O, Why Do You Turn To the Wild Sky

The Easiest Way to Improvise

Improvisation. Frightened about it? Always wanted to do it? Need to teach it? Not sure how to start? Improvisation can seem daunting. But now this revolutionary new series brings improvisation within the reach of all players and teachers, even beginners. And who better to write these books than Christopher Norton, a composer with an unrivalled reputation for writing and teaching popular styles. Christopher Norton's 'Easiest Way to Improvise' promises a new and truly easy approach! Designed for teachers and players who have little or no confidence in their improvisation skills, it reveals the magic move that will really transform your doodlings into fully fledged performances.Its user-friendly format combines a practical workbook and a fabulous CD resource.

How Do I Love Thee?

This anthem was composed for the service of thanksgiving for a Civil Partnership in June 2011. In looking for a suitable text the composer turned to Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–61), one of whose sonnets he had usedfor another wedding anthem (Love is beautiful indeed) a few years earlier. As the title suggests, this highly expressive text puts into words the intense feeling of love and the mostly homophonic music reflects that throughluscious harmonies and beautifully shaped phrases. Suitable for intermediate choirs, this setting of a popular wedding text is a joy for both performers and audience.

Ode To Joy : Ode of Joy

Fancy some musical fun? Tired of playing solos on your own? Want to impress family and friends? “Buy a Band” will do it all! Just slip the CD into your player for an instant, professional accompaniment to the printed solo part! Additional backing tracks mean that “Buy a Band” is suitable for all C, B flat and E flat instrument. The CD also contains feature-packed multimedia for use on your PC or Apple Mac. Use it to print out other parts – all “Buy a Band” titles have optinal bass parts and many have duet lines too. Then using the MIDI player included (PC only), you can remove and add parts on the recording, and change the speed. You can even change the instruments.

I Do Not Sleep

Focusing on the text that speaks of “what I am” rather than “what I am not,” this beautiful ballad is an inspiration. A lush and supportive Piano accompaniment enhances Vocal lines that soar.

What Do We Plant?

Words by Henry Abbey

Do Matki [Ad Matrem]

Why Do I Love?

Medium Voice in F minor.

Why Do We Sing?

Till death us do part

Do not go my Love

Essential Guide To Pop Styles

All you need to know to play 34 leading pop styles! - easy to use and fun to play - increase your professionalism - includes lots of exciting styles from Reggae to Rock'n'Roll, Thrash to Tango - for keyboard; you can also use sequencer, other instruments and rhythmic backing to make the styles sound even more authentic - chord symbols included - each style is illustrated by an original composition by Christopher Norton - the notes are packed with exciting ideas and suggestions to help you build up a complete performance - available in two versions, book alone or with 3.5'' SMF disk

To my successor

A short anthem commissioned to mark the enthronement of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams in 2003. Accompanied by a series of Alleluias, it features a text by George Herbert (1593-1633) found at Bemerton Rectory, near Salisbury, as an inscription that reads If thou chance for to find A new House to thy mind, And built without thy Cost: Be good to the Poor, As God gives thee store, And then my Labour’s not lost.

Farewell To Stromness

Farewell to Stromness is a piano interlude from The Yellow Cake Revue, a sequence of cabaret-style numbers against uranium mining in the Orkney Islands. The Revue was first performed at the St Magnus Festival,Orkney, by Eleanor Bron, with the composer at the piano, in June 1980.This performance inspired Timothy Walker to transcribe Farewell to Stromness for solo Guitar. He performed it two days later in KirkwallCathedral as part of the same festival.

I used to be a riddle

for Unison to 3-Part with Woodblock and Piano Contents: 1. I Used to Be a Riddle · 2. Colors of the Sea · 3. I Used to Be So Mean · 4. What is Sorrow? · 5. I Used to Be a Dragon · 6. My Angel Sings · 7. I Used to Be a Number · 8.I Have a Rule · 9. I Used to Be a Werewolf · 10. Howling at the Moon. Total duration: ca. 13 minutes.

Do not neglect : from The Stranger

Bohemia To The Balkans

This unique book is a guide to have your band improvise a concert piece or two! Includes folk tunes from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Macedonia, with lesson plans to create your very own arrangement.

To set the darkness echoing

This intriguing composition, marked by its innovative sounds and haunting orchestration, is a tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. The composer's intent was to capture the way Dr. King inspired profound change by leading us to see how we, not others, were behaving – and thus “set the darkness echoing,” according to the words of poet Seamus Heaney. This dramatic and thought-provoking piece will truly inspire.

To set the darkness echoing

This intriguing composition, marked by its innovative sounds and haunting orchestration, is a tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. The composer's intent was to capture the way Dr. King inspired profound change by leading us to see how we, not others, were behaving – and thus “set the darkness echoing,” according to the words of poet Seamus Heaney. This dramatic and thought-provoking piece will truly inspire.

Daring to be

This playful and energetic work perfectly characterizes the exuberance of youth, sparkling in self-affirmation: Celebration is daring to be who we are.

Night Thoughts : Homage To Ives

A Homage to Ives for Piano solo, by Aaron Copland.

To Julia op. 8

Six lyrics of Robert Herrick, set to music by Roger Quilter for Medium Voice and Piano.

Songs To Poems Op.1 Ss

Songs to poems by Christina Rossetti.

The little road to Bethlehem : Weihnachtslied

The Little Road To Bethlehem is a delightful Christmas carol, with music by Michael Head, set to words by Margaret Rose. Arranged for TTBB a cappella.

Glory To God

The primary melody, which is built on a mixolydian scale, features an augmentation of the rhythm and change of meter on the final phrase, “Glory to God...”