SKU: HL.303776
ISBN 9781540066145. UPC: 888680969004. 9.0x12.0x0.398 inches.
The Strum Together series enables players of five different instruments - or any combination of them - to strum together on 70 great songs. This new, easy-to-use format features melody, lyrics, and chord diagrams for five popular folk instruments: standard ukulele, baritone ukulele, guitar, mandolin, and banjo. This collection includes 70 folk songs: Amazing Grace * Beautiful Dreamer * Camptown Races * (Oh, My Darling) Clementine * Danny Boy * The Drunken Sailor * The Erie Canal * Home on the Range * In the Good Old Summertime * Kumbaya * Michael Row the Boat Ashore * My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean * On Top of Old Smoky * The Red River Valley * Shenandoah * Take Me Out to the Ball Game * When the Saints Go Marching In * Yankee Doodle * and more.
SKU: HL.235867
ISBN 9781495095634. UPC: 888680694746. 9.0x12.0x0.269 inches.
50 great folk favorites simply arranged with lyrics for beginning pianists to learn. Includes: Amazing Grace • Buffalo Gals (Won't You Come Out Tonight?) • Down by the Riverside • Good Night Ladies • Home on the Range • I've Been Working on the Railroad • Kumbaya • Man of Constant Sorrow • Michael Row the Boat Ashore • My Old Kentucky Home • Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen • Oh! Susanna • The Red River Valley • Scarborough Fair • She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain • This Little Light of Mine • Turkey in the Straw • The Wabash Cannon Ball • When the Saints Go Marching In • Yankee Doodle • The Yellow Rose of Texas • and more.
About First 50
You've been taking lessons, you've got a few chords under your belt, and you're ready to buy a songbook. Now what? Hal Leonard has the answers in its First 50 series. The First 50 series steers new players in the right direction. These books contain easy to intermediate arrangements for must-know songs. Each arrangement is simple and streamlined, yet still captures the essence of the tune.
SKU: PR.312416820
UPC: 680160050376. 8.5 x 11 inches.
Chen Yi’s most performed and most beloved choral music is a series of 10 Chinese folk songs adapted for S.A.T.B. Chorus (published in 3 volumes: 312-41731, 312-41732, 312-41733). This special version is a setting of the familiar collection, adapted for children’s chorus and strings.Remembering when I studied composition in the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, I learned to sing hundreds of Chinese folk songs collected from more than twenty provinces and fifty ethnic groups, and went to countryside to collect original folk music every year. I got to know that the folk songs are a mirror of people’s daily lives, their thoughts and sentiments, local customs and manners. They are sung in regional dialects and use the idioms of everyday speech with their particular intonations, accents and cadences. This correlation between speech and music distinguishes folk songs of one region from another. I learned all songs by heart and sang them back in the exams every week. They melted in my blood and became my natural music language. The more I walk into the music life,the more I treasure the rich culture I have learned from my homeland. When I became the Composer-in-Residence of Chanticleer and was invited to write the first work for its concert program, as well as another version for its Singing-In-The-Schools program, I decided to introduce A Set of Chinese Folk Songs to my American audiences, and add a new flavor to Chanticleer’srich repertoire. The work includes ten folk songs, taken from eight provinces (Anhui, Shaanxi, Yunnan, Shanxi, Taiwan, Sinkiang, Jiangsu and Guizhou) and five ethnic groups (Han, Hasake, Uighur, Miao and Yi). I arranged them for choirs (men’s or children’s chorus) with various combinations in voices, to be sung mostly in Chinese, some in English.  From the mysterious mountain songs originally sung in the open air with high and long notes that can carry over great distances, the sweet and delicate melodies of young love compared with nature, the humorous antiphony by little children, and the lively dancing tune by villagers, you may get an idea of various music styles in Chinese folk songs according to geographic, ethnic and linguistic differences, and appreciate the beauty of the Chinese folk music. The pure choir sound and the sophisticated singing by Chanticleer, in terms of pitches, language and musical expressions, really attract and inspire me to create some more new works in the years to come. In thisedition of A Set of Chinese Folk Songs for standard SATB mixed choir (with piano rehearsal score), I divided these ten songs into three volumes. They are Fengyang Song, The Flowing Stream, Guessing, Thinking of My Darling, Mayila, Jasmine Flower, Riding on a Mule, Awariguli, Diu Diu Deng, andMountain Song and Dancing Tune.—Chen Yi.
SKU: HL.356773
ISBN 9781705113066. UPC: 840126941944. 9.0x12.0x0.345 inches.
The Strum Together series enables players of five different instruments – or any combination of them – to “strum together†on 70 great songs. This easy-to-use format features melody, lyrics, and chord diagrams for five popular folk instruments: standard ukulele, baritone ukulele, guitar, mandolin, and banjo. A great resource for beginning stringed instrument players who are ready to experience the fun of making music together! This collection includes 70 tunes perfect for your next coffeehouse gig: Across the Universe • Alison • Big Yellow Taxi • The Boys of Summer • Budapest • Constant Craving • Diamonds on the Inside • Dust in the Wind • Free Fallin' • Give a Little Bit • Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) • Hallelujah • I Melt with You • Iris • Leaving on a Jet Plane • Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) • The Scientist • You're So Vain • and more.
