Who Is This Child?

Christina Rosetti's lovely poem clearly inspired David Childs to write this fine work for young voices. Well suited for children's choirs and youth choruses with opportunities to express the beautiful imagery of the text.Duration: ca. 3:40. Performed by Le Petit Choeur - Lynn Gackle conductor

Women's advanced high school and college choirs will love this musical interpretation of the inspirational text painting the awakening world of all creatures in dance-like rhythms. The extra effort needed for this enlivening work will reward you with a beautiful concert experience! Duration: ca. 5:30.

This sensitive setting with text adapted from Song of Solomon can be used in worship or concert performance. It moves beautifully between different moods marked expressive flowing and with motion. A perfect selection forfestival high school choirs college and beyond.

This romantic work written for the composer's bride is built around fragments of Sufi Rumi poetry for a truly emotional setting. It requires a choir with mature sound advanced high school college and beyond.

This is a delightful arrangement of this childrens favourite. Comes with full score and three of each part.

This is suitable for both small and large casts. There are few props and the simplest of sets making this musical ideal for use in open plan school halls and churches. The songs are effective and evocative yet simple enough foryoung children to easily learn and deliver with enthusiasm. Script available in student book.You will require a license to perform this work at your school/youth theatre; please click here for more information and our application form.

This illustrated volume contains over 300 all-time favorite songs for children of all ages. This handsome treasury will provide countless hours of musical fun for parents teachers and kids alike. Includes The Teddy Bears'Picnic The Animal Fair Hot Cross Buns Jack And Jill The Muffin Man plus many more.

A Bandsman’s Overture was commissioned by British Bandsman magazine to celebrate its 125th anniversary in 2012. It was premiered by Black Dyke Band conducted by Dr Nicholas Childs at a special anniversary concert held in Symphony Hall Birmingham on July 1st.British Bandsman was for a period known as British Bandsman and Contest Field following an amalgamation of two magazines. The then owner John Henry Iles celebrated this new title by commissioning Ord Hume to write the famous march BB & CF. As a salute to this heritage A Bandsman’s Overture starts with the four notes B(b)-B(b)-C-F a motive which permeates an opening fanfare which contrasts a busy opening with a more legato central section. This gives way to a bustling Vivo based on repeated staccato notes. A change of key heralds a central cantabile melody first on euphoniums and baritone and then played by the full band which is followed by a short development section. This leads to a transformed reprise and a return of the opening fanfare decorated this time by florid muted cornets.

Complete Edition. Supplementary Volume 16 of the New Liszt Edition contains free arrangements and technical exercises. In the first section can be found early versions of three arrangements. The first consists of the first and intermediary versions of a transcription of Die Rose, a song Schubert composed to a poem by Schlegel. The arrangement of the second movement of Berlioz's Harold Symphony also draws on literary inspiration: Lord Byron's (1788-1824) narrative poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-18) was a literary experience Liszt shared with Berlioz. The fantasy on themes from Bellini's opera La sonnambula [The Sleepwalker] (here the first version of 1842, and the second version dating from the following decade are given) is important in music history because it was while he worked on this (and other operatic fantasies) that Liszt developed a new concept of the form, which took shape in more complex and more concentrated fantasies than before. Particularly interesting material can be found in the appendix. In addition to sketches and drafts for arrangements of Spanish themes, there are three sources published here for the first time, which shed light on technical aspects of Liszt's piano teaching. These are three sets of exercises: the first written by Liszt himself for Valérie Boissier in 1832; the second a copy in an unidentified hand from the same period or slightly later; and finally the third which was noted down in 1871 by Henri Maréchal in Rome based on the composer's dictation. This latest volume of the New Liszt Edition includes a detailed preface in German, English, and Hungarian containing new research findings, together with five manuscript facsimiles and critical notes. Simultaneously with the cloth-bound Complete Edition, a practical paperback version has been published, the contents of which are identical to those of the hardcover edition, minus the inclusion of critical notes.

