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Songs for our Earth
| It is a beautiful world in which we live so celebrate the joy of nature in song. |
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Christopher Tin : The Lost Birds (An Extinction Elegy) The Lost Birds is a musical memorial to bird species driven to extinction by humankind. Sweeping and elegaic, it's a haunting tribute to those soaring flocks that once filled our skies, but whose songs have since been silenced. It's a celebration of their feathered beauty: their symbolism as messengers of hope, peace, and renewal. But it's also a warning about our own tenuous existence on the planet: that the fate that befell those once soaring flocks foreshadows our own extinction. Songlist: Intermezzo, There Will Come Soft Rains, Flocks A Mile Wide, Bird Raptures, A Hundred Thousand Birds, Thus In The Winter, In the End 
Lin Marsh : Junior Songscape: Earth, Sea and Sky This is a collection of 25 original songs themed on the elements: Earth, Sea and Sky. The original idea was conceived for a cluster of primary schools in Devon who were embarking on a 'Planet Earth' whole school project. As a result the Sea songs are aimed at 5-6 year olds, 7-8 year olds tackle the Earth songs and 9-10 year olds have the Sky songs. Although conceived as a whole school project Earth, Sea and Sky works equally as well as a song book to dip in and out of. The songs are written with a sensitivity for the range and skills of the age group they are designed for and any part writing is optional, allowing even less confident choirs to get involved and get singing. This is a wonderful follow on from Junior Songscape building on Lin Marsh's well established and much loved classroom singing resources. Songlist: Big Boats, Small Boats, Pirates!, Playing On The Beach, The Rock Pool, The Lighthouse, Seagull, We're Going Swimming, Underwater, Desert, The Dinosaur Gang, Mighty Glacier, River Journey, Mountain Air, The Rainforest, The Swamp, There's A Rumbling And A Rolling, I Am The Wind, Aliens, Hot-Air Balloon, Space Travel, Communication, Gravity!, Silver Moon, Stars, Earth, Sea and Sky
Mark Brymer : Big Beautiful Planet It's up to me, it's up to you. Help this planet earth to stay evergreen, everblue! These words from popular children's songwriter, Raffi, celebrate our earth - our home, and the importance of working together to take care of it. Share this message and make a difference in your school and community this year! This 15-minute revue can be performed in the classroom or on stage. It features five songs by Raffi, piano/vocal arrangements with simple movement suggestions, reproducible singer parts and short connecting narrations you can easily adapt for groups of varying sizes. Available separately: Teacher Edition, Performance/Accompaniment CD, Classroom Kit (Teacher and P/A CD). Approximate Performance Time: 15 minutes. Suggested for grades 2-4. Songlist: Everything Grows, Big Beautiful Planet, Just Like The Sun, Evergreen, Everblue, All I Really Need
Matthew Harrison : Glacier Suite The National Parks in the USA are among our most precious assets. Matthew Harrison has created a set of stunning, aesthetic pieces for treble voices based on descriptive words from 4th grade children. This offers a uniquely artistic view of our National Parks. The music is spacious and paints the landscapes in breathtaking tones. Simple and yet profound, the music also comeswith a multimedia video that elevates the entire experience. Although perfect for young voices, it works equally well with adult voices.
Paul Winter : Missa Gaia (Earth Mass) Now available separately: the first time in print! The Paul Winter Missa Gaia (Earth Mass) was first performed in 1981 in the New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine and is a contemporary ecumenical celebration of the Earth. Featuring the Consort's signature lyrical melodies with African, Brazilian and American gospel traditions it interweaves wolf, whale and harp seal voices with those of the choir. May be performed in both liturgical and concert settings. Publications available: SATB score, Sound Cues CD (animal voices) and Instrumental Score and Parts for Soprano Sax, Oboe/English Horn, Cello, Piano, Organ, Guitar, Bass and Percussion. Total Performance Time: Approx. 36 minutes.
