Note-for-Note Keyboard Transcriptions Series

Play your favorite keyboard parts note-for-note! These books feature authentic, off-the-record transcriptions so you can study and play some of the best songs of all time.

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Kirby Shaw | Hal Leonard Kirby Shaw KIRBY SHAW has made a major impact in choral music education and has shared his musical expertise in 45 states, Canada, Australia, the Bahamas, China, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Poland, Latvia, and the Philippines. Kirby has degrees in Music Education and Choral Composition from San Jose State University and a DMA degree in Choral Conducting from the University of Washington. Dr. Shaw’s teaching is infused with a sense of humor and breadth of knowledge that is transmitted in an exciting and highly contagious manner. Kirby taught in the Mt. Shasta public schools before joining the faculty at College of the Siskiyous in California where he founded and directed the innovative and highly acclaimed COS Vocal Jazz Ensemble. He also pioneered similar groups at Colorado State University and The University of Missouri - Kansas City, and is now directing the Jefferson State Choral Coalition at Southern Oregon University. Kirby has scatted one-on-one with such notables as Bobby McFerrin, Al Jarreau, Jon Hendricks (who once told Kirby . . . "Man, you don’t make mistakes!"), Mark Murphy, Greta Matassa, and Chris Calloway. He has overseen the creation of hundreds of educational recordings, five college and university albums and two solo CDs. Kirby is a member of Just 4 Kicks, a zany 4-man a cappella vocal ensemble specializing in Jazz. A composer/arranger with nearly 3000 choral compositions/arrangements in print, Kirby’s music is sung around the world and has sold over 20 million copies. He has many commissioned pieces to his credit, including one for The Mormon Tabernacle Choir. This creative and prolific output has resulted in numerous ASCAP awards. Kirby and his wife, Markita have written an original musical based on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol entitled SCROOGICAL, soon to be presented at a quality theater near you! Kirby, Markita, and their foofy-newfie/border collie mix, Tux, live in a forest high above Southern Oregon’s Rogue Valley.

2018 Shawnee Press Choral Expressions Welcome to the 2018 Shawnee Press Choral Expressions. We invite you to enjoy exploring a wide selection of new choral releases, including outstanding concert works, pop, jazz and Broadway music, and a wealth of music education resources. Click to go to YouTube playlists that will show you the actual scores while playing the full recording of each title. For your convenience, you can also click on the DOWNLOAD ALL EXCERPTS link (below the Open Playlist icon). You can access the downloaded tracks with any mp3 player, such as an iPod. We wish you all the best as you select music for your ensembles. We invite you to contact us by email at choral@halleonard.com with your questions and comments.

2019 Shawnee Choral Expressions Welcome to the 2019 Shawnee Press Choral Expressions. We invite you to enjoy exploring a wide selection of new choral releases, including outstanding concert works, pop, jazz and Broadway music, and a wealth of music education resources. Click to go to YouTube playlists that will show you the actual scores while playing the full recording of each title. For your convenience, you can also click on the DOWNLOAD ALL EXCERPTS link (below the Open Playlist icon). You can access the downloaded tracks with any mp3 player, such as an iPod. We wish you all the best as you select music for your ensembles. We invite you to contact us by email at choral@halleonard.com with your questions and comments.

2020 Shawnee Press Choral Expressions Welcome to the 2020 Shawnee Press Choral Expressions. We invite you to enjoy exploring a wide selection of new choral releases, including outstanding concert works, pop, jazz and Broadway music, and a wealth of music education resources. Click to go to YouTube playlists that will show you the actual scores while playing the full recording of each title. For your convenience, you can also click on the DOWNLOAD ALL EXCERPTS link (below the Open Playlist icon). You can access the downloaded tracks with any mp3 player, such as an iPod. We wish you all the best as you select music for your ensembles. We invite you to contact us by email at choral@halleonard.com with your questions and comments.

2023 Shawnee Press Choral Expressions Welcome to the 2023 Shawnee Press Choral Expressions online catalog.We invite you to enjoy exploring a wide selection of new choral releases, including outstanding concert works, pop, jazz and Broadway music, and a wealth of music education resources. We wish you all the best as you select music for your ensembles. We invite you to contact us by email at choral@halleonard.com with your questions and comments.

