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Can you hear me? : a song incorporating sign language / Bob Chilcott.

By: Chilcott, Bob [composer.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Description: 1 score (6 pages) ; 26 cm.Content type: notated music Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0193415321 .Subject(s): Songs with piano -- Scores | Sign languageDDC classification: S/5428
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending S/5428 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00236078
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Suitable for SS with piano, or piano and string orchestra, this book contains a simple setting describing the wonder of a world seen through the eyes of a deaf child. In the chorus singers are encouraged to sign the words they are singing.

Alan Cutts Collection.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Bob Chilcott has become one of the world's most widely performed composers and arrangers of choral music. His compositional output reflects his wide taste in music styles and his commitment to writing music that is both singable and communicative.He has been involved in choral music most of his life he was a chorister and then a choral scholar in the choir of King's College, Cambridge, and was a member of the British vocal group The King's Singers for whom he made a number of popular arrangements of well-known songs from all genres.As well as being a full-time composer he is also a highly acclaimed choral conductor. He has been privileged to conduct many choirs all over the world. He is Principal Guest Conductor of The BBC Singers and in 2019 he was appointed Principal Conductor of Birmingham University Singers. His music has been widely recorded by many choirs and groups including The King's Singers, Tenebrae, and The BBC Singers.