Popular Voiceworks is a fabulous collection of jazzy and popular songs in the highly practical Voiceworks format. Packed with songs in a huge range of styles, from unison to four parts, the collection provides exciting new material written by the authors as well as choral arrangements of favourites such as 'Comedy Tonight', 'Straighten up and fly right', and 'Dancing in the Street'. You'll find soul, jazz, funk, swing, spiritual, gospel, disco, show, folk, motown, R&B, doowop, hip-hop and more - all presented with practical advice on teaching and rehearsing. There are plenty of opportunities to improvise, as well as guidance on using the voice to sing popular styles. An accompanying CD includes stylish performances of all the songs together with backings for most. This all adds up to a fabulous resource for all young and young-at-heart singing groups!
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Contents:
Swing Time!, Charles Beale and Steve Milloy
You gotta move, Fred MacDowell, arr. Charles Beale
Take me to the water, Trad., arr. Charles Beale
My man's gone now, George Gershwin, arr. Charles Beale
People get ready, Curtis Mayfield, arr. Charles Beale
Me Ol' Bamboo (2 parts), Richard Sherman and Robert Sherman, arr. Steve Milloy
'Deed I Do, Fred Rose and Walter Hirsch, arr. Charles Beale
Little One, Music by Charles Beale, words by Steve Milloy
Take me to the Funk, Music by Steve Milloy, words by John Moysen
Gitika, Charles Beale
This little light of mine, Trad. spiritual, arr. Steve Milloy
They'll Know We Are Christians, Peter Scholtes, arr. Steve Milloy
Straighten Up and Fly Right, Nat King Cole and Irving Mills, arr. Steve Milloy
I Want Your Love, Music by Charles Beale and Steve Milloy; words by John Moysen and David Major
I'm Not Your Pet, Steve Milloy
Silent Night, Trad., arr. Charles Beale
Dancin' Till the Blues Are Gone, Steve Milloy
Sweet Tea, Music by Charles Beale, words by John Moysen
Song Without Words, Charles Beale
He's gone away, US trad., arr. Charles Beale
Don't Let the Door Hitcha, Music by Steve Milloy, words by John Moysen
Come what May, David Baerwald, arr. Charles Beale
Pages, Music by Steve Milloy, words by John Moysen
Dancing in the Street, William Stevenson, Marvin Gaye, and Ivy Hunter, arr. Charles Beale
Comedy Tonight, Stephen Sondheim, arr. Steve Milloy
Me Ol' Bamboo (SATB), Richard Sherman and Robert Sherman, arr. Steve Milloy
Hot Hot Hot!, Cassell Alphonsus, arr. Steve Milloy
I Will Sing Joy, Music by Steve Milloy, words by John Moysen and David Major
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing, Irving Mills and Duke Ellington, arr. Charles Beale