Teaching music through performance in band resource recordings.

Table of Contents: “…As torrents in summer / Elgar/Davis -- Early English suite / Duncombe/Finlayson -- Fanfare, ode and festival / Margolis/Gervaise -- In the bleak midwinter / Holst/Smith -- Korean folk song medley / Ployhar -- A little French suite / La Plante -- The new Anzacs / Hogg -- Old Scottish melody : Auld lang syne / Wiley -- Peregrin : a traveler's tale / Akey -- Polly Oliver / Root -- Rhenish folk festival / Davis -- Sandy Bay march / West -- Suite from Bohemia / Nelhybel -- They led my Lord away / Gordon/Allen -- Three Hungarian songs / Bartok/Gordon -- Three on the isle / Stuart -- Three pieces for American band, set no. 2 / Broege -- Two Grieg songs / Grieg/Balent -- Westridge overture / Barnes -- With trumpets sounding / Hultgren -- Grade 3. …”

Carols for Quire from the Old & New Worlds.

Table of Contents: “…Robert Croo -- The Coventry carol (1956) / Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988) -- Jesus Christ the apple tree (1805) / Jeremiah Ingalls (1764-1838) -- Jesus Christ the apple tree (1967) / Elizabeth Poston (1905-1987) -- The lamb (1927) / Charles Wood (1866-1926) -- The lamb (1982) / John Tavener (1944-2013) -- Es ist ein' Ros (1607) / Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) -- A spotless rose (1919) / Herbert Howells (1892-1983) -- A spotless rose (2010) / Paul Mealor (b. 1975) -- Kentucky [Ohio] wassail song / collected by John Jacob Niles -- Wassail song (1913) / Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) -- Of one that is so fair and bright / Anonymous, ca. 1300 -- A hymn to the Virgin (1930) / Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) -- The holly and the ivy / Herefordshire traditional -- The holly and the ivy (1913) / arr, Henry Walford Davies (1869-1941) -- O nata lux (1575) / Thomas Tallis (1505-1585) -- Lux aurumque (2009) / Eric Whitacre (b. 1970) -- Stille Nacht (1818) / Franz Gruber (1787-1863) -- In the bleak midwinter (1906) / Gustav Holst (1874-1934) -- Procedenti puero / Anonymous (13th century) -- Benedicamus Domino (1918) / Peter Warlock (1894-1930) -- What cheer? …”
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The Battle of the Bulge : Hitler's final gamble / by Delaforce, Patrick

Table of Contents: “…List of maps and figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: bleak midwinter -- Winston Churchill: Forward leap was over -- Euphoria followed by complacency -- On the other side of the hill: Third Reich -- Allied generals at war -- Hitler's great counter-offensive plans -- Hitler's brilliant deception plans -- Hitler's deceptions: Stosser and Greif -- Air war -- Hitler's battle plan -- Secret war of ultra and enigma -- Ardennes battlegrounds: Ghost front -- 'All hell's broken loose' -- Losheim gap battle: Gallant cavalry -- Doom and destruction of the young ̀golden lions' -- Checkerboard' division: ̀a hurricane of iron and fire' -- Ivy' division defend ̀little Switzerland' -- Battles for the twin towns and the Elsenborn ridge -- Colonel Fuller and the keystones: ̀Buckets of blood' -- Peiper, Hitler's bodyguard and the massacres -- Defence of St Vith -- Montgomery takes command of us 1st and 9th armies -- Rise and fall of Dietrich's Sixth SS Panzer Army -- Battle for Wiltz -- Dying days of Kampfengruppe Peiper -- Seventh army has problems in the South -- Air war 16--25 December: ̀Metallic starlings' -- All roads lead to Bastogne -- Patton relieves Bastogne? …”

The best carols in the world-- ever!. by Billings, William, 1746-1800, Darke, Harold, 1888-1976, Jacques, Reginald, 1894-1969, Kirkpatrick, William J. 1838-1921, Rutter, John, 1945-, Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958

Table of Contents: “…the herald angels sing (Philip Jones Brass Ensemble; Ian Hare, organ; Choir of King's College, Cambridge; Sir David Willcocks, conductor) -- I saw three ships (Bach Choir; Willcocks) -- The first Nowell (Choir of King's College, Cambridge; Francis Grier, organ; Philip Ledger, conductor) -- God rest you merry, gentlemen ; While shepherds watched (Bach Choir; Jacques Orchestra; Willcocks) -- A virgin unspotted (Taverner Choir; Andrew Parrott, conductor) -- Once in royal David's city (Clare College Singers and Orchestra; Jeremy Blandford, organ; John Rutter, conductor) -- In the bleak midwinter (Stephen Varcoe, baritone; John Wells; organ; Choir of King's College, Cambridge; Willcocks) -- It came upon the midnight clear (Huddersfield Choral Society; David Bell, organ; Owain Arwel Hughes, conductor) -- In dulci jubilo (Clare College Singers and Orchestra; Blandford; Rutter) -- O little town of Bethlehem (Choir of King's College, Cambridge; Grier; Ledger) -- Past three o'clock (Bach Choir; Willcocks) -- The Coventry carol (Mediæval Bæbes) -- Away in a manger (Temple Church Choir; Sir George Thalben-Ball, organ, conductor) -- Nativity carol (Clare College Singers and Orchestra; Blandford; Rutter) -- Unto us is born a son (Huddersfield Choral Society; Bell; Hughes) -- Silent night (Varcoe; Choir of King's College, Cambridge; Willcocks) -- Ding dong merrily on high (Bach Choir; Willcocks) -- We wish you a merry Christmas (Bach Choir; Jacques Orchestra; Willcocks) -- The Lord at first did Adam make (Choir of King's College, Cambridge; Wells; Willcocks) -- Up! …”
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Small-screen Shakespeare / by Cochran, Peter, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Withnail and i (bruce robinson, 1986)dead poets society (peter weir, 1989); rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead (tom stoppard, 1990); the house of cards (paul seed: 1990); in the bleak midwinter (aka a midwinter's tale: kenneth branagh, 1995); shakespeare in love (johnmadden, 1998); the king is alive (kristian levring, 2000); thewest wing, series three, episodes 20-2 (christopher misiano, thomas schlamme, alex graves, 2002); stage beauty (richard eyre, 2004); slings and arrows (peter wellington, 2003-6); anonymous (roland emmerich, 2011); cesare deve morire (paolo and vittorio taviani, 2012).…”
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Worship and hymns for all occasions.

Table of Contents: “…shake off your drowsy sleep -- Go, tell it on the mountain -- In the bleak midwinter -- Out of the Orient crystal skies -- Earth has many a noble city -- As with gladness men of old -- What star is this -- O one with God the Father -- What offering shall I bring to thee -- O sing a song of Bethlehem -- O love, how deep, how broad, how high! …”

Hymnal for colleges and schools /

Table of Contents: “…the herald angels sing -- Angels, from the realms of glory -- O little town of Bethlehem -- In the bleak midwinter -- In dulci jubilo -- Good Christian men, rejoice -- From heaven above to earth I come -- All my heart this night rejoices -- O Jesu sweet -- Silent night, holy night -- On this day earth shall ring -- Lo, how a rose e'er blooming -- On Christmas night -- The first Nowell the angel did say -- The people that in darkness sat -- Arise and shine in splendor -- Brightest and best -- O Jesus, King of glory -- As with gladness men of old -- Bethlehem, of noblest cities -- Forty days and forty nights -- O God of truth, whose living word -- Out of the depths I cry to thee -- My God, why dost thou me forsake? …”