SKU: LO.15-4075H
ISBN 9780787789374.
Commissioned by the Texas Choral Directors Association for their 50th Anniversary Convention, this powerful work is accessible for both middle school and high school voices. Mark's original text explores the concepts of courage and bravery and how those character traits are lived out. Courage lives, deep within the heart of every manâ?¦witnessed in the work of our own hands, shining forth in all we say and do. The powerful piano accompaniment swells with the voices to create an inspiring musical finish. A marvelous combined choir or inter-generational festival piece! The TTBB edition, updated in 2024 features trumpet. Note that the TTB/TBB edition and TTBB edition are in different keys. The accompaniment download includes accompaniment tracks for both editions.
SKU: HL.35013138
UPC: 747510186120. 6.75x10.5 inches.
This major choral work by Greg Gilpin is a moving tribute to our dreams and pursuits. With lyrics based on the words of “Rumi,” “Lao-Tzu” and “Thoreau,” Greg's original music and choral arrangement is full of emotional strength that paints the text with musical significance. A perfect graduation or end of year selection! “Live Your Dream” has been beautifully orchestrated by Steven Couch. Available separately: SATB, TTBB, StudioTrax CD, Orchestration.
SKU: AP.47693
UPC: 038081543864. English. Marc Blitzstein; original German and Bert Brecht; music by Kurt Weill.
Originally written for The Threepenny Opera and famously covered by the likes of Louis Armstrong, Bobby Darin, and Frank Sinatra, this song has become one of the best-known jazz standards of the twentieth century. Mark's arrangement captures all the style of Kurt Weill's original score, building in excitement right to the very end. Perform with the swingin' piano accompaniment, add live horns and rhythm with the optional SoundPax, or check out our hip live-instrument SoundTrax CD.
About Alfred Pop Choral Series
The Alfred Pop Series features outstanding arrangements of songs from the popular music genre. These publications provide exciting, contemporary, and educationally-sound arrangements for singers of all ages, from elementary through high school, to college and adult choirs.
SKU: PR.312416820
UPC: 680160050376. 8.5 x 11 inches.
Chen Yi’s most performed and most beloved choral music is a series of 10 Chinese folk songs adapted for S.A.T.B. Chorus (published in 3 volumes: 312-41731, 312-41732, 312-41733). This special version is a setting of the familiar collection, adapted for children’s chorus and strings.Remembering when I studied composition in the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, I learned to sing hundreds of Chinese folk songs collected from more than twenty provinces and fifty ethnic groups, and went to countryside to collect original folk music every year. I got to know that the folk songs are a mirror of people’s daily lives, their thoughts and sentiments, local customs and manners. They are sung in regional dialects and use the idioms of everyday speech with their particular intonations, accents and cadences. This correlation between speech and music distinguishes folk songs of one region from another. I learned all songs by heart and sang them back in the exams every week. They melted in my blood and became my natural music language. The more I walk into the music life,the more I treasure the rich culture I have learned from my homeland. When I became the Composer-in-Residence of Chanticleer and was invited to write the first work for its concert program, as well as another version for its Singing-In-The-Schools program, I decided to introduce A Set of Chinese Folk Songs to my American audiences, and add a new flavor to Chanticleer’srich repertoire. The work includes ten folk songs, taken from eight provinces (Anhui, Shaanxi, Yunnan, Shanxi, Taiwan, Sinkiang, Jiangsu and Guizhou) and five ethnic groups (Han, Hasake, Uighur, Miao and Yi). I arranged them for choirs (men’s or children’s chorus) with various combinations in voices, to be sung mostly in Chinese, some in English.  From the mysterious mountain songs originally sung in the open air with high and long notes that can carry over great distances, the sweet and delicate melodies of young love compared with nature, the humorous antiphony by little children, and the lively dancing tune by villagers, you may get an idea of various music styles in Chinese folk songs according to geographic, ethnic and linguistic differences, and appreciate the beauty of the Chinese folk music. The pure choir sound and the sophisticated singing by Chanticleer, in terms of pitches, language and musical expressions, really attract and inspire me to create some more new works in the years to come. In thisedition of A Set of Chinese Folk Songs for standard SATB mixed choir (with piano rehearsal score), I divided these ten songs into three volumes. They are Fengyang Song, The Flowing Stream, Guessing, Thinking of My Darling, Mayila, Jasmine Flower, Riding on a Mule, Awariguli, Diu Diu Deng, andMountain Song and Dancing Tune.—Chen Yi.
SKU: HL.48024179
UPC: 888680703769. 6.75x10.5x0.147 inches.
Created from the texts of live interviews, here is music that explores the notion of family by a community coming to terms with the creation of a family in a society that has not, until now, legally accepted non traditional relationships. It takes as its thesis the idea that love is the only thing that can establish a family and that love is what binds us all.
SKU: BT.PMC4518
Michael Bussewitz-Quarm (b. 1971, US - living on New York's Long Island), composer of more than 30 vocal and choral works written over the past 20 years, is a passionate advocate of music's role in effecting social awareness andchange. The Silver Swan (SATB, SSAA, TTBB) is dedicated to a Long Islander who lost his battle with PTSD following his tour of duty as a medic in Iraq. Adapted from the text attributed to Orlando Gibbons, this setting memorializeslives lost to conflict with the tender repeating phrase He sang his first, and sang his last, and sang no more.
SKU: HL.49032003
ISBN 9790001063982. 7.5x11.0x0.033 inches. English - German.
SKU: AP.47608
UPC: 038081543017. English.
The spirit of the season comes alive in this unbelievably fantastic holiday hit from The Polar Express. Originally recorded by Josh Groban, the magical ballad has grown in popularity to become recognizable worldwide. Fully arranged by Mark Hayes for choirs of all sizes and ages, a much-anticipated TTBB voicing is now available!
SKU: GI.WW1877
UPC: 785147030669. English. Text Source: American Folk Song.
A lively song that is quintessentially American. Excellent vocal writing makes the arrangement both rowdy and well-constructed. Accessible to many choirs and a blast to learn and sing! Available here for TTBB voices.
SKU: AP.45389
UPC: 038081511290. English. Traditional Carols.
This majestic mash-up of Masters in This Hall and We Three Kings of Orient Are includes a joyful new text and optional parts for flute and hand drum. A lively 6/8 tempo and a buoyant minor tonality create a festive feel.
About Alfred Choral Designs
The Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.
SKU: GI.WW1884
UPC: 785147031567. English. Text by Michael Engelhardt.
What will I do with the portion given to me? I will sing. This fantastic work by Michael Engelhardt will be a great addition to honor choirs, festivals, and more. Gospel style, but with an ecumenical text that challenges each of us to make the most of the lives we've been given.
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