Format : Vocal Score
Now available for mixed choirs and with a digital combo pak! You'll have a sleighride full of merriment with this bright and cheery song originally recorded by the Andrews Sisters. Great for developing diction and harmonic skills it's a sure audience pleaser!
SKU: HL.211606
UPC: 888680661601. 6.75x10.5 inches.
Ideal for developing choirs! This accessible setting of the Andrews Sisters classic offers a sleigh-ride full of merriment with this bright and cheery song with great opportunities to build intonation and diction skills.
SKU: HL.118781
UPC: 884088901080. 6.75x10.5x0.036 inches.
Now available for mixed choirs and with a digital combo pak! You'll have a sleighride full of merriment with this bright and cheery song originally recorded by the Andrews Sisters. Great for developing diction and harmonic skills, it's a sure audience pleaser!
SKU: AP.49726
UPC: 038081568133. English. Words by Haven Gillespie.
Jolly jing-a-ling-a's provide hip transitions and bright bookends in this jazzed-up version of the great Christmas standard. Kirby's arrangement fits the tune like a glove, and will last in your library year after year. Eight bars in the middle may be repeated as many times as desired, and opened up to include vocal and/or instrumental soloists, improvisation, scat singing, gradual stacking of written lines, etc. Just be sure to save a little something for the shout chorus that follows! SoundPax includes four horn parts, but easily adapts for rhythm section alone.
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: LO.15-3342H
ISBN 9780787731977.
This concise arrangement seamlessly strings together six carol favorites, featuring various twists on meter and style while maintaining accessibility. It is perfect as a festive opener or closer that audiences and singers will love. (The sample recording for this piece is the Three-part Mixed voicing.).
SKU: OU.9780193870529
ISBN 9780193870529. 11 x 9 inches.
For SATB with optional children's choir, and piano or piano four hands or chamber orchestra or full orchestra This is the perfect set of carols for a Christmas concert. A medley of favourites - 'Deck the hall', 'Jingle Bells', 'O Christmas Tree', 'The Wassail Song', and 'We wish you a merry Christmas' - all arranged with flair and ingenuity with suggestions for audience participation!
