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Choral Literature
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Literature
Choices -
Best not to do an opera with high school -
Avoid Pop Music -
Maybe Broadway – careful of content and register problems -
Careful with Romantic Pieces, especially Brahms – too dark, too heavy Problems
with Middle School Octavo Voicing -
SAB
– the bass is to low for some -
3-part Mix
– the bass is too high for some / soprano is too high for some / altos are in
chest voice
SOLFEGGABLE
PIECES – Fairly Easy – Gregory Gentry’s Suggestions Soli Deo Gloria - SAT - Music: Michael Practons - Arranged: Patrick M. Liebrgen Hope is the
Thing with Feathers - SAB - Mark Ray Hollmann Song for Mother
Earth - 2 part - Arranged: Lana Walter Where the Earth
Meets Sky - Z. Randall Stroope No Nobis Domine - Round - Byrd John Kanaka - SATB - Arranged: Stephen Chatman Érik A Som - SATB (minor) - Lajos Bárdos He, Watching
Over Isreal - SAB - Composed: Mendelssohn (from “Elijah”) - Arranged: Greg Gilpin Banks of Doon - SATB - Donna Gartman Schultz Ubi Lati Deo - Round Hellulyan - Indian Song - Round
UPBEAT/JAZZY – Jim Hinton’s Suggestions Occapella - Buck Buchholz Home on that
Rock - Kirby Shaw Jump, Jive an’
Wail - Mac Huff Rockin’
Jeursalem - André J. Thomas When the Trumpet
Sounds - André Thomas Starts Fell on
Alabama - Arranged: Martin Behnke Get Happy - Harold Allen & Ted Koehler Save the Bones
for Henry Jones - Kirby Shaw North Country
Folk Songs - Phillip Wilby
TUSCALOOSA
COUNTY HIGH – Jim Hinton Gute Nacht - SATB - Arranged: James mcKelvy - Published: Mark Foster (MF302) Elijah Rock - SSTAB / a capella - Arranged: Jester Hairston - Published: Schumann Music Company (S-1017) Fa Una Canzona - SATB / a capella - Arranged: Robert Shaw - Composer: Orazio Vecchi - Published: Lawson-Gould Music (556) - Language: Italian - Translation: 1. Sing me a song with not a not of sadness! When all the pain of love drives me to madness / 2. Sing me a song to cool a lovers burning! When to my heart the anguish keeps returning / Refrain. Sing me to sleep with a sweet serenading. Oh, so gently, Oh, so gently to silence fading When I Fall in
Love - SATB / soloist / A Capella - Arranged: Kirby Shaw - Composed: Edward Heyman and Victor Young - Published: Hal Leonard (08665912) - Also Available: SATB and SAB O Magnum
Mysterium - SATB / a capella - Arranged: Alice Parker & Robert Shaw - Composed: Tomas Luis de Victoria - Published: G. Schirmer, Inc. (10193 ) - Recorded: Robert Shaw Chorale / RCA Victor LM 1711, Volume II of Christmas Hymna and Charols - Language: Latin - Translation: O great Mystery and wondrous sacrament, That animals might see the birth of the Lord as he lay in the manger. O Blessed Virgin, Who wast worthy of breaing our Lord Jesus Christ, Alleluia. Soon-Ah Will Be
Done - SATB / A Capella - Arranged: William L. Dawson - Published: Neil A. Kjos Music Company / Tuskegee Institute (T 102-A) The Heart’s
Cry - SATB / soprano soloist - Composed: Bill Whelan (from “RiverDance”) - Published: Shawnee Press, Inc. (A 2082) Poor Man Lazrus - STAB / a capella - Arranged: Jester Hairston - Published: Schumann Music Co. (S-1001) The Heavens are
Telling - STAB / soprano, tenor and bass soloists - Composed: Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) - Published: Schirmer (50322250) Memory - SATB / Piano, Electric Guitar, Electric Bass / Percussion - Arranged: ed Lojeski - Composed: Andrew Lloyd Webber - Published: Hal Leonard (08241000) - Also Available: SATB, SAB, Three-part treble Annie Laurie - SATB / Accapella - Arranged: Robert Shaw & Alice Parker - Music: Scotch Folk Tune attributed to Lady John Scott, 1847 - Published: Lawson-Gould (L.G. Co. 647) Frostiana –
Seven Country Songs - SATB, Men’s and Women’s / Piano -
Included: The Road
Not Taken (SATB - 2485) / The Pasture (TTB - 2181) / Come in (SAA - 2539) / The
Telephone (Dialogue (SSA / TTBB - 2486) / A Girl’s Garden (SSA - 2540) /
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening (TTB - 2182) / Choose Something Like a
Star (SATB – 2487 or SSAA - 2588) -
Words: Robert Frost -
Composed: Randall
Thompson -
Published: E. C.
