All Around A Cappella

A unique guide to teaching unaccompanied singing!Gitika Partington's a cappella arrangements are used by youth and community choirs around the world.Gitika believes in the sensational power of group singing bringing people together to express joy and celebration through song. Not being able to read music is no obstacle and Gitika's tips and the original arrangements included here demonstrate just how rewarding and inclusive teaching a cappella by ear and gesture can be!Gitika Partington is a singer/songwriter vocal arranger teacher and choral director. She has an MA in choral education and holds many other musical qualifications. Sheruns regular 'popular and world style' singing workshops as well as national training sessions for adults and children. In addition she runs three adult community choirs where all the music is learned by ear and is mostly self arranged.One of Gitika's major loves is a cappella vocal arranging which she does for her three choirs and her vocal workshops. Her arrangements are used by youth and community choirs across the UK and internationally. This book contains the first of many of her arrangements she would like to share even more widely.She is a member of the Natural Voice Practitioner Network an organisation that believes in singing as a spontaneous way of expressing joy celebration and grief and as a medium for binding communities together. Gitika shares the network's belief that singing together should be available to all and is not about having 'a good voice'. All of her groups are non-audition and open to anyone who wants to sing.

for Pop and Jazz Choirs. What choral conductor or soloist has not looked around for new ideas for warming up the voice? Here are over 39 creative exercises which do more than just warm up the voice: they help to relax the body, train the ear and develop an awareness of dynamics and rhythm. Two top authors, Deke Sharon and J.D. Frizzell, have provided a wide array of warm ups specifically designed for pop and jazz choirs but these warm ups will work well for contemporary a cappella groups of all sizes and styles. Every vocal ensemble has its strengths and weaknesses which vary from year to year. The warmups within can to help polish your weak spots and hone your strengths. Regardless of your group_x001A_s strengths, this book is can help you address the full range of skills required for great musicmaking. Topics include: Rhythm, Syllables, Tone, Intervals, Dynamics, Intonation, Blend, Balance, Pitch, Improvisation, Solo Techniques, and Vocal Percussion.

As performed by Queen-As part of the ‘Pop Choral Series’ We Will Rock You has been arranged by Mark Brymer for TTBB Voices with Piano accompaniment. We Will Rock You is a song written by Brian May and recorded and performed by Queen for their album News of the World. Since its release We Will Rock You has been covered remixed sampled parodied referenced and used by multiple recording artists TV shows films and other media worldwide. The song has become a staple at sports events around the world as a stadium anthem mostly due to its simple rhythm. Your whole crowd will join in with the stomps and claps as you perform this rock and roll classic! This iconic 1978 pop hit by Queen will bring down the house!

for mixed voices a capella. Par BRYARS GAVIN. Laude' were short mediaeval devotional songs to the Virgin Mary, and Gavin Bryars has kept to the pure, lyrical style of the originals. Following the successful publication of Bryars' first volume of laude which singers around the world have added to their repertoire, this second volume for various combinations of a cappella voices provides new opportunities for performers and audiences to experience these devastatingly beautiful works. / Date parution : 2009-11-20/ Répertoire / Voix Mixtes a Cappella

Masterpiece was written by British composer conductor pianist and teacher Paul Drayton and sung by the King's Singers in their 2005 DVD release 'From Byrd to the Beatles'. Arranged here for SATB Voices with Piano accompaniment.The King's Singers are a British a cappella vocal ensemble founded in 1968. They are named after King's College in Cambridge England where the group was formed by six choral scholars. In the United Kingdom their popularity peaked in the 1970s and early 1980s. Thereafter they began to reach a wider international audience. Today the ensemble travels worldwide for itsperformances appearing in around 125 concerts each year mostly in Europe the U.S. and the Far East.

With both an English and a Swedish text, this simple tune and comforting text are perfect for general church services or the concert stage. The melody is passed around from one voice part to another but the part writing is deliberately simple, with no divisi except at the very end. / Choeur SATB A Cappella

It is now impossible to imagine a world without Imagine an enduring hymn of solace and promise that has carried us through extreme grief and continues to provide hope all around the world up to this day.The immortal song was the best selling single of the solo career of John Lennon the co-founder of the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music the Beatles; a legend who hardly needs any introduction. Since its release in 1971 the song has sold more than 1.6 million copies just in the UK and has been recorded and performed by dozens of artists including Madonna Stevie Wonder Elton John and DianaRoss.As part of the Pop Choral Series John Lennon’s signature song has been arranged for SATB a cappella choir by Roger Emerson. Named one of the 100 most-performed songs of the 20th century and played just before the New Year's Times Square Ball drops in New York City since 2005 Lennon’s plea for world peace remains relevant and timeless a guaranteed audience favourite.

This collection presents five Christina Rossetti poems set by Per Drud Nielsen for unaccompanied SATB choir.'Had Christina Rossetti lived 40 years earlier and not written in English but in German I am convinced that the many Lied-composers in the first half of the 19th century would have gathered around her. And in many ways I have set her poems to music in the spirit of the Lied tradition: I have made use of simple modified strophic forms. And if you hear a loan from a well-known Schumann-Lied in one of my Rossetti-songs you are not mistaken. - Per Drud Nielsen

POD-The Boar's Head Carol is a work by Malcolm Williamson for Unaccompanied SATB Choir. A setting of a traditional carol a full performance lasts around 3 minutes.

This setting of the opening to Psalm 102 was composed in the early 1680s. Purcell who was in his early twenties had succeeded John Blow as organist of Westminster Abbey around the beginning of the decade and his star was in the ascendant as a court composer.In this piece he pulls off a remarkable compositional coup: a single gradual climax lasting over two minutes and culminating on the final repetition of the word 'come' is achieved through a sublime freely developing eight-part weave of the opening material. The harmonies that result from the chromatic inflections on the word 'crying' all serve the mounting tension in this extraordinary miniature.Studyof the autograph manuscript suggest that this anthem was intended to be the opening part of a larger work which was never completed.

May Carol is a work by Peter John Still for Unaccompanied SATB Choir. It lasts around 2 minutes.

In The Departure Of The Lord is a work by composer John Bull for Unaccompanied SATB Choir. A setting of a poem by Sir William Leighton from 'The Teares and Lamentatacions of a Sorrowful Soule' a performance lasts around one minute.

Here We Come A-Wassailing is a work by John Joubert for Unaccompanied SATB Choir. A setting of a traditional Yorkshire Wassail a full performance lasts around 3 minutes.

Owain Park's Judas Mercator Pessimus is a work for SSAATTBB Choir with Semichorus Unaccompanied. The work was composed for Stephen Layton and The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge and is a setting of the 5th Tenebrae Responsory for Maundy Thursday. A full performance lasts around 7 minutes.