This traditional Irish folk song, sub-titled The Wealthy Woman, has reached worldwide popularity thanks to the popular folk ensemble Celtic Woman. Desmond Earley has created this arrangement using vocal whispers, body percussion and divisi choir to create a vocal orchestra that will bring the house down. Baritone and soprano solo sections give your singers a change to really shine.

Arranger: Desmond Earley

Uses: Christmas, Epiphany Scripture: Luke 2:1-7 The beauty of the unadorned human voice is on display in this new setting of a traditional French carol. Beginning in unison, the harmonies grow organically into a vast array of colors yet the linear voice leading is enabling for groups of many levels. Repetition further helps quick learning. The text is a true carol not only telling the nativity story but also foreshadowing Christ's redemptive mission. Duration: ca. 3:00.

Arranger: John S. Dixon

Uses: Christmas, Christmas Eve Scripture: Luke 2:13-14 This ancient carol from Canada mingles Native American imagery with the story of the Christ child. The novel arrangement returns the song to its origins utilizing a primal choral ostinato in the men's voices with the tuneful melody wafting above. Incorporating a full use of vocal ranges this atmospheric compositional approach hints at soaring angels and winter wind. Pristine as fresh snow, this a cappella offering provides a satisfying moment in your seasonal programming.

Arranger: Robert L. Cathey

Swiss composer Ivo Antognini has created a beautiful and transparent setting of this standard text of mercy and peace. At times sounding like Gregorian chant and at other times completely contemporary. Project Encore has found this work to be of exceptional merit. Its panel of internationally known conductors has selected the work for inclusion in its database of recommended choral music.

Composer: Ivo Antognini

Commissioned by Janet Galvan for the Ithaca College Composition Competition and Festival, Trumbore has set the contemporary poem Earth Day by Annie Finch. This poem is a celebration of all that the planet offers us as well as a plea to respect what we find here. The music reflects this joy and celebration.

Composer: Dale Trumbore

There is a fierce passion behind Poe's famous Annabel Lee and this passion is captured in the speed and delivery of the text within the music. The music is tonal and rich and well suited for college and community choirs.

Composer: Timothy C. Takach

Walt Whitman wrote this poem near the end of his life as he was reflecting on his past and preparing for physical death. The music reflects this as it is both meditative, with passages of quiet homophonic passages as well as celebratory. Through all of this there is a soaring melody weaving through the textures.

Composer: Shawn Crouch

The quintessential encore for community or college choirs, this exciting choral has been a best-seller for many years. This unique composition actually uses authentic auctioneer cries as the lyric and rhythmic foundations of the piece. A standard for many years on All-State chorus programs, this deftly crafted composition captures an authentic piece of Americana and is truly a Mark Foster classic!

Arranger: John Biggs

Arranger: Donald Moore

It is such a joy to sing music by a composer who truly understands the voice. With logical voice leadings in and out of thorny places, wonderful use of suspensions and resolutions and a beautiful setting of this traditional text, concert choirs and accomplished church choirs will love bringing this music to life.

Composer: Rene Clausen

A unique and exciting Christmas offering for school or church use! Jonathan Crutchfield has taken a Youruban folk text and arranged it for SATB voices with a brief soprano solo and some very interesting percussion parts. Betelehemu gets its intense rhythms from African drumming techniques. This electric a cappella crowd-pleaser lends itself easily to choreography, and is extremely effective any time multicultural emphasis is desired. The demo recording heard here is by the First Baptist Church Sanctuary Choir, Huntsville, Alabama, directed by Harry Wooten.

Arranger: Jonathan Crutchfield

"Full of grace exceedingly..." nothing is as "Beautiful as she..." This buoyant Spanish love song includes words by Gil Vincente and extols the beauty of one beyond compare, asking sailor, soldier, and shepherd if they have ever seen such loveliness. Cantiga is sung a cappella, with the voices simulating the strumming of a guitar and providing percussive accompaniment to the melody. Great fun!

Composer: Gil Vincente

This beautiful Swedish folk hymn is beautifully set for the concert stage. The SATB divisi, a cappella setting allows for subtle changes between verses and requires richness of tone and child-like simplicity.

