Lynne and Robin Benton. A well-known story of challenge and adventure based on ancient Greek legend following Jason’s heroic journey in search of the Golden Fleece. This versatile musical play can be performed in a variety of ways and has ample scope for involving any number of children in the solo parts chorus and acting roles. The action is always fast moving with short and simple dialogue linking the 13 songs. Written for five speaking and singing roles four speaking roles four non-speaking roles unison voices (with divisions) and piano or the songs can be linked by narrator if a concert performance is preferred. Bass and percussion parts on hire. 25 mins

Michael Hurd. An enormously fun pop cantata for narrator unison voices (with divisions) and easy piano with guitar chord symbols. The work is divided into six sections opening with a lively description of Samson himself. It explains his enormous strength and outlines his prowess on the field of battle. Highlights of the cantata include the scene in a barber's shop with a background of snipping scissors. This is followed by a splendid music-hall song in which the whole audience can join! The finale describes the Philistine's party - set as a square dance - at the end of which Samson pulls down the whole building! 10 mins.

The Novello Youth Chorals: Christmas Classics features five popular Christmas songs arranged for SSA Choir and Piano by Berty Rice. Includes The Christmas Song Home for the Holidays and more.

Songs From Here And There-Aspects of time and change are explored in these songs and topic ideas. Ideal for classroom use school choirs or as an assembly item. The exciting Topical Ideas with each song provide fascinating background information fun performance ideas and lots of cross-curricular possibilities. Use as additional material or expand to make a complete project. Topical ideas by Maureen Hanke music by Michael Hurd.

A traditional work arranged by Stuart MacRae for SATB choir first performed by the Inverness Gaelic Choir at Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod on 9th uly 2010. Includes a Piano accompaniment to aid rehearsals.

Collected (and set with a Piano accompaniment) by Ralph Vaughan Williams from the collection Folk Songs from the Eastern Counties . For solo voice with Piano accompaniment. First sung to R. Vaughan Williams by James 'Duggie' Carter a King's Lynn fisherman the song tells the story of the death of a young boy aboard a ship. According to comments from RVW himself 'The ballad was probably called forth by a particularly brutal case of ill treatment similiar to that narrated in it which occurred some twenty or thirty years ago'. Lyrics : One day a poor boy to me was bound apprentice Because of his beingfatherless; I took him out of St.James’ workhouse His mother being in deep distress. One day this poor boy unto me offended But nothing to him I did say Up to the mainmast shroud I sent him And there I kept him all that long day. All with my gasket I misused him So shamefully I can’t deny And by my barbarous cruel entreatment The very next day this poor boy died. You captains all throughout the nation Hear a voice and a warning take by me; Take special care of your apprentice While you are on the raging sea.

The Coronation Of Poppea . An opera in a prologue and three acts. Text by G.F. Busenello music attributed to Claudio Monteverdi and Francesco Sacrati. Edited by Alan Curtis and English singing version by Arthur Jacobs.

The development of the character of Lady Macbeth is the subject of contemporary composer Joseph Horovtiz’s Scena. He has selected words from the speeches of Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare’s play and treated them as a mini operatic role. It is a work that offers a superb opportunity for a mezzo of dramatic gifts to inhabit one of the theatre’s most compelling women.Composer and conductor Joseph Horovitz has spent much of his career creating and conducting music for the stage television and cinema. He was music director of the Bristol Old Vic and has written and conducted ballets operas works for Brass Band among many others.

This cantata is the outcome of a request and is an easy arrangement of movements of Messiah for use in school near to Christmas. The movements selected are all taken from Part One of Messiah but the order has been slightly changed to group them as a cantata. Arranged for Two-Part Chorus by Watkins Shaw. Duration c. 20 mins

A part-song for SATB Choir A Cappella setting the words of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

A must for your next concert! The story of Moses from bulrush days to the time when he led his people into the land of milk and honey. This pop cantata is tremendous fun for choir and audience and one high spot is the galloping chase sequence. The nine songs written for unison voices Piano with Guitar chords are linked by suggested Biblical passages which are optional. Solo parts for Moses and the Pharaoh.

Voice & Guitar Version-Death Is Gonna Lay His Cold Icy Hands On Me For Double Satb Chorus And Guitar By Tarik O'Regan . Vocal Score. Guitar Part Available Separately: Nov200860-01 Death Is Gonna Lay His Cold Icy Hands On Me for Double SATB Chorus and Guitar by Tarik O'Regan . Vocal Score. Guitar part available separately: NOV200860-01

From the collection 'Folk Songs from Sussex' (1912). Collected by W. Percy Merrick. For Solo Voice with Piano accompaniment and optional Violin obligato. From the collection 'Folk Songs from Sussex' (1912). Collected by W. Percy Merrick. For Solo Voice with Piano accompaniment and optional Violin obligato.

A complex and challenging work commissioned by the International Horn Society. A complex and challenging work commissioned by the International Horn Society.

Version for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano. Commissioned jointly by BBC Radio 3 and the Royal Philharmonic Society as part of the New Generation artists scheme. The texts for the work were taken from the Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes.

Edited Basil Ramsey.

Composed in 1995 commissioned by Matthew Owens. For Countertenor (Alto) and Organ.