How Do I Love Thee?

How Do I Love Thee? by Gabriel Jackson for SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied.This is an appealing setting of the popular Elizabeth Barrett Browning poem 'How do I love thee?'. Bearing all the hallmarks of Jackson's unique style, this piece is a welcome addition to the musical repertoire for weddings.

An Affirmation

for unaccompanied SATB choir Andrew Carter's setting matches in its powerful simplicity the text attributed to the French Quaker missionary, Stephen Grellet: 'I expect to pass through this world but once: any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness I can show, or any service I can render to any soul of man or animal, let me do it now: let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.'

The Pianist's Guide to Historic Improvisation

John Mortensen's The Pianist's Guide to Historic Improvisation is a course-tested pedagogical method for learning to improvise, providing intermediate-level pianists with a path to mastery of the improvisational techniques of the 17th and 18th centuries.

The Pianist's Guide to Historic Improvisation

John Mortensen's The Pianist's Guide to Historic Improvisation is a course-tested pedagogical method for learning to improvise, providing intermediate-level pianists with a path to mastery of the improvisational techniques of the 17th and 18th centuries.

A Guide to Musical Analysis

This extremely practical introduction to musical analysis explores the factors that give unity and coherence to musical masterpieces. Having first identified and explained the most important analytical methods, Nicholas Cookexamines given compositions from the last two hundred years to show how different analytical procedures suit different types of music.Readership: Teachers, students of music at university level.

The Oxford Companion to Music

The Oxford Companion to Music is one of the most famous music reference works of all time. Over a million words in length, it is the biggest, most authoritative, and most up to date single-volume music reference book available.This edition draws on both the classic Oxford Companion to Music by Percy Scholes, first published in 1938, and the two-volume New Oxford Companion to Music , edited by Denis Arnold (1983), but is thoroughly revised and reimaginedfor the 21st century.

A Girl's Song To Her Mother

A tender, deeply touching extended song which is within the scope of students. A Girl's Song to her Mother is a companion piece to Wings of the Grasses. Each piece recalls the open, high moorland of South Wales. In A Girl'sSong to her Mother the voice is a younger person comforting an older one. In Wings of the Grasses the voice changes from that of a child to that of a reflective adult.

Companion to Baroque Music

A collection of essays on musical life in Europe and the New World from 1600 to 1750, including social, national, geographical and cultural contexts of the period.

Being True to Works of Music

Julian Dodd offers an original approach to the controversial concept of authenticity in musical performance. He argues that the fundamental norm is not historical authenticity but interpretive authenticity: being faithful to the work by evincing a profound, far-reaching, or sophisticated understanding of it.

Song To The Moon

Song To The Moon by Alan Bullard for Unison Voices, with optional Descant, and Piano.This attractive piece for Unison Voices celebrates the wonder of the 'bright new moon'. The composer's own text, based on traditional Hebridean poems, is set to a simple, flowing melody, and the optional descant in the final section soars over the melody and introduces an echo effect. The Piano accompaniment supports the Vocal lines while providing additional colours and textures.

Score Anthology To Accompany The Complete Musician

Beginning with music fundamentals, The Complete Musician covers all the topics necessary for a thorough understanding of undergraduate music theory by focusing on music in context. Rather than rotelearning of concepts and memorizing terms, The Complete Musician emphasizes how theory informs the work of performers. Composers respond not only to their instincts, experiences, and training in every work theywrite; they also follow certain ideals and models when appropriate, and modify them to fit their own personal vision. Theory is not a 'theoretical' activity; it is a living one that responds to how music is composedandperformed. Understanding how theory intersects with composition and performance is key to seeing its relevance to students' wider musical lives. The Complete Musician makes this connection.

Subject To The Weather

Subject to the Weather uses the Welsh folk song The Blackbird as its inspiration, but also references Wesley's hymn tune Aurelia: The Church's one Foundation. The music evokes country life and birdsong in a charming andengaging style.

Electronic Music School : A Contemporary Approach to Teaching Musical Creativity

This book offers a new practical blueprint for teachers wanting to teach music technology to secondary age students. Authors and veteran music educators Will Kuhn and Ethan Hein give readers all the practical tools they need to open their own electronic music programs.

Electronic Music School : A Contemporary Approach to Teaching Musical Creativity

This book offers a new practical blueprint for teachers wanting to teach music technology to secondary age students. Authors and veteran music educators Will Kuhn and Ethan Hein give readers all the practical tools they need to open their own electronic music programs.