Arranger: Rene Clausen

Far from a typical Christmas work, this searching, insightful text illuminates the sacrifice that God already understood when He sent the baby Jesus to earth. Illustrating the emotions of the text, the music begins with the soft wonder we expect, moves to an aching and painful climax, and finally culminates in a restful and peaceful conclusion as we realize the magnitude of this innocent Child's birth.

Composer: J.A.C. Redford

Don Macdonald is quickly becoming a composer known for his cross-over style combining classical integrity with jazz stylings. In his notes from the composer included on page 2 of the octavo, he encourages singers to use the notes as an outline but feel free to stylize the music. This is a real crowd pleaser.

Composer: Don Macdonald

Perfect for large churches, festivals and celebrations. Scored for a brass quintet of 2 trumpets, 2 trombones and tuba, the instrumental writing is superb. Clausen always knows how to support the singers without covering them. And yet there is lots of room to feature the players.

Arranger: Rene Clausen | Composer: Rene Clausen

Uses: General, Concert, Contest Scripture: Philippians 3:20-21 Expressive melodic lines and phrases lend a sense of yearning and melancholy to the unwavering hope and peace found in the text of this folk melody. Aaron McDermid has arranged Come Sing to Me of Heaven with broad, open chords and tightly-woven suspensions. The slow, mournful opening gives way to a faster, contrasting middle section as the anticipation and hope of heaven builds. This moving contemplation of death and heaven is also a song of comfort, an emotional offering for concert or contest.

Arranger: J. Aaron McDermid

The bells are ringing throughout each voice part in this gently lilting announcement of the coming of the newborn King. Comfort and joy, the Lamb is come; Peace on earth, goodwill to men, a Savior's birth in Bethlehem. For Christmas or Epiphany, Comfort and Joy is a gem.

Arranger: Catharine D. Castanet

This stunning a cappella arrangement of the classic carol opens with the voices ad libbing cluster chords to imitate the chiming of church bells. A soprano soloist introduces the traditional melody and then both women's and men's sections are given verse and chorus with which to show off their individual blending and tuning abilities in four part harmony. Coventry Carol contains much dissonance in the form of chord clusters as well as tight harmonies. A great showpiece for your a cappella choir!

Arranger: Patrick Walders

Quoting Get On Board, this creative and energetic arrangement of the American folk song is full of opportunities for word painting and dynamic contrasts. Sally also uses speech choir sections to capture the energy of the text. Commissioned by the Ithaca College School of Music, this is a perfect opener or closer for your concert or festival. Duration Ca. 3 minutes 30 seconds

Composer: Sally Lamb McCune

A powerful, emotional text and rich harmonies express the passion of Christ's sacrifice. Using The Third Melody by sixteenth-century composer Thomas Tallis, arranger Lee Dengler expresses the inexpressible with vocal colors and textures that give tremendous depth of feeling to the awesome significance of Good Friday. The Creator has been crucified. With awe we glimpse its true import and dare to call it good.

Arranger: Lee Dengler | Composer: Carl P. Daw, Jr.

This famous prayer by St. Richard of Chichester is caressed by expressive beauty in this lush, richly harmonic setting. The piece unfolds naturally with the rise and fall of the text. The conservative voice leading makes for easy learning giving time for careful attention to maximizing the colorful contrasts that adorn the choral. Consider as a benediction for sacred service or prayer response for graduation or baccalaureate events. Sensitive.

Composer: St. Richard of Chichester

More experienced choirs will love the metric twists and turns in this fresh approach to the traditional Christmas carol.

Arranger: James McKelvy

Using body percussion and stomping to accompany this traditional Irish text, Desmond Earley has captured the spririt and energy of Irish men who make a living at the sea. Set for 3 part men's voices and solo, a cappella, this is already a hit on Youtube and it will surely become a hit with your men and your audiences.

Composer: Traditional

This new edition of Exsultate lusti in Domino was prepared from Denkmaler der Tonkunst in Osterreich. An excellent example of eighteenth-centuray choral writing, this work is a wonderful teaching tool as well as an impressive performance piece. The double choir effect of women and men creates a rich texture, which routinely alternates between major and minor modes. The result is a complex sounding, yet only moderately difficult work, accessible to high school, college, and church choirs.

