Spartiti per coro femminile

Written to familiarize students with the elements of jazz style by contrasting a familiar melody with a jazz version of the same.

Laughing and Shouting for Joy is clearly intended for performance by treble choirs. It is one of the siplist and most vocally accessible cantata duets for young choirs. This duet provides the characte...

This arrangement of the familiar work song is both spontaneous and fun to sing. Accordingly, it may be used informally without the piano accompaniment.

There are many variants of this song in England, Scotland and America. As this version evolves, the 'lady' abandons her life of luxury for the romantic freedom of the gypsies, eluding capture and livi...

Each voice assumes the role of one of Laura E. Richard's characters in a spirited and playful exchange characterized by an incessant rhythmic “chatter.” The text is set syllabically, in a...

Thispiece is a syllabic and through-composed setting of Laura E. Richards' text. The distinctive aspect of the piece is its rhythmic interest and shifting meters, its humor, evident in the lumbering n...

The text of this Brazilian song and the three counter melodies are full of good humor. The rhythm and melody capture the flavor of this colorful culture, and will have immediate appeal to young singer...

Being one of Bach's four small ('Lutheran') masses, it is suggested by some scholars that the Mass in G Major was among Bach's preliminary studies for the B minor Mass.

SAAB or SSAA and Piano, 4-Hands Now available in several voicings, Niska Banja is a Serbian Roma dance popular throughout the Balkans. To Central Europeans, the 9/8 rhythm of 2-2-2-3 is as natural as...

This Canadian Folksong describes the tragic sinking of a Bait Skiff near Petty Harbour in 1852, losing all but one of the crew.

The Apple Tree Wassail comes from the cider country of Devon and Somerset, where it might be sung in the orchards or at the farmer's door. Wassail comes from the Anglo-Saxon wes hael - to be healthy.

Hot-blooded and haughty, a mixture of delight and disdain. The central paradox of performing this piece it that the rhythms must be very incisive and exact, yet the precision must be combined with the...

This is a free adaptation of nursery rhyme texts in blues style.