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Music Page


In order to facilitate our making music together, this page has been created to provide songs that we will know in common at gatherings. In order to use this webpage, you need to download Finale Notepad. It can be downloaded here and is free! To play the finale files below, you need to save them to your computer by right-clicking and choosing Save-As. Finale Notepad can easily be used to practice your part at home by opening its Score Manager and removing are adding various parts to practice either with or against. Sheet music can also be printed from Finale Notepad and you can use it as a musical word processor for your own compositions. You can find finale tutorials on youtube.com by doing a search for "finale notepad tutorial".

In the choral section, the pieces that we typically do at our ETS gatherings are given in bold. Please try to familiarize yourself with these pieces if you will be attending local events.

 

Choral Section

 


Angel's Carol- Rutter
Recording * Sheet music * Finale
Angels We Have Heard On High
Recording * Sheet music * Finale
Ave verum corpus - Mozart
Recording * Sheet music * Finale

Ave verum corpus - Byrd
Recording * Sheet music * Finale
Be Thou My Vision
Recording * Sheet music * Finale

Beati Quorum Via - Stanford
Recording * Sheet music * Finale
XVI Bendicam Dominum a 6- Rota
Recording * Sheet music * Finale

Caresse sur l'Ocean - Rameau
Recording
Choral 3 Saint Matthew Passion - Herzliebster Jesu - Bach
Recording * Sheet music * Finale

Choral 10 Saint Matthew Passion - J.S.Bach
Recording * Sheet music * Finale
Choral 55 Saint Matthew Passion - Bach
Recording * Finale * Sheet music
Choral 72 Saint Matthew Passion - Bach
Recording * Finale * Sheet music
Dies Irae - Mozart
Recording * Sheet music * Finale
* Finale - Piano
Dona Nobis Pacem - Palestrina
Recording * Finale * Colors
El Grillo - Josquin Des Prez
Recording * Sheet music * Finale
Fairest Lord Jesus
Recording * Finale
Gloria from Missa Kenya
Recording
Gloria - Vivaldi
Recording * Sheet Music * Finale * Finale (SATB)
Gloria- Dvorak
Recording * Sheet music * Finale * Finale (SATB)
Gloria Patri- Sicut Erat in Principio
Recording * Sheet music * Finale  
Greek Alphabet Song - Hinrichs
Sheet music * Recording * Finale

Happy Birthday
Recording * Sheet music * Finale

Holy, Holy, Holy- Dykes
Recording * Sheet music * Finale

It is Well with my Soul
Recording * Sheet music * Finale
Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring - Bach

Recording * Sheet music * Finale *
Jesu, rex admirabilis - Palestrina
Recording * Sheet music * Finale
Kyrie- Dvorak
Recording * Sheet music * Finale *
Mass for three voices - Kyrie - William Byrd
Recording * Sheet music *

Messiah- Handel-
Good Messiah practice videos can also be found by putting the song name into youtube along with your part.

#4- And the Glory of the Lord
Recording * Sheet music * Finale

#7- And He Shall Purify - 
Recording * Sheet music * Finale * Finale - vocal *
#12- For Unto Us a Child is Born
Recording * Sheet music * Finale *
#17- Glory to God
Recording * Sheet music * Finale *
#21- His yoke is easy
Recording * Sheet music * Finale

#22- Behold the Lamb of God
Recording * Sheet music * Finale

#24- Surely He hath born our griefs
Recording * Sheet music * Finale *
#33- Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates - 
Recording * Sheet music * Finale *
#37- The Lord gave the word
Recording * Sheet music * Finale *
#39- Their Sound is Gone Out- 
Recording * Sheet music * Finale *

#44- Hallelujah Chorus -
Recording * Sheet music * Finale * Finale - vocal *
#53- Worthy is the Lamb and Amen- 
Recording * Sheet music * Finale * Finale slow

Mille Regretz - Josquin Des Prez
Recording * Sheet music * Finale * More
Sicut Cervus - Palestrina
Recording * Sheet music * Finale
Star Spangled Banner - F. S. Key
Recording * Lyrics

Te Deum Laudamus
Recording * Sheet music * Sheet Music * Gregorian Notation
Treemonisha quartet- Joplin
Recording (19.19) * Sheet music * Finale
Jubilate Deo - Orlando di Lasso
Recording * Sheet music * Finale
Vois Sur Ton Chemin - Rameau
Recording
What a Friend We Have in Jesus * Recording
Von Himmel Hoch- Bach
Recording * Sheet music * Finale *
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross- Watts
Recording * Sheet music * Finale


Recording * Sheet music * Finale

Instrumental Section


Sonata #6 - Vivaldi - For Piano, Cello and Flute/Recorder/Violin
Finale complete, Finale piano, Finale Melody, Finale cello

Sonate #6 - Vivace
Finale Complete

 

Dance Section

Please click here for the word document containing the instructions for most of our common dances.

Boogie Woogie Piano

Luca Sestak
Jonny May (instruction)

Bluegrass

All of these tunes are so common you can do a search for them on youtube.com and find lots of examples to listen to. You can also find lots of good videos on our Inspiration for folk music playlist

Blackberry Blossum
Cripple Creek
Muenchner Polka
Newcastle
Old Joe Clark
Red Wing
Red Haired Boy
Soldier's Joy
The Duke Of Kent's Waltz

If you would like to learn more complicated picking version of common bluegrass tunes, I recommend these books- Banjo Primer, Mandolin Primer, Guitar Primer, Bass Primer

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