First Note Music Tunes
The material on this site is free of charge until the material is due to be performed publicly.
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The terms will be discussed with you by the owners of the site. Black Castle Publishing.
DIRECTORS OF CHOIRS
The FNMT website contains a number of cantatas and song titles for directors of choirs and music groups free of charge.
Click on SONGBOOK above to see the range of materials available - Scores, Videos and Recordings.
The composer and renowned member of the Radio 4 panel show I’M SORRY I HAVEN’T A CLUE, Colin Sell, and his collaborator, lyricist Chris Lowe, have put onto the site three light-hearted song cycles for choirs:
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COMPOSERS AND WRITERS
The First Note Music Tunes (FNMT) website presents an opportunity for composers and lyricists to make their works available to performers and anyone else interested in new compositions.
You can display (free of charge) piano scores, and lyrics plus videos of the music being played on instruments or electronically.
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Starting Out: A School Oratorio
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a series of 14 songs for primary and early secondary school pupils about school life - from the first song Start of the Day to The End of Term and final Afternoon Hymn when the empty school erupts with ghosts and ghouls and strange goings-on.
Suitable for Years 5 to 10
Lasts over around 45 minutes if all songs are sung
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Away From The Manger: Whatever happened to the Christmas supporting cast
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Another Lowe and Sell light-hearted cantata with gloriously witty tunes. The songs explore what might have happened to the Christmas shepherds, the Bethlehem innkeeper, the animals in the Manger, and the somewhat puzzled Magi . It features an amazing argument between the three Kings and the three wise men as to who are the real Magi. It takes a band of Angels to resolve it.
Suitable for choirs of all abilities.
Lasts about 40 minutes.
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Carmina Comica: The Antidote To Choral Cantatas
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Five songs tracing the history of choral music in a cheerful and sometimes irreverent manner. The cantata includes a unique spoof madrigal in Anglo Roman patois Latin which invites choirs to sing themselves into a surreal comic world!
Suitable for choirs of all abilities.
Lasts about 35 minutes.
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