SE-1177 Reproducible Kit A World Of Music by Teresa Jennings An Important Notice About Your Rights To Duplicate With the purchase of this product, you (one teacher or director) may legally duplicate the reproducible singers pages for use with your singers, no matter how many singers you have, even if you work in more than one school or with more than one congregation. Permission to duplicate and/or share the music, reproducible pages, or recording with anyone else is not granted and is considered a copyright infringement. Permission is granted to duplicate the accompanying recording for back-up purposes only. Please don t teach your singers to steal. The people who write and publish this music depend on its sales for their livelihood. Not only is it illegal for you to freely duplicate their work without their permission, it is also unfair and it sets a bad example for your singers. We will always fight for your rights to better pay and working conditions, and as one of the few publishers of children s music, we invest most of our profits in new music and resources for you. We also take care to provide real value in our products. In return, we ask for your support of our rights. Thank you. P. O. Box 26627 Wauwatosa, WI 53226
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A World Of Music solo, optional: One world. One voice. One world of song. duet, optional: One world. One voice. We all belong! unison, optional: One world. (One world.) A world of music. unison: Picture this: one world sharing a melody. divisi, optional: Picture this: one world sharing a song. unison: If we could picture a world where we stand side by side, and imagine how nice it would be, then we could hear in our minds what a sound we could make with our voices in true harmony. One world! One voice! One world of song! divisi, optional: One world! One voice! We all belong! unison: Music is part of ev ryone. One world. (One world.) A world of music. unison: Picture this: one world singing in harmony. divisi, optional: Picture this: one world singing a song. unison: If we could picture a world where we stand side by side, and imagine how nice it would be, then we could hear in our minds what a sound we could make with our voices in true harmony. One world! One voice! One world of song! divisi, optional: One world! One voice! We all belong! unison: Music is part of ev ryone! One world! (One world!) (4 times, divisi, optional): A world of music! Music! One world! (One world!) A world of music! One world! A WORLD OF MUSIC, Teresa Jennings 1997 Plank Road Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Notes for A World Of Music A World Of Music is a happy song. It begins with a simple ostinato on harp and piano which leads to an optional solo and then, duet. If you have singers who are capable of performing the solo/duet, it can be quite effective, as you will hear on the recording. The solo/duet may continue to measure 24, or, as we did on the recording, you may have the rest of your singers join in at bar 16, which is an optional divisi. Each time at measure 24, the melody is sung in unison. On the repeat, it may split into divisi. At measure 34, it is unison again until the chorus at measure 44. Again, the first time through is unison, then divisi at the repeat. Dynamics around measure 59 should be noticed, as they are different the two times they are sung. The first time, since the song is going back for the D.S., the dynamics are reduced to a mezzo forte. The second time, the song goes to the coda and a dynamic of forte is indicated. The divisi at the coda is optional and can be performed as unison to the end using either part 1 or part 2 as the melody. Be sure to point out to your singers that the section at measure 65 is sung four times. Again, the divisi at the very end of the song is optional. Consider letting only selected individuals sing some of the alternate notes. If you choose to use the recording, you will hear piano, guitar, electric bass, drums, congas, trumpets, horns, trombones, flute, saxophone, and strings. We also used some synthesizer sounds, such as the folk harp and FM Piano. The hand percussion you hear enter at various points in the song are all deliberately chosen from different places around the world. We included Venezuelan maracas, which are used for the joropo style of music, frenikiwa (African castanets), an African ashiko or djembe drum, and a pandeiro from Brazil. Be sure to let your students listen to the instrumental version of the song to see if they can identify the different sounds. 12