Roger Emerson : Update: Earth Reduce! Reuse! Recycle! A lot has changed since 1989 when the popular Assignment: Earth hit the stage! We now have cellphones (and what to do with old ones), the internet (for a wide range of information on the environment), and hybrid and alternative fueled vehicles. Are we keeping up with the times? What are we doing to make our world a better place to live? Update: Earth is a 30-minute musical review about our ongoing quest to better the world's environment. It features 7 original pop/rock songs with simple dialogue and characters, flexible enough to perform with one class or the entire student body. Kick-off the Fall with Update: Earth to set an environmental theme that will last throughout the year, or perform it in the Spring in conjunction with Arbor Day. The Teacher Edition comes complete with piano/vocal arrangements, script and John Jacobson's choreography and staging tips. Publications printed on recycled paper. Available: Teacher Edition, Singer Edition 5-Pak, Preview CD (with vocals), Performance/Accompaniment CD. Performance Time: Approx. 30 minutes. For Gr. 3-8. Songlist: Good News, All That We Can Be, French Fry Day, Funkify Don't Junkify!, Hot Down Here!, Let The Rain Come Down, Rock The World |
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This song is about the potential hidden in all of us. We can all save the world if we put our minds to it. The lyrics are the thoughts and dreams of young people, and young people will resonate with both the text and the music. This creative and form-breaking arrangement is by Canadian composer/arranger Katerina Gimon, and was premiered by the Vancouver Youth Choir at the World Music Symposium in Istanbul in 2023.
Arranger: Katerina Gimon | Composer: Odd Martin Skalnes Performed By: Aurora Aksnes
The grandeur and expansiveness of the Heartland is explored in this choral tone poem that celebrates the beauty of the American landscape. An ideal concert and festival work, it may be performed by voices and piano or with the optional orchestration. Available separately: SATB, SAB, SSA, ChoirTrax CD. Chamber Orchestra score and parts available as a digital download (fl 1-2, ob, tpt 1-2, hn, tbn, bar, vn 1-2, va, vc, db). Duration: ca. 3:50.
Composer: Audrey Snyder
The world delights as the long winter turns to spring, new beginnings, and possibilities. The music is full of rhythm and energy, and beautifully reflects this hope and the awakening of spring.
Composer: Andrea Ramsey
Utilizing the traditional shape-note style, the composer/poet gives us this piece inspired by his love of nature and concern for the environment. His distinctive music enhances his great message: "the ocean and air, forest, hill, and plain, animal in flight, are in your care."
Composer: Seth Houston
Lindsay Kesselman's poetic words provide wonderful material for a choral art-song. The words speak of a Nature connected to people and their Souls.
Composer: Lee Kesselman
From the Disney animated film Pocahontas, this beautiful balled, which speaks of respecting nature and living in harmony with the Earth's creatures, is now arranged in a contemporary, pop a cappella style. The 12/8 meter gives it a soulful, gospel style. A big forte makes this a centerpiece of your concert and the delicate ending shows off your singers' range of dynamics and emotions.
Arranger: Kirby Shaw | Composer: Stephen Schwartz | Musical: Pocahontas
Fill your Christmas list with all the beauty and wonder of our very own Planet Earth! The late cabaret singer Nancy LaMott introduced this song in 1996 and it has grown in popularity ever since. Infused with a happy calypso beat and flute obbligato, this delightful song will help you share an important message with your audience this Christmas! Available separately: SATB, SAB, 2-Part, ShowTrax CD. Duration: 2:20.
Arranger: Ed Lojeski
This exciting work for more advanced choirs depicts how the earth welcomes the life-giving rain. The text alternates in Swahili and English. Building rhythms and percussion propels the choir to a jubilant ending. Percussion score and parts available separately. Duration: ca. 3:20.
Composer: Randy Haldeman
Combining original and Native American melodies and texts, this World Music Drumming ensemble is a celebration of the Earth and its beauty. Perform it with instruments and dance for Earth Day, harvest celebrations or other concert programs. With percussion and recorder duet. Available separately: 5-Part Any Combination of Voices, ShowTrax CD. Duration: ca. 4:50.
Arranger: Will Schmid
This piece begins and ends with the text 'Earth grown old,' portraying the idea of the cycle of life. In between are beautiful images of the cold Earth that are represented by the choir's interweaving lines and the interaction between the piano and the chorus as they explore the mysteries that are held by the Earth.
