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Choral Library Database

Composer/Arranger

Adeniyi, Julius; Leck, Henry (Arr.)


Adzenyah, Abraham K.
(Ed./Annotated)
Allaway, Ben

Title

Publisher

Voice

Difficulty

Language

Three Yoruba Native Songs of


Nigeria
Wonfa Nyem

Colla Voce

Parts
unison

Challenges

Theme(s)

Nigerian

Accompanime Sacred Country/Style


/Secul
nt
ar
Percussion
Secular Yoruba songs of Nigeria

Easy- Elem./M.S.

World Music Press SATB

Easy-M.S.

singing style- heavy, loud, wide sound

Beginnings, New Year

Akan

Percussion

Secular Akrofor choir song from Ghana

authentic vocal quality- slides, wailing quality

From This House

SATB

Med/Diff- H.S

Mourning, Community

English/Swa Percussion
hili
Med-Adv. M.S/Beg. Hebrew
Piano, flute,
H.S
violin
Diff- Adv. H.S
English
a cappella

Secular S. African freedom song/E. African


melody+percussion
Sacred Israeli folk dance

song order and organization: double choir, repeats,


choir 1 or 2 only
high G, crossing parts, 16th note runs

Peace, Comnunity, Freedom

SATB

Time

Amiran, E. (Comp.); Shields, Valerie


(Arr.)
Barnum, Eric

Mayim, Mayim

Santa Barbara
Music
Earth Songs

The Sweetheart of the Sun

Walton Music

Secular Contemporary choral

cluster chords, close harmony, changing time signatures Nature, Romantic Love

Brewbaker, Daniel

Brown Penny

Boosey & Hawkes TB

Med/Diff- H.S

English

Piano

Secular Contemporary choral

multiple key changes

Young Love

2:00

Bruckner, Anton

Gradual

C.F. Peters

Med/Diff- H.S

Latin

a cappella

Sacred Motet

Holy Place

3:15

Chen, Nira (Comp.); Rao, Doreen


(Arr.)
Childs, David

Dodi Li

Boosey & Hawkes SA

Easy-M.S.

Hebrew

Piano

Sacred Israeli love song

low bass range, dynamic contrast, large leaps in all


parts
language, rhythm- in on & of 1

Hands Across the Universe

English

Piano

Secular Contemporary choral

key change

Peace. Hope, Unity

Zion's Walls

Santa Barbara
SAB
Music
Boosey & Hawkes SATB

Easy-M.S.

Copland, Aaron (Comp.); Koponen,


Glenn (Arr.)
Daley, Eleanor

Med/Diff- H.S

English

Piano

Sacred Revivalist Song

Celebration, Unity

The Lake of Innisfree

Oxford University SSA

English

Piano

Secular Contemporary choral

Dan, Kousaku (Comp.); Stenson,


Rachel (Arr.)
Diemer, Emma Lou

Umi Sono Ai

English/
Japanese
English

Piano

Secular Arrangement of Japanese popular hit song gradual crescendos, language

Sea, Hope, Love

Three Madrigals

Santa Barbara
SATB
Music
Boosey & Hawkes SATB

Piano

Secular English contemp./ madrigal style

Love and Loss, Shakespeare

Eddleman, David (Arr.)

Durme, Durme

Carl Fischer

2-part

Med-Adv. M.S/Beg.
H.S
Med-Adv. M.S/Beg.
H.S
Med-Adv. M.S/Beg.
H.S
Easy-M.S.

changing time signatures, soprano sustained F over 4


measures
changing time signatures, octave leaps

Ladino

Piano

Secular Ladino lullaby

Elgar, Edward

As Torrents in Summer

Public Domain

SATB

Easy-M.S.

English

a cappella

Fairbairn, Michael

Lullay My Liking

Med/Diff- H.S

English

a cappella

Red River Valley

Santa Barbara
Music
Hal Leonard

TBB

Farnell, Laura (Arr.)

TB

Easy-M.S.

English

Piano

Foster, Stephen (Com.); Parker, Alice Hard Times Come Again No


(Arr.)
More
Gilpin, Greg
There Will Be a New Day!