2024 Shawnee Press Choral Expressions Welcome to the 2024 Shawnee Press Choral Expressions. We are pleased to present our latest collection featuring 30 captivating pieces tailored for choirs of all levels. Edited and curated by Greg Gilpin, Shawnee Press offers unparalleled quality and versatility to enrich your choir's repertoire. You will find fresh arrangements and original compositions reflecting contemporary themes, vibrant pop numbers, and a diverse selection of winter and holiday melodies. Finally, don't forget to review all our Choral Resources for warming up the choir, practicing techniques, learning new styles, and more! Explore our new music below by selecting your preferred voicings and watching/listening to the YouTube score previews!

2018 Shawnee Press Choral Expressions > Shawnee Press Vocal Library

2018 Hal Leonard Choral Artistry > Boosey & Hawkes > Shawn Kirchner

2019 Shawnee Choral Expressions > Highlighting Some of the Best from Shawnee Press!

2019 Shawnee Choral Expressions > Shawnee Press Vocal Library

2020 Shawnee Press Choral Expressions > Highlighting Some of the Best from Shawnee Press!

2020 Shawnee Press Choral Expressions > Shawnee Press Vocal Library

2022 Hal Leonard Choral Spectrum > Shawnee Press Choral

2024 Choral Spectrum > Shawnee Press

Crawford R. Thoburn | Hal Leonard Crawford R. Thoburn More than one hundred of Crawford R. Thoburn's choral compositions, arrangements, and editions have been published. Choirs across the U.S. and throughout the world sing his music, with performances noted in Nova Scotia, British Columbia, England, Germany, Austria, France, South Africa, Singapore, India, and Taiwan. Professional, church, and college groups record his works, which have been broadcast on National Public Radio and Public Radio International. At Wells College in Aurora NY, Crawford R. Thoburn is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities. His student choral groups have won international awards in juried competition, performed by invitation at ACDA conventions and MENC meetings, toured in the U.S. and Europe, performed with many other college groups, and sung with professional orchestras. He has conducted numerous inter-collegiate choral collaborations, and enjoys a national reputation for expertise in women's choral literature and performance. Professor Thoburn has a B.A. from Allegheny College, where he studied theory, arranging, and conducting with Morten J. Luvaas. In 1999, the Allegheny Alumni Association selected him to receive its prestigious Gold Citation, ""in recognition and appreciation of the honor reflected upon the college by virtue of his professional achievements."" At Boston University, Professor Thoburn received a M.M. and worked as an assistant to his instructor in voice and conducting, Allen C. Lannom. He later studied choral and orchestral conducting with Otto-Werner Mueller, Margaret Hillis, and Robert Shaw. While on a year-long sabbatical leave, he was a member of and soloist with the St. Martin Singers of London, England, under the direction of W. D. Kennedy-Bell. Crawford served on the first National Committee on Editorial Standards of the American Choral Directors Association. His scholarly articles have appeared in the American Choral Review, Wells College Express and the Choral Journal, where he headed the Choral Review Department for five years. At Wells, Professor Thoburn chaired the Music Department, the Division of the Arts, the Centennial Committee, the New Arts Facilities Committee, the Summer College Program, and the Faculty Advisory Committee, and he was named the first Campbell Professor of the Arts. Off campus, Crawford has served many years as a choral director for Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, and Episcopalian congregations. He is profiled in the 59th edition of the original Marquis biographical directory Who's Who In America. Publications by Crawford R. Thoburn

