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Encores for choirs. 2 : 30 crowd-pleasing concert pieces / compiled by Peter Gritton.

Contributor(s): Gritton, Peter [compiler].
Material type: materialTypeLabelScorePublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 score (246 pages) ; 25 cm.Content type: notated music Media type: unmediated Carrier type: ncISBN: 9780193436329.Subject(s): Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with piano -- Scores | Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices, 4 parts), Unaccompanied -- ScoresDDC classification: S/5758
Contents:
A modern major-general / Arthur Sullivan, arr. Peter Gritton -- Auld lang syne / Scottish trad., arr. Joanna Forbes -- Bring us in good ale / Gustav Holst -- Buffalo gals / American trad., arr. Bob Chilcott -- Calme des nuits / Camille Saint-Saëns -- Chick, chick, chicken! / Holt, McGhee, and King, arr. Peter Gritton -- Counting up my toes / David Cullen -- Country gardens / English trad., arr. Peter Gritton -- Dashing away with the smoothing iron / English trad., arr. John Rutter -- Deconstructing Johann / Daryl Runswick (with thanks to J.S. Bach) -- Dry bones / Spiritual, arr. Peter Gritton -- El hambo / Jaakko Mäntyjärvi -- Ev'ry time I feel the Spirit / Spiritual, arr. Chilcott -- Good hope / Peter Gritton -- Ill wind / Flanders and Swann after Mozart, arr. Peter Gritton -- It was a lover and his lass / John Rutter -- Jargon / William Billings -- Mission: impossible / Lalo Schifrin, arr. Mark Williams -- Nachtlied = Evening hymn / Max Reger -- Orpheus in the Underground / Jacques Offenbach, arr. Cantabile -- Parting friends: North American trad., arr. John G. McCurry -- Shenandoah / American trad., arr. James Erb -- Stranger in paradise / Wright and Forrest, after Borodin, arr. Gritton -- Take it from figure "O" / W.A. Mozart, arr. Ben Parry -- The long day closes / Arthur Sullivan -- The tide rises, the tide falls / Howard Skempton -- Three-minute Messiah / Peter Gritton -- "Un"-popular song / William Walton, arr. Roderick Williams -- Vocalise / Sergei Rachmaninov, arr. Gritton -- Wiegenlied = Lullaby / Johannes Brahms, arr. Robin Gritton
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending S/5758 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00214447
General lending MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending S/5758 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00214448
General lending MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending S/5758 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00214449
General lending MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending S/5758 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00214450
General lending MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending S/5758 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00214451
General lending MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending S/5758 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00214452
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

for SATB accompanied and unaccompanied
30 varied pieces ranging in style from the classic and sentimental to the humorous and madcap. With the standards of the repertoire are new pieces and fresh arrangements by some of the finest arrangers. The volume provides an unrivalled kaleidoscope of concert encores.

Principally secular works for mixed chorus (SATB) with or without keyboard accompaniment.

A modern major-general / Arthur Sullivan, arr. Peter Gritton -- Auld lang syne / Scottish trad., arr. Joanna Forbes -- Bring us in good ale / Gustav Holst -- Buffalo gals / American trad., arr. Bob Chilcott -- Calme des nuits / Camille Saint-Saëns -- Chick, chick, chicken! / Holt, McGhee, and King, arr. Peter Gritton -- Counting up my toes / David Cullen -- Country gardens / English trad., arr. Peter Gritton -- Dashing away with the smoothing iron / English trad., arr. John Rutter -- Deconstructing Johann / Daryl Runswick (with thanks to J.S. Bach) -- Dry bones / Spiritual, arr. Peter Gritton -- El hambo / Jaakko Mäntyjärvi -- Ev'ry time I feel the Spirit / Spiritual, arr. Chilcott -- Good hope / Peter Gritton -- Ill wind / Flanders and Swann after Mozart, arr. Peter Gritton -- It was a lover and his lass / John Rutter -- Jargon / William Billings -- Mission: impossible / Lalo Schifrin, arr. Mark Williams -- Nachtlied = Evening hymn / Max Reger -- Orpheus in the Underground / Jacques Offenbach, arr. Cantabile -- Parting friends: North American trad., arr. John G. McCurry -- Shenandoah / American trad., arr. James Erb -- Stranger in paradise / Wright and Forrest, after Borodin, arr. Gritton -- Take it from figure "O" / W.A. Mozart, arr. Ben Parry -- The long day closes / Arthur Sullivan -- The tide rises, the tide falls / Howard Skempton -- Three-minute Messiah / Peter Gritton -- "Un"-popular song / William Walton, arr. Roderick Williams -- Vocalise / Sergei Rachmaninov, arr. Gritton -- Wiegenlied = Lullaby / Johannes Brahms, arr. Robin Gritton

Principally English words.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Peter Gritton studied music at Clare College, Cambridge before taking up a post at Christ Church, Oxford as a countertenor Lay Clerk. Peter has sung with a variety of groups including The Sixteen, The Cambridge Singers, Gabrieli Consort, I Fagiolini, and a close harmony group, The Light Blues, with whom he has travelled worldwide. He is currently Director of Music at St Paul's School. London, as well as enjoying a busy schedule composing, arranging, and singing.