Piano/Vocal/Chords, Voice - Advanced - Digital Download By Stephen Schwartz. Arranged by W. Brent Sawyer. Individual Part. 11 pages. Published by Diamond S Music

Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 5 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.790046

Composed by Cy Coleman. Arranged by W. Brent Sawyer. Contemporary. Score. 9 pages. Diamond S Music #3553743. Published by Diamond S Music (A0.790046).

A PIECE OF THE ACTION from the musical THE LIFE. VOCAL SOLO with 9 Piece Band accompaniment. PIANO/VOCAL PART ONLY. KEY of Cm for Tenor (original show key). This arrangement of the funky-grooved song from the Broadway musical THE LIFE is very true to the original version of the song as heard on the Broadway Cast album of the show. 

The Life is a musical that premiered on Broadway in 1997 after a short Off-Broadway run in 1990 with a book by David Newman, Ira Gasman and Cy Coleman, music by Coleman, and lyrics by Gasman.

Based on an original idea by Gasman, the show explores the underbelly of Times Square's 42nd Street, inhabited by pimps and prostitutes, druggies and dealers, and runaways and street people in the era prior to its Disneyfication. The Cast starred Sam Harris, Lillias White, Chuck Cooper and others.

Other similar arrangements from DIAMOND S MUSIC available at:

https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/diamond-s-music/6940

Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 1 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1314525

By Matthew West. By Aj Pruis, Andrew Pruis, and Matthew West. Arranged by Shelly Davis. Children,Christian,Christmas,Holiday,Pop. Score. 3 pages. Shelly Davis #903278. Published by Shelly Davis (A0.1314525).

Usually, a tricky key like E Major is reserved for later in the piano journey. However, this fun tune will make learning a tricky key much more fun and enjoyable!

This hilarious Thanksgiving song by Matthew West is arranged with the melody divided between two hands in a stationary position with accidentals marked in each measure. It has been arranged in the original key to allow musicians to play along with the original track. Chord symbols are included so the song can be played as a lead sheet or invite your favorite string players to join the fun.

Shelly Davis is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music, specializing in piano. She enjoys arranging popular tunes for musicians to play on the piano as well as for boomwhacker groups to play together.

Shelly is the host of the Piano Parent Podcast, a weekly podcast dedicated to parents of piano students. Podcast topics range from teacher and parent interviews to practicing tips, theory concepts, and musical mysteries. The goal of the Piano Parent Podcast is to help parents, students, and teachers make the most of piano lessons as they build stronger relationships with each other.

In addition to working with piano students and parents, Shelly enjoys Netflix bingeing and road-tripping with her musical husband, Duane. A recent road trip took them to southwest Texas where they slept in a teepee in Terlingua and spotted the famous mysterious lights in Marfa, Texas.

Duane and Shelly have been married for 35 years and are the parents of four musical children; Justin, Keri, Austin, and Tracy.

You can connect with Shelly at www.PianoParentPodcast.com and @pianoparentpodcast on Facebook and Instagram.

Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 2 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1314524

By Matthew West. By Aj Pruis, Andrew Pruis, and Matthew West. Arranged by Shelly Davis. Children,Christian,Christmas,Holiday,Pop. Score. 3 pages. Shelly Davis #903277. Published by Shelly Davis (A0.1314524).

Don't start the holiday season without this hilarious song for November!!

This fun Thanksgiving song recorded by Matthew West is arranged for beginner pianists. While it has been arranged in the original key to allow musicians to play along with the original track, the melody is divided between the hands so that beginning musicians can keep their hands in one location on the piano.

Performance suggestions offer help in navigating the challenging key signature.

Shelly Davis is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music, specializing in piano. She enjoys arranging popular tunes for musicians to play on the piano as well as for boomwhacker groups to play together.

Shelly is the host of the Piano Parent Podcast, a weekly podcast dedicated to parents of piano students. Podcast topics range from teacher and parent interviews to practicing tips, theory concepts, and musical mysteries. The goal of the Piano Parent Podcast is to help parents, students, and teachers make the most of piano lessons as they build stronger relationships with each other.

In addition to working with piano students and parents, Shelly enjoys Netflix bingeing and road-tripping with her musical husband, Duane. A recent road trip took them to southwest Texas where they slept in a teepee in Terlingua and spotted the famous mysterious lights in Marfa, Texas.

Duane and Shelly have been married for 35 years and are the parents of four musical children; Justin, Keri, Austin, and Tracy.

You can connect with Shelly at www.PianoParentPodcast.com and @pianoparentpodcast on Facebook and Instagram.

Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 5 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1255098

Composed by Ross Fiddes. 21st Century,Chamber,Classical,Contemporary. Score. 25 pages. Ross Fiddes #848692. Published by Ross Fiddes (A0.1255098).

It was in the aftermath of the 2020 summer bushfires in Australia that soprano Ayse Goknur Shanala rang me from Cyprus to suggest I compose a work about climate change, a subject of concern for me.  My research for lyrics did not elicit anything I considered suitable, so I turned to Derek Dowding, a local poet, singer, actor, raconteur, and a person vitally interested in the future of humanity and of the planet.

