Category: ETHNIC MUSIC
Composer: Popular Dominican song
Arranger: Juan-Tony Guzman
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Edition: 48004955
Voicing: SA
Setting: Piano and Percussion
Reviewer:
Ahmed Anzaldúa
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R&R Chair Ethnic Music
Can be performed as TB as well.
A pambiche is a style of merengue originally known as the “Palm Beach one step”; the term pambiche […]
Category: ETHNIC MUSIC
Composer: Traditional Venezuelan song
Arranger: Angel Sauce
Publisher: Earthsongs
Edition: S-37
Voicing: SATB and SAB
Setting: –
Reviewer:
Ahmed Anzaldúa
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R&R Chair Ethnic Music
Alma Llanera, a joropo song by Pedro Gutierrez, is one of Venezuela’s most popular songs, a sort of second national anthem of the Venezuelan people. Angel […]
Category: ETHNIC MUSIC
Composer: Traditional Indonesian songs
Arranger: I Gusti Ngurah Kertayuda & Robert Young Walser
Publisher: World Music Press / Plank Road Publishing
Edition: –
Voicing: Unison
Setting: Dance
Reviewer:
Ahmed Anzaldúa
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R&R Chair Ethnic Music
In “Saman!: Dance of a Thousand Hands” book and DVD
This song belongs to a unique genre […]
Category: ETHNIC MUSIC
Composer: NA
Arranger: Carol Barnett
Publisher: Beady Eyes Publishing
Edition: –
Voicing: SATB
Setting: Piano
Reviewer:
Ahmed Anzaldúa
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R&R Chair Ethnic Music
This arrangement of the traditional lullaby Slummersang (Cradle Song) by Gustaf Hagg includes a beautifully crafted piano part that singers will love. Carol sets the text in various […]
Category: ETHNIC MUSIC
Composer: Filipino folk song
Arranger: George G. Hernandez
Publisher: Pavane Publishing
Edition: P1364
Voicing: SATB and SSAA
Setting: –
Reviewer:
Ahmed Anzaldúa
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R&R Chair Ethnic Music
Filipino listeners will instantly recognize this humorous song. George Hernandez’ arrangement features several surprising moments that will engage singers with the song’s playful text. […]
Category: ETHNIC MUSIC
Composer: Norwegian folk song
Arranger: Tone Krohn
Publisher: –
Edition: –
Voicing: SSA
Setting: –
Reviewer:
Ahmed Anzaldúa
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R&R Chair Ethnic Music
Tone Krohn’s arrangements of Norwegian folk music are quite extraordinary. They give treble choirs the opportunity to sing repertoire that is outside of the norm. Springdans fra Vestfold […]
Category: ETHNIC MUSIC
Composer: NA
Arranger: Mark Burrows
Publisher: Shawnee Press
Edition: 35031178
Voicing: 2-Part
Setting: –
Reviewer:
Carole Whitney
Como Park Senior High School
R&R Chair Ethnic Music
This traditional song from Puerto Rico has a introduction/bridge that gives it a special touch. It is about a tree frog native to Puerto […]
Category: ETHNIC MUSIC
Composer: NA
Arranger: Brian Tate
Publisher: Pavane Publishing
Edition: P1378
Voicing: SATB
Setting: a cappella
Reviewer:
Carole Whitney
Como Park Senior High School
R&R Chair Ethnic Music
Brian Tate has taken an Iroquois calling song and created a lovely soundscape. The approach allows each voice part to enter at its own time. […]
Category: ETHNIC MUSIC
Composer: NA
Arranger: Greg Gilpin
Publisher: Choristers Guild
Edition: CGE128
Voicing: 3-Part Mixed
Setting: –
Reviewer:
Carole Whitney
Como Park Senior High School
R&R Chair Ethnic Music
Middle Eastern folk song sung in Arabic tells of a traveling salesman selling pretty Indian fabrics. He flirts with the women shopping in a playful […]
Category: ETHNIC MUSIC
Composer: Israel Kagaruki
Arranger: Eugene Rogers
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Edition: 08750933
Voicing: SATB
Setting: Percussion
Reviewer:
Carole Whitney
Como Park Senior High School
R&R Chair Ethnic Music
In Tanzania, where the AIDS epidemic was acute, Israel Kagaruki wrote Jenga Imani Yako as a song of encouragement to “Keep going and […]