Peter Hunt

Review: Voicelinks is an innovative teaching resource for music in early years and primary education. It embraces singing as a means of accessing all areas of the curriculum, to develop the whole child, with natural progression and links between age groups and subject matter. At the heart of the book are 24 carefully written songs covering popular school topics. Each song is tailored to Early Years (3-5), Key Stage 1: Year 1 (5-6), or Key Stage 1: Year 2 (6-7), and comes equipped with a host of activity ideas designed for classroom use. Suitable for specialists and non-specialists alike, Voicelinks guarantees successful learning outcomes across the curriculum.

Songlist: What's on my face?, Busy Day!, Clever Clogs, Easy Peasy!, Ring-a-ding dee!, Chamniamo gogo, Choose a Colour, Changing Colours, Paintbox, Feel the snowflakes, Weather-boy, weather-girl, Extreme Weather, The king is in the castle, Pirates!, The Gingerbread Man, I'm a train, Ride and Glide, Off to Town!, One candle flame, Spring, spring, spring!, Happy Birthday!, See the waving corn, Santa's Coming!, Fireworks!

Voicing: Children

Review: Voiceworks at Christmas is an inspired new collection of 30 seasonal songs from unison to 4-part harmony and beyond. It's invaluable to all choral groups and overflows with festive cheer. The songs range from plainsong to jazz carols, gospel songs and folk pieces to well-known carols in sparkling new arrangements, and brand new carols by living composers. Voiceworks at Christmas features songs and carols suitable for singing at Advent, Christmas and secular occasions during the winter. Every type of voice at all stages of development can be accommodated, and, apart from the songs that specifically demand tenor and bass voices, they can be taken by anyone who can comfortably manage the range. The music is grouped loosely in themes, and each section contains a range of challenges from simple unison or two parts to fuller choral arrangements.

Songlist: Section I: Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque, Creator of the Stars of Night, Gaudete!, En! Natus Est Emanuel, Zion Hears the Watchmen's Voices, Section II: Sacred Harp and West Gallery, Ye Nations all, On You I Call, Radiance, While Sheperds Watched, While Sheperds Watched, Section III: New Takes on Old Carols, I Saw Three Ships, Ding Dong! Merrily On High, Silent Night, Sans Day Carol, Noel Let Us Sing, Away in a Manger, Section IV: Spiritual and Gospel Connections, When the Sun's Reborn, Away in a Manger, Poor li'l Jesus, Behold that Star, Section V: Popular Connections, Mary's Lullaby, Ring Out the Bells, Mad World, Rudolf, the Red Nosed Reindeer, Section VI: Easy New Carols, Sing High, Sing Low, Kings Came Riding, Winter Solstice, Holy Child, Section VII: Living Songs, The First Christmas, Ring the Bells, Scots Nativity, Christmas Tide

Review: Choir directors will be delighted with Voiceworks, a superb resource for leaders of choral groups aged 11 to 14 ... This handbook covers all the areas a leader needs to know about. A detailed introduction is followed by sections on how to warm up the voice and rehearse. The section on boys' changing voices is particularly useful. The undoubted triumph of the publication is the very approachable material: 60 songs, from unison to four-part harmony.

Songlist: Abeeyo, Adio mama, Allunde, Amazing grace, Amen siakudumisa, Away in a manger, Azikatale, Baby one, Certainly, Lord, Chan mali chan, Da doo ron ron, Didn't my Lord deliver Danuel?, Doubletalk, Drumkit, Drunken sailor, Echo, Elijah Rock, Father, father goodbye, Gaudete, Glowing candle light, Good news!, Green trees, rocky road, Halle halle, halle, Hear the wind, Hepa hepa nay nay, Hey ungua, Hill an' gully rider, I'll fly away, In the bleak midwinter, John Kanaka, Kye kye kule, Late a come, Leaving of Liverpool, Long and short - loud and quiet, My Bonny, My hat it has three corners, Oh, won't you sit down?, Old Molly Hare, Oo a lay lay, Over my head, Pachelbel, Sailing, Saints go marching in, Shto mi e milo, Silent night, Siyahamba, Song of farewell, Stand by me, Steal away, Step harmony, Summer holiday, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, The factory girl, This old hammer, Three native American chants, Train rhythms, Vocal graphics, Vocalise, Wade in the water, Water come a me eye