Composer: Jakobus Gallus

Capturing both the wonder and the joy and optimism of winter. Words and music of possibility and energy of life in motion. Unlike many of Sara Teasdale's poems which struggle with depression, here she exudes the joy of a bright and fabulously frigid winter afternoon.

Composer: Dominick DiOrio

"Go Tell It on the Mountain" has always been one of our livelier Christmas traditions and Carolyn Jennings's arrangement and additional text is spectacular. This exuberant arrangement for men's voices is bubbling over with joy and good tidings. Great for glee club or men's chorus, or to give the male voices in your mixed choir a moment in the spotlight. This is a real showstopper.

Arranger: Carolyn Jennings

Uses: Christmas, Concert Scripture: Luke 2:8-9 This classic benedictory hymn is painted anew with fresh and emotive harmonies bringing a lush contemporary distinctive to its delicate statement of fellowship and faith. Rising like a quiet prayer this brief but potent anthem is simply breathtaking. As a concert or worship service closer this is essential repertoire. Highly recommended! Available: SATB, a cappella. Duration: ca. 1:59.

Arranger: Joseph Graham | Composer: William G. Tomer, Jeremiah E. Rankin

Very cool! A rhythmic and refreshing twist on a holiday favorite! "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" features dynamic syncopation and vocal interplay between parts. The traditional melody is presented in a slightly less than traditional way amidst the dramatic vocal ostinatos and countermelodies of the other parts, then finishes with fabulous glee club choral sound. This is one incredible showstopper!

Arranger: David McCollum

This choral is an artful setting of a profoundly important text by the famous physician, explorer and philosopher, Albert Schweitzer. Set as a through-composed tone poem, the words rise and fall with the text creating a reverent frame to display this great humanitarian's view of faith and the Divine.

Composer: Joseph Martin

Uses: Christmas, Board's Head Feasts Alive with a lightness and cheer of an old English Christmas madrigal, this pleasing seasonal offering would be a great selection for Boar's Head gatherings or Madrigal dinners. The SAB voicing makes this selection particularly useful in many situations. Add an improvised hand drum for an authentic touch. Duration: ca. 2:15.

Arranger: John S. Dixon

Joyful and ebullient! Effervescent! This happy German text comes to new life in Richard Hynson's delightful a cappella setting. Wonderful antiphonal effects come from fugal entrances in the voice parts and a layering of sound and texture. Hilariter is Latin for joyfully, and is the root for hilarity. Alleluya at its best!

Composer: Richard Hynson

Composer/conductor Z. Randall Stroope has taken this very successful three-movement work for mixed chorus and brass which he published several years ago, and wrote a new first movement, mostly new third movement, and re-orchestrated it in a colorful 16-minute display of choral/instrumental color.ÿ Calls for 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, perc (1), organ and optional treble choir.ÿ Makes a great centerpiece of a concert at advent or any other time of year.

Composer: Z. Randall Stroope

Uses: General, Concert, Memorial Scripture: John 14:2 An early American hymn arrangement is delivered with elegant craftsmanship in this a cappella jewel. Splendidly presented, the arranger seasons his arrangement with a gentle hand and achieves the proper balance of writer originality and stylistic authenticity. Available: SATB, a cappella. Duration: ca. 2:20.

Arranger: Howard Helvey

Winner of the 2016 ACDA Raymond W. Brock Student Composition Contest and premiered by the Riverside City College Chamber Singers, here is a lush setting of the iconic Mary Elizabeth Frye poem Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep. Dedicated to American conductor Richard Bjella, this is a college and professional work that is worthy of any fine choir.

Composer: Kelsey Hohnstein-Reinhart

This arrangement of the familiar Norwegian carol, I Am So Glad Each Christmas Eve, offers both an English and optional Norwegian text for two-part treble voices and piano. The music box accompaniment adds to the merriment of the melody and text. Recounting happy childhood memories of decorating the tree, delicious smells from the kitchen, and the fresh retelling of the Christmas story warms the heart and the soul. A sparkling addition to your Christmas concert, children and parents will love drifting away into their fondest holidays past.

