Choir, Vocals

This piece is accessible for even the youngest choir. Teaching possibilities include learning verse form, establishing a legato line, and carrying longer phrases through breath management and staggere...

This lively, rhythmic song gives very sensible advice to anyone who happens to catch a rattlesnake. The music builds steadily from start to finish, with the melody sung as a single line, then as two-...

This setting of the familiar poem by Jane Taylor is through-composed but conservative in its re-use of melodic materials. The strophic nature of the original text is avoided by irregular phrase length...

Three Shaker Songs draws its text from anonymous Shakers of the 19th century. The music reflects the very direct meddage of the texts: the joyous riddance of “Old ugly” (the Devil); a self...

The composer captures the energy and excitement of spring by making Celebrate Spring! one large musical crescendo.

This Russian folk song is transcribed and arranged here based on a version sung by Olga and Kristina Bashirin in Irkutsk, Russia, in July of 1993. Includes both English and Russian text with pronuncia...

This charming Tarantella uses a melody and text from the Italian/Neapolitan folk tradition. It tells the story of Nannina, the most beautiful girl in the village, who is dancing the tarantella. A crow...

The text of this piece, taken from Philippians, was selected because of its appropriateness and universal message of virtuousness that transcends any particular religion or creed.

This piece is based on a field yell, from the days when the slaves sang as they worked, both to keep the work rolling, and to send each other messages of support and solidarity.

Islands was inspired by an eight mile strip of revitalized prairie along Illinois Route 6 between Litchfield and Gillespie. The subtly changed colors of the prairie grasses and the surrounding farmlan...