Review: Voiceworks is a magnificent resource for promoting good singing in pre-schools, schools, community choirs, adult choirs and everywhere that people sing. The Voiceworks books (complete with CDs) are packed with songs and ideas which are practical, motivating, and accessible. Voiceworks 2 is a complete guide and support for anyone who encourages or teaches other people to sing well. Singing is learned behaviour, and Voiceworks 2 aims to help singers of all ages and experience improve their capability, to develop some techniques, and get pleasure from using their voices. It is claimed that the better people feel about their voices, the better they feel about themselves, so this book is more influential than just a singing book. The music is eclectic, chosen for its accessibility, and can be used progressively as laid out in the book to build confidence and develop vocal technique, or as a 'dip in' resource to suit particular needs.

Songlist: Section I: Warm Ups And Rounds, Boom Chicka Boom, Eighteen Hammers Standin', Everywhere We Go, Chicka Hanka, Sarana, Sonagwaza, Banuwa, Banaha, Janie Mama, Freedom Train, Sto Me, Yenamanoa, Oliver Cromwell, The Hand Jive, Three Way Canon Blues, Jazz Gloria, Hashivenu, Alleluia, Cantate Domino, There Was a Young Woman of Ryde, She Died, She Did!, There's a Girl that I Love, Section II: Improvising and Inventing, Section III: Spirituals and Gospel Songs, Zion me wan' go Home, Trampin', Go Down Moses, I Want to be Ready, Shoeshone Love Song, Listen to the Lambs, The Battle of Jericho, One of These Fine Mornings, Poor Wayfaring Stranger, Green, Green, The Storm is Passing Over, Ndi Jesu Chete, Mweya M'tsvene Uyai Pano, Si' Down, Servant!, Section IV: Folksongs, Dodi Li, Hari Coo Coo, Quelle est Cette Odeur Agreble?, She Moved Through the Fair, O Hush thee My Baby, Black is the Colour, Sloop John B, El Haderech, Posakala Mila Mama, Tris Kopelles Lijerres, Section V: Medieval and Renaissance, Church Music and Modes, 3 Gregorian Chants, Hodie Christus Chants, Veni Creator Spiritus, Pange Lingua, Kyrie Eleison, Ah Robin Gentle Robin, Pastime With Good Company, Cum Decore, Fine Knacks for Ladies, Trubte v Trubu, Section VI: Living Songs, Himmelflugt, Generation Rap, Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Be Cool, Keep it Good, Streetseller, Section VII: Popular Classics, Blue Moon, Barbara Ann, Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight, Bad Moon Rising

Review: Folk Voiceworks is an outstanding collection of traditional songs following the Voiceworks model for children of around KS2 level (ages 7-11) upwards. Presenting 30 fantastic traditional songs, from unison to 4-part harmony, this is a rich resource for choirs everywhere. With a CD and supporting teaching notes, Folk Voiceworks is a complete handbook for singing for all teachers and choir leaders. The Voiceworks handbooks for singing are now firmly established as a resource that encourages and supports those who help other people to sing well and with confidence. Their hallmark is a wide range of accessible material, with teaching notes to guide the leader/conductor in promoting good practice and technique for enjoyable and healthy singing. The repertoire and arrangements are flexible to cater for unison and part-singing, by voices at all stages of development, and varying levels of experience.

Songlist: Section I: Work, Roll the Old Chariot Along, Paddy on the Railway, Byker Hill, Rap Her to Bank, Section II: Of the Land, Mow Me Down My Meadow, The Barley Mow, Follow the Heron, John Barleycorn, Sumer is icumen in, Section III: Protest and Politics, The Blackleg Miner, Union Miner, The Spinner's Wedding, The Jute Mill Song, The Troubles of Erin, The Song of the Weaver, Section IV: Reflection, Migildi, Magildi, Yr Hen Wr Mwyn (My Dear Old Man), Unst Boat Song, Coorie Doon, Keep You in Peace, Section V: Love, Lowlands, Wild Mountain Thyme, Pleasant and Delightful, Dacw 'Nghariad (There's My Sweetheart), Section VI: Ritual and Custom, Hunting the Wren, Hal-an-tow, The Pace Egging Song, The Holly and the Ivy, Sweet Chiming Bells, Chariots