England 'this scepter'd isle', has been the inspiration for many beautiful folk melodies through time. Here are three contrasted songs that capture the atmosphere of past times - the hard toil, the love lost, and the fun that could be had.

Songlist: Early One Morning, Dashing Away With The Smoothing Iron, O Waly Waly

Fair and green England, 'this scepter'd isle', has been the inspiration for many beautiful folk melodies through time. Here are three contrasted songs that capture the atmosphere of those times -- the hard toil, the love lost, and the fun that could be had!j

Songlist: Early One Morning, Dashing Away With The Smoothing Iron, O Waly Waly

"Essential Musicianship, Book 3," recommended for Grades 10-12 or other advanced singers, is a sequential choral method that helps the returning high school singer develop intermediate to advanced skills. Concepts presented include major/minor scales, diatonic chords, intervals, chromaticism, categories of harmony, modes, simple, asymmetric and changing meters. The 52 practice/performance songs for mixed, treble and tenor bass choirs are designed to improve reading skills through expressive singing.

Songlist: Aura Lee, Awake, Arise!, Benedictus, Bound For The Promised Land, Canon, Cape Cod Girls, The Colorado Trail, Confitemini Domino, Da Pacem, Domine, Dashing Away With The Smoothing Iron, Deck The Hall, Down By The Riverside, Faith And Hope And Love, Fine Knacks For Ladies, Gloria!, Goin' Round The Mountain, Golden Slumbers, Good Night Ladies, Greensleeves, The Gypsy Rover, Hi-Ho The Holly, I Know Where I'm Goin', Illumina Oculos Meos, Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning, Kumbaya, Kyrie Eleison, Locus Iste, My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean, My True Love Hath My Heart, O Mistress Mine, and more

ESSENTIAL MUSICIANSHIP is a sequential comprehensive curriculum that is designed to build all the skills of a choral musician. It includes Voice-builders, Theory-Builders, Sight-Reading exercises and songs which can be used for classroom or concert. The easy-to-use format allows the books to be used with all types of choir: mixed, treble or tenor bass.

Songlist: All People On Earth Do Dwell, All The Pretty Little Horses, Amazing Grace, An' Thou Wert My Ain Thing, Antiphonal Alleluia, Aura Lee, Awake, Arise!, Benedictus, Bound For The Promised Land, Canon, Cape Cod Girls, The Colorado Trail, Confitemini Domino, Da Pacem, Domine, Dashing Away With The Smoothing Iron, Deck The Hall, Down By The Riverside, Faith And Hope And Love, Fine Knacks For Ladies, Gloria!, Goin' Round The Mountain, Golden Slumbers, Good Night Ladies, Greensleeves, The Gypsy Rover, Hi-Ho The Holly, I Know Where I'm Goin', Illumina Oculos Meos, Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning, Kumbaya, and more

In this choral collection we have five settings of traditional songs, arranged by John Rutter for SATBB unaccompanied voices.

Songlist: The Girl I Left Behind Me, O Waly Waly, The British Grenadiers, Golden Slumbers, Dashing Away With The Smoothing Iron

Editied by John Rutter these songs come from the British Isles and North America, ranging widely in regional origin and character.

Songlist: Among the Leaves so Green, O, Bushes and Briars, Black Sheep, Bobby Shafto, Dashing Away With The Smoothing Iron, Early One Morning, Greensleeves, Londonderry Air, My Sweetheart's like Venus, O Waly, Waly, She's Like the Swallow, Sourwood Mountain

A cumulative song is a song where the verses are built from earlier verses. Always popular for group singing, this book offers both favourites and some zany new ones!

Songlist: An Austrian went a-yodelling, B-I-N-G-O, Dashing Away With The Smoothing Iron, I am a music man, I like to ballroom dance, I saw a monster in the garden, Jelly, jelly in my belly!, Last night's pizza, Menu song, Mind the gap!, Oh, how I'd like to be a cuckoo, One finger, one thumb, One man went to mow, Only ten days to go, Rocking rhythms, The ants went marching, There's a hole in my bucket, There were ten in the bed, When I first came to this land, Widdecombe Fair

Ten of the all-time top fun songs arranged for two-part voices with fantastic new accompaniments for piano or keyboard. The arrangements are all by established and highly skilled composers who know what really works well with choirs.The book comes with an accompanying CD containing both practice and performance tracks for all the songs.

