Sheet Music Downloads from G. Schirmer

Though it sounds very much like a folk song, Lorena was actually composed in 1856. It became extremely popular during the Civil War, when it was a favorite of both Confederate and Union soldiers who l...

This arrangement of the beloved folk song was first premiered by the Yale Glee Club in the fall of 2006, and has since become an audience favorite. Probably referring to the Red River that flows north...

Donald Grantham has set the beautiful and descriptive Jane Kenyon Poem in a serene and gentle musical pallet. With lush harmonies and much rubato within a slow tempo, this is atmospheric in its final...

These three choral vignettes are inspired by the whimsical poetry of Emily Dickinson. All three pieces require a free play of fancy and imagination. Using extended, aleatoric passages, non-metrical an...

With a debut at Carnegie Hall as part of the New York Pops annual holiday concert, Habari Gani celebrates the inspiring message of Kwanzaa. Drawing from the beat box style so popular in today's a capp...

Long, legato lines and shifting tonal centers describe this setting by Matthew Emery of this famous James Joyce poem. Speaking of the power of both love and music and how they intertwine and collide,...

With a text from the Celtic collection Carmina Gadelica these words speak directly from the heart, in simple and poignant language that is so often a creative departure from mainstream religious writi...

This work is dedicated to the memory of the legendary choral director Paul Salamunovich and his favorite musical genre of Gregorian chant. The composer has written an original chant in the Gregorian s...

This musical setting of the famous Mary Elizabeth Frye poem Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep begins very placidly, and takes the refrain of I am as a mantra for existence. The use of a dramatic sopra...

This wonderful parable by Will Allen Dromgoole has a dreamy quality and the music reflects that with a mix of soft jazz and classical stylings. Syncopated vocal accompaniment creates an effect that fe...

In this beautiful poem by Dorothy Parker, Mary knows her baby is holy simply because he is hers. She considers herself blessed whenever he reaches another birthday, without even knowing how few he has...

Written for the 100th anniversary of the St. Olaf choir, this work is commensurate with ability of one of the great choirs in America. The music makes consistent use of divisi texture, expansive arcs...

This haunting, introspective plea for relief begins as a near-whisper and rises to an intense clangor. Through the mantra-like repetition and gradual transformation of the words from this timeless Psa...

This beautiful text from Ovid's Metamorphoses speaks of the creatures named for the time they first appear: vespertilians (bats). Not scary or to be feared, rather, here they slip into shadows with tr...

This beautiful and simple melody for mixed, unison choir or solo is the perfect ending to a worship service or concert. It can be sung a cappella or with the optional clarinet, violin, viola and cello...

This is an arrangement, by Zalomen Mlotek, for mixed chorus, of a Yiddish Chanukah song written in 1921, by Solomon Golub and Abraham Reisen. The text describes a father chanting the blessings over th...

Legendary composer Kirke Mechem sets the Hebrew text that reminds us to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels. This inspirational text for SATB a cappella choir is accessible f...

With a text by the composer, this is a delightful kaleidoscope of musical snippets that highlight the joys of choral singing! Melody, harmony, counterpoint, we can sing ANYTHING! Ta-dah!

Opening with the phrase How you wonder what you are, this poem, described by the composer as a sort of fable for adults, is set for mixed voices with soprano solo as a work of lyricism and reassurance...

This is the first new composition in the exciting new series curated by American conductor and composer, Rollo Dilworth. With a focus on literature for upper High School, Honors Choirs and early colle...

Written for the Clarion Chamber Chorale of Omaha, Nebraska, this Gerard Manley Hopkins poem Spring and Fall is full of beautiful, figurative and profound language. It speaks to the human condition in...

This favorite Shaker song from the mid-1800s in an invigorating arrangement by Kevin Siegfried is a wonderful concert opener or sacred anthem with themes of love, peace and personal righteousness.

Celebrated contemporary poet Charles Anthony Silvestri has written a text that reflects the personal insights and positive and negative aspects of being a teenager. Composer Narverud has set these ins...

This setting of an anonymous 15th century text mixes polyphony with homophonic writing, offering broad contrasts in dynamics and range/tessitura that are appropriate for high school and festival choir...

This text is adapted from a heartfelt poem by nineteenth century English poet Christina Rossetti. Teehan's setting is simple and lyrical, with little harmonic twists that lift it from the ordinary, gi...