Ready to Sing Classics – Volume 3

SKU: WD.080689541179

UPC: 080689541179.

Choral Classics is a new choral collection featuring 14 all-time favorite songs and arrangements by today’s most gifted arrangers for the Church. These songs are 14 all-time winners, embraced by thousands of singers across the world, ready to be re-introduced to a new generation of choirs eager to be a relevant voice without leaving behind songs that have helped build the platforms on which they stand.

Newly mixed and re-mastered, and now available for the first time with Accompaniment Split-Trax CDs and Practice Trax, Choral Classics from The Word Choral Club is poised to reconnect these powerful songs in a fresh new way with those who already love and cherish them, while proudly introducing them to a new audience to enjoy for many years to come.

SKU: CY.CC3052

ISBN 9790530110270. 8.5 x 11 in inches.

Mick Hesse has written a warmup routine in three chapters using his 50+ year career as a performing artist and teacher to help mature performers get and stay in shape throughout the course of a season. In his own words: These 3 Stages of practice are designed to help you get started and keep you practicing in a fundamentally sound way. The exercises start with a five minute time limit and move seamlessly to six and seven minutes of playing. Once memorized these sequences will allow you to pick up your horn and be ready to play a rehearsal with a properly warmed up embouchure in five minutes. If your schedule allows 11 or 18 minutes you can be assured that you are not only warmed up but also maintaining a properly functioning embouchure that you can build on as much as time, energy and motivation allows. Rest as needed during this practice session.

SKU: CY.CC2101

Bach's Unaccompanied Suites beautifully and meticulously edited for Trumpet by Ralph Sauer, are now available for the first time in pdf format on a CD-ROM disk ready to print out as needed. Mr. Sauer's thoughtful version of the Six Suites gives the performer room to breathe musically. To quote Mr. Sauer and Pablo Casals,I refrained from using fanciful descriptive terms such as con brio, or quasi una fantasia because they may suggest a particular style...This transcription is not intended to be a blueprint to be followed exactly, but rather, it is the raw material from which a personal interpretation can be built.To quote Pablo Casals, Where interpreting Bach's music is concerned, there are no hard and fast rules...The best thing to do is to discard all preconceived ideas and try to approach in our performances whatever the music conveys to us....

SKU: HL.35031314

ISBN 9781495077791. UPC: 888680650469. 8.5x11 inches.

Mark Burrows gave us “The Ultimate Gettin' Down with Mama Goose” in a collection packed with music, rhyme and fun! His creative mind continues using the Mother Goose rhymes in this collection, GETTIN' DOWN WITH MAMA GOOSE 4.0, inspiring teachers and students with a variety of subjects, musical styles, texts, languages and smart activities that take learning to a whole new level all while reinforcing literacy! This budget stretcher features piano/vocal arrangements, as well as digital access to performance/accompaniment audio recordings and singer PDFs for projection and reproducible options. Songs include: Mama Goose Is Ready, Little Bo, Jack and Jill, Knick-Knack, Miss Mary Mack, Humpty Dumpty and more! Suggested for grades K-3.

SKU: CY.CC3149

ISBN 9790530111178. 8.5 x 11 in inches.

Reinhold Gliere's Concerto for Coloratura Soprano and Orchestra, Op. 82 was written in 1942-1943 and shows off the composer's gentle melodic musical style reminiscent of Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and even Wagner. The choice of a vocal soloist singing without words was not new at that time, as Rachmaninov's beautiful Vocalise had already been composed. But....adding a full orchestra to the mix was a gamble that paid off, as this is one of Gliere's finest works. The Concerto consists of two movements -- Andante and Allegro and is about 14 minutes in length. The 1st movement's rich melodies are full of lush harmonic textures and the work drives from climax to climax. The finale Allegro is lighthearted and bounces along merrily to the end. Gordon Cherry's arrangement for Alto Trombone with Piano accompaniment reduction brings a major new work to the Alto Trombone repertoire. This work can also be performed on the Tenor Trombone, however, the style of the work makes it perfect for the Alto Trombone. Appropriate for advanced performers. (Under license from G. Schirmer Music).

SKU: CA.240900

ISBN 9790007186104.

Anyone looking for a wide-ranging selection from the classic treasury of songs from German-speaking countries in a beautifully-produced volume will strike lucky with this song book. Families with children will enjoy using this volume over the years. The choice of songs is as colorful as life itself: songs for celebrations, for telling stories, playing, laughing and dancing, enjoying the seasons, friendship, the pleasures and pains of love, going to sleep. As well as folk songs, the book also contains songs from other countries which have already become standards, plus lots of rounds. The song book contains over 160 songs with melodies, texts, and chord symbols. The singalong CD (mp3 format) contains one or two verses of all the songs recorded on different instruments. An invaluable support for learning and singing together. Frank Walka has produced numerous expressive paintings specially for the song book. Scattered throughout the music pages as double page illustrations, these invite you to explore the songs and tell their stories in a unique way. Die schonsten Lieder (The most beautiful songs) is part of the prize-winning LIEDERPROJEKT. There is a voice and piano volume for the song book containing accompaniments to all the songs, as well as two CD collections.