Drama Schemes by Mark Wheeller is the first book to look at the teaching practices of this internationally-renowned playwright.Features include:A scheme of work for each year of key stages 3-4 all of which have been conceived and developed through Wheeller’s own teaching experiences.Two schemes which focus on Wheeller’s use of drama across the curriculum including his growing admiration for …

A beautiful illustrated collection containing over 100 folksongs from the British Isles. Songs of longing, of love, of the Irish and Scottish rebellions, as well as lullabies, children's songs, and even a few composed songs which have become part of the folk heritage can be found in this collection.Easily played piano and guitar accompaniments are provided, and not only translated lyrics, but phon…

The Battle on the Heath On 24 January 1597, the ?Tielenheide? - a stretch of moorland near the Belgian village of Tielen, south of Turnhout-was the scene of a great battle. Prince Maurice of Nassau, commander of the Dutch army, crushingly defeated Count Varax, a Burgundian general of the Spanish army. In military circles, the Battle of Turnhout caused quite a stir: a Spanish army of five thousand …

Par WATSON SCOTT. You're cool, likeable, and confident. You don't walk, you strut. When you enter a party, a hush falls over the room and heads turn because you have a certain 'je ne sais quoi!' People say you're 'the bee's knees' and 'the cat's meow.' You're Awesome Sauce and this piece is the soundtrack of your life! With its fun, blues-like melody and cool rock beat, Awesome Sauce by Scott Wat…

Hugo Wolf set a total of 53 songs by Eduard Mörike all in the year 1888. The composer wrote in a letter: 'Once you have heard this song it can only inspire one wish ? to die.' In the artistic-metaphysical milieu of the late 19th century this was regarded as the highest ideal especially for Hugo Wolf who believed in the body as a ?wretched piano case? from which the soul can only break free lik…

This is the full score for Carl Nielsen's Symphony No. 4 The Inextinguishable the composer's most popular and most frequently recorded and performed work. Although Carl Nielsen's Symphony No. 4 was completed in 1916 and although it prominently features a thundering duel between timpani the composer did not write this work in response to World War I. Instead it is a noisy energetic thrusting …

J.C. Bach's wonderful Es Ist Nun Aus Mit Meinem Leben is arranged here for Unaccompanied SATB chorus and expertly edited by Jonathan Wikeley. The lyrics were written by Magnus Daniel Omeis and are in Latin.A review in the June 2016 edition of Organist's Review states that this is 'a chorale-like piece with an attractive melody well-crafted harmonies and only moderate technical challenges.'

RUACH is the Hebrew word for spirit, and it is exactly that quality which the songs of the Ruach series possess. Ruach 5773, the seventh edition in the set, features established artists like Noam Katz, Eric Komar, Dan Nichols and Eighteen, Josh Nelson, Mikey Pauker, Rick Recht, Chana Rothman, Sababa, and SoulAviv have contributed to this compilation, along with exciting new voices on the Jewish mu…

This work was written in 1971. The text is derived from the Latin Requiem Mass treated as a kind of sacred poem rather than a liturgical text and the order of sections is much altered. The work derives principally from the opening piano harmonies and the soprano's initial melodic lines - the latter which have an affinity (not least in rhythmic accentuation) with certain aspects of plainchant c…

Brendan Lord the Executive Director of the Alberta Choral Federation has offered us a beautiful and thought-provoking Christmas piece. Opening in a chant-like manner the text asks us to imagine holding the child of God withinlike Mary. Eventually as the music takes shape we learn that God is within and we can celebrate that gift and the gift of the child as well.