From a 1604 publication, this delightful five-voice madrigal offers challenges and rewards. Echo effects and musical imagery of running in and out make this especially fun to rehearse and perform! Duration: ca. 1:35

Composer: Thomas Greaves

This secular English madrigal dances with rhythmic energy and fiery passion! The two soprano parts create an echo effect if separated spatially. Fun!

Arranger: John Leavitt | Composer: Thomas Morley

This secular English madrigal dances with rhythmic energy and fiery passion! The two soprano parts create an echo effect if separated spatially. Fun!

Arranger: John Leavitt | Composer: Thomas Morley

This brilliant motet by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck is a substantial work for better high schools and up; opening with a virtuosic unfolding of imitative vocal phrases followed by a quiet middle section and building to a glorious alleluia. Duration: ca. 3:00.

Composer: Jan Sweelinck

The light and dance-like madrigal of the Tudor composer Thomas Weelkes is offered here in a fine edition for modern choirs. The delightful fa la la refrain connects the verses for an excellent choral showcase!

Arranger: John Leavitt

The light and dance-like madrigal of the Tudor composer Thomas Weelkes is offered here in a fine edition for modern choirs. The delightful fa la la refrain connects the verses for an excellent choral showcase!

Arranger: John Leavitt

Here is Jan Pieter Sweelinck's famous Christmas motet in a clean and well-edited edition. A substantial work for better high school choirs and up, it will display brilliance and virtuosity for a festive season. Available for SSATB a cappella. Duration: ca. 3:00.

Composer: Jan Sweelinck

Add a Renaissance touch to your holiday concerts! Madrigal for Christmas is fashioned after the ballettos of Italy which featured the popular fa la la refrains. In this piece, Morley uses a different nonsense refrain, lirum, lirum, which might be a sound effect imitating the strummed lute, a popular instrument from the Renaissance.

Arranger: John Leavitt | Composer: Thomas Morley

Here is the famous madrigal by Thomas Morley in a new performing edition. Ideal for chamber, madrigal and concert choirs, this cheerful work offers superb opportunities for developing style, intonation and blend.

Arranger: John Leavitt | Composer: Thomas Morley

Here is the famous madrigal by Thomas Morley in a new performing edition. Ideal for chamber, madrigal and concert choirs, this cheerful work offers superb opportunities for developing style, intonation and blend.

Arranger: John Leavitt | Composer: Thomas Morley

Fashioned after the 16th century Ballettos of Italy which featured the popular fal, la, la refrains. This is a worthy addition to the Choral Treasury series that John Leavitt has been curating and countless directors of serious music have been seeking.

Arranger: John Leavitt | Composer: Thomas Morley

Fashioned after the 16th century Ballettos of Italy which featured the popular fal, la, la refrains. This is a worthy addition to the Choral Treasury series that John Leavitt has been curating and countless directors of serious music have been seeking.

Arranger: John Leavitt | Composer: Thomas Morley

One of the few works in which Bach used Latin text, the Magnificat was composed to be first performed at Vespers on Christmas Day 1723. This edition of the famous chorus is a welcome addition to concert and contest repertiore.

Arranger: John Leavitt

Here is Sir Charles Villiers Stanford's famous meditative setting of a poem by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge. The editor has provided several options to make it more accessible to more choirs without losing the full glistening impact of the work.

Arranger: John Leavitt

Here is Sir Charles Villiers Stanford's famous meditative setting of a poem by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge. The editor has provided several options to make it more accessible to more choirs without losing the full glistening impact of the work.

Arranger: John Leavitt

The Hal Leonard Choral Treasury series has become the benchmark for clean, functional, well edited scores. This madrigal by the early English composer Thomas Weelkes is all of that and more. And the text lends itself to a winter program as well as any time during the year.

Arranger: John Leavitt | Composer: Thomas Weelkes

The 16th century German composer Johannes Eccard was a pupil of Orlando di Lasso and an important figure of the Protestant reformation. This five-voice partsong in German will be a buoyant and joyful addition to traditional Christmas concerts and madrigal dinners. Includes English translation. Duration: ca. 1:40

Composer: Johannes Eccard