This edition is suitable for lessons and for preparing for entrance exams in the subsidiary subject of singing for school or church music as well as for concert performances. The pieces impart the specific techniques of gospel singing. / Voix Haute Et Piano

A young singers journey consists of six workbooks and accompanying audio CDs a booklet of sight-singing and warm-up exercises for each level and a laminated keyboard. Flash card masters designed to correlate with the material presented in eachworkbook are also available. Contact the publisher regarding further aids to the curriculum.Children learn at different rates and each child will approach these books with a different skill set. A child who completes three pages per week could complete two books per year or six books in three years. A younger child may work more slowly andan older child may be able to complete the books with little teacher-direction at a faster pace. The marking pages at the front of each book have columns for written comments and a sticker reward for each page. The column forticker rewards is meant to be used only after a page is completed including all corrections. The marking pages will reflect the childs progress and show at a glance the pages that need more work. Most pages include CD tasks that should be completedwith the pages. The CDs reinforce and further teach the concepts on the page while training the child to hear and use the written material. At the end of each track a 'secret word' is given. The child should write this wordbeside the CD track number to show that he or she has listened to it. Bullets highlight the written tasks on each page. Children are invited to check off the bullet for each task as it is completed. A certificate at the end of each book may be signedby the teacher and awarded when the child has completed the book. The warm-up exercises include syllable songs jingles and exercises using the finger staff and keyboard. Memorization and accuracy of these exercises could be tested duringpre-rehearsal activities. Choristers should be encouraged to practice warm-ups a box is provided beside each example to add a sticker reward for those who perform them well by memory.Jean Ashworth Bartle Eileen Baldwin and Linda Beaupre components in the back of the workbooks CD keyboard & sight-singing booklet are not available separately.

Par VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH. for Tenor Tuba (Euphonium) and piano Vaughan Williams's Concerto for Bass Tuba and Orchestra was the first major concerto to be written for the instrument. The original plan to transpose it for Euphonium was not realised during the composer's lifetime, and only now, in this transcription by David Childs, has that goal been attained. / Date parution : 2022-03-05/ Répertoire / Tuba Ténor et Piano

Euphonium Solo-A Final Fling was written at the request of David Childs for a CD recording with a Celtic theme which he released in 2007. The phrase ‘a final fling’ means a last quick effort at doing something perhaps when this item is used as an encore and also a fling is a type of Scottish Highland dance which tied in with the Celtic theme. A light- hearted piece A Final Fling starts in the mood of a folk dance and quotes from The Irish Washerwoman before flying to a close. A perfect way to put your euphonium player in the spotlight.

Journey of the Lone Wolf tells the story of the hungarian composer Béla Bartók. It was commissioned by Dr. Nicholas Childs for Black Dyke Band who gave the first performance on Sunday 26 January 2014 at the Bridgewater Hall Manchester as part of the Royal Northern College of Music Festival of Brass. The composer's programme notes for each movement: 1. Capturing the Peasants SongAfter the upheaval of moving to Budapest the young Béla Bartók meets Zoltán Kodály and the pair embark on summertime adventures throughout the Hungarian countryside to collect and catalogue theastonishing variety (both harmonically and rhythmically) of gypsy and folk music heard in the Balkans. The arrival of WW1 plunges Bartók's beloved Hungary into chaos.2. Night MusicBartók was at times a cold man aloof and lonely. The odd moments of tenderness he showed are portrayed here in a series of evocative solos. His brief but intense affairs speak of a love he could only long for. Jazz is my night music and here there are hints of what Bartók may have heard in the USA later in his life.3. Flight and FightHaving been forced by the world's evils to leave his homeland of Hungary for America Bartók the anti-fascist felt isolated and angry. In this movement we hear his longing for a simpler time of gypsy folk dances as well as his maturity and depth as a composer finally exploring deeper colours and darker themes.