Composer: Jenni Brandon
The original mixed voice setting of Earth Song is one of the most popular titles in the entire Hinshaw catalogue. Both high school and collegiate ensembles have found success with the work. Here, composer Frank Ticheli revoices the piece for unaccompanied SSAA treble chorus (limited soprano divisi). Try it on your Earth Day concert.
Composer: Frank Ticheli
Composer Rupert Lang has created a beautiful mediative and reflective work based on an Ute Nation prayer. From the earth we can learn how to live our lives with wisdom. Earth, teach me suffering as old stones suffer with memory. Earth, teach me freedom as the eagle which soars in the sky. Earth, teach me. Duration: 7:45.
Composer: Rupert Lang
With Oboe, Piano and Finger Cymbals Earthsongs is a group of three pieces. The texts speak of the wonders of nature and of the importance of protecting the animals, caring for the plants and nurturing one another. The World is Full of Poetry is a text by the 19th century geologist James Gates Percival. In Safety and Bliss is a Buddhist writing from the Sutta Nipata. We join with the Earth is a text from the United Nations Environmental Sabbath Program. Duration: ca. 9:00.
Arranger: David L. Brunner
The inspiration for this fantastic piece came when the then seventeen-year-old composer was fishing with his dad in Colorado. The music draws from the shape-note tradition and features a hearty sound, an imitative fugal section, melodic ornaments, open intervals, and doubling at the octave. It is unusual in that the melody is in the bass part. The text by the composer draws on the hymn-writing style of the great theologians of the shape-note tradition, though it proclaims a more contemporary message of environmental stewardship. It has had an extensive pre-publication life that includes performances on Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" and by the Christmas Revels, Village Harmony, and Northern Harmony.
Composer: Seth Houston
Though this is an original work, it sounds like an American folk song of long ago. Simple and legato harmonic writing accompanied by optional cello presents a text about the strength and beauty of the evergreen tree in winter and a wonderful metaphor for our lives as well.
Composer: Jerry Estes | Country: American Folk
A moving setting of this George MacDonald text with a dramatic and virtuosic piano accompaniment. Images of nature come to life through expertly-crafted vocal writing and a beautiful melodic line. This work is not to be missed. Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series.
Composer: David von Kampen Performed By: Concordia University A Cappella Choir
A beloved hymn is adorned with expressive beauty in this refreshing octavo. The emotive piano accompaniment supports the sweep of the classic text and brings an impressionistic spirit to the presentation. Join the generations of worshippers who have been inspired by the words of this hymn with a new desire to live in gratitude for the many blessings of life.
Arranger: Richard A. Nichols | Composer: Conrad Kocher
Such beautiful words deserve to be set to equally beautiful music, and here the textures unfold and the piece blossoms from bar one to the end. Starting in two parts and organically growing to seven, the music is designed to lift the hearts of all that perform and hear it. A new work for a new day.
Arranger: Philip Stopford
Three short musical pictures charmingly capture aspects of nature at a river: a spider web in the morning, playful children at a rope swing, and buzzing dragonflies. With piano.
Composer: Andrea Ramsey
This delightful children's piece uses a text that suggests that as grows a tree, so do we.
Composer: Andrea Ramsey
This traditional sounding Song of the Beach has been sung in Japan for over 70 years. The beautiful accompaniment brings to mind the peacefulness of nature described by the lyrics.Available separately: 3-Part Mixed and 2-Part. ShowTrax CD also available. Performance Time: Approx. 3:25
Arranger: John Higgins | Country: Japan
A stirring text combined with solid choral writing make this an ideal choice for concerts and festivals. Perfect for massed choirs or for any size choir. Starts small, builds, and then ends quietly: 'I am a small part of the world. Take my hand.' A dramatic choral work, full of strength, power and determination.
Composer: Sally K. Albrecht
One of rock's most iconic women's songs (from Carole King's Tapestry), this pulsing, rhythmic arrangement incorporates elements of doo-wop and contemporary a cappella beneath a barn-burning solo. Vocal or other percussion optional.
Arranger: Deke Sharon | Composer: Carole King Performed By: Carole King
One of rock's most iconic women's songs (from Carole King's Tapestry), this pulsing, rhythmic arrangement incorporates elements of doo-wop and contemporary a cappella beneath a barn-burning solo. Vocal or other percussion optional.
