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Winner of the 'Best Pop Publication' award at the 2008 Music Industry Association Awards
Charles Beale and Steve Milloy
Popular Voiceworks 1
28 Songs in Jazz, Gospel, R&B, Soul, and Show Styles
240 pages
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297x210mm
978-0-19-343556-8
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03 April 2008
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- 28 fabulous songs from unison to four-part harmony
- Ideal for youth choirs, school groups KS3 upwards, community choirs, and choral groups of all ages and experience
- Opportunities for improvisation throughout
- Vast range of repertoire including jazz, R&B, funk, swing, spiritual, gospel, disco, show, and more
- Brand-new songs and new arrangements of popular favourites
- A complete rehearsal plan for each song, including warm ups and guidance on vocal techniques for singing popular styles
- Stylistic but accessible piano accompaniments
- Photocopiable pages
- CD with complete set of performances and stylish backings for most pieces
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!Forces or CategoryMixed voicesDifficultyVery easy to Easy
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Charles Beale and Steve Milloy Born in London and now based in New York, Charles Beale has enjoyed a varied career as a jazz educator, pianist, composer-arranger, and choral director. Author of the acclaimed Jazz Piano from Scratch (ABRSM Publishing), he taught jazz at London's Royal College of Music, and for ten years he was lead jazz consultant to the Associated Board. His playing and arranging work includes credits on albums and singles by pop and dance artists including Whitney Houston and Adeva. He recently became Music Director of the New York City Gay Men's Chorus, having for five years been Musical Director of the London Gay Men's Chorus.
Steve Milloy (b.
1965) has spent ten years coaching and directing singers in schools, churches, theatres, and concert stages across the Midwestern US. A former member of the acclaimed a cappella octet Pieces of 8, he has sung in popular styles in theme parks and on TV and radio, and has composed or arranged pieces for more than a dozen GALA choruses in the US and UK. Steve has worked at the keyboard and/or on the podium with choruses and threatre troupes in St Louis, Indianapolis, and Cincinnati, and recently he returned to singing and acting in productions such as The Full Monty and Caroline, or Change.Charlie Beale's website
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"In terms of genre it's a delightfully mixed bag, with everything from spirituals to 80s pop pastiches making an appearance. It is packed with useful teaching notes and handy warm-up ideas. For the most part, the arrangements are lovely, and Beale is at ease throwing deliciously scrunchy chords into unexpected corners of well-known tunes, while also getting a lot of fun out of pop numbers like 'Dancin' in the Street'." - Eamonn O'Dwyer, Music Teacher, October 08 "Above all for the least experienced of choir leaders, this volume could be invaluable . . . No other choral collection that I have seen is as thorough or as helpful in laying out a scheme of exercises for the start of rehearsal . . . Every song is individually prefaced
with background information, suggestions for getting started (including specially devised exercises), lists of options for teaching the song and for adapting it to your group's requirements, danger points, and ideas for performance. In other words, a complete lesson or rehearsal plan is presented for every one of the songs; all this plus a CD of model performances and backing tracks . . . Oxford University Press have, I would guess, produced a 'pop' hit." - Armin Zanner, Classroom Music, Spring Term 08/9 "Popular Voiceworks is itself a hefty number, ring bound and more than 200 pages long, many of them available to be photocopied. There are also 2 CDs of performances and backing tracks tucked in the back cover. Suitable for use for choirs of age 11 upwards, and
with detailed strategies for learning each song that are effectively in themselves lesson plans, this volume will be a boon for teachers and is another remarkable achievement for this series." - Matthew Greenall, The Singer August 08 "Has loads of information and additional material about the different genres used in this book to get the most classically-bred singer 'in the swing'. The recording and performing standards on the accompanying CDs are excellent." - Sue Anderson, Singing Summer 09
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Charles Beale and Steve Milloy: Swing Time!
Fred MacDowell, arr. Charles Beale: You gotta move
Trad., arr. Charles Beale: Take me to the water
George Gershwin, arr. Charles Beale: My man's gone now
Curtis Mayfield, arr. Charles Beale: People get ready
Richard Sherman and Robert Sherman, arr. Steve Milloy: Me Ol' Bamboo (2 parts)
Fred Rose and Walter Hirsch, arr. Charles Beale: 'Deed I Do
Music by Charles Beale, words by Steve Milloy: Little One
Music by Steve Milloy, words by John Moysen: Take me to the Funk
Charles Beale: Gitika
Trad. spiritual, arr. Steve Milloy: This little light of mine
Peter Scholtes, arr. Steve Milloy: They'll Know We Are Christians
Nat King Cole and Irving Mills, arr. Steve Milloy: Straighten Up and Fly Right
Music by Charles Beale and Steve Milloy; words by John Moysen and David Major: I Want Your Love
Steve Milloy: I'm Not Your Pet
Trad., arr. Charles Beale: Silent Night
Steve Milloy: Dancin' Till the Blues Are Gone
Music by Charles Beale, words by John Moysen: Sweet Tea
Charles Beale: Song Without Words
US trad., arr. Charles Beale: He's gone away
Music by Steve Milloy, words by John Moysen: Don't Let the Door Hitcha
David Baerwald, arr. Charles Beale: Come what May
Music by Steve Milloy, words by John Moysen: Pages
William Stevenson, Marvin Gaye, and Ivy Hunter, arr. Charles Beale: Dancing in the Street
Stephen Sondheim, arr. Steve Milloy: Comedy Tonight
Richard Sherman and Robert Sherman, arr. Steve Milloy: Me Ol' Bamboo (SATB)
Cassell Alphonsus, arr. Steve Milloy: Hot Hot Hot!
Music by Steve Milloy, words by John Moysen and David Major: I Will Sing Joy
Irving Mills and Duke Ellington, arr. Charles Beale: It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing
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