Boosey & Hawkes

Home on the Range is one of the best known Cowboy Songs. The harmonies used in this arrangement express the longing nature of the text. The beautiful tune of the refrain along with the sad violin help...

Many American folk songs involve images of the Native Americans. This song by Casse Lyman Monson and text by Albert Lee focuses on a baby Piute Indian strapped to the back of his mother as they ride t...

A great alternative for any festive Christmas celebration. This Spanish poem celebrates the wonder of the birth of Christ through the voices of farmyard animals, triumphant angels and exuberant shephe...

Kalinkais about a young man sitting under a red berry bush (Kalinka), singing his feelings for his sweetheart. The expressiveness of the song is achieved through the contrast between a lively and rhyt...

This Finnish poem makes it clear that this lullaby is being sung by a peasant mother to her dead child, wishing it safe passage to the afterlife.

The sounds of salsa and rumba color this original setting of a Venezuelan children's poem. “Sassy” vocal lines are accompanied by piano with the steady pulse of claves and conga providing...

The text of We Are the Music-Makers is a few lines from Arthur O'Shaughnessy's Ode that speaks of the special feelings of being musicians, in many ways apart from the world, perhaps lonely and misunde...

One of the most popular of Handel's English oratorios, Judas Maccabeus received at least 54 performances during Handel's own lifetime. The work was a great success at its premier and has maintained it...

While the melody used in this setting is entirely new, it is somewhat reminiscent of an old Scottish air. The violin obligato underscores the great poignancy of Robert Burns' lyrics.

These settings of African-American religious folk songs (Spirituals) were written with younger voices in mind but they are equally appropriate for more mature ensembles. Although the set comprises fou...

These settings of African-American religious folk songs (Spirituals) were written with younger voices in mind but they are equally appropriate for more mature ensembles. Although the set comprises fou...

These settings of African-American religious folk songs (Spirituals) were written with younger voices in mind but they are equally appropriate for more mature ensembles. Although the set comprises fou...

These settings of African-American religious folk songs (Spirituals) were written with younger voices in mind but they are equally appropriate for more mature ensembles. Although the set comprises fou...

Birdsongis a celebration of life. The text comes from a collection of poems written by children who, while incarcerated in the Terezin Concentration Camp in Czechoslovakia during World War II, wrote o...

The lovely new tune by Paul Short is a lyric and expansive melody, particularly well-suited for the voice, while the appearance of the original tune by Samuel Ward and the juxtaposition of the two in...

Kenneth Grahame's simple and slightly archais language brings to mind the gentle rocking rhythm associated both with traditional carols and folk lullabies, which the composer has augmented with occasi...