Boosey & Hawkes

Originally written for treble voices, this musical setting of the William Blake text is equally exciting for mixed voices. An energetic, inventive and rhythmically vibrant work, your choir will explor...

Change My Name' is a series of melodic variations on the opening line of a spiritual more commonly known as 'If He Changed My Name.' Composer Stephen Hatfield has created an intense, grave, peaceful a...

Composer Mary Goetze states that the words and melody to I Sing 'sprang from within me' as she thought about the many directors and teachers who have dedicated their lives to children's choirs and mus...

Written for the Newham Young People's Chorus' Big Sing! in London, England, this inspirational work by David Brunner (text by Scott Lounsbury) carries the theme of finding one's voice, one's identity,...

This David Brunner work evolved from a project that involved middle, high school and college singers in a virtual choir environment. The text, with its strong rhythm and sturdy refrain, artfully captu...

This middle movement form Three Madrigals After Dowland is rhythmic, dissonant and angry, expressing a release from the pain of death. When paired with the other two 'Weep You No More' and 'Come, Heav...

Written as a dear friend lay dying at a young age, this movement, along with the other two from the set ('Weep You No More' and 'Burst Forth, My Tears') call on the singers to represent their deepest...

American choral legend, Robert Page, has set this classic Bernstein song cycle for three part treble choir. Leaving each of the five songs in their original keys, and without changing a single, origin...

Tongue twisters are fun for all ages. This setting of three includes: 'Mules' an enticing tango; 'Betty Botter's Butter' with stylistic hints of Gilbert and Sullivan, includes a canon with a mid-strea...

While John Adams was in attendance at the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia, his wife Abigail was at home in Braintree, Massachusetts, running the farm, raising four children, and maintainin...

Listening exuberantly praises the music inherit in and expressed by everything in nature, above all the myriad worlds of human nature. It sings of the great variety and contrast of the seasons of the...

Sea and Shore was commissioned by the Lakewood Area Choral Society to celebrate their 25th anniversary. The last section of Henry Van Dyke's ode in praise of music seemed ideal for the purpose. Knowin...

Written for SATB choir, SSA choir and small ensemble or solo voice, this original piece with an original text by the composer speaks of hope and the joy that music brings to the world. With a wonderfu...

Written for 4 voices in any combination, the composer gives detailed instructions offering ways to make this fit your singers' voices in whatever stage of maturity they are in. With colorful word pain...

'Don't Go' is the second in the cycle of 'Ecstatic Songs' on texts by Hindu mystic poet Mirabai. The first song, 'All I Was Doing Was Breathing' was premiered by the Michigan State University Women's...

Commissioned for the 2013 Mississippi ACDA All-State Honor Choir, this Scott Lounsbury poem is full of whirling images, imaginative turns of phrase and a rhythmic insistency that doesn't stop. David B...

Inspired by Van Gogh's famous painting, Starry Night, this is a lovely reflection on the meaning of art and music. A wonderful work full of beautiful imagery!

Ruth Watson Henderson has set a wonderful secular winter text using a harmonic language that is accessible to a very good high school choir but worthy of a fine adult ensemble as well.

In My Heart' is a gentle look at the innocence of how important it is to know that inside a child's heart and mind is a safe and nurturing place. It is a gentle, reverent, 2-part treble piece suitable...

Rarely are women's choirs given such strong and heroic songs to put their mark on. These offer a wonderful opportunity for your women's choirs to show their dynamic and emotional ranges.

Wee Willie Winkie” is a well known Scottish nursery rhyme which has been sung to Scottish children from the 1840's to the present day. It tells the story of a wee boy running through the dark streets...

Grace was commissioned by the Sloan Creek Middle School a cappella treble choir for their performance at the 2013 national ACDA convention in Dallas. Despite references to brief, bright moments fading...

Now available for women's voices, Richard Smallwood's 'Total Praise' is an American classic known throughout the gospel music community and beyond. The 'good news' text will make it a wonderful concer...

This Ojibway text, adapted by the composer, explores the beloved flower of the forest, Sky-treading bird of the prairie, wonderful fawn-eyed one.' Opening with a joyful fanfare-like exclamation of the...