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This wildly popular arrangement is a favorite with choral festivals all over the country. Beginning in the style of a bluegrass trio, the piece opens into a four-part gospel celebration of the power of song to create community. Often performed with an opening solo refrain.

Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

SATB Octavo

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Extracted from A Little Book of Rounds, these two short rounds are connected by a single poet and philosophy. Not only can they work as bookends for your concert as an opener and closer, they also offer original canon material to help your choir develop unison, part independence, and blend. Make Me One is a four-part round, while When I Rise Up is in three parts.

Two Rounds on Poems by Wendell Berry

Unison Octavo Up to 4 Parts

A dazzling a cappella version of this favorite Christmas song as performed by the a cappella group Dare to Breathe. With plenty of jing-a-jings, clever moving parts and lots of fun, this will be a standout selection for your holiday concert.

Jingle Bells

SATTB Octavo

This original round sends a joyful message to singers and listeners alike. Composed for flexible voicing, the round is successful in two or three parts giving beginning choirs a chance to stretch their musical horizons. The melody is written with a soulful swing using compound duple meter allowing singers to easily find their groove. This simple melody could be used as a processional or a combined piece at the end of a concert.

When I Rise Up

Unison Octavo

A warm, intimate musical treatment of a much-loved text. Written for a vocal chamber ensemble, the text is in Latin and English, with a prominent tenor solo.

Ubi Caritas et Amor

This piece evokes an air of deep contentment and friendship at day’s end. The words are from a scene from "The Merchant of Venice," during which two lovers are strolling through the evening, enjoying each other’s company. The soprano/alto duet at the beginning is inspired by Debussy’s piano solo "Clair de Lune," meaning "moonlight."

Soft Stillness and the Night

This setting of the Appalachian song reflects the change in text that appeared in the 2000 movie "O Brother, Where Art Thou?," where this tune was used for the baptism scene. Fun to sing, with great historical context and style, this a cappella concert work is available in a variety of voicings to fit any choir. Encourage your audience to sing along!

Down in the River to Pray

A secular prayer for our re-connection with the natural world and a call for environmental stewardship. The piece begins quietly and reverently; the fervor of the music increases to a wordless festive "hoedown" celebrating the healing of the planet. A perfect centerpiece to an Earth Day program.

Earth Blessing

Seinn O comes from the Gaelic tradition of "mouth music," a style of vocal music intended to accompany dancing. Mouth music appears in every Gaelic culture in the world, from Ireland to Cape Breton to Appalachia. Like most mouth music, the lyrics of Seinn O are light, flirtatious, and improvisatory, with a healthy amount of nonsense. The speed of the music, the call-and-response structure, and the inconsequential nature of the lyrics makes the song seem like a party game or a bar bet to see who can trip up the tongues of their opponents.

Seinn O

A humorous musical PSA about concert etiquette written in the style of a Gilbert and Sullivan patter song. Fun to sing, and your audience will appreciate the reminder to silence their cell phones and pagers delivered in a unique fashion. A superb opening selection!

A Few Gentle Admonitions

SATB Octavo A Cappella Version

A gentle, lilting setting of a traditional Navajo prayer with an optional Navajo flute introduction. An excellent concert closer or quiet encore.

Navajo Blessing

A 19th-century spiritual re-consecrated by Pete Seeger and The Weavers as the best known anthem for the American Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Arranged to be sung on the march, this version begins with one voice, slowly adds voices and strength, and concludes with the audience or congregation joining in. Available in a variety of a cappella voicings to fit any choir.

We Shall Overcome

A fun and witty collection of twelve original rounds to sing and share with friends and choristers of all singing abilities. Soulful, silly, meditative, boisterous, spooky, and poetic – use as after-dinner entertainment, choral warm-ups, personal prayers, and/or concert miniatures with performance suggestions included. Titles include: A New Year's Toast; Hoppin' John; A Facebook Christmas; I Like You; The Mayan Calendar (short and long versions); Baruch Ata Adonai; Haiku; Make Me One; Knock; When I Rise Up and All Shall Be Well.

A Little Book of Rounds

This lavishly expressive arrangement, full of rich harmonies and rubato phrasing, will be deeply satisfying for your advanced treble choirs. With soprano solo and a second alto part for an extended range.

My Lord What a Morning

SSAA Octavo

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An oblique homage to J.S. Bach's C Major Prelude from the Well-Tempered Clavier, this selection takes a whimsical upside-down view of the famous prelude and moves it to 7/8 for an extra challenge.

Prelude I in C Major

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This arrangement seeks to de-politicize this song's message and to emphasize its poetic imagery through the sounds of children's voices suspended within the simple, tranquil beauty of J.S. Bach's C Major Prelude.

America the Beautiful

This arrangement of the American folk hymn is inspired by the shape note or Sacred Harp tradition, marked by the placing of the melody in the inner voice, the tendency toward open fifth sonorities, and an open, fearless vocal tone. A cappella, with great historical context and style, it is a song that choirs love to sing!

How Can I Keep from Singing?

SSATTB Octavo

A setting of a Civil Rights-era standard with driving piano and simple, direct vocal arrangement with lots of unison singing. Accessible for choirs of any level and any age and a great cross-curricular piece for those studying about this time period.

Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

This is a new setting of a rolicking English pub song lyric. It is a celebration of the cameraderie of men singing and drinking together: "If you have a song, sir, as we go along, sir, you're next to sing, though you're never to think we'd let you sing dry, sir, that's a foul lie, sir! A drink for each song and a song for each drink."

A Drink for Each Song

TTBB Octavo

A clever a cappella medley of three jigs with a rich historical heritage: The Swallow's Tail; Morrison's Jig and The Irish Washerwoman. The fiddle part is split between the two upper voices. The vocal style is known as "diddling" or "lilting" and was developed during a time when Irish music and culture were outlawed by the British - and so, without fiddles or bagpipes to dance to, revelers would sing the instrumental parts.

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