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Carols for Choirs 5: Fifty Christmas Carols (SATB). To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Carols for Choirs series, Oxford University Press has published a brand new collection, Carols for Choirs 5. The editorial duties have been passed on to the next generation of English organist-composers, Bob Chilcott and David Blackwell. The main strength of this new volume is its focus on new carols by living composers. Forty of the fifty carols included in the collection are newly composed in recent years. Many of these are new settings of familiar texts. The collection includes Matthew Owens’ setting of The Holly and the Ivy and two settings of There Is No Rose by Alan Smith and Howard Skempton. Andrew Simpson’s setting of I Saw Three Ships uses a curious new translation of the traditional text. Added to these are ten favourites, often with new arrangements or harmonizations. Among these are Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming, arranged by David Blackwell, and a rhythmic setting of Ding dong! Merrily on High by Mack Wilberg. Many of the carols are suitable for a cappella performance while orchestral parts are available for about half of the collection, making these pieces suitable for concert performance.

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Cohen, Leonard: Hallelujah (from the movie Shrek) (SATB). Featured in the Dreamworks motion picture Shrek, this well-crafted arrangement emphasizes the plaintive, haunting melody written by Leonard Cohen. Perfect for concerts at any time of year. Performance Time: Approx. 3:00.Available separately: SATB, SAB, 2-Part and ShowTrax CD.

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Whitacre, Eric: Selections from Light & Gold (SATB a cappella). Eric Whitacre is one of the most popular and performed composers of his generation. His works are loved by choirs all over the globe, and he has won numerous composition awards. Whitacre is also in great demand as a conductor: his Virtual Choir was a massive YouTube hit, and his new professional choir, the Eric Whitacre Singers, forms the core ensemble for his disc Light & Gold on Decca Records, conducted by the composer himself. This book of pieces for mixed choir presents an inspiring selection from the disc.

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Telfer, Nancy: Successful Sight-Singing: A Creative, Step by Step Approach - Vocal Edition, Book 1. Give your choir members the skills needed to sight-sing by themselves, away from a piano or other singers with Successful Sight-Singing. Organized into very short lessons, Successful Sight-Singing can be presented in five to ten minutes of each rehearsal. Introduces rhythms and intervals sequentially. Systematically incorporates elements of music such as key signatures and reviews them regularly. Features exercises designed to look and sound like real music. Presents a variety of creative activities to introduce and reinforce new musical elements and skills such as how to find entrance cues. Unison or two-part singing.

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In the Mood - 17 choral arrangements of classic popular songs (SATB & Piano). In the Mood is an anthology of choral arrangements of seventeen classic popular songs by such great names as Fats Waller, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, and Richard Rodgers. All the pieces are expertly arranged by the editors to suit the needs of amateur SATB groups -- school choirs, youth choirs, or chamber choirs of any description -- looking for lighter popular repertoire. There is a mixture of accompanied and unaccompanied numbers in a variety of styles: smoky blues, up-tempo scat, sentimental swing, exuberant Dixieland, sophisticated close-harmony, and a couple of opulent show-stoppers like Somewhere over the Rainbow.

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Orff, Carl: Carmina Burana: Cantiones Profane for Soprano, Tenor & Bass Soli, Choir & Orchestra (SATB with Piano Reduction). Carmina Burana, first performed in 1937, is based on an important collection of thirteenth-century poems found in the monastery of Benediktbeuren. Carl Orff made selections from this collection and in robust and delicate musical colors painted a manifold picture of life. "Everything I have written up to now, and which you have unfortunately printed, you can shred into pulp. My collected works begin with Carmina Burana", Carl Orff wrote to his publisher after the premiere. And so it was that his work caused a sensation in the whole world and continues to delight people of all cultures.

This is the vocal score with complete choral parts and piano reduction. Also available are books consisting of complete choral parts only, male choral parts only and female choral parts only.