Singers can display expressiveness and beauty of phrasing in this lovely a cappella setting of the beloved English folk ballad. It tells the story of the unrequited love between Barbara Allen and Sweet William.Availableseparately: SATB SSAA and TTBB a cappella. Performance Time: Approx. 3:15.

This Caribbean folk song is an irresistible change of pace that makes light of man's inability to please a woman. Features a soloist and optional Latin percussion. In the interest of fairness an SSAA adaptation is also available!Available: SSAA TTBB. Performance Time: Approx. 2:15.

Foster's setting of a Somerset folk song for men's voices with full Piano accompaniment.

Based on the American folk hymn Promised Land this setting has a joyful sturdiness about it that will bring spirit and celebration to your sacred concerts. With minor to major harmonic shifts call and response vocal lines bluesy accompaniment and an uplifting modulation on the final refrain this will be a popular choice for school community and church choirs! Available separately: SATB TTBB. Duration: ca. 3:05.

Drill Ye Tarriers Drill. This American folk song from the time of the building of the railroads is both familiar, brawny and humorous. The arrangement is enjoyable and the story comical, making it a great concert selection. Easy to medium in difficulty.

Classic Brian Tate: an uplifting text, catchy and sing-able a cappella counterpoint, uniquely combining a folk and spiritual sound, this is a winner. Arranged for male voices now, this piece joins several other voicings in our catalog.

Jonathan Palant Choral Series-Drawing on the musical themes from the American Folk Song Boneparte's Retreat this arrangement is up beat and rhythmic. A fiddle melody is incorporated into the one piano four hands accompaniment while the singers create sounds of the style and period. Teaching strategies are included in the comprehensive page 2 Program Notes.

Expressive melodic lines and phrases lend a sense of yearning and melancholy to the unwavering hope and peace found in the text of this folk melody. Aaron McDermid has arranged “Come Sing to Me of Heaven” with broad open chords and tightly-woven suspensions. The slow mournful opening gives way to a faster contrasting middle section as the anticipation and hope of heaven builds. This moving contemplation of death and heaven is also a song ofcomfort – an emotional offering for concert or contest.

A great addition to any men's choir performance this Irish folk song tells how pretty Kitty's broken milk pitcher leads to romantic complications. Offers great opportunity for the singers to act out the story! A perfect concertcloser or encore with piano (four-hands) accompaniment. Duration: ca. 2:30.

American folk song arranged for four-part chorus of men's voices with piano accompaniment by David Stocker.

Ralph Vaughan Williams was an English composer. His works include operas ballets chamber music secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies written over nearly fifty years. Strongly influenced by Tudor music and English folk-song his output marked a decisive break in British music from its German-dominated style of the 19th century.Vaughan Williams was born to a well-to-do family with strong moral views and a progressive social outlook. Throughout his life he sought to be of service to his fellow citizens and believed in making music as available as possible to everybody. He wrote many works for amateur and studentperformance. He was musically a late developer not finding his true voice until his late thirties; his studies in 1907 08 with the French composer Maurice Ravel helped him clarify the textures of his music.

This collection is a great resource for concert and sight-reading material for beginning and developing men's choruses. Includes a cappella original works and settings of favorite folksongs and other traditional songs: Benedictus Hi-Ho the Holly She Walks in Beauty Greensleeves Kumbaya Vive la compagnie! Available: TTBB a cappella.

“Nordic Polska” is a combination of traditional Swedish and Finnish folksongs arranged for performance by LEVELELEVEN a combination of The Real Group and Rajaton. Using scatting and nonsense syllables the sound of the folksongs shines through. A beautiful and other-worldly sound. Available for mixed voices and men's chorus.

In this work Bernaducci acknowledges the lyricism of English folk music the rich male chorus tradition of Great Britain and the tragedy of World War I. The constant and labored movement in the piano almost seems like a death march. This is a marvelous contribution to the repertoire for male choruses.