Schirmer Music Company -
Number: 2181 Yesterday - TTBB soloists / a ccapella - Arranged: Mac Huff - Composed: John Lenon & Paul McCartney - Recorded: Boyz II Men - Published: Hal Leonard (08200471) Down in the
Valley - TTBB / Piano - Arranged: George Mead - Composed: Kentucky Folk Tune (Harlan County, KY) - Published: ECS Publishing (1.1716) The Great
Pretender - TBB / Piano - Arranged: Kirby Shaw - Composed: Buck Ram - Published: Panther Music Corp. (5745GC4x) - Accompaniment Tape #5745GCTX / #5745GRHX / #5745GC1X / #5745GC3X The Longest Time - TTBB / a capella - Arranged: Roger Emerson - Composed: Bily Joel - Recorded: Billy Joel - Published: Jenson Publications (40326166) Three Chanteys - TTBB / a capella - Included: Eight Bells / Away to Rio / Old Man Noah - Arranged: Marshall Bartholomew & Fenno Heath - Published: G. Shirmer, Inc. (HL50297330) - Yale Glee Club Series What Shall We Do
With a Drunken Sailor - TTBB / piano - Arranged: Marshall Bartholomew - Composed: Traditional Sea Shanty - Published: G. Shirmer, Inc. (G.S. 8vo Choruses 7422) - Yale Glee Club Series Calendar Girl - TTB / Piano - Arranged: Alan Billingsly - Composed: Howard Greenfield & Neil Sedaka - Recorded: Neil Sedaka - Published: Warner Brothers (43225132) - Available: TTB, 2-part - Accompanient Tape #43225132 Cry Me A River - SSA / Piano - Arranged: Kirby Shaw - Composed: Arthur Hamilton - Published: Hal Leonard (08666071) - Accompanient Tape #08666072 A Capella - SATB / a capella optional vocal percussion - Composed: Kirby Shaw - Published: Hal Leonard (08749012) - Accompanient Number: 08740915 - Also Available: TTBB and SSA All the Things
You Are - SATB / acapella - Arranged: Kirby Shaw - Composed: Oscar Hammerstien II & Jerome Kern - Published: Poly Gram Music Publishing (0870244) - From: Very Warm For May Ev’ry Time I
Feel the Spirit - SATB / A Capella - Arranged: William L. Dawson - Published: Neil A. Kjos Music Company / Tuskegee Institute (T 117) Ain’t Got Time
to Die - SATB / A Capella - Composed: Hall Johnson - Published: G. Schirmer (10301) Time Is My
Friend - SATB / Piano - Arranged: Fred Bock - Composed: Leslie Bricusse & Julie Andrews - Published: Gentry Publications (G-207) - Performed: Julie Andrews Now Let Me Fly - SATB / Piano - Arranged: Raymond Rhea - Composed: Negro Spiritual - Published: Bourne, Inc. (2556-7)
SHELTON SINGERS
– Glinda Blackshear The First
Noel/Pachelbel’s Canon - Arranged: Michael Clawson Away in a Manger - Arranged: Paul Sjolund The Twelve Days
After Christmas - Composed: Frederick Silver
ANNUAL SACRED
CONCERT: February 11, 1997 Come,
Christians, Join to Sing - Composed; Gordon Young Cantate Domino - Composed: Giuseppi Pitoni Cantique de Jean
Racine - SATB / Piano / Orchestral Parts Available - Composed: Gabriel Fauré - Published: Broude Brothers Limited (B.B. 801) - Language: French Rejoice! - Composed: Craig Courtney The Lamb - Composed: Kenneth Mahy Hark, I Hear the
Harps Eternal - Arranged: Alice Parker A Gaelic
Blessing - Composed: John Rutter
A CONCERT OF
