Popular Voiceworks at Christmas

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-19-352267-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Medienkombination, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 297 mm, Gewicht: 624 g

Following the success of the two Popular Voiceworks volumes, Popular Voiceworks at Christmas presents a fantastic collection of seasonal songs and carols in a highly practical format. Singers can explore a huge range of styles and find exciting new material by the authors, as well as arrangements of traditional carols such as 'Away in a manger' and 'In the bleak midwinter' and popular songs such as 'Jingle Bell Rock' and 'Get Together'. Stylish demos are available on a companion website and backing tracks for performance or rehearsal are included on the accompanying CD. A fabulous festive resource!

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beale, Charles

Milloy, Steve

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Vokalmusik, Chormusik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- We wish you a merry Christmas

- Jolly old Saint Nicholas

- Jesus, oh, what a wonderful child

- Go tell it on the mountain

- Patapan

- Away in a manger

- Last month of the year

- I m sure I ll never be warm and dry again

- The First Nowell

- Angels we have heard on high

- In the bleak midwinter

- Sprouts

- Jingle bell rock

- I m Still Missing You

- Get together

- Joy to the world

- The holly and the ivy

- (Everybody s waitin for) The Man with the Bag

- We need a little Christmas

- I saw three ships

Über Autor(innen)

Born in London and now based in New York, Charles Beale has enjoyed a varied career as a jazz educator, pianist, composer-arranger, and choral director. Author of the acclaimed Jazz Piano from Scratch (ABRSM Publishing), he taught jazz at London's Royal College of Music, and for ten years he was lead jazz consultant to the Associated Board. His playing and arranging work includes credits on albums and singles by pop and dance artists including Whitney Houston and Adeva. He became Music Director of the New York City Gay Men's Chorus in 2007, having for five years been Musical Director of the London Gay Men's Chorus.

Steve Milloy (b.1965) has spent ten years coaching and directing singers in schools, churches, theatres, and concert stages across the Midwestern US. A former member of the acclaimed a cappella octet Pieces of 8, he has sung in popular styles in theme parks and on TV and radio, and has composed or arranged pieces for more than a dozen GALA choruses in the US and UK. Steve has worked at the keyboard and/or on the podium with choruses and threatre troupes in St Louis, Indianapolis, and Cincinnati, and recently he returned to singing and acting in productions such as The Full Monty and Caroline, or Change.