Walter Rodby | Hal Leonard Walter Rodby Walter Rodby (1917-2005), internationally recognized composer, arranger, conductor and music education received his first public school education on Minnesota’s Mesabi Iron Range, where he graduated from high school and junior college. He continued his music education at the University of Northern Iowa, Trinity College of Music, and London University and received his advanced degrees from Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York City. During his studies in London, he was a member of the Royal Choral Society, directed by Sir Malcolm Sargent, and for two years while at Columbia University, he sang with the celebrated Collegiate Chorale under the baton of Maestro Robert Shaw. In 1959, Mr. Rodby was elected to ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. His compositions and arrangements, numbering 350, including nine music books, have been published by 19 American and European publishers. Mr. Rodby taught and directed music groups, primarily vocal, in three high schools and 15 colleges and universities. For over thirty years, he wrote a monthly column “The Choral Folio” for the School Musician Magazine, an internationally circulated publication for the school and church market. Mr. Rodby conducted over 150 festivals and workshops and reading sessions in 20 states and his articles appeared in a dozen state and national periodicals. Mr. Rodby provided significant leadership in every music organization to which he has held membership, including President, Illinois Music Educators Association; President, Chicago Choral Conductors Guild; and President of the Illinois Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. From 1970 to 1977, on four separate occasions, he organized and conducted concert tours featuring a 100-voice high school choir, in 12 European countries, including Greece and the Soviet Union. Mr. Rodby was a WWII veteran, and as a U.S. Army Infantry Officer (Captain), he served as Ammunition and Bomb Disposal Officer with the 66th (Panther) Division in Europe. He was awarded the Bronze Star, The Combat Infantryman’s Badge, and two EAME Theatre ribbons. Upon his release from active duty, Captain Rodby served 27 years in the Army reserves, and in 1965, he was promoted to full colonel. Upon his retirement, he received the Meritorious Service Medal. In 1998, he received a special plaque from the Department of Defense WWII Commemoration Committee for “outstanding service” for composing and conducting a special celebratory anthem honoring the 50th anniversary of the end of WWII, performed at the famous Punch Bowl Cemetery, Honolulu, Hawaii on November 11, 1977. Mr. Rodby’s awards and honors were many, and included the coveted Steinway Award, the Illinois Music Educators Distinguished Service Award, the Harold A. Decker Award from the Illinois Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association, Cook County Teacher of the Year award, and the National Arts Associate Award from Sigma Alpha Iota, International Music Fraternity, at their 1984 National Convention in Chicago. In 1997, he was inducted into the HALL OF FAME of his hometown, Virginia, Minnesota. Publications by Walter Rodby

Doreen Rao | Hal Leonard Doreen Rao Doreen Rao's distinguished career as conductor and master teacher links the standards of professional performance with the goals of music education. Celebrated for her spirited and moving concerts, Rao's commitment to choral music education is recognized in her innovative programming, teaching initiatives, worldwide conducting appearances and her award winning publications with Boosey & Hawkes. Doreen Rao holds the University of Toronto Elmer Iseler Chair in Conducting. As the Director of Choral Programs, Dr. Rao founded the Faculty of Music's Centre for Advanced Studies in Choral Music which supports and enriches the Faculty's ensemble and conducting programs, hosts the Elmer Iseler Singers and sponsors the International Bach Festival with Helmuth Rilling. Rao conducts the award-winning University of Toronto MacMillan Singers and Chamber Choirs. Her young ensembles collaborate regularly with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and a roster of internationally celebrated artists and educators. She leads the University's graduate program in conducting performance and teaches graduate research and philosophy courses related to music performance in education. Recognized as one of the world's leading experts on children and youth choirs, Doreen Rao founded and chaired the ACDA National Committee for Children's Choirs, pioneering work that inspired the children's choir movement in America. In a national tribute presented to her by the American Choral Director's Association, eminent American conductor Robert Shaw wrote, "The world of choral music owes her special thanks. She is preparing our future." During Rao's long association with the Chicago Symphony Chorus, she served as assistant conductor to her mentor Margaret Hillis and prepared choruses for concerts and Grammy Award-winning recordings with Sir Georg Solti, Claudio Abbado, and James Levine. Her choirs also performed on numerous occasions with Leonard Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and with Helmuth Rilling at the Oregon Bach Festival. The Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia awarded her with their National Citation for her significant and lasting contribution to the cause of American music. She has been honored by the American Choral Director's Association for her commitment to choral excellence. A CBS television documentary called her musical achievements "extraordinary." Following her undergraduate education at the University of Illinois, Rao spent the first years of her career in Chicago singing professionally and teaching choral music in the schools. She served as Music Director and Conductor of the Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus, an ensemble that performed and recorded regularly with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Following graduate studies at Northwestern University, she joined the Voice Faculty at Roosevelt University's Chicago Musical College where she performed and taught voice and choral music before accepting an invitation to conduct the Northwestern University Chorus and complete her doctoral studies in philosophy and aesthetics. Rao's innovative Sing with the Symphony school and family concerts were first introduced by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra to actively involve audiences in listening as performers. In a pioneering career of "firsts," Rao conducts honor choirs, all-state choirs and festival choirs for numerous national and international conferences, associations and performance organizations around the world. Most recently she enjoyed conducting the inspired young Texas All-State Chorus with Orchestra for the Texas Music Educators Association. Doreen Rao is the Founding Director of the CME Institute for Choral Teacher Education, an internationally acclaimed professional development program for conductors, composers, choirs and teachers. She is the Artistic Director and Conductor of the New Millennium Festival Concerts, an innovative peacemaking initiative with concert series in New York, Toronto and London. Publications by Doreen Rao

