Guide for Mañanitas & Pray Tell Me, Oh, Please Tell Me

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Las Mañanitas

(click voicing to view and hear online)

Pray Tell Me, Oh, Please Tell Me

Las Mañanitas is a secular, multi-cultural work set with a Spanish and an English text. Pray Tell Me, Oh, Please Tell Me is the same music set to a Chrsitmas text.

Both pieces are suitable for early adolescent mixed or all-boys groups (S/Treb/B, Treb/CI). Part I may be sung by girl or boy trebles, and CII/B (sung 8va down). Part II should be sung at actual pitch by boy trebles and/or CI.

Check the two-part variable voicing chart or the three-part variable voice chart to see the various voicings with which these pieces may be used

Pray Tell Me, Oh, Please Tell Me

Words by Don L. Collins

Mexican Folk Song

Arranged by DLC

Two- or Three-part Variable Voicing with Piano

CP Catalog for Pray Tell Me: #U117696

Las Mañanitas

English lyrics by Don L. Collins

Mexican Folk Song

Arranged by DLC

Two- or Three-part Variable Voicing with Piano

CP Catalog #T50303

This work is available in E-Print.

Please remember the copyright law.

It is illegal to purchase a single oactavo, then photocopy it.

Order hard-copy scores from your favorite music distributor, J.S.Pepper, Inc. or directly from Cambatia Press.

---- ATTENTION PLEASE ----

When you click the voicing of these songs you will be able to access an engraved copy of the piece. When the new page appears, if you haven't already downloaded the scorch plug-in, you will be asked to do so. This plug-in gives you access to all the scores on the Cambiata Press website. After the music appears on your screen, there are TWO WAYS to view and hear it:

1. Click the "play" icon and you will hear the piece played electronically, and as it plays, the cursor will lead your vision through the piece.

2. Click the "Hear Choir Audio" link (upper right hand corner) to hear a choral ensemble sing the piece. Use the Sibelius "page" icon to move the pages of the engraved copy manually as you listen. Do not click the "play" icon while the ensemble is singing or you will hear both renditions simultaneously.

The choral rendition is the two-part setting with the text,

Pray Tell Me, Oh, Please Tell Me,

Sung by the Arkansas Boys Choir Cambiata Singers,

Don L. Collins, Director