Walton Music

TTBB

Piano or guitar Secular 19th C. American minstrel music

quiet dynamics, 4-part divisi, bass to low Eb

Hard Times, Compassion

Carl Fischer

SATB

Med-Adv. M.S/Beg. English


H.S
Easy-M.S.
English

Piano

key change

Joy, Hope

Grases, Christian (Arr.)

Walton Music

SSA

Med/Diff- H.S

syncopation, fast tempo in Spanish

Social Protest

Hadar, Josef (Comp.); Klebanow, Jack Erev Shel Shoshanim


(Arr.)
Hampton, Keith
True Light
Handel, G. F.
Let Thy Deeds Be Glorious
Haydn, Franz
Eloquence (Die Beredsamkeit

Plank Road

SATB

M.S/Beg. Hebrew

language

Love Song, Nature

Earth Songs
Belwin-Mills
Walton Music

SATB
SATB
SATB

Med-Adv.
H.S
Med/DiffMed/DiffDiff- Adv.

Percussion and Secular Venezuela drum gaita


guitar
Piano
Secular Israeli folk/ love song

H.S
H.S
H.S

Piano
Keyboard
Piano

Sacred American Spiritual


Sacred Baroque Oratorio
Secular German classical fugue

staccato articulation, syncopation


melismas, difficult leaps and skips, light baroque style
light, 'bouncy' singing style, fugal texture

Light
Glory
Humor, Drinking song

3:40

Haydn, Franz (Comp.); Kihlken,


Henry (Arr.)
Hughes, J. & Loose, M.

Sing Praises to Our God and


King
Sigh No More, Ladies

Coronet Press

SATB

Sacred German classical anthem

dynamic contras, quick tempo

Praise, God

2:00

SA

Med-Adv. M.S/Beg. English


H.S
Med/Diff- H.S
English

Keyboard
Piano

Secular USA contemp./Shakespeare text

Hughes, Laurie

We Learned the Whole of Love

SATB

Diff- Adv. H.S

Piano

Secular Contemporary choral

mixed meters, mixolydian, sustained high notes (breath Women, Humor, Shakespeare
energy)
cluster chords, shifting tonality
Love, Mystery

Johnson, Ralph (Arr.)

Praise the Lord

Santa Barbara
Music
Santa Barbara
Music
Earth Songs

SATB

Sacred Cameroon processional song

syncopation, tricky percussion rhythms

Praise, Worship

Kallman, Sten (Arr.)

Peze Kafe

Walton Music

SATB

Med-Adv. M.S/Beg. English/Fren Percussion


H.S
ch
Med/Diff- H.S
Haitian
Percussion

Secular Haitian popular folk-song

difficult rhythms, layering parts

Folklore, Story

Koepke, Allen

Hal Leonard

SATB

Diff- Adv. H.S

Secular Contemporary choral

Maselwa, J. & Seeger, P. (Arr.)

Somagwaza

Percussion

Secular South African ceremonial song

syncopation

Mead, George

Down in the Valley

ECS

TTBB

Med-Adv. M.S/Beg. English


H.S
Easy-M.S.
South
African
Med/Diff- H.S
English

range (in all voice parts), leaps and skips, changing


time signatures
octave leaps in alto line, close harmonies

Praise, God

Santa Barbara
SA divisi
Music
World Music Press SA/T/B

Piano
(rehearsal)
Piano

Sacred Choral praise song

LaBarr, Susan

Praise the Name of God with a


Song
Hope is a Thing with Feathers

Piano

Secular Kentucky folk tune

Coming of age, Ceremony,


Men
Romantic Love, Courting

Mendelssohn, Felix

Herbstlied

National Music

SA or TB

Med/Diff- H.S

German

Piano

Secular German lied

humming in high tenor range, 4-part divisi, low bass


range
sf, language, crescendos and decrescendos

Mendelssohn, Felix; Aamot, Kirk


(Arr.)
Nunez, Francisco

Prayer for Peace

Santa Barbara
SA
Music
Boosey & Hawkes unison

Easy-M.S.

German

Sacred German Romantic hymn

language, 3/4, phrasing

Peace

Easy-M.S.

