Popular Songs: Lower Voices a Cappella: Vocal Score

This signature song of singer/songwriter Van Morrison is one of the most popular songs from the entire decade of the 1960s and always a crowd favorite! This arrangement is true to the original accessible and fun to sing and will surely get your audience to their feet clapping and singing along!

(Medley)-One of the top groups of the 1960s The Association is known for their tight vocal harmonies and their string of chart hits. The songs continue to be popular today and this X-minute medley captures the excitement of the era. Songs include: Cherish Everything That Touches You Never My Love. Available separately: SATB SAB TTB ShowTrax CD. Duration: ca. 5:45.

Discovery Level 2-Here is one of the most popular Doo-wop songs ever. This arrangement features percussion parts for Djembe and Shaker a simple piano part and ranges that are perfect for young singers. The call and response form allows for easy learning. And since every parent in the audience will know the tune it will be lots of fun for them to join in if you want.

Jean Sibelius was not only Finland's greatest composer he was one of the most distinctive and appealing musical voices in the first half of the twentieth century especially renowned for his characterful handling of the romantic symphony orchestra. His example has led directly to an unprecedented cultural flowering in his homeland making this small country of five million people a powerhouse in the world of classical music composition and performance. Author David Hurwitz considers more than eighty of Sibelius's orchestral pieces from songs and choruses to symphonies tone poems overtures and theatrical music inviting readers to identify and enjoy the fascinating mix ofelements that make up Sibelius's colourful personal idiom. Hurwitz also features a representative selection of the best music of Sibelius's Finnish contemporaries and successors both in the text and in one of two accompanying full-length CDs. The other CD offers a rich selection of Sibelius's music including two complete symphonies and two of his most popular tone poems. Together the CDs and text allow readers to hear Sibelius in context and gain an understanding of what distinguishes him from his contemporaries how he influenced later generations and how he came to be viewed as the musical spokesperson of the Finnish nation.