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The Crooked River Choral Project is a collection of artful choral music composed specifically
with music teaching and learning in mind. Our selections are first and foremost beautiful pieces
of music promoting multi-cultural awareness and community. They are rooted in solid pedagogical
thinking, providing music educators with rich teaching opportunities through quality literature.
This series offers music with lyrics that inspire the human spirit, nurturing the best in musicians
of all levels. Each title includes a music CD and CD-Rom with reproducible score sheets.
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Where go the Boats is the first installment in the Robert Louis Stevenson Song Cycle, by Roger Sams.
This elegant, pentatonic melody will charm and delight your singers while cultivating beautiful, lyrical
singing. Opportunities for literacy work abound, with particularly clear opportunities to practice low Sol
and and Low La below the Do tonal center.
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Marching Song is the second installment in the Robert Louis Stevenson Song Cycle, by Roger Sams.
This lively three-part treble arrangement is both fun to sing and loaded with clear teaching opportunities.
The melody for the verses is pentatonic, with an emphasis on Low Sol and Low La (below the tonal center).
The chorus offers three mock instrument parts, each with their own melodic identities. The "drum part" continues
to emphasize the pitches below the tonal center. The "flute part" offers a perfect opportunity to review Sol, La,
and Mi patterns. The "cymbal part" introduces "Ti". Put them all together and you've got young singers singing in
three-part harmony with joy and ease. The fourth verse teaches augmentation, before a rousing final chorus that
will delight singer and audiences alike.
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Based on the poem, A Christmas Tree by William Burford, James Carr brings a modern sensitivity to this
beautiful seasonal piece. Solo and duet opportunities present themselves in the beginning of the piece. As it develops,
the canonic relationship between the soprano and alto lines lends itself to movement. Long tones and exquisitely crafted
phrases support the cultivation of beautiful, lyrical singing. Frequent rests on beat one, make this piece a challenging
and stimulated study in rhythm and meter.
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By Zuleikha is a simple song. Using Arabic Text, it praises Mary, Mother of Jesus, as a doorway for remembering all
the mothers on the earth, those who came before and those will come after. The refrain means "Peace be with you."
This song came as an inspiration for greater love and harmony in the world. This beautiful arrangement has wonderful
opportunities for solo as well as choral work, offering singers an opportunity to explore ornamentation, evoking the
Middle East. Clear, repetitive harmony lines are easily sung below the melody, while the descant begins as a canon at
the fourth. This beautiful piece can be performed with a simple circle dance, which heightens the canonic relationship
between the melody and descant. Dance instructions are available in the Deluxe Edition of "Hazrat Bibi Maryam."
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in enriching people's lives through music education. We at Music is
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