Arranger: Jeanne Julseth-Heinrich

Tight harmonies and a flowing mixed meter give this expressive anthem a smooth ebb-and-flow, give-and- take feeling, very much like the spiritual relationship described in the text. I Am the Vine is a beautiful worship or concert octavo.

A beautiful love poem is here set in a rhythmic and energetic fashion. The kind of energy brought to real romance and relationships. The melodies are angular and unsettled like a good marriage. And the piano accompaniment propels the music forward with hope for a long and prosperous future.

Composer: Dominick DiOrio

Uses: General, Wedding, Concert Scripture: Song of Solomon 2:4; John 15:9 Dancing gracefully from the score, this appealing setting from the wisdom of Solomon is an impressive choral for your treble choir. Playful interaction between keyboard and voices engages the ear while the sweetly scored harmonies work the strengths of the treble choir. Like a lilting folk song, this anthem is equally at home in the concert hall or the sanctuary.

Composer: Charles McCartha

Uses: Concert Scripture: Romans 12:2 Rich harmonies and engaging textures characterize this affirming song of faith. A classic spiritual treatment for SATB or men's chorus!

Arranger: Roy Belfield Jr.

A tremendously joyful anthem about kingdom come! Roy Belfield has artfully arranged this light and bouncy spiritual with wonderful interplay between voices. Optional solos give soprano and/or tenor stars a chance to shine, and a middle section split between four-part women and four-part men gives each section a chance to really show what they've got! I Want to Be Ready has contagious energy, and such a wonderful picture of heaven - what unbridled happiness when we walk in Jerusalem just like John.

Arranger: Roy Belfield, Jr.

This beautiful poem of love begins with 7 words from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and then moves to Colonel Heveningham's original words. As the colorful imagery of the text unfolds, the music reflects the textual meaning. The music touches on several tonal centers and closes with a recap of the opening section with the final measures repeating the most poignant words of the poem - Sing on.

Composer: Rene Clausen

This is a rousing anthem about the power of each person to make positive change with our actions: even the smallest but most committed of our convictions can lead to a better world, and it starts with the courage in the heart.

Composer: Dominick DiOrio

Contemporary poet Barbara Crooker understands nature and the life we draw from it. Contemporary composer Dale Trumbore understands that nature brings harmony to our lives and beauty to our existence. This composition is a beautiful melding of two contemporary women who understand the importance of sharing their hope through word and song.

Composer: Dale Trumbore

Arranger: Jameson Marvin

Chris Massa's Missa Brevis is a wonderful study in contrast. As with the divergent Kyrie and Gloria texts, the two movements are stylistically different. The slow and prayerful Kyrie is both chant-like and fugal, with voices entering and overlapping at varying intervals. The Gloria is boisterous and electric with an up-tempo, mixed meter, musical dance. For Lent or memorial services, this new work is dynamic. Don't miss it!

Composer: Chris Massa

Rich harmony and texture take this simple Irish folk song to new heights. Blaine Shover's a cappella arrangement of Molly Malone is a colorful tapestry of thick harmonic textures and pure, quiet unisons. Written for SATB, a cappella, there is some divisi in each voice part, which adds to the brilliant collage of tone colors that permeates the piece. Melody and vocal accompaniment alternate between the men's and women's sections, then all four parts burst into lush harmony on the refrain. Great for contest or festival!

Arranger: Blaine Shover

There is a joyful spirit to this a cappella choral from this new Mark Foster composer with a gentle "islands" feel, making it the perfect sorbet for your menu of music this year. Use the optional percussion for an authentic festive touch.

Composer: Kevin D. Thomson

Arranger: Glenn Jones | Composer: Traditional

Pure, pristine harmonies reflect the simple desires of this prayer. Yet as the yearnings intensify with each verse, so do the textures and tone colors of this wonderful a cappella arrangement. The third verse, in particular, has some fabulous dissonances and rhythmic effects. Nearer, My God, to Thee is lovely and very moving.

Arranger: Thomas H.B. Slawson