Pavane Choral

Opening with solo voices in a quasi-recitative style (Barnum offers an option to begin the piece following the solos) and unfolding into an work of artistry and beauty, the overall mood is one of opti...

It is the Latin rhythm under the old Latin Carol that catches your imagination. How fun! Jo-Michael Scheibe selected this piece for his sacred series. Not only does this piece work well for church or...

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...

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.

Featuring the artistic poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar this musical benediction makes parting, for any reason, a worthy endeavor. This setting for SSAA voices is especially fitting for high school, col...

This wonderful text of Robert Louis Stevenson celebrates life in this sensational piece for high school and college. You can almost feel the mist of the highland meadows and will enjoy the calm of con...

Great choral music transports you into the story of the text and the emotion of the song. From a 6th century Chinese poem recalling the separation from their loved ones caused by a sailor's life, Shir...

There is nothing that quite equals the state of being in love. The message of this song could be about relationships, but it could also be about your vocation, your avocation, about life itself. The m...

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...

This Armenian folk song is an excellent candidate for Judy Herrington's Songs of the World series. An homage to the moon, it is more of a metaphor of appreciation for all light that shines into the pl...

The poem by Yeats that serves as the text for this Ron Kean piece has been set by many fine composers. Ron's approach is unique, bringing in overtones through whirlies to add an ultra-spiritual dimens...

This macaronic piece brings together the Spanish and English languages, and it is the invigorating and inspiring text that drives the rhythm and energy of this creative song. A previous choral release...

In this poem, is Longfellow describing sounds from the sea, or the tides of our own soul? Judy Herrington sets song to this text that keeps the question open. The rushing waves emanate from the piano...

Not often does a song so completely capture the spirit of a new world, but this one does with an exclamation point. Proud, expectant, hopeful, assuring, as full as the Statue of Liberty, this dynamic...

Several superb settings of this moving poem by Sara Teasdale precede this one, but Kevin Memley has earned the reputation to take us somewhere new, even with classic texts. Premiered at the ACDA Weste...

Here is a song that celebrates the joy of childhood - the playfulness, the newness, shrills and laughter. Based on Kankana-ey, a Filipino folk song, the words are also in Filipino as well as non-sensi...

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...

Trenney's setting brings depth and dignity to a hymn that is already growing to be a classic in churches everywhere. The word child and light in the title prepare you for the inspiration and the follo...

When Ken Berg's first Solfege Suite for 2-part voices appeared a few years ago, the response was unprecedented. Now the first set of three songs (Galop, March and Bolero) has been revoiced for SAB (mi...

Can learning Solfege really be fun? Is it possible to sing a song on Solfege in a concert? Ken Berg answered that question in a big way when, years ago, he wrote the first Galop for young voices. 100,...

Emily Dickinson's poem on hope has wings of its own, but now, it also has a song. The words lift right off the page, encouraged with melody and catapulted with harmony. Excellent for high school, coll...

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...

Majestic and compelling describe the opening fanfare, which moves without hesitation to a rhythmic, driving, almost jazzy section. The drum part is a must. As different as each day can be, the piece c...