SPIRITUALS: February 12, 1998 I Hear American
Singing - Composed: Andre J. Thomas Ain’-a That
Good News - Composed: William L. Dawson My Lord, What a
Mourning - Composed: Sam Batt Owens Elijah Rock - SSTAB / a capella - Arranged: Jester Hairston - Published: Schumann Music Company (S-1017) In Bright
Mansions Above - Arranged: K. Lee Scott - Composed: African American Spiritual - Published: Augsburg Fortress (11-4512) The Old Ship of
Zion - Arranged: K. Lee Scott Give Me Jesus - Arranged: L. L. Flemming Witness - Arranged: jack Halloran Soon and Very
Soon - Composed: Andrae Crouch
A SPRING CONCERT: May 5, 1998 Hallelujah, Amen - SATB / a capella / optional accompanient - Arranged: Donald Moore - Composed: Georg Gottfried Wagner (1698-1759) Published: BellWin-Mills Publishing (OCT9608) Kyrie (from
Missa Brevis in C – K. 220) - Composed: W.A. Mozart (1756-1791) - Published: Arista Music Co. (AE 260) - Language: Latin - Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Salvation is
Created - Composed: Paul Tchesnekoff Saints Bound for
Heaven - SATB / Keyboard - Arranged: Howard Helvy - Composed: American Folk Hymn attributed to Peter Cartwright, 1835 - Published: Beckenhorst press, Inc. (BP1485-1) Agnus Dei - SATB / Keyboard - Composed: Douglas Wagner - Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Grant us peace. He is Not Here! - SATB / Keyboard / Optional Brass Quartet - Composed: Russel Nagy - Published: - Number: O Vos Omnes - Composed: Pablo Casals - Behold, all who are passing by, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow Jericho - SATB / Accompanient (Trumpets, Timpani, Organ) - Composed: Daniel E. Gawthrop - Text: Jane Griner - Published: - Number: - Commissioned for the Shelton Singers to perform at the May 1997 Manhattan Choral Festival POETRY IN MUSIC:
November 12, 1996 Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind - Poetry: William Shakespear - Music: Juhn Rutter At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners - Poetry: John Donne - Music: Williametta Spencer Things That
Never Die - Poetry: Charles Dickens - Music: Lee Dengler The Lamb - Poetry: William Blake - Music: Kenneth Mahy The Silence of
the Night - Poetry: Christina Rosetti - Music: Eugene Butler Prairie Waters
at Night - Poetry: Carl Sandberg - Music: John Leavitt One perfect Rose - Poetry: Dorothy Parker - Music: Paul Sjolund April Rain Song - Poetry: Langston Hughes - Music: Julie Gardner Bray I Hear America
Singing - Poetry: Walt Whitman - Music: Gregg Smith
SPRING PROGRAM:
March 18, 1997 Come,
Christians, Join to Sing - Composed: Gordon Young Cantate Domino - Composed: Giuseppi Pitoni Cantique de Jean
Racine - Composed: Gabriel Fauré Rejoice - Composed: Craig Courtney A Gaelic
Blessing - Composed: John Rutter Hark, I Hear the
Harps Eternal - SATB / a capella - Arranged: Alice Parker - Composed: Traditional Humn - Recorded: Robert Shaw Chorale / RCA Victor Albumn #LM-LSC 2942 The Lamb - Composed: Kenneth Mahy Witness - Arranged: Jack Halloran Psalm 46 - Composed: John Ness Beck
