Composed to teach three essential music and dance styles: the Cuban Son, the Puerto Rican Plena, and the Dominican Merengue. These are each specific in Caribbean music traditions. The text is in English combined with Spanish Caribbean expressions. Movement suggestions to reflect the musical style along with teaching strategies are provided in the insightful page two notes.

Composer: Juan-Tony Guzman

This traditional, gentle lullaby from the Dominican Republic has been a favorite of families for many years. In this arrangement, the sweet gentle head nods required to finally lull this child to sleep are captured in the stylish piano accompaniment.

Arranger: Juan-Tony Guzmán

This arrangement of the traditional Brazilian worship song builds slowly but intensely from a simple, sparse beginning to a fiery final verse. The choral parts are accessible but effective for choirs large and small. Improvised hand percussion can be added easily. An IPA pronunciation guide and a translation for the Spanish text are provided.

Arranger: Roger Bergs

This is one of the most popular love songs from the Dominican Republic. It describes a modest, and yet beautiful, little rural house in the Cibao region where the composer evokes the consummation of a passionate and virginal love. It is a "cancion-bolero," a typical Caribbean romantic song form in quadruple meter, slow-paced, which is also a centerpiece of serenades.

Arranger: Juan-Tony Guzman

Chanflin is a typical Dominican merengue in its melody and form. Chanflin is a young woman, very good looking. The merengue section refers to a "neighborhood gossip." The jaleo section refers to Chanflin dressing in a finicky manner.

Arranger: Juan-Tony Guzman

Here is a well-known song from Mexico. The piano part resembles the layers of the mariachi ensemble which uses violins, trumpets, bass and several types of guitars. This arrangement was commissioned for A Community that sings! to promote singing folk songs from around the world and by all levels of singers. This arrangement may be sung in unison, or with three equal treble or low voices.

Arranger: Juan-Tony Guzman

An original lullaby based on anonymous texts, Crióme Mi Madre tells a beautiful story in which the narrator remembers his mother singing to him and foretelling a wonderful future for him, one that did not necessarily come about. From Four Spanish Lullabies.

Arranger: Francisco J. Nunez | Composer: Francisco J. Nunez

This is a traditional Christmas lullaby from Mexico. This arrangement is created to be performed in either Spanish or in English or a combination of both. An optional guitar accompaniment for finger style playing may also be used for harp or piano.

Arranger: Juan-Tony Guzman

This Argentinian worship song pulses with rhythmic energy! Perfect for either a first-time world music experience or a full-fledged Latin styled performance. With piano.

Arranger: Roger Bergs

This Argentinian worship song pulses with rhythmic energy! Perfect for either a first-time world music experience or a full-fledged Latin styled performance. With piano. Duration: ca. .

Arranger: Roger Bergs

This Argentinian worship song pulses with rhythmic energy! Perfect for either a first-time world music experience or a full-fledged Latin styled performance. With piano.

Arranger: Roger Bergs

The tune and words, of unknown origin, are thought to have been created between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The carol was originally written in Catalan, a language related to French and Spanish and influenced by Latin. (2:45)

Arranger: Valerie Shields

Written for SATB choir, solo, two hand percussion players and string bass, composer Hatfield mixes Spanish and English texts and explores how a community supports and nourishes an individual, even as the individual inspires the community. Coining a new musical style with the piece that he calls Middle-East Latin the music mixes choral counterpoint and a percussive dance groove that will surely become infectious to both singer and listener. Duration: 4:15

Composer: Stephen Hatfield

Written for SATB choir, solo, two hand percussion players and string bass, composer Hatfield mixes Spanish and English texts and explores how a community supports and nourishes an individual, even as the individual inspires the community. Coining a new musical style with the piece that he calls Middle-East Latin the music mixes choral counterpoint and a percussive dance groove that will surely become infectious to both singer and listener. Duration: 4:15

Arranger: Stephen Hatfield | Composer: Stephen Hatfield

This truly unique work was written to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Puerto Rican Institute of Culture. Full of sonorities, rhythms, and melodies that capture the very essence of Puerto Rican culture, Estampas Criollas pulses with the beat of this tropical island.

Composer: Ernesto Cordero

These original settings create the feeling of tenderness and sorrow so typical of the Spanish lullaby. A litling Brazilian style lullaby, a 3-part a cappella chorus, a flight of imagination for guitar solo and a comical nursery rhyme make up this compelling set.

Composer: Francisco J. Núñez

Mangulina is a dance derived from Zapateado Espanol (a Spanish heel-tapping dance). Guayacanal, originally written in the 1950's by Dominican songwriters Luis Kalaff and Bienvenido Brens, embodies what is known as the Mangulina today, and is so famous that when asked, people often think it's a folk song. This piece is best accompanied with tamborra (a double-headed drum from the Dominican Republic) and guira (a metal scraper from the Dominican Republic, scraped with a metal fork).

Arranger: Francisco J,

This is a folk melody from Ecuador traditionally played on the siku - the double row of panpipes that have been used in the high Andes for over a thousand years. With percussion.

Arranger: Stephen Hatfield

This is a folk melody from Ecuador traditionally played on the siku - the double row of panpipes that have been used in the high Andes for over a thousand years. With percussion.

Arranger: Stephen Hatfield | Composer: Stephen Hatfield

This is a folk melody from Ecuador traditionally played on the siku - the double row of panpipes that have been used in the high Andes for over a thousand years. With percussion.