Derek and I had worked together before – he brilliantly performed the role of Abelard in the workshopping and concert performances of my hybrid opera “Abelard and Heloise�, which, in 1997, won the supreme CONDA (City of Newcastle Drama Award)  for ‘Outstanding Achievement in Newcastle Theatre’ against some 200 other stage productions in Newcastle’s bi-centenary year.

Derek worked long and late on the lyrics for the work, producing an emotional document covering history, cause and effect.  His words produced musical responses from me which I consider react appropriately to both his words and the subject matter. I hope our listeners will agree.

For the musical treatment I had to consider that the length of the work, through-sung, 20+ minutes, required a recurrent grounding to avoid too many thematic ideas getting in the way of the words.  To that end, I created a quasi-reflective section which appears, rondo-style, quite a few times during the length of the piece.  And, for further cohesion, I built an ABA (ternary) section early to address certain word structures.  Mostly, the various sections followed the stanza structure provided by Derek, with some combinations.  My musical style is essentially melodic, but with dramatic and other episodes, be they tonal, astringent, harmonically indecisive and so on.  In building the work I was principally influenced by the impact and flow of the words.

The work is quite mammoth for both the singer and the pianist.  I was absolutely delighted that Anna Fraser again premiered a work of mine – in 2015 she marvellously premiered another major composition of mine, reviewed here:  
http://soundslikesydney.com.au/reviews/concert-review-the-man-in-the-other-roomacacia-quartetanna-fraser/19830.html

We can only hope that the new work ultimately adds to the chorus of warnings and concern about the climactic future that awaits if we continue to ignore or postpone dramatic and urgent attention to addressing the causes of climate change.

A living orb cloaked white and blue and green
Revolving and evolving, tight-hugged in orbit flight
We ride her back; dependent, fragile offspring.
Suckling all the while …but have we bonded?

A world unlike any other world we’ve seen
Gifted with Water, Air, Earth and perfect Light.
The essentials of life. Freely, these gifts she brings.
Free for all but how have we responded?

                                                                     Poem© 2020 Derek Dowding
Ross Fiddes
January 2023.

Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1173633

Composed by Pasquale Cafaro. Arranged by Nicole Elyse DiPaolo. Classical,Early Music,Opera. Score. 7 pages. Nicole Elyse DiPaolo #773780. Published by Nicole Elyse DiPaolo (A0.1173633).

Accessible Accompaniments is proud to present the first-ever modern-clef performing edition of Pasquale Cafaro’s once enormously popular aria, “Belle luci, che accendete,� from La disfatta di Dario (1756). As noted in Giorgio Sanguinetti’s The Art of Partimento and other sources, this aria was considered the ideal Galant-era (early Classical) example of aria writing in its day, and its theme was even painted onto pottery to be sold to tourists in Naples.



While the aria was written for a castrato role, Alessandro, it is ideal for today’s young lyric coloratura sopranos who want to prepare for Mozart roles but wish to wait until they’ve found their mature vocal technique before tackling those roles. Additionally, because this La disfatta di Dario setting is a rarity and singers are unlikely to be hired for this role, it could be sung in transposition by young mezzos and other fachs without causing logistical issues like the need to produce orchestral parts in new keys.



Other aspects of this aria that make it a welcome addition to the voice teacher’s library are its widespread orchestral doubling of the vocal line (something that will help students who are still working on intonation and support), its relatively short, Italian-language text for easy memorization and diction acquisition, and its straightforward textual content—it’s a love song. In audition situations, this aria will be enjoyable for panels to hear, and because they will be very unlikely to know the aria, they won’t be able to critique it as closely as they would critique an aria they know well. It should also be sight-readable by an audition pianist of middling skill, another important consideration in choosing audition repertoire.



This new edition was engraved using Bernardo Mengozzi’s piano-vocal reduction from 1804, which preserves the soprano clef voice part and is not widely usable today, and I made some corrections to missing accidentals and articulations by cross-checking with the manuscript full score. Both are available at imslp.org. I also write out the appoggiatura executions and one potentially confusing polyrhythm on ossia staves to assist young singers/collaborative pianists who haven’t done much of this repertoire.

Range: Eb4-Bb5 without ornamentation
Tessitura: around Bb4-F5/G5

 

Text:

Belle luci, che accendete
In quest' alma un dolce foco,
Siete voi, e voi sarete
La mia calma, e il mio piacer.

Sì, la calma, e il piacer mio
Tutto, e sempre in voi s'aggira,
Per voi solo il cor respira,
Nè più brama il mio pensier.