Songlist: A life on the ocean wave, All the nice girls love a sailor, Chick, chick, chicken, Daisy bell, Dashing away with the smoothing iron, I am the music man, My grandfather's clock, One finger, one thumb, The bear climbed over the mountain, You'll never get to heaven

This reviewer is the owner of Primarily A Cappella and an ExPat Englishman living in the US and each of these songs are ones I remember fondly from my youth growing up in England. These are all very popular traditional songs that most every Englishman knows and are classics of their kind. They are highly enjoyable songs that will add lots of fun to your repertoire and certainly will be thoroughly enjoyed by not only any British folks in the audience.

Songlist: Teddy Bear's Picnic, I Do Like to be Beside the Seaside, The British Grenadiers, Dashing Away With The Smoothing Iron

SATB choirs are always looking for top quality show stopping concert pieces guaranteed to bring the house down with shouts of 'Encore!' 'Encores for Choirs 2,' which follows in the wake of the hugely successfully 'Encores for Choirs 1," boasts a bumper selection of 30 fabulous pieces, ranging in style from the classic and sentimental to the humorous and madcap-something to suit every mood and occasion. Jostling with must-have standards of the repertoire are new pieces and fresh arrangements by some of the finest musicians in the business, including the editor Peter Gritton, John Rutter, Bob Chilcott to name but a few. Together, the volume provides an unrivalled kaleidoscope of concert choices for the accompanied or a cappella choir and 30 irresistible reasons to bring that audience to its feet.

Songlist: A Modern Major-General, Auld Lang Syne, Bring us in good ale, Buffalo Gals, Calme des nuits, Chick, chick, chicken!, Counting Up My Toes, Country Gardens, Dashing Away With The Smoothing Iron, Deconstructing Johann, Dry Bones, El Hambo, Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit, Good Hope, Ill WInd, It was a lover and his lass, Jargon, Mission: Impossible, Nachtlied, Orpheus in the Underground, Parting Friends, Shenandoah, Stranger in Paradise, Take it from Figure 'O', The Long Day Closes, The tide rises, the tide falls, Three-minute Messiah, 'Un'-Popular Song, Vocalise, Wiegenlied, and more

The Novello Book Of British Folksongs For Mixed-Voice Choirs is an enjoyable collection of diverse tunes that have descended from the folksongs across the British Isles. A variety of arrangements are included, both old and new, of well-loved tunes as well as some lesser-known pieces. Choirs of all types and abilities will be able to discover their favourite arrangements, either the most beautiful, the funniest, or the most enjoyable to sing. With the country experiencing a revival in singing traditional folksongs, this collection is a great way to experience the unabashed joy that performing these British tunes can bring. All 34 tunes are arranged for SATB Chorus, some with Piano accompaniment, making this a brilliant way to enhance your choir's repertoire.

Songlist: Ae Fond Kiss, A-Hunting We Will Go, All Through The Night, Auld Lang Syne, The Bailiff's Daughter Of Islington, Blow the Wind Southerly, Bonny At Morn, Bring Us In Good Ale, Bushes And Briars, Ca' The Yowes, Come Lasses And Lads, Dance To Your Daddy, Dashing Away With The Smoothing Iron, The De'il Cam Fiddlin' Thro' The Town, The Devil And The Ploughman, Dream Angus, Goin' Up The Camborne Hill, High Germany, Ho-Ro! My Nut-Brown Maiden, I Love My Love, Mairi Bhan's Wedding, Mannin Veen, O My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose, My Sweetheart's Like Venus, O Waly Waly, The Piper O' Dundee, The Raggle Taggle Gipsies, The Rio Grande, Scarborough Fair, The Ship In Distress, and more