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The Gift to Sing

And I Can Sing (The Gift to Sing)

And I Can Sing (The Gift to Sing) Choral SATB

Choral Choir,Choral (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1202301 By Christop…(+)

Choral Choir,Choral (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1202301 By Christopher Alexander. By Christopher Alexander. Contemporary,Contest,Festival. 16 pages. Christopher Alexander #800986. Published by Christopher Alexander (A0.1202301). Using the poem The Gift to Sing by James Weldon Johnson, this dramatic composition takes the singers and audience alike on an adventure discovering their own unique voice. Â Beginning as a lyrical melody in minor, the piece builds to its parallel major with a declaration from the poem's text and evolves even further to an epic and dramatic statement universal to everybody. Â This will be a great addition to your concert or festival repertoire celebrating the art of singing.
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The Gift to Sing - SATB choir

Choral Choir (SATB) - Digital Download SKU: A0.973048 Composed by Francis Kayali. 20th Century,Contemporary. Octavo. 19 pages. Francis Kayali #6230277. Published by Francis Kayali (A0.973048). The Gift to Sing is a poem by James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) published in 1917. The central theme of the text is one of optimism and resilience, using the power of song â€“ meaning, more broadly, art or any kind of artful, heightened expression â€“ to overcome adversity. Although the poem can be interpreted broadly to pertain to any kind of struggle, it is likely that Johnson, as a civil-rights activist was alluding more specifically to the oppression African-Americans in the United States, a struggle that continues to this day, in 2020. I composed this setting in September of 2020, right after the Black Lives Matter protests that took place that summer, so current events played a role in this interpretation on my part as well. If one reads the poem as pertaining the continued struggle of African Americans, some passages may come across as ambiguous. For instance, I brood not over the broken past should not be taken as suggesting that the horrors of the past should be forgotten, but as an injunction that the memory of these horrors should not discourage us or diminish our resolve to work toward overcoming the injustices. The musical inspiration for the opening of the piece comes from the song Lonesome Valley, which starts with a pentatonic melodic gesture. The pentatonic scale is often used in African American Spirituals, Christian hymns, and folksongs (e.g., Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, Amazing Grace, How Can I Keep from Singing?, Red River Valley, Oh Shenandoah). The more rhythmic parts take inspiration from the African-American spiritual tradition, as found for instance in the choral music of Moses Hogan (1957-2003). Meanwhile, the tenor solo at the end, is intended to be very loud, bright, and without the pronounced vibrato one would find in a Western operatic style. This kind of bright and intense vocal sound is not unfamiliar to most listeners, who may have encountered it in places as varied as Sacred Harp singing, the opening of the Lion King soundtrack, or the Muslim call to prayer.

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The Gift to Sing (SA)

The Gift to Sing (SA) Choral 2-part

Choral Choir,Choral,SA Chorus - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1450008 Composed…(+)

Choral Choir,Choral,SA Chorus - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1450008 Composed by Erik Meyer. 21st Century,Children,Classical. 3 pages. Erik Meyer #942615. Published by Erik Meyer (A0.1450008). James Weldon Johnson's poem, The Gift to Sing, set for SA choir by Erik MeyerThis piece encourages singers (especially young ones) to find their own musical voice! It sets Johnson's introspective text about the quiet healing power of music, interspersed with sections for musical improvisation. Singers are welcome to create their own melody while the piano continues to play harmonically. Every voice's heartfelt contribution is valuable and beautiful.I wrote this piece because throughout my career as a choir director, many of my singers have been told me I can't really sing, or so-and-so told me not to sing loud because I'm not good, or I can't improvise, etc. I want this piece to help bring out everyone's voice - no matter what you have been told in the past, you CAN sing, and more than that, I bet you can improvise! I hope this setting will help singers love their voice.
$1.99 1.84 € #Choral 2-part #Erik Meyer #The Gift to Sing #Erik Meyer #SheetMusicPlus

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The Gift to Sing (SATB)

The Gift to Sing (SATB) Choral SATB

Choral Choir,Choral,SATB Chorus - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1450009 Compos…(+)

Choral Choir,Choral,SATB Chorus - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1450009 Composed by Erik Meyer. 21st Century,Children,Classical. 5 pages. Erik Meyer #942621. Published by Erik Meyer (A0.1450009). James Weldon Johnson's poem, The Gift to Sing, set for SATB choir by Erik MeyerThis piece encourages singers (especially younger ones) to find their own musical voice! It sets Johnson's introspective text about the quiet healing power of music, interspersed with sections for musical improvisation. Singers are welcome to create their own melody while the piano continues to play harmonically. Every voice's heartfelt contribution is valuable and beautiful.I wrote this piece because throughout my career as a choir director, many of my singers have been told me I can't really sing, or so-and-so told me not to sing loud because I'm not good, or I can't improvise, etc. I want this piece to help bring out everyone's voice - no matter what you have been told in the past, you CAN sing, and more than that, I bet you can improvise! I hope this setting will help singers love their voice.
$1.99 1.84 € #Choral SATB #Erik Meyer #The Gift to Sing #Erik Meyer #SheetMusicPlus

