Earth and Spirit Songbook: An Anthology of Songs Celebrating Earth and Peace - Book One

A new resource for educators, song leaders, church musicians and anyone who celebrates our amazing planet, the Earth and Spirit Songbook provides entertaining, educational songs of ecology, world humanity and peace.Compiled and edited by musician/composer Jim Scott, this anthology of 111 old and new songs by many well known contemporary songwriters is designed for group singing with participatory choruses, rounds, and counder melodies. All the arrangements include piano accompaniments and chord symbols to be universally useful.There are songs for earth-oriented holidays, the beauty of nature, community, rights of passage, teaching about ecology, peace and justice issues, as well as a number of songs for children. Nearly half of the songs have some harmony parts delineated makinging it particularly useful to choirs and creative songleaders The piano accompaniments, more involved than would be found in a hymnbook, catch the styles and rhythms from a variety of cultures. There are many pages of cross references and notes for performance and background on all the songs.