World Partners

Multicultural Collection of Partner Songs and Canons-Calling all world brothers and sisters! Travel our musical globe with WORLD PARTNERS! Like the patches of a family quilt the folk songs of the world's children tell their stories. Arranged by master music educator CherylLavender the twelve “patches” in this collection are shared with the hope that global cultures and traditions might be better understood and celebrated by our world siblings and ultimately come together into the“quilt of humanity.” For instantly successful and “can-do” harmonies these kid-tested folk songs are arranged with catchy original partner songs and canons. Adaptable for classroom or concert all songsare reproducible and include piano/vocal arrangements teaching tips and reproducible songsheets with phonetic pronunciations. For a richer performance opportunity many songs feature Orff and percussion parts as well aseasy-to-learn folk dances. For added value there are teaching objectives linked to the National Standards for each song! Available: Teacher Edition (with reproducible pages) Performance/Accompaniment CD Classroom Kit (Teacherand P/A CD). Suggested for grades 3-8.

More Flexible Favorites for Unison and Part-Singing Fun-Here are more flexible folksongs to introduce young singers to beginning part-singing and experience a variety of world cultures. The reproducible singer songsheets feature each folksong and its partner on separate pages for a variety of teachingoptions. Teach these world folksongs in the lower grades. When singers are ready teach the partner songs and add twelve more songs to their singing repertoire. For further challenge ?partner them up? for twelve more performance options! A helpfulteaching sequence and extension activities are also included. Accompany your singers live with simple piano parts in the printed collection or use quality performance/accompaniment MP3 recordings available via audio access in the Performance Kit.Fresh new originals partnered with these world folksongs: Ging Gang Goolie Tum Balalaika Andale Juana Sansa Kroma Haru Ga Kita Old Dan Tucker Sarasponda Ma Bella Bimba and more! Suggested for grades 1-6.

Song Collection-Take a trip around the world with this creative collection of 12 partner songs and introduce 2-part singing in a snap! From Africa to Japan to down under in Australia your students will enjoy old favorites paired with neworiginals for instant harmonic fun! This all-in-one format comes complete with piano/vocal accompaniment choreography and reproducible singer pages. Songs include: Yankee Doodle Boy/Kid from the USA Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral/Hush-a-Bye O Canada/My Canada! Funiculi Funicula/Let's Go to Italy Aloha Oe/How Could I Leave Hawaii? Kalinka/I Have a Garden Cielito Lindo/Let's Dance Zum Gali Gali/Gali Gali Zum We Are Marching toPretoria/My Africa Alouette/I Knew a Girl Ame Ame/Rain Rain Go Away Squawk!/I Love to Go to Australia. Available: Teacher's Edition and ShowTrax CD. For Gr. 2-6.

Par CHAMBERLAIN LOUISE. Step It Up! is the fun way to move your playing onwards and upwards. Packed full of original jazzy pieces by Louise Chamberlain - with imaginative arrangements of well-known tunes, unaccompanied pieces and duets too - this carefully graded volume for violin also includes a CD of groovy backing tracks. So whether practising at home or performing to your friends, take your playing to another level with Step It Up! - and prepare to step up a grade at the same time! Pamela Wedgwood writes as Louise Chamberlain for the Step It Up! series. She is recognised around the world as one of the UK's most prolific and successful composers of popular repertoire for young instrumentalists.   **ABRSM selected piece (Violin 2008-2011): Be thou my vision (Anon.) / Instrumental Music / Etude / Violon et Piano

Leichte Bis Mittelschwere Folksongs Aus Schottland, Irland, Wales, Dem Cornwall und Der Bretagne. Martin Tourish is an accordion specialist from Ireland whose own history is steeped in the tradition of Celtic Music. In his ground-breaking publication ?CELTIC?, he explored, in arrangements for solo, standard-bass accordion, music from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany. In this new book, he opens the world of Celtic music to flautists who can explore this music in equal partnership with an accordion player. He offers his expert insight into no less than thirteen pieces in accessible arrangements for intermediate players./ Recueil / Flûte et Accordéon Basse

Teacher Edition-Holiday harmony...in a snap! From Thanksgiving through New Year's this delightful collection of partner songs provides a host of harmonic fun for young singers. And what's more everything you need is under one cover -piano/vocal accompaniments choreography and reproducible singer pages. You are sure to enjoy the fresh originals by John and Alan partnered with these holiday favorites: Jolly Old Saint Nicholas Silent Night Up on the Housetop Auld Lang Syne We Wish You a Merry Christmas We Gather Together Joy to the World Hanukkah Oh Hanukkah Deck the Hall Away in a Manager. Available: Teacher Edition and ShowTrax CD (full performance and accompaniment only). ForGr. 2-6.

