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The text from Nehemiah 8:10 and Isaiah 43:1-3 expresses joy through helping those who are less fortunate. The opening melody carries this message with delicate ease, then moves into a brief choral sta...

Canadian composer, Larry Nickel, has merged the words from the well-loved hymn, For the Beauty of the Earth, with a Navajo prayer. His melodies move beautifully and seamlessly, but what makes the musi...

This choral piece uses canons to create a showcase for choirs that is absolutely irresistible! The captivating melody dances in your imagination until you can't help but sing along!

Using an ancient text by Matthew Arnold, this haunting and alluring love song has an elegant simplicity that brings the story and longing of the poem to life.

Four-part, a cappella voices sing in counterpoint and in chorus with tender and compelling harmonies in this stirring Stabat Mater setting. The dramatic and emotional imagery is richly portrayed throu...

Here is a clever secular madrigal that reminds us that the joys of life are not necessarily found in a brand name! Clever rhymes and word play along with a bubbly style give this lighter selection spe...

Uses: Reflection, Concert Scripture: Isaiah 40:31 Once you begin hearing this piece you are drawn in...you want to sing it. The eagle's wings text is one of the most frequently set to music, and yet t...

A new melody uses the text of the well-loved hymn Take My Life and Let it Be, and it is an excellent tune. When the hymntune HENDON does appear it is in a welcomed salute.

Here is a wonderful Christmas piece with a tune that will capture your heart not once but twice. The end of each verse has a hook that draws you in, but you fall all the way when you hear the joyful c...

This traditional African-American slave song comes from the Georgia Sea Islands. The a cappella Spiritual style rocks this energetic and evangelizing song. Brian Tate brings a soulful passion to his a...

You can see the old clipper ships and the iron men who worked them as vividly as if they were before you. The Benet poem honors a bygone era and Bisbee's music places us on the ocean waves. An express...

What a refreshing setting of such a well-loved hymn. This Amazing Grace was originally written for the King's Singers and a women's choir. It can now be performed in numerous configurations, antiphona...

Kevin Memley used the words of Soren Engström for this tender piece commissioned in memory of a college student. The text carries questions that remind us of the fraility of life and encourage us to e...

With a rollicking 6/8 and 4/4, back and forth, rhythm, this piece dances from the start. Based on Psalm 57:7-10 and Psalm 84:4-7, the text is a song of praise. A contrasting middle section is much slo...

Thula Baba is an African lullaby from the Zulu tribe that is a well-known melody through the continent. This a cappella arrangement maintains the gentle qualities of a mother's song to her child while...

Rachmaninoff knew how to make a melody turn and stretch and draw the listener in to its flow. This arrangement for treble choir lets the voices carry the famous tune, sharing in harmony or even moving...

Arranged for the 2016 Oregon Elementary All-State Choir, Ken Berg selected a Southern Harmony tune. Although a sacred text, like a Spiritual, its historical place in American music moves it easily to...