Guide to Trains (two-part)

Performance Insights

(click title to view and hear online)

This is an original composition by Bob Ashton. When performed by changing voices it may be sung SSA, or SAC. It is the perfect introduction piece Latin, becasue it is limited to four words.

It is an effective work, with aesthetic and emotional qualities that can be a tool to teach sensitive singing.

Check the three-part variable voicing charts to see the voicing options with which it may be used with older adolescents and adults.

When performed by early adolescent all-male groups, Parts I & II may be sung by Boy Trebles, and Part III by the Cambiatas.

When sung by older adolescent all-male groups, Part I is sung by the changed-voice Tenors or Adolescent Baritones (8va lower), Part II by Adolescent Baritones or Basses (8va lower), and Part III by Boy Trebles and/or Cambiatas (actual pitch).

Words and Music by Bob Ashton

Arranged by BA

Three-part Variable Voicing with Piano

Cambiata Press catalog #C979129

This work is available in E-Print.

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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 three-part of Kyrie Eleison 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. Read the text as you listen to the music.

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. .

This choral rendition is by

The UCA Cambiata Chamber Chorale,

Don L. Collins, Director