Mack Wilberg: How Can I Keep From Singing?: SATB: Vocal Score

Mack Wilberg's Christmas Is Coming for SATB and Piano 4-hands or Orchestra. This jovial and spirited carol is sure to bring a smile to many faces at Christmas-time. The traditional text is augmented with additional lyrics by David Warner and Wilberg puts the melody through a wealth of festive musical treatments. Voices range from unison up to six parts with some verses in canon and the music goes through five different keys keeping everyone on their toes! The Piano-duet part not only accompanies the choir but adds several layers of interest and colour with a bass drone glittering flourishes in the upperregister and passages evoking sleigh bells. Perfect for use as a closing piece or encore in a Christmas concert.

Ed. Maitland-Squire Rev. Dover Edition-'The most remarkable and in many respects the most valuable collection of Elizabethan keyboard music' (Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians). The close to 300 airs variations fantasies toccatas pavanes galliards allemandes and courantes in these two volumes include some of the finest examples of Elizabethan and Jacobean Music: Morley Gibbons Farnaby Warrock Ferdinando Richardson Peter Phillips Tomkins and practically every other composer of the virginalistic school. John Bull and William Byrd two of England's greatest composers are represented by over 100 works. The pieces herein while composed for the virginal can be played without difficulty on thepiano or any other keyboard instrument. Maitland and Squire set the music into modern notation preserving faithfully the intent of the composers.