Choral Music

Christmas & Holiday

Christmas Spirituals

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Earthsongs

If you have a very talented choir looking for a challenge, this is an absolutely "must do" spiritual! The use of the many variants of the text allows the music to maximize the use of gospel-style modulations and to give the singers significant one-line reminders of some of the biblical stories on which the African-American musical tradition is based.

Go Where I Send Thee!

SSATB Octavo

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Hal Leonard Corporation

This treble setting preserves the cadence of the beloved original, all while imbuing the music with a strong and classic harmonic structure. This stylized arrangement has a full gospel piano accompaniment and will be a wonderful addition to any holiday concert.

Go, Tell It On the Mountain

Three-Part Treble Octavo or SSA

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Santa Barbara Music Publishing

Rhythmic and exciting, here's an original a cappella Christmas spiritual for mixed choirs that will be a standout selection in your concert or service. The harmonic texture for the choir is straightforward throughout and fun to sing, and you have the option to feature soloists or sections on some brief melodies.

Innkeeper

SATB Octavo divisi, or SSATB

Choristers Guild

Pull out all the stops when performing this vibrant, up-tempo a cappella choral set in the style of a traditional spiritual. Especially effective as an opener, closer, or encore, it features fun, rhythmic interplay with musical repetition of the text "Mary sat a-rockin', a-rockin' her baby." Suitable for both school and church settings.

Mary Sat A-Rockin'

SATB Octavo

Excelcia Music Publishing, LLC

For more advanced mixed choirs, this signature arrangement for the Voices of Liberty of the beloved Christmas spiritual is a festive showstopper with plenty of surprises along the way. Layered vocal lines, clever builds, dynamic divisi harmonies, and a touch of theatrical flair keep singers engaged and audiences smiling.

Go Where I Send Thee

SATB Octavo divisi

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Helbling Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.h.

Opening with a low bass solo and unfolding into a radiant mixed-choir arrangement, this take on the popular spiritual incorporates elements of gospel, jazz, and pop music. An incredibly fun a cappella number for school and community Christmas concerts!

Go, Tell It on the Mountain

BriLee Music Publishing

This traditional Christmas spiritual has a lively gospel feel, conservative ranges, and a syncopated piano accompaniment. Clever voice leading, stacking harmonies, and just the right amount of repetition make this well-paced arrangement easy to learn and a joy to sing. A perfect addition to your Christmas concert or service!

Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow

Here's a swingin' gospel treatment of Rise Up, Shepherd, And Follow that your ensemble will enjoy singing year after year! It's a great confidence-builder, an exciting audience-pleaser, and just plain fun for all involved, especially when you use the tambourine part!

The Shepherd's Spiritual

Three-Part Mixed Octavo

Heritage Music Press

Your choir will love digging into this brilliantly scored medley of three traditional Christmas Spirituals: Behold that Star, Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow, and Go Tell it on the Mountain, from Mark's extended work, International Carol Suites. Perform with Piano or the thrilling orchestration. Certain to be a favorite of choirs, audiences and congregations alike.

Behold That Star

www.jillandmichaelgallina.com

Perfect for middle and elementary school choirs as well as church children's choirs, this bright arrangement sets the beloved Go Tell It on the Mountain as a partner song with a gospel-style original tune. Add the track for even more fun!
 

The Complete Choral Kit has been specifically designed to easily facilitate traditional choral rehearsals and instruction. It is available for immediate download and comes with: a nontransferable license that provides the purchaser with mechanical, synchronization, and streaming rights; a reproducible PDF of the octavo to make copies for each member of your choir; a reproducible PDF of performance notes; part-dominant MP3s to aid students in practicing and learning their parts; a demonstration performance MP3; and an accompaniment track MP3 for performances.

Sing It from the Mountains

Pavane Publishing

Feature a soloist on the verses throughout this dynamic concert setting of a traditional Christmas spiritual for a cappella mixed divisi voices. The choir lines provide background harmonies that respond to the soloist and then shine in choruses with intuitive parts that tell the Christmas story with a powerful ending. It's a great way to close a concert or service!

Everywhere I Go

Oxford University Press

Effectively combining an ancient Latin text and three traditional Christmas spirituals (Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow; Mary Had a Baby; What You Gonna Call Your Pretty Little Baby?), this a cappella setting for divisi mixed choirs sparkles with rhythmic intensity and joy for the Christmas season. From Carols for Choirs 6.

The Savior's Birth

Alfred Music Publishing

A kickin' gospel arrangement of the traditional Christmas spiritual! This spirited treatment boasts rousing rhythmic syncopation, gospel harmonies, and a bridge breakdown section with a couple of riff-like solo opportunities. Your audience or congregation will be clapping and singing along to celebrate the vigorous conclusion, "He is born!"

Go Tell It!

Including two traditional Christmas spirituals, Go, Tell It on the Mountain and Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow, this gospel-style arrangement ties them together both musically and thematically. For two-part choirs in either range, this will be easy to learn and a perfect way to celebrate the season in either concerts or services.

Go Tell It, Shepherd!

SA Octavo

Walton Music

If you're looking for a traditional Christmas spiritual with a funky, contemporary gospel-shuffle feel, you'll like this! The performance notes give a thorough explanation of how to achieve the gospel style, complete with vocal scoops, vibrato, and swung 16th notes. Use the parts for drumset and electric bass to maximize the effect!

Go Tell It on the Mountain

Here is Carter's classic setting of this traditional Christmas spiritual for mixed choirs in a beautiful newly engraved edition. A must for every choral library!

Podd Brothers Music

Opening with a soulful solo in a slow rubato style, this Christmas classic really starts kicking with a disco gospel groove that continues for most of the arrangement. Gospel harmonies for the choir respond to and support the solo throughout. The driving piano accompaniment is fully notated but also offers chord symbols so that you can add to the instrumentation to make it really groove!

Carl Fischer LLC

An exciting, unique arrangement of this wonderful African American spiritual, rich in texture and vibrancy and sure to invigorate any holiday concert! With or without the rap section, and supported by piano and optional bass and percussion for three djembes and shaker, the upbeat soulful groove established by the choir is so fun to sing! The piano part is available as a free download from the publisher website.

Children, Go Where I Send Thee

This traditional spiritual has become a favorite the world over. While the Star in the East has its origins in the Christmas story, it also had a hidden meaning for enslaved people who were following the North Star to freedom. This arrangement has a unique blues feel ideal for tenor-bass choirs.

TB Octavo or TBB

It's a high-energy, gospel-infused take on one of the most treasured Christmas carols of all time. Rhythmic syncopation, repeated riffs, gospel harmonies that climb in inversion, and plenty of melodic blue notes add up to an explosion of joy for mixed, treble or tenor-bass choirs! The fully notated piano part includes all the right riffs and turnarounds, and there are optional charts for drum set and bass, too. Not to be missed!

Joy to the World!

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