ShowTrax CD-Holiday harmony ... in a snap! From Thanksgiving through New Year's this delightful collection of partner songs provides a host of harmonic fun for young singers. And what's more everything you need is under one cover -piano/vocal accompaniments choreography and reproducible singer pages. You are sure to enjoy the fresh originals by John and Alan partnered with these holiday favorites: Jolly Old Saint Nicholas Silent Night Up on the Housetop Auld Lang Syne We Wish You a Merry Christmas We Gather Together Joy to the World Hanukkah Oh Hanukkah Deck the Hall Away in a Manager.

Including Silent Night The Holly and the Ivy Go Tell it on the Mountain and twelve more well-known tunes. Gives guitarists the best chance of finding a musical partner from recorder flute or violin players. More effective than a dating agency.Grade: 1

'It is difficult to describe the transformation that took place as this smiling friendly man hunched over his guitar and launched himself bodily it seemed into his music. The blues possessed him like a 'lowdown shaking chill' and the spellbound audience saw the very incarnation of the blues as head thrown back he hollered and groaned the disturbing lyrics and flailed the guitar snapping the strings back against the fingerboard to accentuate the agonized rhythm. Son's music is the centre of the blues experience and when he performs it is a corporeal thing audience and singer become as one.' Bob Groom/Blues World'In the years before World War II Son House created some of the purest most powerful Mississippi Delta blues on record. Playing with partners Charley Patton and Willie Brown he exerted a profound influence on Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters both of whom copied his music and carried it to new generations. House's influence still echoes through the Rolling Stones Eric Clapton and many other musicians and in many respects he is the true father of what's known today as deep blues.' Jas ObrechtIn this lesson Tom Feldmann takes you step by step through 15 classic Son House tunes that span every phase of Son's recorded career. This 4 hour lesson is undoubtedly the most extensive look into the music of Son House and the techniques he developed. DISC ONE highlights 8 songs in Spanish tuning. While DISC TWO focuses on 7 songs using the Vestapol tuning (Open D) Standard and most surprising to students of House's playing Cross-Note tuning with Clarksdale Moan. Also included on DISC TWO is a bonus interview with Stefan Grossman where he talks extensively about meeting Son House and recording with him. Rare performances of Son House following his rediscovery are used throughout the lesson. The

The Roaring Twenties and Thirties a lost world of opulence and excess of champagne parties lasting until dawn where flappers and their partners danced to the vibrant new music of the latest jazz bands. Play Jazztime presents a selection of world famous hits from this brilliant brittle era from the seductive melodies of Gershwin to the archetypal Twenties hit Charleston. Relive the age of Gatsby and Play Jazztime!

From the musical A Chorus Line and most recently recorded by Barbra Streisand on her album Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway this poignant song is one that composer Marvin Hamlisch said set the tone for all the music in the show. The dancers explain their experiences with attending dance school and no matter how dark the rest of their world seems they always feel happy at the ballet.

Tony Bennett's album, Duets: An American Classic, was released in September 2006 in conjunction with Bennett's 80th birthday the previous month. The songs selected were mostly ones that Bennett had played a major role in introducing into the Great American Songbook. Unlike some other celebrity duets efforts where performances were made separately and then combined by producers, such as Frank Sinatra's 1993 Duets, Bennett was physically present with each of his partners during recording and, in addition, the singing was done live as the band was playing. It debuted at No.3 on The Billboard 200 and was certified Gold in less than four weeks of release. Lullaby of Broadway; Smile; Put On A Happy Face; The Very Thought Of You; The Shadow Of Your Smile; Rags To Riches; The Good Life; Cold, Cold Heart; The Best Is Yet To Come; For Once In My Life; Are You Havin' Any Fun?; Because Of You; Just In Time; The Boulevard Of Broken Dreams; I Wanna Be Around; Sing, You Sinners; I Left My Heart in San Francisco; How Do You Keep the Music Playing?; If I Ruled The World.

Par OLECHOWSKI JOZEF. Elena Durán and Józef Olechowski, one of the world's most successful partnerships, present a delightful and unique compilation of specially composed pieces for flute and piano. Listen to the enchanting and inspiring performances on the CD, then play along to the piano accompaniments. Elena and Józef play the pieces regularly in rehearsal and concerts and so will you! It's music from the heart and not to be missed!/ Répertoire / Flûte Traversière et Piano