The Gift to Sing Choral SATB

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1088967 Composed by Jane K…(+)

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1088967 Composed by Jane K (Evgeniya Kozhevnikova). Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Holiday. Octavo. 11 pages. Evgeniya Kozhevnikova #693178. Published by Evgeniya Kozhevnikova (A0.1088967). Written by Jane K (Evgeniya Kozhevnikova) in 2020, â€œThe Gift to Singâ€ is a setting of the text by James Weldon Johnson for SATB and piano. It is a beautiful and uplifting text that reflects on how singing can help to â€œturn the gloom to cheerful day.â€ The piece was premiered by the University of North Carolina Chorale directed by Dr. Carole Ott Coelho, on October 17, 2021.
$2.49 2.3 € #Choral SATB #Jane K #The Gift to Sing #Evgeniya Kozhevnikova #SheetMusicPlus

I Sing Choral 3-part

SSA chorus - intermediate - Digital Download SKU: C7.CGE266 Composed by Cynthia Gra…(+)

SSA chorus - intermediate - Digital Download SKU: C7.CGE266 Composed by Cynthia Gray. General. Sing! Octavo. 12 pages. Chorister's Guild - Digital #CGE266. Published by Chorister's Guild - Digital (C7.CGE266). UPC: 749193027905.A memorable, pentatonic setting of selected lines from The Gift to Sing by James Weldon Johnson that speaks to the heart of all who find comfort and hope in song. Choirs, audiences and directors can all relate to the fact that there are times in life when blackening clouds seem to surround us. But the soaring melodic refrain reminds us that the magic way to turn the gloom to day is to sing and sing and sing. The accompaniment swells with wave-like motion under vocal lines that capture the joyful flight of hearts that take wing when we sing.
$2.45 2.26 € #Choral 3-part #Cynthia Gray #I Sing #Chorister's Guild - Digital #SheetMusicPlus

I Sing Choral 3-part

SAB chorus - intermediate - Digital Download SKU: C7.CGE267 Composed by Cynthia Gra…(+)

SAB chorus - intermediate - Digital Download SKU: C7.CGE267 Composed by Cynthia Gray. General. Sing! With Descant. Octavo. 12 pages. Chorister's Guild - Digital #CGE267. Published by Chorister's Guild - Digital (C7.CGE267). UPC: 749193027912.A memorable, pentatonic setting of selected lines from The Gift to Sing by James Weldon Johnson that speaks to the heart of all who find comfort and hope in song. Choirs, audiences and directors can all relate to the fact that there are times in life when blackening clouds seem to surround us. But the soaring melodic refrain reminds us that the magic way to turn the gloom to day is to sing and sing and sing. The accompaniment swells with wave-like motion under vocal lines that capture the joyful flight of hearts that take wing when we sing.
$2.45 2.26 € #Choral 3-part #Cynthia Gray #I Sing #Chorister's Guild - Digital #SheetMusicPlus

The Gift to Sing from Sing Evermore!

The Gift to Sing from Sing Evermore! Choral 3-part

SSA choir and piano, with optional flute - Moderately Easy - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8…(+)

SSA choir and piano, with optional flute - Moderately Easy - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8518-E Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. 16 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8518-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8518-E). English.The message of â€œThe Gift to Singâ€ is that, even in the darkest of times, music can lift the soul. I have a magic way to turn the gloom to brightest dayâ€”I softly sing. One can sing softly, one can sing forcefully (with determination) and one must always sing with passion!
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The Gift to Sing (SATB) Choral SATB

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1025725 Composed by David …(+)

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1025725 Composed by David Kidwell. Christian,Sacred. Octavo. 6 pages. David Kidwell #6564469. Published by David Kidwell (A0.1025725). A moving setting of the James Weldon Johnson poem, The Gift to Sing, for SATB and piano.
$2.00 1.85 € #Choral SATB #David Kidwell #The Gift to Sing #David Kidwell #SheetMusicPlus

The Gift to Sing (SSA)

The Gift to Sing (SSA) Choral 3-part

Choral Choir (SSA) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1025726 Composed by David K…(+)

Choral Choir (SSA) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1025726 Composed by David Kidwell. Christian,Sacred. Octavo. 6 pages. David Kidwell #6570881. Published by David Kidwell (A0.1025726). A moving setting of the James Weldon Johnson poem, The Gift to Sing, for SSA and piano.
$2.00 1.85 € #Choral 3-part #David Kidwell #The Gift to Sing #David Kidwell #SheetMusicPlus