Culminating in a joyous exhaultation the music winds to a gentle and serene conclusion. The score is well-cued in key sections where the melody is prominent.

13 selected arias from early baroque to classic-A clearly defined theme: strong triumphant but also forsaken and suffering protagonists all of royal blood have their say in a series of arias from the early Baroque up to the early Classical period that cover an enormous range of musical soul searching and character-drawing. It was to be an attractive mixture of the well-known and unknown for a new CD project with II Complesso Barocco - Arias with which the celebrated American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato could show all facets of her mastry. Alan Curtis pioneer of historical performance practice outstanding interpreter and musicologist set out to find unknown treasures for her that alongside the highlights of therepertoire also provide for surprises.Joyce DiDonato and Alan Curtis' Drama Queens became an exciting foray through two centuries of opera history from the dawn of the young genre in the early seventeenth up to the end of the eighteenth century in which famous aria by Monteverdi ('Disprezzata Regina' from L'incoronazione di Poppea in the complete version) Cesti ('Intorno all'idol mio' from Orontea) Handel ('Ma Quando Tornerai' from Alcina 'Piangero La Sortie Mia' from Giulio Cesare 'Brilla nell'alma' from Alessandro) and Hasse 'Morte col fiero aspetto' from Antonio e Cleopatera) are combined with Giacomelli's original 'Sposa son disprezzata' (from Merope parodied by Vivaldi in his pasticco 'Bajazet' and splendid finds by Orlandini (Da Torbida Procella' and 'Col Versar Barbaro Il Sangue' from Berenice) Keiser ('Lasciami Piangere' from Fredegunda 'Geloso Sospetto' from Octavia) and Porta ('Madre Diletta abbracciami' from Ifigenia in Aulide). Hadyn's 'Vedi se t'amo' from Armida in a transposition that is more comfortable for a mezzo-soprano concludes the program.The arias in the present edition were newly edited in some cases for the first time for the CD project. As the first volume of the 'Complesso Barocco Edition' it marks the beginning of a collaboration between Alan Curtis and Boosey & Hawkes within