Mary Goetze

The Pima Indian text was collected in the nineteenth century. Ideas expressed in the text are depicted in musical metaphors: the vocal parts twist and run, build and fade.

This familiar song is set with very simple ideas which complement and support the motion of the beautiful melody. The accompanying voices can be learned quickly, for they sing like melodies and progre...

An imitative part and a lively counter-melody accompany the simple refrain of this spiritual, contrasted by the verse in which singing in parallel thirds is practiced.

Hold the Wind, a simple yet stirring melody in the mixolydian mode, was sung by a blacksmith. The simple harmonization highlights the beauty of the melody.

This setting of the poem Faldang attempts to capture the flavour of the fiddle tunes referred to in the text with the zestiness of meter changes and no-diatonic excursions. Above all else, it should b...

This folk song in the Dorian mode tells an amusing story interspersed with appealing responses and a chorus of nonsense syllables. The active piano accompaniment departs from the scale of the melody,...

This lively folk song is accompanied by two repetitive countermelodies, each with its own character and humor. The middle voice is the melody, giving young singers an opportunity to develop inner voic...

Longfellow wrote the text, entitled “Christmas Bells,” in 1863. During that Christmas season, the poet's son was critically wounded in a war, and the text expresses his father's anguish ov...