Mixed Choir with Piano

Part 3 of Choral Variations: Springfield Mountain.

From Robert Kapilow's '03: This New, Immense, Unbounded World, a musical tribute to the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, this movement features the powerful poetry of African American poet Lucille Clifton,...

This movement establishes the experience of both the explorers and the native people who lived in the territory. According to Kapilow, Lives were both ended and expanded; it (the era) was simultaneous...

This collection is part of a 5-book set of musical settings of lyrics to songs in Shakespeare's plays. This grouping opens with a melancholy prelude I Shall No More to Sea, followed by the woozy Come...

Winner of the 2007 VocalEssence Carol Competition, this flowing setting of a 16th century anonymous text features the shimmering sounds of a celesta as it echoes and comments upon the vocal phrases, c...

Cary Ratcliff's charming and refreshing oratorio Ode to Common Things is set to poetry by Chilean writer Pablo Neruda, who, over the course of his life, wrote odes to ordinary, everyday objects, five...

Jon Washburn musically draws special, deep emotions to color this evocative text by Walter de la Mare. The mood is created through the use of a glistening piano part and a brooding choral part. Vocal...

This beautiful Sara Teasdale poem presents, initially, a comforting vision of the natural beauty of a world returning to equilibrium until we realize that it can only happen after humans are removed f...

A playful, breezy and energetic setting of the Robert Louis Stevenson poem The Swing. With a gently sweeping piano accompaniment, this piece, commissioned by Jon Washburn and his Vancouver Chamber Cho...

The Whole Sea In Motion sets a prose text from Agnes Grey, a 1907 novel by British author Anne Bronte. In choosing this text to set, the composer was struck by the first sentence, which begins No lnag...

Michael Gray wrote the original energetic 3-part mixed voicing for middle school changing voices in 1980. Since then, this has been a popular selection. Now available for SATB and SA voices and with v...

The great American Composer, Kirke Mechem has taken this classic folk song of unknown origin and set it for SATB chorus, baritone soloist (playing the part of the poet of this text) and piano or organ...

Arranged simply for mixed voices, clarinet and piano four-hands, the lovely Brahms cradle song becomes a work for reflection, healing and introspection, especially appropriate as a quiet encore or cho...

With a piano introduction that is both virtuosic and emotional, this Hebrew text, chosen by series editor Judith Clurman in memory of her parents, was the perfect vehicle for Michigan composer Paul Sc...

America has, for hundreds of years, been a country built on tradition, the most powerful of which may be the hope that their children might have a better life. Father/daughter songwriting team Laurie...

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This classic patriotic song has been arranged many times but never in such an expansive and dramatic way. Ryan Nowlin has arranged this for Grade 3 concert band and intermediate to advanced high schoo...

This classic American patriotic tune has been creatively arranged for SATB choir and jazz band. It was premiered at the 2014 Macy's 4th of July Fireworks and was every bit worthy of such a national pl...

In the Jewish tradition, the Song of Songs is associated with love and the coming of spring. This setting is a powerful example of the highly sensual and passionate love poetry. It has long been inter...

The title of this song perfectly captures the spirit of the music: upbeat, happy, energetic and lots of fun to sing. With shifting tonalities and changing meters, this will be a choir and a concert fa...

Nineteenth century cantor and composer Solomon Sulzer combined the Viennese romantic compositional style with traditional Hebrew melodies to create a new form of Jewish liturgical music. Along with hi...

Weaving together poems, writers, historical sources, legendary musicians and friends, the composer has crafted a compelling work that extols the importance of singing. Kirke Mechem continues to resona...