Let us help you with your special programming needs:

• Are you looking for songs about peace and war?
• Are you interested in music by historic women composers?
• Would you like to sing early music?
• Do you have very young singers?
• Does your choir enjoy the challenge of more than four parts, a cappella?
• Need some great closers?
• Looking for some pieces just for fun?
• Would you like to try some great jazz arrangements?
• How about some ethnic/multicultural selections?
  

Are you interested in music by historic women composers?

• Martha Alter (1904-1976), “O Bethlehem,” “Peace.”
• Mary Bauer (1882-1955), Three Noëls.
• Amy Beach (1867-1944), Three Shakespeare Songs, Op. 39.
• Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), "O frondens virga."
• Lili Boulanger (1893-1918), "Les sirènes."
• Mary Carmichael (1851-1935), "Six Songs for Two Voices, from Shakespeare."
• Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944), "Ronde du crépuscule," "Noël des Marins (Sailors' Carol)."
• Mabel Wheeler Daniels (1878-1971), "Dream Song," "Dum Dianae vitrea."
• Faustina Hasse Hodges (1822-1895), "L'Amicizia (Friendship): Polka Duett."
• Mary Howe (1882-1964), "Spring Pastoral: Lisa."
• Sister Theophane Hytrek (1915-1992), "Canticle of the Creatures."
• Marylou India Jackson (d. 1969), "Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho," "Done Foun' My Los' Sheep."
• Frances McCollin (1892-1960), "In the Bleak Midwinter."
• Undine Smith Moore (1904-1989), "A Christmas Alleluia."
• Elizabeth Poston (1905-1987), "Qui creavit coelum (He who created the sky)."
• Ethel Smyth (1858-1944), "The March of the Women," "Laggard Dawn."

Would you like to sing early music?

Medieval:

• Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), "O frondens virga."
• Anonymous (c. 1300), "Castitatis thalamum" (conductus).
• Anonymous (14th c.), "O Virgo splendens (O Virgin Resplendent)."
  
• Anonymous (15th c.), "What tidings bringest thou, messenger?"

Renaissance:

• Jakob Handl (1550-1591), "Congratulamini mihi, omnes," "O magnum mysterium," "Virgines prudentes."
• Orlando di Lasso (1534-1594), "Tragico tecti syrmate."
• Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), "Canzonette a tre."
• Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611), "O Regem coeli."

Baroque:

• Johann Adolph Hasse (1699-1783), "Miserere mei, Deus."
• Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687), "Regina coeli (Queen of Heaven)."
• Pietro Paolo Bencini (c. 1670-1755), "Alleluia. Ascendit Deus."

Do you have very young singers?

• "Alleluia. Ascendit Deus" by Pietro Paolo Bencini (c. 1670-1755).
• "The Animals' Carol" by Felicity Williams.
• "Ave Maria" by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
• "The Children's Call for Peace: Three Beatitudes" by Alice Parker.
• "Christmas Is Coming" (traditional English round), arranged by Lana Walter.
• "Four Old English Carols" by Gustav Holst (1874-1934).
• "Gaudete! Gaudete!", arranged by Lana Walter.
• "I Sing of a Maiden" by Jennifer Bennett.
• "Flow Gently, Sweet Afton" (Scottish), arranged by Lana Walter.
• "The Old Woman in a Basket" (British trad.), arranged by Lana Walter.
• "A Midsummer Night's Dream: Fairy Songs" by Alice Parker.
• "O Little Town of Bethlehem" by Brian Childers.
  
• "Puer Nobis Nascitur" by Lana Walter.
• "Puisqu’ici-bas toute âme (As each spirit here below)" by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
• "The Quangle Wangle's Hat" by Felicity Williams.
• "Qui creavit coelum (He who created the sky)," arranged by Elizabeth Poston.
• “Seven Sabbath Songs” by Karen A. Tarlow.
• "Six Songs for Two Voices, from Shakespeare," by Mary Carmichael.
• Songs of the City: "Wedding Day," "Out in the City" by Anthony Ritchie.
• "Wade in the Jordan River," arranged by Clifton J. Noble., Jr.

Does your choir enjoy the challenge of more than four parts, a cappella?

• "A Christmas Alleluia" (Spiritual), arranged by Undine Smith Moore. SSAA/SSAA, unis. chant group, S solo.
• "Da pacem Domine" by Håkan Olsson. SSAA (some divisi).
• "Desertscapes" by Maggi Payne.
• "Hodie" (on a text of Hildegard of Bingen), by Naomi Stephan. SSSAA, SS solos.
• "Magnificat" by Lana Walter. SSA with some divisi.
• "Magnificat" by Christine Donkin.  Ten treble parts, mezzo solo.
  
• "O magnum mysterium (O great mystery)" by Jakob Handl (1550-1591). SSAA/SSAA.
• "Quid ploras, muller?" by Maxim Vladimiroff. SSSAA.
• "Silent Night" arranged by Katherine Dienes. SSSAA, S solo, and 3 descants.
• "Songs from "The Princess" by Gustav Holst (1874-1934). 5 movements: SSAA/SSAA; SSAA/SSAA; SSAA; SSA; SSSAA.
• "Suo Gân" (traditional Welsh lullaby), arranged by Thomas Edward Morgan. SSAA (much divisi) and S solo.
• “To My Dear and Loving Husband” by Lana Walter
• "Tragico tecti syrmate" by Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594). SSSAAA.
• "Übers Gebirg' Maria geht" by Johannes Eccard, arranged by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897). SSAA (much Alto I divisi).
• "Virgines prudentes" by Jakob Handl (1551-1591). SSAA/SSAA.
• "The Water is Wide," arranged by Clifton J. Noble, Jr. SSAA.

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Need some great closers?

Would you like to try some great jazz arrangements?

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How about some ethnic/multicultural selections?

• “Artsa alinu,” arranged by Nina Gilbert.
• “Chad gadya,” arranged by Mark Glick.
• “Done Foun’ My Los’ Sheep,” arranged by Marylou India Jackson.
• “Elijah Rock,” arranged by Clifton J. Noble, Jr.
• “Glory to God” by Kevin Johnson.
• “Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho,” arranged by Marylou India Jackson.
• “K’wae-jina ching-ching nah-neh,” arranged by Nina Gilbert.
• “Kyrie” by Kevin Johnson.
• “Los bilbilicos,” arranged by Paula Foley Tillen.

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