SKU: HL.49033370
ISBN 9783795750862. 9.0x12.0x0.311 inches. German - English. Wolff Letsch.
Finding songs for the diatonic Richter harmonica (blues harp) is not easy. Many songs can only be played in the upper octave; otherwise advanced techniques like bending have to be applied.Perry Letsch has looked through hundreds of German songs and examined them for their suitability. The results are songs suitable both for the beginner and the advanced player. Some songs have been provided with their own solos. Apart from popular folk songs the edition includes standards such as Abilene, Blue Bossa or Dona, Dona.Play-along CD with all titles included.
SKU: BR.CHB-5364-00
Sephardic Folk Songs, also suitable for non-professional choirs.
ISBN 9790004412947. 7.5 x 10.5 inches.
The Sephardic culture originates from the Jewish population of Spain that was banished at the end of the 15th century and afterwards spread to the whole of the Mediterranean area, the Balkan and North Africa. Its unique Spanish dialect Ladino was preserved, finding musical expression in ballads, lyrical and paraliturgical songs for the most part. The choir conductor and composer Ohad Stolarz took eight of these Sephardic Folk Songs and arranged them as a cappella settings for four-part mixed choir. These arrangements may be performed both as a cycle and individually, being also suitable for non-professional choirs due to their lack of difficulty. The musically and harmonically colorful, partly also exotic pieces therefore present an enrichment for the program of every interculturally interested choir. The informative preface and the translations of the lyrics into German and English enable the content-related engagement with Sephardic culture, too. Further choral literature on this topic can be found in the volumes Sepharad and Aschkenaz by Alon Wallach.Audio samples: RIAS Kammerchor, dir. Justin Doyle, recording by Deutschlandfunk KulturSephardic Folk Songs, also suitable for non-professional choirs.
SKU: HL.49023849
ISBN 9783795756758. 6.25x9.5x0.967 inches. German. Claudia Schmidt.
Das Liederbuch enthalt 243 Lieder mit Erklarungen, bearbeitet fur Gesangstimmen (ein bis vier Stimmen) und Gitarrenbegleitung. Der thematische Bogen reicht von Kinderliedern, Volksliedern, franzosischen Chansons uber Spirituals, Folk Songs und Schlager bis hin zu Rock und Pop. Alle Lieder sind als leichte bis mittelschwere Arrangements gut nachzuspielen. Das Buch enthalt Basisinformationen zu jedem Kapitel, begleitende Texte und Erlauterungen zu soziokulturellen Hintergrunden von Autoren und Liedern. Diese Sammlung der besten Lieder und Songs ist mehr als ein Schulliederbuch! Sie ist das ideale Songbook fur Freizeit, Hobby und gesellige Anlasse.
SKU: BR.CHB-5364
The Sephardic culture originates from the Jewish population of Spain that was banished at the end of the 15th century and afterwards spread to the whole of the Mediterranean area, the Balkan and North Africa. Its unique Spanish dialect Ladino was preserved, finding musical expression in ballads, lyrical and paraliturgical songs for the most part. The choir conductor and composer Ohad Stolarz took eight of these Sephardic Folk Songs and arranged them as a cappella settings for four-part mixed choir. These arrangements may be performed both as a cycle and individually, being also suitable for non-professional choirs due to their lack of difficulty. The musically and harmonically colorful, partly also exotic pieces therefore present an enrichment for the program of every interculturally interested choir. The informative preface and the translations of the lyrics into German and English enable the content-related engagement with Sephardic culture, too. Further choral literature on this topic can be found in the volumes Sepharad and Aschkenaz by Alon Wallach.Audio samples: RIAS Kammerchor, dir. Justin Doyle, recording by Deutschlandfunk KulturThe melodies are often quirky, the vocal ranges are unchallenging and there is plenty of material at the back of the volume to help with translation and pronunciation. A group of these a cappella pieces in a concert would be a most attractive proposition.(Jeremy Jackman, Choir and Organ)Sephardic Folk Songs, also suitable for non-professional choirs.
SKU: AP.43438
UPC: 038081489780. English. Sally K. Albrecht; recording orch. Tim Hayden.
Here's a great way to introduce young singers to classic patriotic and folk songs while developing independent part-singing. These well-known favorites will never go out of style! You may even want to invite the audience to sing along in performance. Includes easy-to-teach staging suggestions for eight of the twelve selections. Recommended for grades two through seven.
SKU: OU.9780193556911
ISBN 9780193556911. 11 x 9 inches.
For solo cello Conceived as a set, these eight songs are drawn from several Chinese regions. In this new arrangement the music has been refashioned for Western instruments, with stylistic bowing and fingering. Suitable for early-intermediate level students, the pieces are accompanied by programme notes.
SKU: KJ.GB855F
This delightful work features the Irish folk songs Cockles and Mussels and The Wearing of the Green. The first movement teaches legato and the lively second movement is written in a marcato style. Using only eight notes in each part, this selection is perfect for any first year band concert! Correlates With Best In Class Bk. 1 Page 13 / SOE Bk. 1 Page 17.