SHELTON SINGERS
REUNION CONCERT: November 7, 1999 The Road Not
Taken (From Frostiana) - SATB / Piano - Text:Robert Frost - Composed: Randall Thompson - Published: E - Number: E.C.S. Choral Music No. 2485 All Creatures of
our God and King - SATB / organ - Arranged: Robert Shaw - Composed: Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) - Published: G. Schirmer, Inc. (423420) - From: Geistliche Kirchengesäng, Cologne, 1623 All My Trials - SATB / Piano and opt. Guitar, Percussion and String Bass - Arranged: Ed Lojeski - Published: Hal Leonard Ave Verum Corpus - SATB / optional piano accompaniment - Composed: William Byrd (1543-1623) - Published: Blandford Press Ltd. (AB 824) My Lord, What a
Mourning - Arranged: Sam Batt Owens - Composed: Spiritual - Published: Augsburg Publishing House The Silver Swan - SSATB / a capella - Composed: Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) - Published: E.C. Schirmer Music Co. (E.C.S. No. 395) - Also Available: SSAA (E.C.S. no. 1054) Lord of the
Dance - SSATB / a capella - Words: Sydney Carter - Arranged: David Wilcocks - Composed: Traditional Shaker Song - Published: Stainer & Bell Ltd. The Cloths of
Heaven - SATB / Piano - Words: William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) - Composed: Z. Randall Stroope (1984) - Published: Aberdeen Music, Inc. Shenandoah - SSAATTBB / A capella - Arranged: James Erb - Composed: American Folk Song - Published: Lawson-Gould Music (L.G. Co. 51846) Hark I Hear the
Harps Eternal - Arranged: Alice Parker Witness - SSAATTBB / Accompanied - Arranged: Jack Halloran - Composed: Traditional Spiritual - Published: Gentry Publications (JG2010)
UNIVERSITY
CHORUS – Julie Skadsem CONCERT:
November 24, 1998 Hallelujah - SATB / Soloist - Arranged: Robert De Cormiert The Heavens are
Telling - STAB / sop - rano, tenor and bass soloists - Composed: Joseph Haydn (The Creation) - Published: Schirmer At The River - Composed: Aaron Copland Long Time Ago - Composed: Aaron Copland The Promise of
Living - Composed: Aaron Copland North Country
Folk Songs - The Farmer’s Boy / Marianne / Byker Hill - Arranged: Phillip Wilby Hellulyan - Traditional Native American - Round Allelujah - Traditional Israeli - Round Joseph, lieber
Joeseph mein - Composed: Samuel Scheidt Mary, Mary - Arranged: Carolyn Jennings Child of Peace - SATB / soprano soloist / guitar - Composed: Jeffery Van African Noel - Arranged: Andre Thomas
UNIVERSITY
CHORUS – Julie Skadsem CONCERT:
October 18, 2001 Fanfare For A
Festival - SATB / - Composed: Ron Nelson - Published: Boosey & Hawkes (M-051-45388-7) Cantate Domino - SATB / Acapella - Arranged: Greg Norman - Published: Bourne, Inc. (2737-6) Sing Unto God - STAB / alto solo / tenor solo / piano or organ - Composed: Handel (from Judas Maccabaeus) - Published: Carl Fisher Music (N4321) Die Nachtigall - SATB - Composed: Felix Mendelssohn - Edited: Ray Robinson - Published: Hinshaw Music, Inc. (HMC-407) Pilgrim’s Hymn - SSAATTBB - Composed: Stephen Paulus (from The Three Hermits) - |