Selected songs from Christopher Norton's Micromusicals Book 1 High Voice Connections

Selected songs from Christopher Norton's Micromusicals Book 1 High Voice ConnectionsMicromusicals are short (from 30 minutes to an hour in length) curriculum based musicals for school age performers. Most have been written by Christopher Norton, the composer of the Microjazz series, but some have been either co written with Wendy Edwards Beardall Norton (Christopher Nortons wife) or written entirely by her. The songs in this and subsequent volumes are from the Micromusicals series, which includes nearly 30 musicals. Apart from the

While travel has been so restricted during these past two years

"The nine pieces in this book are from my Jazz and Latin Preludes for solo piano

Arranged for lever harp by world-famous Welsh harpist Elinor Bennett and Scottish clarsach players Elinor Evans and Fiona Rutherford

speed-playing

Many of the current music genres are represented including these styles: Rock

require expressive playing and extensive use of the damper pedal

But I decided to take the process one stage further – these Teacher Accompaniments also work with the backing tracks

Christmas Cheer is an original piece

in a minor key and in triple time

Drawing on years of exploring guitar and piano-based blues

obtaining a special color with the use of an alteration of the A flat at the end of a rhythmical phrase

this work shows an impressive level of mastery and opens up new horizons from a compositional point of view