English

Piano, flute,
cello
Piano

Secular USA contemporary

duplets, accidentals, chromaticism

Alfred

TTBB

Med-Adv. M.S/Beg. Enlglish/Itali Piano


H.S
an
(rehearsal)
Med/Diff- H.S
English
a cappella

Secular American folk song

immediate tempo and dynamic changes

Children's Song, the Moon,


Fairytale
Thankfulness, Celebration

Secular English sea shanty

fast articulation of words, octave leaps in bass

Sea, Drinking Song

Med-Adv. M.S/Beg. Akan


H.S
Med-Adv. M.S/Beg. English
H.S

Secular Children's folk song from Ghana

syncopation, language

Children's song, Hunger

Sacred Hymn arrangement

vocal range, mixed meters

Thankfulness, Nature

Parker, A & Shaw, R (Arr.)


Parker, A & Shaw, R (Arr.)

La Paloma

What the Grey-winged Fairy


Said
Vive L/Amour

SA

SATB

What Shall We Do with the


Drunken Sailor
Pete, Pete

Lawson-Gould

TTBB

Powell, Rosephanye (Arr.)

Hal Leonard

2-part

Rutter, John

For the Beauty of the Earth

Oxford University SA

Spanish

English
English
German

English

English

Piano,
percussion
Piano

accidentals, piano dynamic high in range

Nature, Belonging, Love Song


4:25

Home, Contentedness

language- slightly different from Spanish, soft dynamics Lullaby, Sleep


throughout
Secular English Romantic- from Saga of King Olap, chromaticism in tenor line, pp singing
Thankfulness, Nature,
Op. 30
Mystery
Sacred English contemp./ 15th Century english
key and time signature changes, octave leaps
Christmas
text
Secular Traditional American cowboy song
gradual cresendo and descrescendo
Leaving Home, Travel

Secular Contemporary choral

5:20

Women, Redemption, Water

4:40

4:20
2:10

3:35

5:00

Hope, Nature

Changing Seasons

2:00

2:40

Choral Library Database

Schutz, Heinrich

Cantate Domino

Colla Voce

Smith, Byron
Sontonga, Enoch

Worthy to Be Praised!
N'kosi Sikelel'i Afrika

Lawson-Gould
SATB
World Music Press SA(TB)

SSA

Thomas, Andre (Arr.)


Thomas, Andre (Arr.)

Keep Your Lamps!


Credo

Hinshaw Music
Heritage Music

SATB
SATB

Victoria, T.L. de

Public Domain

SATB

Vivaldi, Antonio

O vos omnes, qui transitis per


viam
Esurientes implevit bonis

Morning Star

SA

Walth, K. Gary

Two Japanese Proverbs

Roger Dean

Wyrtzen, Don (Comp.);Fettke, Tom


(Arr.)

Finally Home

BrentwoodBenson Music

SATB
divisi
SSA

Med-Adv.
H.S
Med/DiffMed-Adv.
H.S
Med/DiffMed/Diff-

M.S/Beg. Latin

a cappella

Sacred German baroque

melismas, polyphonic texture

Celebration, Praise

H.S
English
M.S/Beg. Swahili

Piano
a cappella

Sacred Gospel
Sacred Pan-African national anthem

syncopation, sfz, accents and articulation


language, 6/4 section

Praise, Worship
Prayer, Anthems

H.S
H.S

Conga drums
Piano, drum,
bass
a cappella

Sacred American Spiritual


Sacred Traditional gospel

3 independent lines at same time, fp


syncopation, length

Waiting, Work
Faith, Apostle's Creed

Sacred Renaissance Motet

polyphonic texture

Sorrow

English
English

Med-Adv. M.S/Beg. Latin


H.S
Med/Diff- H.S
Latin
Diff- Adv. H.S

Japanese

Med-Adv. M.S/Beg. English


H.S

Keyboard, cello Sacred Italian Baroque aria

Baroque, Hunger

a cappella

Adversity

Piano and
guitar

melismas, octave leap, high G, long phrasing (breath


energy)
Secular Japaese Kotowaza (proverb)language, changing time signatures, rhythmic
contemporary choral
complexity
Sacred Choral arrangement of vocal church music close harmonies

Death, Home

4:55

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