About the Arranger behind Accessible Accompaniments Editions:



Praised as a sensitive pianist and outstanding accompanist who delivers powerful interpretations, Nicole Elyse DiPaolo enjoys a multifaceted career as a sought-after collaborative pianist, educational composer, arranger, coach, private teacher, and adjunct music professor. Currently based in the Cleveland area, Ms. DiPaolo has appeared as a concerto soloist with the Ambassador Chamber Players on multiple occasions and as a recitalist, collaborator, and presenter worldwide. Currently, Ms. DiPaolo is an online Adjunct Lecturer in Music at Indiana University; the Principal Theory Teacher at Liberty Park Music, an online-only video subscription-based music school; an invited blog contributor and guest instructor at Tonebase; and a sought-after online instructor of piano, music theory, and composition who includes partimento and historical improvisation in her curricula. 
For more information, please visit http://ndipaolo.musicaneo.com .

Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.582525

Composed by Irving Berlin. Arranged by Jeff Tincher. Contemporary. Score. 33 pages. Jeff Tincher #3239125. Published by Jeff Tincher (A0.582525).

This is a piano/vocal/guitar arrangement of one of Braodway's biggest hits. Ethel Merman made this one famous and sang this song on many television shows. This arrangement is in the original key from the Annie Get Your Gun original cast soundtrack. A fun song to perform, great for any live venue. This song is currently being used in a sports company commercial. Duration=3:27. Visit my websites: https://jefftincher.wixsite.com/sheetmusic, https://jefftincher.wixsite.com/music, https://www.facebook.com/jefftincherpublishing.

Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 5 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1302964

Composed by Rachel J. Peters. 21st Century,Classical,Comedy,Opera. Score. 57 pages. Rachel J Peters #892572. Published by Rachel J Peters (A0.1302964).

A short opera
Music by Rachel J. Peters
Libretto by Royce Vavrek
Based on the short story by Sheila Heti

Mermaid in the Jar is the first short chamber opera in the Wild Beast of the Bungalow triptych (Mermaid in the Jar, Prairie Dogs, and Fine and Dandy), which takes place entirely within an eleven-year-old Girl’s bedroom as she overhears her parents’ volatile conversations. Over the course of a few days, a mermaid, a family of stuffed prairie dogs, and singing groups of chickenpox and shingles force her to confront what it means to care for others and be cared for herself.

CAST: coloratura soprano, mezzo-soprano, bass-baritone, and three additional treble voices
DURATION: 20 minutes
WORLD PREMIERE: Oberlin Conservatory, Winter 2020

NOTE: All performances of this work require separate permission and licensing. To learn more about this opera and obtain performance rights, please visit www.racheljpeters.com.

Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.790048

Composed by Stephen Schwartz. Arranged by W. Brent Sawyer. Contemporary. Score. 12 pages. Diamond S Music #3553757. Published by Diamond S Music (A0.790048).

PROUD LADY from the musical THE BAKER’S WIFE by Stephen Schwartz. For VOCAL SOLO (Baritone) and 9 Piece Band accompaniment.  THIS IS THE PIANO/VOCAL PART ONLY. This exciting arrangement of this piece is similar to the version on the original cast album starring Patti Lupone and sung by Kurt Peterson. Accompaniment of 9 Piece Band: REED 1 (Flute), REED 2 (Bb Clarinet, Tenor Sax), Bb Trumpet, Trombone, Violin, Piano, Bass, Drums, Percussion.

The Baker's Wife is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and the book by Joseph Stein, based on the 1938 French film La Femme du Boulanger by Marcel Pagnol and Jean Giono. The musical premiered in the West End in 1989 for a short run but, while establishing a dedicated cult following, has not been produced on Broadway.

The song Meadowlark is also a popular song from the show.

Other similar arrangements from DIAMOND S MUSIC available at:

https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/diamond-s-music/6940

Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1412164

By Frank Sinatra. By Joe Young, Ned Washington, and Victor Young. Arranged by London Arrangements. 20th Century,Jazz,Standards. Score. 4 pages. London Arrangements #994397. Published by London Arrangements (A0.1412164).

Piano / vocal transcription of Frank Sinatra's 1954 NBC Radio broadcast. This is quite different to the arrangement found on Sinatra's 1984 studio album recording of the song with Quincy Jones.

Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1349730

Composed by Justus Parrotta (b. 1988). 21st Century,Chamber,Classical,Contemporary. Score. 36 pages. Cherrywood Editions #934502. Published by Cherrywood Editions (A0.1349730).

Nightsongs II consists of a series of sketches for voice and piano illustrating nighttime scenes. Odd-numbered movements focus on atmospheric textures, while even-numbered movements dwell on stars and galaxies. Movement I, Vocalise I, is inspired by street lights casting a copper hue against a dark cobalt sky. Movement II, Choose Something Like a Star, shifts between subdued and bright registers of the voice and piano to illustrate the contrast of the stars in the night sky. Movement III, Intermezzo, drives the listener to a country road on a cloudy night with pine trees on either side while the high beams illuminate the path. Frequent 16th notes in this movement create a motor-like motion. Compound meter with quick 16th notes in Movement IV, Returning, imparts a buoyant character that floats through different galaxies along with frequent use of Lydian and Myxolydian Modes and the Acoustic Scale. Movement V, Vocalise II, paints a picture of a hilly grass field and a parking lot on a cloudy and rainy night, surrounded by lights with a muffled glow.