Norm Sands | Hal Leonard Norm Sands Norm Sands began composing motivating music for his beginning recorder students in 1989. Since then, he has gained national attention as a composer of educational music through his compositions for Wide World Music, a division of Shawnee Press, Music K-8 magazine (Plank Road Publishing), and SandSoundS, Norm's own publishing venture, which is now a part of Shawnee Press. Upon receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education from Penn State University in 1985, Norm worked in the Bellefonte Area School District in Pennsylvania as an elementary music specialist. He received several awards during his 11 years as an elementary general music/choral teacher including Outstanding Contributor to Education '89, Outstanding Young Educator '90-'91, and a Citation of Excellence from the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association in 1992. Norm developed curriculum and taught in the REAL (Reinventing Education for Active Learning) Initiative in Bellefonte from 1993 to 1995.From 1995-1998, Norm was an elementary music specialist in Deep South Texas where he was nominated Teacher of the Year in two different school districts. Publications by Norm Sands

Stacey Nordmeyer | Hal Leonard Stacey Nordmeyer Stacey Nordmeyer began her career in music publishing as a choral editor and was an editor for the textbook series Experiencing Choral Music, as well as for numerous sight-singing methods, along with music for school, church and community choirs. Now, as General Manager, Choral Publications, she oversees the choral publication process for both Hal Leonard and Shawnee Press. She is also a celebrated composer and arranger, with anthems published in both the Hal Leonard and Shawnee Press church catalogs. She has been active in church music for over 35 years, having served as music director, worship leader, and accompanist at various churches throughout southeastern Wisconsin. She currently directs the praise bands and the adult handbell choir at UNITY Lutheran Church in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Stacey holds a Bachelor of Music degree with an emphasis in piano and music theory from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, and she is a member of the Milwaukee Handbell Ensemble. Publications by Stacey Nordmeyer

Larry Nickel | Hal Leonard Larry Nickel Dr. Larry Nickel, an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre, is a busy choral clinician and sings bass in the Vancouver Chamber Choir. In 2003 Larry took a leave from 25 years of teaching music and drama to complete a Doctorate in Composition. His thesis, Requiem for Peace, is an extensive work for chorus and symphony orchestra in twelve languages. It received a second performance at the Orpheum in 2009 with the VSO and the Vancouver Bach Choir. Larry is co-founder and composer-in-residence for the West Coast Mennonite Chamber Choir, which has recorded over 120 of Larry's compositions on thirteen CDs. Larry’s music is published by Cypress, Shawnee Press, Morton Music, Classica, Pavane, Canadian International, G. Schirmer and Oxford University Press, and is presented widely with recent performances in Toronto, Kiev, Tokyo, Melbourne, Cape Town, and Taipei. Publications by Larry Nickel

Patti Drennan | Hal Leonard Patti Drennan Patti Drennan earned a Bachelor of Music Education degree at Oklahoma State University and a Masters of Music Education degree at the University of Oklahoma. She taught Choral Music for 28 years in Norman Public Schools, the first twenty years at West Mid-High School, where she was voted “Teacher of the Year”, and eight years at Norman High School where she directed four choirs which consistently received Superior (First place) ratings. In 2004, she was awarded the coveted “Director of Distinction Award” given yearly by the Oklahoma Choral Directors Association. An active composer and arranger, Patti has over 250 choral octavos published with Shawnee Press, Hal Leonard and other major publishers. She has served as a clinician for school and church workshops in 19 states, 3 times in Canada, and has presented 4 sessions at the Texas Music Educators Convention. She has been guest director at numerous Composer Weekends and has had a composition from Sing for the Cure performed at Carnegie Hall. She has been an adjudicator for choral contests in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kansas. Patti retired from teaching in 2004 in order to compose and stay active as a clinician and workshop presenter. She also serves as Music and Worship Arts Director at First Baptist Church, Norman. She is married and has two grown children; Emily, a musical theater performer in New York City, and Adam, a University of Oklahoma and Lancaster (England) University graduate. Publications by Patti Drennan

Mary Endsley Martin | Hal Leonard Mary Endsley Martin Mary Martin grew up in Houston, Texas. She received a Bachelor of Music degree in voice performance from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Music degree in choral conducting at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Mary has several published works with Shawnee Press. For the past 20 years, Mary has enjoyed her career as a musical and stage director, a published lyricist, a vocalist, and as a private music instructor. She continues to perform extensively throughout the area, while also maintaining an active teaching studio of piano, voice, and guitar. Publications by Mary Endsley Martin

Note-for-Note Keyboard Transcriptions Series

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