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MICHAEL NEAUM - ARRANGEMENTS (as at June 2014)
Female voices
Amazing grace – trad
Amor Vittorioso – Gastoldi (with perc.)
Bridge over troubled water – Paul Simon
Come again, come sweet love – Dowland
Come back Liza – West Indian
The first time ever I saw your face – McColl
Flow not so fast, ye fountains – Dowland
3 French folksongs : J’ai descendu dans mon jardin
O ma tendre musette
Quand j’etais chez mon pere
Full fathom five – Robert Johnson
4 German folksongs : Marienwurmchen
Schwesterlein
Die Sonne scheint nicht mehr
Da unten im Tale
Hail, smiling morn – Spofforth
The lark in the clear air – trad. English
Lasciate mi morire – Monteverdi
The leaves that are green turn to brown – Paul Simon
Listen to the lambs – spiritual
The Lord bless thee and keep thee –(SSAA , also SATB) - Michael Neaum
The National Anthem
No quiero que me cortejes – trad. Spanish
Pavane – French 16th c.
Rest, sweet nymphs – Francis Pilkington
Sanctus – Schubert
Singing bird – Irish
True love – Janacek
Vezzo sette – Gastoldi
The young may moon – trad. Irish
2 Part + piano
Danny boy – Irish
Faithful Johnnie – Scottish
If – David Gates ( Bread )
In my life – Paul McCartney
Last thing on my mind – Tom Paxton
Let’s fall in love – Cole Porter
Listen to the lambs – Spiritual
Never saw blue
The Salley Gardens – trad. Irish (Britten/Neaum)
The way we were – Hamlisch
When I’m sixty-four – Lennon/McCartney
3 & 4 Part + piano
Amazing grace – trad. (with organ & harp)
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And so it goes – Billy Joel
Anything goes – Cole Porter
April, come she will – Paul Simon
Ave Maria – Schubert
Bright morning stars – spiritual
6 Belgian folksongs
The bold Hussars – trad. Yugoslavian
Caravan – Mike Batt
Cavatina ( She was beautiful) – Stanley Myers
Cheann Dubhrran – trad. Irish
Deep in the darkest night – Maddy Prior
Deep river – spiritual
Evening Blessing – Parry – (Myfanwy) also SATB
Fields of Gold – Sting
Georgia on my mind – Hoagy Carmicheal
Go down, Moses – spiritual (with Baritone solo)
Harry - Catherine Howe
Herdboy Tales ( 3 Chinese songs- English text) – Michael Neaum
Hey Jude – Lennon/ McCartney
The Holy City – Adams
I got a robe – spiritual (5 parts)
I got rhythm - Gershwin
I will walk with my love – Irish (Hughes/Neaum)
Imagine – Lennon (also SATB)
Joey
Just the way you look tonight – Kern (also SATB)
The lark in the clear air – trad
Leaving on a jet plane – John Denver
The lost chord – Sullivan
Lullaby of Broadway –
Make you feel my love – Bob Dylan
Ma Normandie – trad. French
Mary Poppins selection –
Miss-you nights – Mike Batt
Nella fantasia
Night and day – Cole Porter
On the night you were born – Michael Neaum
Peasant Cantata ( two choruses) – Bach
Pie Jesu (Requiem) – Lloyd-Webber
Theme from Mahogany – Masse
The rose/Hello again –
The rose
Run like the wind – Mike Batt
Scarlet ribbons for her hair –Segal & Danzig
Send in the clowns – Sondheim
She tells her love – Michael Neaum
Smile – Chaplin
Something – George Harrison (also SATB)
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Somewhere in the Night – Barry Manilow
Somewhere over the rainbow – Arlen
4 spirituals for tenor & mezzo soloists + SSA choir
The hills of Shiloh – trad American
The Prayer
The stream’s song – Michael Neaum
That’s what you get for lovin’ me – Gordon Lightfoot
The young sailor boy – trad. English
Things we said today – Lennon/McCartney
This nearly was mine (Rodgers & Hammerstein selection)
Try to remember
Turn ye to me – trad. Scottish
Venus and Adonis (extracts)- John Blow
Who knows where the time goes – Sandy Denny
Yesterday – Lennon/McCartney
You’ll never walk alone – Rodgers and Hammerstein
You raise me up
Christmas Music (with piano - unless stated otherwise)
Bethlehem – Polish ( English text)
Coventry carol
Deck the hall with boughs of holly - trad. British
Do you hear what I hear
The First Mercy – Warlock
Fum fum fum – Spanish (with piano – also a capella)
In that poor stable – French ( with optional flute)
Little drummer boy – (piano, flute and snare drum)
Lullaby Jesu – Polish
Lullay myn lyking
No small wonder
Pat-a-pan – (a capp. + flute & snare drum)
Sing lullaby – Basque ( a capp.)
