Book of Canons (Revised Edition)

Description

collected by John Feierabend

This beautiful and significant revision to The Book of Canons is an incredible resource for music teachersóa sumptuously illustrated collection of more than 155 time-tested canons representing the absolute best music for children our culture has to offer.

The songs are drawn from all over the world, and many are by some of the great composers throughout historyóafter all, rounds and canons have been enjoyed since the Elizabethan era. Each canon in this collection is ranked by difficulty and includes a general translation if needed.

States John M. Feierabend in the introduction: ìHere then is a collection to meet many needs, sacred and secular, humorous and serious, major, minor, and modal, simple to complex…but above all, I hope you will find all of them musically satisfying.î

The book is beautifully organized so that teachers may search the varied indices to find the perfect canon for their classroom by title, difficulty (Easy. Medium Easy. Medium. Medium Difficult. Difficult), category (About Music and Singing. Animals and Critters. Friendship, Love, Peace and Conflict. Humorous and Clever. Meals and Blessings. Morning and Evening. Nature, Land and Sea. On Death and Dying. People, Places and Things. Sacred and Latin. Seasons. Songs without Words), and composer (Bach, Beethoven, Bradbury, Brahms, Byrd, Caldara, Cherubini, non Papa, Gebhardt, Gumpelzhaimer, Haydn, Hering, Hilton, Holst, Lampe, Lassus, Mozart, Praetorius, Purcell, Ravenscroft, Salieri, Schubert, Smetana, Tallis, Telemann).

Includes:

• 1, 3, 5, 8
• A Boat, A Boat
• A Ram Sam Sam
• Above the Plain
• Ah, Poor Bird
• All Praise to Thee
• All Things Shall Perish
• Alleluia
• Antonio Salieri Scherzo Canon
• Auf ihr Budeer (Get Up and Sing)
• Ave Maria
• Beau Printemps (Beautiful Spring)
• Bell Doth Toll, The
• Benji Met a Bear
• Black Socks
• Bona Nox (Good Night)
• Bubbling and Splashing
• Buon Giorno Mio Caro (Good Morning My Dear)
• By the Waters of Babylon
• C Scale Canon
• Caldara Canon #1
• Caldara Canon #2
• Cantate Domino (Sing to the Lord)
• Ceciderunt in Profundom (Fallen into the Depths)
• Chairs to Mend
• Cerubini Canon #1
• Cerubini Canon #2
• Christmas is Coming
• Come and Dance, Come and Sing
• Come Follow
• Come to the top of the Path
• Crab Canon
• Da Pacem Domine (Give Peace Lord)
• Das Hexen (The Witches Magic Square)
• Das Licht is Mir Erloschen (The Light has Faded)
• Death is a Long, Long, Sleep
• Derry Ding Dong Dason
• Die Blumen (Flowers)
• Do, Re, Mi
• Dona Nobis Pacem
• Duchess for Tea
• Early As I Was Walking
• Ehre sei Gott in der Hohe (Glory to God in the Highest)
• Erwacht Ihr Schlaferin (Now Every Sleeper Waken)
• Es Tonen Die Lieder (A Shepherd Sings the Song)
• Every White Will Have its Black
• Farewell Dear
• Feierabend (Work is Finished)
• Fester Sinn
• Fie, Nay Prithee, John
• Flow’rs Are Dying
• For Health and Strength
• For they Gracious Blessing
• Frere Jacques (Brother John)
• Freunde, Lasset uns Beim Zechen (Friends, Forget the Cares that Bore Us)
• Gaudeamus (Let Us Rejoice Today)
• Geht, Hinin Alle Welt (Go Out Into the World)
• Go to Joan Glover
• Bone to Bed is the Setting Sun
• Good Night to You All
• Grasshoppers Three
• Hark! Roar the Bellows
• Haschet (Catch the Joy)
• Hasivenu (Turn Us to You, O God)
• Have Nashira (Let Us Sing a Song of Praise)
• Have You Seen the Ghost of John
• Haydn Crab Canon
• Here Lies Jack Chill
• Here’s a health to All Them that We Love
• Hey, Ho, Nobody Home
• Hunter, The
• Hyda, Hyda (Knowledge is Your Friend)
• I Love the Mountains
• If You Trust
• Jagdgesang (Hunting Song)
• Jinkin the Jester
• Jubilate Deo
• Kaffee
• Kyrie, Kyrie, Eleison (Lord, Have Mercy)
• Lachend, Lachend
• Let Us Endeavor
• Let Us Sing Together
• Like As a Father
• Little Bell at Westminster, The
• Little Bird Sits in a Holly Tree
• Little Tom Tinker
• Lo Yisa Goy (He Lifted a Nation)
• Make New Friends
• Marjorie
• Martin, Lieber Herre (Martin, Dear Sir)
• Masters in This Hall
• Merrily, Merrily Greet the Morn
• Milha Hilou Loubi Shembel (My Sweetest Darling)
• Minor Canon
• Morning is Come
• My Dame Has a Lame Tame Crane
• Nachtigallen Kanon (Nightingale Canon)
• Neemt mlj in de Hand (Give to Me Your Hand)
• Nicht Langer is Winter (It’s No Longer Winter)
• Non Nobis Domine (Not to Us, Lord)
• Now All the Woods are Waking
• Now Comes the Hour for Peaceful Rest
• Now I walk in Beauty
• Nu, Nu, Nu, Nu (Let Us Sing and Be Happy)
• O, How Lovely is the Evening
• O, Wollte doch der Mensch (Oh, If Only Man)
• Oh, Music, Sweet Music
• Old Abram Brown
• On the River Flows
• One Bottle of Pop
• One Duck on a Pond
• Our Door is Always Open
• Pauper Sum Ego
• Praise and Thanksgiving
• Rise Up, O Flame
• Round and Round
• Row, Row, Row Your Boat
• Sanctus (Holy)
• Schubert Canon
• Scotland’s Burning
• Shalom Chaverim (Goodbye, Friends)
• Sing Me Another
• Sing with Thy Mouth
• Sing, Sing Together
• Spider to the Fly
• Stuttering Man, The
• Sumer is Icumen In
• Three Blind Mice
• Toembai (A Nonsense Song)
• Two Lawyers
• Under the Stone
• Verbum Domini (The Word of the Lord)
• Vine and Fig Tree
• Viva la Musica (Long Love Music)
• We Merry Mintrels
• We’re on the Upward Trail
• Welcome, Welcome Every Guest
• When I Go Home
• When Jesus Wept
• When V and I Together Meet
• Where Is John
• White Coral Bells
• White Sand and Gray Sand
• Why Shouldn’t My Goose
• Wilie, Willie, Will
• Willst, du lmmer Weiter Schweifen (Happiness is Always There)
• Willkommen, Lieber Schoner Mai (We Welcome Lovely Month of May)
• Young Rider