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In recent decades, cognitive neuroscience research has increased our understanding of how the brain learns, retains, and recalls information. At the same time, social psychologists have developed insights into group dynamics, exploring what motivates...

The Singer's Guide to German Diction is the essential foundation for a complete course in German diction for singers, vocal coaches, choral conductors, and anyone wishing to learn to learn the proper pronunciation of High German. Written by Valentin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540049407Author Aaron CoplandFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Boosey & Hawkes IncPublisher Boosey & Hawkes IncWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540058393Author Erik SatiePage Count 62Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Collegiate a cappella, part of a long tradition of unaccompanied singing, is known to date back on American college campuses to at least the colonial era. Considered in the context of college glee clubs, barbershop quartets, early-twentieth-century vocal...

Actor and singer Paul Robeson's performances in Othello, Show Boat, and The Emperor Jones made him famous, but his midcentury appearances in support of causes ranging from labor and civil rights to anti-lynching and American warmongering made him...

Many singers today perform Elizabethan and Jacobean lute-songs. Robert Toft offers the first help for singers in understanding the principles which governed song performance and composition in the early seventeenth century. He shows how these historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423427520Author Gian-Carlo MenottiPage Count 48Imprint G Schirmer, IncorporatedPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Claudio Monteverdi's historical position in music has been compared to that of Shakespeare in literature: almost exact contemporaries, each worked from traditional beginnings to transform nearly every genre he attempted. In this book, Massimo Ossi delves...

Now in its third edition, A Handbook of Diction for Singers is a complete guide to achieving professional levels of diction in Italian, German, and French. Combining traditional approaches in the teaching of diction with new material not readily...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788881920808Author Gaetano DonizettiPage Count 396Imprint Ricordi BMGPublisher Ricordi BMG

This book presents a comprehensive view of children's musical artistry and how to develop it in both the music classroom and children's chorus. Presenting the musical mind as the gateway to children's artistry, and addressing the power of movement in its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820427454Author Tai Wai LiFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 480g

for SATB unaccompanied This is a well-known text but one that has not often been set. This setting is unlike much of Pearsall's work, being quite floridly contrapuntal.Book InformationISBN 9780193953888Author Robert PearsallPage Count 7Imprint Oxford...

for SATB and organ or orchestra or brass The choral writing in this traditional hymn arrangement is straightforward but hugely effective. Orchestral parts available on hire.Book InformationISBN 9780193864948Author Mack WilbergPage Count 12Imprint Oxford...

Suitable for SATB with divisi, organ, or orchestra. This work contains a folk-like tune which can be useful as an anthem or as a concert piece.Book InformationISBN 9780193864689Author Mack WilbergPage Count 12Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher...

for SATB unaccompanied These two numbers, 'Monday's Child' and 'Sing a Song of Sixpence', are taken from Five Childhood Lyrics, based on traditional children's rhymes and games.Book InformationISBN 9780193856943Author John RutterPage Count 16Imprint...

for SATB with divisions unaccompanied This heart-felt setting was originally included in the popular 'A Garland for Linda', a celebration of the life of the late Linda McCartney. Combining a poignant text adapted from Milton, Shakespeare, and Elizabeth...

Suitable for SATB unaccompanied, this miniature sets an intimate prayer by St Augustine of Hippo asking for God's grace to know and serve Him. It is infused with Jackson's characteristic passion and luminosity and would be useful as a general purpose...

for SA (with descant) and piano An easy but rousing arrangement of a favourite spiritual, with an exceptionally good piano part and a concluding descant.Book InformationISBN 9780193867468Author Reginald UnterseherPage Count 8Imprint Oxford University...

for SATB unaccompanied The optional opening section, for which there is a graphic score, is spoken to texts by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and other esteemed poets and authors. The four sung movements which follow are conventionally notated and set to...