Sleep my Saviour, sleep – Czech. (English text)
The shepherds’ carol ( SSA + piano ; also SATB+ piano) – Michael Neaum
Two carols - (a capp.) : Sancta simplicitas
Carol of the brown king
Wassail song – trad. English ( with piano duet accomp.)
We wish you a Merry Christmas (a capp.)
Lyrics for Classics (original texts by Don Read)
At midnight – Debussy “Claire de lune” ( SSAA + piano ; also SATB + piano)
Beautiful miracle - Ravel “Pavane”
Child – Bach “Air on a G string” ( SSA + piano ; also SATB + piano)
Childhood days – Satie “Gymnopedie No. 3”
Country scene – Warlock “Pieds en l’air from Capriol suite”)
Danse gastronomique – Saint-Saens “ Danse Macacbre” (SSA + piano ; also SATB + piano)
Drifting, Dreaming – Satie “ Gymnopedie 1” (SSA + piano; also SATB + piano)
If we were in love – Chopin “Etude in E major”
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Long live love – Beethoven “Pathetique sonata , 2nd. Mvt.
Mirage – Debussy “Reverie”
Seascape – Satie “Gnossienne 1”
The story of Jean Pierre – Miles Davis
To a wild rose – Macdowell
SATB – TTBB
A nightingale sang in Berkely Square – (TTBB + piano) ( SATB a capp.)
Boleras Sevillanos - trad. Spanish (SATB + piano)
Gaudete (SATB + piano & perc.)
The life that I have - Michael Neaum ( SATB + piano)
The parting glass – Irish (TTBB a capp.)
With quiet eyes – Michael Neaum (SATB a capp.)
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2 American folksongs - I wish I was a child again
Sourwood Mountain
I got a robe – spiritual (3 part SSA + piano)
Indian love song
Mexican Lullaby
2 Northumbrian songs : Ma bonny lad
The Keel row
Sakura – Japanese folksong
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child – spiritual
Winds through the olive trees – Gascon carol
ROBERTON PUBLICATIONS – GOODMUSIC PUBLISHING
A bunch of thyme – trad English ( also SATB)
African lullaby - trad
Afton water –trad.
A Jacobite legacy (4 trad. Scottish songs)
All my trials, Lord – spiritual
A stable bare - Michael Neaum (Christmas carol a capp.)
Be still and know I am with you – Michael Neaum
Black is the colour of my true love’s hair
Blow the wind southerly
2 British love songs : John Anderson my Jo
Goldenhair - Michael Neaum
Bolero Sevillanas (SATB version)
Bonny at morn – trad English
2 Canadian songs : Mary Ann
Bonavist harbor
2 carols : Love came down at Christmas
Rejoice, rejoice - Michael Neaum
Carol of the birds
Carrickfergus – trad Irish
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Cherry tree carol
Christmas Offerings : two carols – Bring your offerings to the manger
The Christmas tree - Michael Neaum
Didn’t it rain! – spiritual ( also SATB)
Ding dong merrily on high
Durmete negrito – trad Argentinian
El testament d’Amelia – trad Spanish ( English text- John Neaum)
2 French folksongs : A la claire fontaine
Au pres de ma blonde
Gloucestershire wassail ( also SATB)
Graih ma chree – trad Manx
Guantanamera – trad Cuban
Haiku : 6 miniature songs to haiku poems - Michael Neaum
Have you seen but a white lily grow?
2 Hungarian folksongs : Szilvas falu
Alazatos szolgaja
I gave my love a cherry – trad Appalachian
I once loved a lad – trad British ( also SATB)
Japanese lullaby – trad
The last rose of summer - trad Irish
Long time ago - trad American
Lowlands away - shanty/ballad
My love’s an arbutus - trad Irish
No wind at the window - carol
O won’t you sitdown? – spiritual
Oft in the stilly night - trad Irish
Pastime with good company - (published as “Two songs of Henry viii”)
Rise up shepherd and follow – carol
Riu Riu Chiu - Spanish carol
Sanctus - Gounod
She’s like a swallow - trad Newfoundland
2 short spirituals : Over my head
Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel
Siuil a ruin - trad Irish
Skye boat song - trad Scottish
2 Songs of the Isles : Morag’s cradle song
Air falalalo
2 Spanish traditional songs : A la rurro nino
Boleras Sevillanas
Susanni - carol
Swing low, sweet chariot - spiritual
Take, o take those lips away - Michael Neaum
Tiree love song - trad Scottish
The bells of Paradise - carol
The lass from the low countrie - trad English
The parting glass – trad Irish
The truth from above – trad English carol
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The turtle dove - trad English
The Virgin Mary had a baby boy trad West Indian carol
The water is wide ( O waly waly) - trad English
Tomorrow is a long time – Bob Dylan
2 Traditional love songs : I will give my love an apple
If I were a blackbird
Va pensiero - Verdi
What, then, is love but mourning? - Philip Rosseter
Whence is that goodly fragrance? - French carol
When the boat comes in - sequence of seasongs and shanties (SA + piano --- also TB + piano)
BANKS MUSIC PUBLICATIONS (Eboracum Choral Series)
Ballinderry - trad Irish
4 Belgian carols (with English texts)
Calino custore me – Irish
Dance to your daddie - trad English ( also SATB )
