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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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