Stephen Hatfield Sheet Music for Mixed Choir

A romper stomper of a French Canadian folk song, full of call and response, that features a soli line suitable for mezzo sopranos. Although the score has parts for several percussionists, as well as b...

“Ohisashi buri,” or “It's been a long time” in Japanese, is a greeting between friends. The text is a collection of shouts of encouragement, taken from four traditional Japanes...

The main idea behind this unique work is that music is the ultimate gift and that all things must pass. Opening with a Latin phrase and theme by di Lassus, it moves into a jaunty, Celtic-flavored tune...

Adapted from a traditional African-American chant, this is - in the composer's words - a 'soulful piledriver with a monster backbeat.' Plentiful but manageable divisi writing makes this a full and sat...

Composer Hatfield mixes Spanish and English texts and explores how a community supports and nourishes an individual, even as the individual inspires the community. Coining a new musical style with the...

Dubula is a folk song of the Xhosa people of South Africa. The style is boisterous, party-hardy and open-throated.

Carol of the Ladder is a limpid andante whose transparent texture and tone of sweet melancholy creates a meditative calm. Although technically unsophisticated on the surface, this arrangement offers m...

Set to a beautiful old hymn tune from an 1855 collection, this piece offers much scope for phrasing and word painting as the singers recreate the setting from outside the tomb, and explore the psychol...

Originally from England, where All for Me Grog was heard in music halls as well as on ships, the shanty was sung while working the capstan and the halyard.

In keeping with Sister Rosetta Tharpe's stylistic blend, this arrangement has a funky doo-wop flavored middle section that reminds us just how many different rock styles go back to the gospel source.

Elibama combines two traditional celebrations of community: the Yiddish song “Alle Brider” (All are Brothers) and the Madagascar song “Oay Lahy E” (Song of the Sons of the Ance...

Run Children Run 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.