Walter Ehret

Review: The book is a collection of ideas, procedures, and devices which have been successfully used with choral groups of all ages. The chapters are organized to cover one problem area at a time, and succinctly state the suggested solutions. This digest of the fundamentals of the choral art is designed to be of help to all choral directors regardless of their experience and ability, or the skill of their groups. The veteran conductor may use it as a check list for his own work--the less experienced conductor will find the material of great value both in building a fine chorus as well as in developing an increased awareness and sensitivity on his own part. The handbook may well serve as a text for choral conducting classes as well as a source book of information for members of school, community, and church groups.  

Songlist: Rehearsal Procedures, Presenting a New Choral Work, Flatting and Its Causes, Dynamics, Tempo, Rhythm, Blend and Balance, Diction, Vowels: Principles, Primary Vowels, and Related Sounds, Consonants: Principles and Considerations, Diphthongs: Principles and Basics, Tone Color, Staging, Criteria for Selection of Choral Music, Audio Aids, Program and Performance Suggestions and Considerations

Review: A collection of French Christmas carols for unison or 2-part voices with French and English texts.

Songlist: We Sing in Celebration, He is Born, the Holy Child, Angels O'er the Fields Were Singing, O Come Away, Ye Shepherds, The Sleep of the Infant Jesus, What is This Perfume So Appealing?, Neighbor, What Has You So Excited?, O Holy Night, Pat-a-Pan, Ballad of Jesus Christ, Although You Still are Weak and Helpless, Christmas Comes Anew, Sleep, Little Dove, Shepherd, Shake off Your Drowsy Sleep, Whence Comes This Rush of Wings Afar?, March of the Kings, Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella, Touro-Louro-Louro, Whence Art Thou, My Maiden?

Review: 38 easy arrangements of traditional carols from the acclaimed arranger Walter Ehret. Text in both English and the native language with carols from Germany, Austria, Denmark, Norway and others.

Songlist: O How Joyfully, O Christmas Tree, Ring, Little Bells, O Come, Little Children, In Bethlehem so Lowly, While By My Sheep, Joseph, Dearest Joseph Mine, The Christmas Tree With Its Candles Gleaming, Susani, Come Running, You Shepherds, Shepherd's Cradle Song, Dear Nightingale, Awake, Maria Wanders Through The Thorn, From Heaven Above To Earth I Come, Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light, Beside Thy Cradle Here I Stand, How Brightly Shines The Morning Star, Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming, Lippai, As Lately we Watched, The Twilight Is Falling, Above on the Mountain, Silent Night, Holy Night, A Baby In The Cradle, Still, Still, Still, Gloria, The Simple Birth, Today We Welcome a Tiny Child, The Happy Christmas Comes Once More, Lovely Is The Dark Blue Sky, Child Jesus, A Child Is Born In Bethlehem, Yuletide Is Here Again, When Christmas Morn is Dawning, Thy Little Ones, Dear Lord, Are we, You Green and Glittering Tree, Good Day, O Christmas, You Season of Childlike Delight, I Am So Glad on Christmas Eve

Review: A collection of 27 traditional carols for unison and 2 part voices arranged by Walter Ehret. In Spanish with English translations.

Songlist: A La Nanita Nana, Come, My Dear Old Lady, Thou Art Well Content, Foom, Foom, Foom, The Son Of Mary, Holy Joseph And Mary The Maid, King Herod, The Icy December, Carol Of The Birds, We'll Speak Very Softly, O Bethlehem, A Fire Is Started In Bethlehem, Bells Over Bethlehem, O My Loveliest One, In Bethlehem's Cradle, The Holy Child, At The Hour Of Midnight, Song Of The Wise Men, Shepherds In Bethlehem, Happily Singing, We Are Singing, As The Frightened Baby Jesus, The Journey, Going To Bethlehem, Pray Give Us Lodging, The Babe, Hasten Now, O Shepherds

Review: A classic collection for three part treble voices from Walter Ehret. Active as a clinician, conductor, and choral literature specialist, Ehret has functioned in these various capacities at over three hundred workshops in thirty states.

Songlist: Adoramus Te, Christe, Ave Maria, He Never Said A Mumbalin' Word, He's Gone Away, Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mine, Lift Thine Eyes (Elijah), O Mary, Don't You Weep, On Wings Of Songs, Open Thy Blue Eyes, Sourwood Mountain, Wassail Song, Whistle, Mary Whistle

Review: 164 easy arrangements with chords of carols from around the world, complete with lyrics in the original language as well as English. This special collection also includes historical background information on the observance of Christmas through the years and notes about specific carols to give added understanding. Songs are included from England, Italy, Latin America, Spain, Scandinavia, Poland, Czech Republic, and more.

Songlist: Christmas and Its Songs, ENGLISH CAROLS, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, Good Christian Men, Rejoice, The Seven Joys of Mary, This Endris Night, Good King Wenceslas, God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen, Coventry Carol, When Christ Was Born of Mary Free, The Holly and the Ivy, The Friendly Beasts, The First Nowell, Joy to the World, What Child is This? (Greensleeves), While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks, Gloucestershire wassail, The Boar's Head Carol, Wassail Song, The Twelve Days of Christmas, On Christmas Night (Sussex Carol), Blessed Be that Maid Marie, A Virgin Unspotted, Once in Royal David's City, Sleep, Holy Babe, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, As with Gladness Men of Old, Angels From the Realms of Glory, Masters in this Hall, I Saw Three Ships, Deck the Hall with Boughs of Holly, The Snow Lay on the Ground, Baloo, Lammy, I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, All My Heart This Night Rejoices, Away in a Manger, There's a Song in the Air, It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, O Little Town of Bethlehem, Everywhere, Everywhere, Christmas Tonight, We Three Kings of Orient Are, Gather Around the Christmas Tree, Jingle Bells, Up on the Housetop, Jolly Old Saint Nicholas, Twas in the Moon of Wintertime, Behold that Star, Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow, Children, Go Where I Send Thee, Mary had a Baby, Go Tell it on the Mountain, O Po' Little Jesus, Hush, My Babe, Lie Still and Slumber, Brightest and Best (Star of the East), We Sing in Celebration, He is Born, the Holy Child, Angels over the Fields were Singing, O Come Away, Ye Shepherds, The Sleep of the Infant Jesus, What is this Perfume so Appealing?, Neighbor, What has you so Excited?, O Holy Night, Pat-a-Pan, Ballad of Jesus Christ, Although You Still are Weak and Helpless, Christmas Comes Anew, Sleep, Little Dove, Shepherd, Shake off your Drowsy Sleep, Whence Comes this Rush of Wings Afar?, March of the Kings, Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella, Touro-Louro-Louro, Whence art thou, my maiden?, GERMAN CAROLS, O How Joyfully