for soprano soloist, mixed choir, and small orchestra This is one of the best-loved and most widely performed choral works of the twentieth century. The texts (in Latin and English) are from the Missa pro Defunctis, the Book of Common Prayer, and the...

for SATB choir, solo trumpet, and organ Commissioned by the Worshipful Company of Barbers in celebration of their 700th anniversary and first performed at the United Guilds Service in St Paul's Cathedral in March 2008, this is an impressive and stately...

for SATB unaccompanied A different arrangement of this carol, for SSA, is in Carols for Choirs 4.Book InformationISBN 9780193431379Author John RutterPage Count 8Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 21g

for SATB and optional organ, or full orchestra, or strings only, or brass ensemble A German translation of the traditional English carol, 'Hark! the herald-angels sing'. German and English texts. Also in the collection Glory to God.Book InformationISBN...

Set for SATB and keyboard, with optional flute and oboe (or other instruments in C), this is a setting of the well-known traditional French melody.Book InformationISBN 9780193867659Author Don Michael DiciePage Count 12Imprint Oxford University...

Suitable for SATB and organ, this is a setting of verses from Isaiah 60.Book InformationISBN 9780193505254Author John RutterPage Count 16Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 37g

for SSSSAAAA unaccompanied The choir acts both as a singing group and as a drumming group, spinning sung rhythmic patterns into a buoyant accompaniment to the sung text. As the piece progresses, foot-stomping and hand-clapping is added to make a vibrant...

for SATB unaccompaniedBook InformationISBN 9780193867031Author Antony BaldwinPage Count 4Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 8g

Set for SATB and piano with obbligato for oboe or other melody instrument, this arrangement features straightforward vocal parts and a chordal piano part.Book InformationISBN 9780193866591Author Reginald UnterseherPage Count 16Imprint Oxford University...

Suitable for congregation, SATB, brass quintet, timpani, and organ, this is a concertato setting of Parrys' 'Laudate Dominum'. It features three stanzas for congregational participation, and one harmonized for choir alone.Book InformationISBN...

for SATB and organ or orchestra The choral writing in this traditional hymn arrangement is typically straightforward but hugely effective.Book InformationISBN 9780193865006Author Mack WilbergPage Count 16Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford...

for SSAATTBB unaccompaniedBook InformationISBN 9780193866331Author Steven SametzPage Count 12Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 37g

for SA, piano 4 hands, with optional 2 flutes, or ensemble, or chamber orchestra The choral writing in this traditional hymn arrangement is straightforward but hugely effective.Book InformationISBN 9780193864979Author Mack WilbergPage Count 20Imprint...

for SATB and piano Often set as a lament, Nobody Knows here takes on a quality of genuine resignation and loving perseverance. The melody is supported at first by a quiet boogie-woogie vamp leading to a warm 'Glory, hallelujah' at the end of each stanza...

Male-centered theology, a dearth of men in the pews, and an overrepresentation of queer males in music ministry: these elements coexist within the spaces of historically black Protestant churches, creating an atmosphere where simultaneous...

for SATB and piano or brass and percussion This gentle and enchanting carol, set to a poem by Elizabeth Jennings, began life as the fourth movement of Chilcott's Christmas cantata, 'And Peace on Earth'. Chilcott's sublime melodic writing and subtle...

for two-part choir (equal/unequal voices), flute, oboe, keyboard Words by William Morris The flute and oboe parts are included in the vocal score.Book InformationISBN 9780193867666Author Don Michael DiciePage Count 16Imprint Oxford University...

for solo baritone and SATB unaccompanied This setting perfectly captures the essential simplicity of this Christmas spiritual, with a wordless chorus backing a solo baritone. Also available in 100 Carols for Choirs.Book InformationISBN...

A choral song in praise of the power of music, for unaccompanied mixed choir and solo flute The flute introduces and comments on the phrases sung by the choir.Book InformationISBN 9780193432390Author John RutterPage Count 12Imprint Oxford University...