In the Mood: 17 Jazz Classics for Choirs (Lighter Choral Repertoire) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0193302012 ISBN 13: 9780193302013

Publisher: Oxford University Press Music, 1995

Synopsis

In the Mood is an anthology of choral arrangements of seventeen classic popular songs by such great names as Fats Waller, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, and Richard Rodgers. All the pieces are expertly arranged by the editors to suit the needs of amateur SATB groups--school choirs, youth choirs, or chamber choirs of any description--looking for lighter popular repertoire. There is a mixture of accompanied and unaccompanied numbers in a variety of styles: smoky blues, up-tempo scat, sentimental swing, exuberant Dixieland, sophisticated close-harmony, and a couple of opulent show-stoppers like "Somewhere over the Rainbow."

About this title

About the Author:

Andrew Carter's music is performed worldwide. As composer, guest conductor and workshop leader he has travelled extensively in the United States, Antipodes and Europe. A twenty-five year association with Oxford University Press has established his reputation as a writer of both choral
miniatures and larger scale concert works for chorus and orchestra.

Review:

'As one would expect from arrangers as gifted as David Blackwell and Andrew Carter, 'Classic' is a good description of these seventeen choral arrangements . . . This volume has much to commend it . . . a book for the connoisseur of this genre . . . Oxford has produced a winner . . . here, with
this book is a way for a choir or smaller group to build a worthwhile library of very effective choral arrangements, and would certainly repay the initial outlay, in aesthetic return.' Australian Music Teacher Vol.5, no.4, 1997

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press Music
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0193302012
• ISBN 13: 9780193302013
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 184
• Editor: Blackwell David, Carter Andrew