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SOUND BYTES

94 Songs for the 21st Century
for children to share with everyone
Edited by Andrew Pratt
Full music edition (ISBN 0 85249 856 X)
Words edition (ISBN 0 85249 857 8)
CD (CX2) (containing 20 of the songs)
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Review (from 'Together with Children')



Here are a few free Sound Bytes to give you a taste:

Greeting Song (Dann arr. McLeish) sbyhello.mp3

.Look beyond where laser beams (Bexon/Pratt) sbylaser.mp3

Dancing in Darkness (Walker arr. McLeish) sbydancing.mp3

Sound Bytes (McLeish/Pratt) sbysound.mp3

SOUND BYTES REVIEWED

A really useful collection

Congratulations to Stainer & Bell for a really useful collection of songs for children. Useful is really the word here. The songs cover the seasons of the Christian Year, plenty of Harvest and Zacchaeus as you would expect but also Advent, Christingle, Jesus' Baptism, Lent, Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Easter, Pentecost and then go on to a wide variety of themes in the Christian life - prayer, the multi-faith and multi-cultural world, hope, peace, friends and death. Old and New Testament stories are retold in song, from Ruth to the Sower and the index of themes also includes space, sport, laser, water and blessing.

 

As well as offering up a song for almost any theme you may be planning, the book bursts with creativity; music and words are enormously varied in their style, but the quality is consistently high and as you read the book you'll find plenty that you will want to take as starting points - the rock 'n' roll version of the parable of the sower, the haunting music and words of the story of Ruth, the Bethlehem story with questions, the sound bytes rap; God as father or mother; AIDS and slaves and plenty more. There are accompaniment and action suggestions too. But is it good music and will the children like the songs? Yes and yes are the answers.

 

This song book deserves to appear on the shelf of everyone who plans worship with children. There is music here to give inspiration and fun to singers and musicians and there are words to bring heartfelt needs and aspirations to expression.

 

Andrew Pratt has aimed for 'exciting, appropriate and contemporary' songs to convey religious concepts. He has also hit his target and the result is good for learning and good for enjoyment.

Steve Pearce
Together with Children


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