The Musician's Way : A Guide to Practice, Performance, and Wellness

In The Musician's Way, veteran performer and educator Gerald Klickstein combines the latest research with his 30 years of professional experience to provide aspiring musicians with a roadmap to artisticexcellence. Part I, Artful Practice, describes strategies to interpret and memorize compositions, fuel motivation, collaborate, and more. Part II, Fearless Performance, lifts the lid on thehidden causes of nervousness and shows how musicians can become confident performers. Part III, Lifelong Creativity, surveys tactics to prevent music-related injuries and equips musicians to tap their owninnatecreativity. Written in a conversational style, The Musician's Way presents an inclusive system for all instrumentalists and vocalists to advance their musical abilities and succeed asperforming artists.

Three Songs To Children

One of Berkeley's earliest published compositions, Three Songs to Children sets texts by W B Yeats, Wilfred Owen, and Walter de la Mare. The direct simplicity of Yeats and Owen settings contrast with a central, more ambitioussetting of a poem by Wilfred Owen.

A Prayer To St John The Baptist

A Prayer to St John the Baptist by Cecilia McDowall for SATB and Organ.Written for the 2018 BBC Advent broadcast sung by the choir of St John's College, Cambridge, A Prayer to St John the Baptist sets an artfully crafted text that combines Guido d'Arezzo's Ut queant laxis (itself a Hymn to John the Baptist, as well as a medieval music-teaching mnemonic) with Thomas Merton's poem on the same subject. The Organ's flowing quavers represent Merton's baptismal 'rivers of water', while the largely octatonic melodies conjure a tellingly mysterious atmosphere.

Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?

John Rutter's Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day? for SATB unaccompanied.  This secular work is set to the text of Shakespeare's famous Sonnet No. 18. Throughout the work,Rutter skilfully weaves the figurative language of the sonnet within the lyrical melodic lines of the music. Shakespeare's expressive text is passed between the voices, with the warm, verdant harmonies envelopingthe sonnet's use of imagery and the work's central metaphor of comparing love to a summer's day.

Loving Music Till It Hurts

Loving Music Till It Hurts explores how people's intense love and protectiveness of music can lead to interpersonal conflicts, societal injustices, and violence. But how might we love music, even embrace it as vital to human thriving, without weaponizing this love? What can we do when loving music and loving people seem at odds?

Hymn To The Seasons

A setting for soprano, clarinet, and piano of words by David Whitter. The piece is in four movements - Introduction and Recitiative, Aria, Cantilena, and Chorale - they represent each of the seasons, from winter in the firstmovement, to autumn in the fourth. The text draws parallels between the changing seasons and the story of Christ.

Do You Remember House? : Chicago's Queer of Color Undergrounds (Hardback)

Listening to Bach : The Mass in B Minor and the Christmas Oratorio

This book encourages eighteenth-century ways of listening to J. S. Bach's Mass in B Minor and Christmas Oratorio. It explores the concept of musical style, suggests ways to listen to works created by the re-use of music for new words, and shows how modern performances are stamped with audible consequences of our place in the twenty-first century.

Ash Wednesday to Easter for Choirs : . . . for Choirs Collections

The editors have selected a richly varied collection of sacred pieces for this period of the Church's year, always bearing in mind practical considerations and liturgical needs. Pieces are presented in order according to the Church's calendar, moving from Ash Wednesday and Lent, through Passiontide and Palm Sunday, to Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Eve, and Easter itself. The best of the standard repertoire is included alongside fine, less familiar, works. Ranging widely from the sixteenth century to the present day, this is a complete and practical collection for church choirs of all sizes and levels of ability.

Continuo Playing According To Handel : His Figured Bass Exercises.

This book is an edition, with commentary, of Handel's exercises for continuo playing, which he wrote for the daughters of George II. The exercises are supplemented by clear and concise commentary. Remaining faithful to his source,Ledbetter, who lectures in keyboard studies, has prepared an edition that will prove invaluable to students and performers of the music of Handel and his contemporaries.

Hymn To St Margaret Of Scotland

Jackson's work couples the expressive language of a medieval Latin hymn with the Collect for St Margaret of Scotland. The use of hockets and isorhythms give the music a deep medieval grounding, whilst the beautifully ornamentedmelodies bring out a distinctively 'Scottish' sound to this dramatic work.