Choral Sheet Music

Spirit of the Child could be described as a choral drama. Its inspiration was derived from the plight of children cught as innocent victims in civil was in the Sudan region of Africa. The final sectio...

This original carol is intended to ekove the spirit of Dickens' A Christmas Carol with carolers moving from house to house on a snow-white Christmas Eve.

Text from Shakespeare's The Tempest. This piece acts as a kind of spectrum which both breaks a unity into diverse colors, and reassembles the diverse colors into a unity.

This tender lullaby, set to the text of “Good Night” by Jane Taylor, is characterized by lulling repeated notes and rhythms. Written in modified strophic form, the melody has a reassuring...

This piece is a setting of the poem by Kenneth Patchen for women's chorus. It combines new and old musical techniques to reflect the fleeting nature of our lives and passions in the timelessness of th...

The music reflects a Native American influence, though it does not employ authentic native musical elements. A simple, heartfelt text is set in repetitive, chant-like phrases, uncluttered textures, an...

The Wind requires young singers to develop a very smooth legato and vocal flexibility over wide intervals.

The text of I have had singing comes from an oral history collected in the small village of Akenfield, England. The same text is a fitting tribute to young Benjamin Kuylen, a singer with the New Orlea...

Magic Land is a story about a child traveling in his/her magic, imaginary place. On this particular trip the child meets Zee, a boy who came to the same magic imaginary place, but stayed so long and h...

The Smoothing Iron is an enjoyable choral romp through a young lad's sighs and palpitations, observing his lady-love as she sorts, washes, dries, folds, irons, airs... and eventually wears her “...

In the Farther Field, a haiku, the first of four songs form Scarecrow Songs, was written by Sanin and translated by Peter Beilenson in Haiku Harvest published by Peter Pauper Press. The haiku as a poe...

This piece employs the familiar melody Ah vous dirai-je mamam, and is based on the nursery rhyme about wool and taxes where a man harvests a third of his income (wool) for his master, another for his...

This spacious and expressive work, the third movement of Brewbaker's cantata 'Out of the Mist, Above the Real,' invokes the Divine Feminine with a text drawnfrom an ancient Gnostic text.

Memories of young love amidst the wild mountain thyme and blooming heather in Go, Lassie Go have made this song a traditional favourite at ceilis all over Scotland, Ireland and Canada. This arrangemen...

A beautiful and expressive devotional work, setting a text from the Golden Age of the Spanish Renaissance. Simple melodic lines are woven into lush harmonies, painting a musical picture of the love of...

Rooted in traditional Irish melody and the poetry of W.B. Yeats, this dialogue between solo soprano and treble voices is illuminated with desire, love, and light.

This playful and energetic work perfectly characterizes the exuberance of youth, sparkling in self-affirmation: Celebration is daring to be who we are.

This tenderly wrought and graceful work transcends the usual imagery of Christmas to embrace universal questions of humanity. Piano and viola form a lyrical accompaniment.

A colorful and lively Scottish ballad telling the tale of Lady Ann, gone to Edinburgh to save her man Geordie from wrongful execution. Each of the four vocal parts has its chance to sing!

This exciting arrangement of a traditional gospel swing is full of accents, scoops and body percussion that will challenge your choir to internalize the lively and spirited gospel style.