By Steve Fry. Arranged by Mary Mcdonald. For TTBB choir and piano (with optional percussion, digital strings). Sacred Anthem: Easter, General. Octavo. Published by Lorenz Publishing Company

Arranged by Mack Wilberg. For TTBB choir and piano/orchestra (3 flutes ( piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns. 3 trumpets (C), 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, 3 percussion (triangle, suspended cymbal, bass drum, chimes), harp, organ, strings). Male Voices. Spirituals, Leaflet. Level B (easy). Vocal score. 12 pages. Duration 5'. Published by Oxford University Press

Arranged by Stephen Smith. For TTBB choir and piano. Octavo. Published by Cypress Choral Music

Arranged by Kevin Memley. TTBB. Pavane Choral. 8 pages. Pavane Publishing #P1396. Published by Pavane Publishing

Composed by Various. For TTBB choir, piano accompaniment (with optional strings). Octavo. Santa Barbara Music Publishing #SBMP1262. Published by Santa Barbara Music Publishing

Arranged by Craig Courtney and Lynda Hasseler. Capital University Choral Series. Sacred. String parts. Published by Beckenhorst Press (BP.CU1043A).

Arranged by Keith Christopher. Choir Secular. Men's Choir. Choral Octavo. Choral Designs. Folk; Secular. 12 pages. Published by Alfred Music

Arranged by Robert T. Gibson. Walton Choral. Octavo. 16 pages. Walton Music #WW1681. Published by Walton Music

TTBB choir, piano reduction, fiddle, cello, guitar - Early intermediate

SKU: GI.WW1752

Composed by Stephen Foster. Arranged by Nicholas Johnson. Concert, School. Walton Choral. Classical. Octavo. 16 pages. Walton Music #WW1752. Published by Walton Music (GI.WW1752).

UPC: 785147014362. English. Text by Stephen C. Foster.

A simple expression of empathy for those less fortunate, Hard Times, offers a universal message that we can perservere through difficult times. This setting for men's chorus with guitar and strings is a dynamic and modern interpretation. The arrangement can be used with a soloist or with a section of tenors. Guitar lead sheet available for free download. Recording: University of Kentucky Men's Chorus, Jefferson Johnson, conductor, Eric Poore, soloist.

TTBB choir, a cappella - Intermediate

SKU: MN.50-7090

Composed by William Bradley Roberts. Spirituals. 21st Century. Octavo. MorningStar Music Publishers #50-7090. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers (MN.50-7090).

UPC: 688670570902. English.

A lively and rhythmic arrangement of a great African American Spiritual. This piece is performed only as an a cappella version. The SATB version (50-7080) can be performed with either woodwinds and percussion or strings and percussion.

Choral TTBB choir

SKU: PR.312416820

Men's Chorus (10 Copies). Composed by Chen Yi. Choral part(s). With Standard notation. 480 pages. Duration 17 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #312-41682. Published by Theodore Presser Company (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.