Hinshaw Secular

Text from the book the way to start a day by Byrd Baylor

This is a wonderful piece, fun for all ages! The words for the first section 'Mary's Violet Eyes' teach the order of the planets. 'Pi Roundelay' teaches the first twenty digits of 'pi. '

This is a fun piece with a big message, written for 2-part choir, works for children and/or adults, good for a school concert. This moderately advanced secular piece would be great for a festival or c...

This is a moderately simple piece for Jr. high, high school, or adult choir. This secular piece would be great for community chorus, festival or contest performance.

This is a beautiful setting for mixed choir with children's choir and four-hand piano

A fun, secular arrangement with a flute part that mimics the chirping of a spring bird, perfect for a Jr. high, high school, or community choir's spring concert. Flute part included in vocal score

A piece suitable for Jr. high or high school choirs, sweet and expressive Original music and words by Carl Nygard Jr.

For a three-part choir, this original work by Nygard and Blekicki would be wonderful for a high school or college graduation ceremony.

For a moderately advanced choir from Merrily We Roll Along by Stephen Sondheim. This spirited arrangement is a fun addition for your school choir repertoire!

This beautiful, nostalgic piece from Evening Primrose is arranged for SATB chorus

This moderately easy title has a bluesy feel, from Anyone Can Whistle by Stephen Sondheim

A moderately easy title from Sondheim's Company. See also HMC1653 Ladies Who Lunch

Bruce Trinkley's setting of Shakespeare for SAB is also available in TBB (HMC1656) with piano accompaniment. Medium difficulty, this piece is well suited to a choir of young voices, it is a good teach...

A sensitive and well-received contribution to the Series of Sondheim arrangements by Robert Page

A paean to music for secondary level chorus, a stirring addition to the concert program

Haunting and consoling piece in memory of those not present. Secular, but could be used in a sacred setting, medium difficulty.

This beautiful arrangement of an old favorite is sure to be popular with high school and community choirs, and their audiences, medium difficulty.

Butler has kept the voice parts simple, the tessitura reasonable, and the keyboard part playable, a winning combination!

In this thought (and discussion) provoking modern folksong, the flute and clarinet (representing the winds of hope and change) provide a counterpoint to the vocal line.

A really fun, novelty number based on various sayings about time, a good one for the encore, Time Flies, And So Must We.

Words from Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night', act 2, scene 2. SATB, with soprano and tenor solos. Contains piano accompaniment

Avant-garde when it was written (in the 70's), this spooky piece for advanced groups uses massed whispers and strange tones, as well as more traditional techniques, to create a melodramatic effect. It...

This lively piece was written by Franz Schubert in 1825, and edited by Ray Robinson for the Choral Tradition Series. It is not difficult but takes some attention to detail.

Tennyson's lovely poem, set for double chorus and piano

For this eleven-minute concert set, Parker has chosen five of Katharine Pyle's short poems full of brilliant little word pictures and bits of philosophy, transcribed for SATB and woodwind quartet (or...