Arranger: Stephen Hatfield | Composer: Stephen Hatfield

Hot-blooded and haughty, a mixture of delight and disdain. The central paradox of performing this piece it that the rhythms must be very incisive and exact, yet the precision must be combined with the devil-may-care festive attitude that prevents the precision from sounding clinical.

Arranger: Stephen Hatfield

This is in the southern Mexican style of the Huapango. In this fast and fun music, with the flash of reds, yellows and greens and the flash in the rhythm, it's as if the entire landscape becomes the dancer's dress with a riot of color represented in the music.

Composer: Stephen Hatfield

This is in the southern Mexican style of the Huapango. In this fast and fun music, with the flash of reds, yellows and greens and the flash in the rhythm, it's as if the entire landscape becomes the dancer's dress with a riot of color represented in the music.

Arranger: Stephen Hatfield | Composer: Stephen Hatfield

Commissioned by the Phoenix Boys Choir, this expressive setting offers a unique perspective on the favorite Mexican folksong.

Arranger: Francisco J. Nunez

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 shepherds. The three contrasting sections include a latino folk-style Gloria accompanied by drums and maracas and a simple hymn-like tune.

Composer: Francisco Nunez

Written for 5-part treble voices and optional percussion, this latin thriller will challenge your group and delight your audiences.

Arranger: Stephen Hatfield

In this irresistible Brazilian song setting, vocal lines imitate percussion patterns to create a truly infectious groove. Newly arranged for SSATB chorus. With optional percussion.

Arranger: Stephen Hatfield

Combining the Andean folk song Ojos Azules with folk songs from Ecuador and Peru, this is the sort of music that Stephen Hatfield has excelled at for so long. Scored here for choir and percussion - small and large shaker, guiro and floor tom - it will be impossible for your singers to refrain from moving to the music and the audience from dancing in the aisles.

Arranger: Stephen Hatfield

A traditional Andean folk song set for three-part treble choir, this setting employs the use of exciting percussion and authentic vocal effects. The slow, melodious theme of the introduction leads into an intensely driven middle section which will excite singers and mesmerize listeners.

Arranger: Stephen Hatfield

Combining the Andean folk song Ojos Azules with folk songs from Ecuador and Peru, this is the sort of music that Stephen Hatfield has excelled at for so long. Scored here for choir and percussion - small and large shaker, guiro and floor tom - it will be impossible for your singers to refrain from moving to the music and the audience from dancing in the aisles.

Arranger: Stephen Hatfield

This fun, fast-paced salsa was created as a fusion piece, mixing New York salsa with urban funk, and as described by the composers a hip Latino piece. The touching text is about the power of dreams, written using both English and Spanish. Duration: ca. 3:00.

Composer: Francisco J. Nunez

A Hatfield original, the text of this piece grew from email exchanges between the composer and the staff and students at the middle school who commissioned the work. The theme of the piece deals with testing what is true and how each person goes about that. With a great beat, Latin percussion, and optional string bass, this rhythmically-driven piece really cooks.

Arranger: Stephen Hatfield | Composer: Stephen Hatfield

A Hatfield original, the text of this piece grew from email exchanges between the composer and the staff and students at the middle school who commissioned the work. The theme of the piece deals with testing what is true and how each person goes about that. With a great beat, Latin percussion, and optional string bass, this rhythmically-driven piece really cooks.

Composer: Stephen Hatfield

Rhythmic and dance-like music captures the joyful text of Mexican poet Amando Nuervo. With piano.

Arranger: David L. Brunner

Son de Camaguey is a Cuban folk song from which the composer takes the refrain and then frames it with kaleidoscopic patters of ostinati inspired by the song, and by Afro-Cuban music in general.

Arranger: Stephen Hatfield

Acclaimed Puerto Rican composer Ernesto Cordero has infused his Puerto Rican and Afro-Hispanic style, ranging from upbeat to melancholic, into this delightful collection of Three Caribbean Chants.

Composer: Ernesto Cordero

A children's game Brinca la Tablita (Jump the Blocks), a dreamy lullaby Duermete Mi Niño (Sleep My Baby) and the humorous Arroz con Leche (Rice Pudding) make up this charming set of traditional folk songs. Can be sung in Spanish or English (pronunciation guide included), these songs are perfect for young choirs or singing in the classroom.

Arranger: Francisco J. Nunez

Velo qué bonito is a traditional Colombian song also known as Bunde de San Antonio, patron saint of the Colombian black communities. It is sung a cappella, accompanied only by a tambora, the typical Afro-Indo-American drum. Duration: 2:15

Arranger: Alejandro Zuleta

Infectious rhythms and playful melodies characterize this setting. These newly composed melodies and rhythms, while not distinctly Venezuelan, capture the vitality and charm of the region. Duration: ca. 3:00.

Arranger: David L. Brunner

Infectious rhythms and playful melodies characterize this setting. These newly composed melodies and rhythms, while not distinctly Venezuelan, capture the vitality and charm of the region. Duration: ca. 3:00.

Arranger: David L. Brunner

Written with a contemporary Salsa feel and a text created from a collection of letters from the chorus of the Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, this work expresses ideas about life in high school and the feeling of moving on. Scored for piano and optional guitar, cello, bass and percussion. Duration: ca. .

Composer: Francisco J. Nunez