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S ... Soprano
A ... Alto
T ... Tenor
B ... Bass
UNIS ... Unison
2PT ... Two part harmony
UNIS/2PT ... Unison or two part
BULLETIN PK Contains a pack of 100 advertising bulletins to be used for the performance.
PREV Preview CD or Cassette Example Only - Not for performance - contains snippet's of songs and dialogue.
PREV PAK Preview CD & Book - Example Only - Not for performance - contains snippet's of songs and dialogue.
CD 10 Pak 10 PREV CD's for individual learning - Not for performance
ShowTrax/ChoirTrax/ Contains full version with vocals and accompaniment for live performance. Track 1 would be the accompaniment with voices, while track 2 is just the accompaniment (no voices) for live performance.
Split Trax Full performance, but you are able to pan left and right to hear just voices or just accompaniment
VoiceTrax These recordings contain voice dominant recordings. For example, one track might be mainly Soprano part with accomp, while the next track might be Tenor dominant.
SINGER 5PAK 5 Booklets of vocal lines and dialog
REHTRX PAK Rehearsal Pak Cd's meant for individual rehearsal. Teacher's often buy these so the children can rehearse at home. (Note: Some items may still be marked cassette but the vast majority have now been converted to CD's
REPRO PAK Lyric sheets, dialog, and activity pages
Director's Manual songs, dialog and piano accompaniments, teaching materials, lesson plans and movement
DIR DISC Director's CD-ROM (Software)
Teacher's Edition same as Director's Manual
IPAKO Instrumental Pak (Sheet Music for Orchestra)
IPAKCO Instrumental Pak (Chamber Orchestra)
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Musicals and Chorals
Resource for Teachers & Director's
How to Buy Choral
You can start browsing choral by clicking one of the links on the right side of this page. If you know the composer, artist or arranger you can look him or
her up in the Group/Artist section by last name. You can also search by name or title as well using the search tool at the top
left of every page.
Our choral guide on the left can help with the abbreviated terms. Most teachers buy the Teacher's Edition or Director's Manual, Singers 5 pak and/or
REPRO PAK and accompaniment ShowTrax / ChoirTrax Cd.
NOTE: In most cases, if not all, when the product says cassette you can expect it to be CD's. As of yet the publishers have not updated their database descriptions to reflect this new reality.
Chorals are not sold in packages but as individual items.
For first time buyers of these school plays, chorals and Musicals, please be aware that the vast majority are sold as individual pieces and are
not 'packaged'.
All descriptions are provided by the publisher and they are generic in nature, meaning that they all say the same thing. Some people have confused the
word 'Available' to mean 'Included'. Also, they all list the available parts but some of the titles are being discontinued so be sure that the parts you
want are there. Also note that although many of the choral products say Cassette you can expect the product to be CD's. These are generic titles etc. as given by the publisher by database and until they change it on their side we unfortunately have to post as is. If you search and don't see them, they are probably out of print but it doesn't hurt to send us an email to ask. These generic
descriptions are being re-written by the publisher but at this time we haven't been told when this will be accomplished.
The information about each choral or musical is provided by the publisher and posted as is. Most choral musicals are designed for small or large groups of
children to participate. Besides the main roles others can be created for background extras or in the choral group itself. These musicals are designed to be
flexible to meet the most wide variety of situations regardless of class size. We have never had a complaint about any of our musicals in this area and
that says a lot
Some of our customer's also have objected to the price of some of the choral cd's (ShowTrax and ChoirTrax). For the explanation we went again to the
publishers. Here's what we were told.
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"Performance Cd's have a lot of costs connected to them. An arranger has to be paid to score the song, a band and in some cases an entire orchestra is hired to perform it. Of course you have to include the cost of the studio time involved to both record and edit the final product.
Then you have to factor into the equation that very few are sold in comparison to a normal music CD which of course leads to the higher costs per Cd."
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Also note there are return restrictions on many choral products especially ShowTrax Cd's. Please see our
Return Policy & Procedure section for more details.
If you feel that more explanation is needed, contact us from any of the live help boxes found on throughout
our site. We'd be glad to help you find the right choral for your group. If we don't know the answer we go directly to the publisher for clarification
and get back to you.
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Planning Guide |
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Whether you're staging your first or your fiftieth children's musical production, here's an indispensable planning guide that will ensure a successful
performance.
click here!
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