Dolina - Polish
Easter Hymn (Allelujah) German 1623 (with English version)
Es el amor mariposa - trad Spanish
3 European folk songs : Canto de Romeria - Spanish
Charmante Marianne - French
Psarapoula - Greek
Also published with English texts……
Gaude mater Polonia - 13th cent. Polish
Gaudete - 15th cent. Trad (SSAA + piano & perc)
A gentle maid - trad Welsh
The heart of a rose - SATB - Michael Neaum
John’s gone to Hilo - trad
Lisa - (SATB version )
Mary’s lullaby - trad Austrian carol
Moonlight in Vermont - (SATB )
My Lagan love - trad Irish
My Lord, what a morning - spiritual
A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square - ( also SATB )
O sleep, thou Heaven-born treasure - German carol; English text
Shenandoah - trad (SATB)
Sprig of thyme – trad English
The stuttering lovers - trad Irish
What if I never speed? - Dowland
Will ye go, lassie, go - trad Scottish
ALLIANCE MUSIC PUBLICATIONS (USA)
Baloo baleerie - trad Scottish lullaby
Land of the Silver Birch - trad Canadian Indian
The star of Belle Isle - trad Newfoundland
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Arrangement Reviews
Heaven! What a clever pianist/arranger! (Sakura)
Terry Edwards (Chorus Master of Royal Opera, Covent Garden)
Lovely arrangement, part of a thoroughly good programme. (A Bunch of Thyme)
Richard Stilgoe
A superbly simple arrangement - the art that conceals art. (A Bunch of Thyme)
Michael Brewer (Director of National Youth Choir)
Congratulations to Michael Neaum on his fine arrangements.
Iain Burnside (Presenter on TV and radio, musicologist, journalist and critic)
A beautiful arrangement which will add a touch of magic to any Christmas programme.
(Sweet Little Jesus Boy)
BFYC Newsletter
Effective, yet not too complicated... A great arrangement, which would enhance any choir's
repertoire.
(I Once Loved A Lad)
BFYC Newsletter
A typically deft arrangement. (Tiree Love Song)
The Singer
Gaudete is a song that you can really enjoy singing. (Gaudete)
BFYC Newsletter
A cracking arrangement. (Gloucestershire Wassail)
Goodmusic
Rhythmical, jazzy and extremely effective. (Virgin Mary Had A Little Baby & Ding Dong Merrily
On High)
Organists' Review
Particularly effective are Neaum's folk-song settings, which at their best have a Grainger-esque
quality.John's Gone To Hilo is typical of his best work, with its adroit manipulation of vocal
combinations. Neaum is always aware of the need to create variety....
The Singer
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A poignant setting. (My Lagan Love)
The Singer
The Water Of Tyne is a sublime arrangement. With the rippling waters of the accompaniment
and the wonderfully rich harmonisation and part writing, there is no better way of expressing
the mood of this beautiful folk-song. This is clearly not a one-off either. Many of Neaum's other
arrangements are equally successful, so strong in their mood and spirit and showing a
wonderful understanding of the singing voice. A Mexican Lullaby sets a beautiful melody. In
Neaum's inimitable style, what begins so simply grows in character and beauty... All in all this is
a stunning arrangement, not too difficult to sing, but undoubtedly effective. Not to be missed.
Indian Love Song is a most effective piece, gentle, warm, simple and romantic; it could add an
inspired moment to any concert programme.
I have no hesitation in recommending 2 American Folk Songs to you. They complement each
other well and will bring undoubted pleasure to anyone who meets with them. I Wish I Was A
Child Again is full of yearning and Sourwood Mountain is full of life, energy and humour. I have
no doubt that it will put a real smile on the faces of the singers.
(from an article by George Adamson in Music Teacher, March 2001)
The choristers in my choir just LOVE your arrangements.
Madeleine Humer (Victoria Children’s Choir)
My Women’s choir, el Canto, adores If We Were in Love and begs to sing it; it is really lovely.
The voice leading is so kind to the young women’s instrument.
Your arrangement is beautiful – all day I have been leaving my work and returning to the piano
to go over it again and again….. each time I find it pleases me more. It is so sensitive and to the
character of the song and so lovely to sing. The girls will be thrilled. We feel so fortunate to
have someone like you writing for us.
Elaine Quilichini (Calgary Girls Choir)
We performed Last Rose of Summer last week and it was so gorgeous; everyone loved it!
Elaine Quilichini (Calgary Girls Choir)
I have fallen in love with your wonderful arrangements!
Elaine Quilichini (Calgary Girls Choir)
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Music Publishers
Michael Neaum
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E-mail: michael.neaum@ntlworld.com
Oxford University Press
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