Arranger: Deke Sharon | Composer: Carole King Performed By: Carole King
It would be more appropriate to label this piece as a composition for piano and divisi treble voices because the accompaniment is equally significant to the singers. A stimulating and thought-provoking musical setting, the text from Lord Byron applauds nature and that which is larger than ourselves.
Composer: Michael Cleveland | Poetry By: Lord Byron
Perfect for festivals, all district concerts and mass choir events, this familiar favorite will really please your listeners. With lyrics in English, German, Spanish and Chinese, a pronunciation guide is included on the ShowTrax CD.Available separately: SATB, SAB, SSA, 2-Part and ShowTrax CD. Performance Time: Approx. 3:10
Arranger: Mark Brymer | Composer: Sherman Brothers
Brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers, neighbors and friends, working together we all can share this wonderful home called Planet Earth.Available separately: SATB, SAB, 2-Part and ShowTrax CD. Performance Time: Approx. 3:30
Arranger: Mark Brymer
A soundscape that evokes the northern landscape of the Great Lakes and includes untraditional vocal sounds, improvisation, and the sounds of nature. With glockenspiel, wind chimes, and rainstick. Parts included. Duration: ca. 4:45.
Composer: Mark Sirett | Country: United States
The composing duo Caldwell and Ivory have produced a concert work that urges children to restore the earth through environmental advocacy and repair. Based on a traditional spiritual with piano and optional percussion.
Composer: Sean Ivory
From the smash movie hit The Lorax, based on the popular Dr. Seuss children's book, this uplifting song helps us recognize the importance of nature and caring for our planet. A great choice for Arbor Day, Earth Day, or whenever you want to celebrate the earth!
Arranger: Alan Billingsley | Musical: The Lorax
Written for the 4th International Children's Conference on the Environment, this work was premiered by 800 children from 70 countries. With Piano.
Arranger: Imant Raminsh
This graceful solo song has been adapted for SSA voices. Loveliest of trees, the cherry now is hung with bloom along the bough... An ideal selection for treble concert and festival! Performance Time: Approx. 1:30
Arranger: Janet Day | Composer: John Duke
Celebrate the wonders of nature and the joys of friendship with this lovely, lilting selection for three-part treble voices. The graceful vocal melody floats over a buoyant piano accompaniment, exploring a satisfying harmonic palette along the way. Delightful!
Arranger: Vicki Tucker Courtney
This well-known Native American text speaks of an intimate relationship with nature and the earth. Beauty, softness, fragrance and freshness abound. This is a sensual text, in that each phrase conjures images that stimulate our senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell. Duration ca. 2:30.
Composer: David L. Brunner
This work, using adapted words by one of Canada's most treasured poets, Archibald Lampman, underscores the urgent need for us all to be respectful and mindful of the fragility of mother earth, which gives us life and sustains us. This is a beautiful work for any concert lifting up earth day, the environment, socially conscience themes or plant and animal life.
Composer: Mark Sirett
This Mary Goetze original takes the young voice into account with its smooth, accessible lines and supportive piano accompaniment. The text, while beautiful in its own right, takes on deeper meaning through some thoughtful text painting.
Arranger: Mary GoetzeMary Goetze
Oh how beautiful, this finely crafted octavo! A gorgeous text is portrayed through lush sounds and textures, from rich, broad chords to tight jazz harmonies. For SATB voices with alto divisi, Oh How Beautiful, This Finely Woven Earth is a fabulous showpiece for advanced high school through adult choirs or vocal jazz ensembles.
Composer: Greg Jasperse
Elizabeth Browning's poem credits the beauty of nature with chasing away our ills, This happy, sprightly piece would be a delight in a spring program.
Composer: Andrea Ramsey
Celebrating our earth's diversity and richness, here is a concert original for 3-Part Mixed choir. The text is adapted from an ancient Egyptian poem. The a cappella setting lets your singers shine while it explores elements of chant and polyphony.
Composer: Kirby Shaw
This nature-inspired piece celebrates the beauty of a rainbow. As the seven colors are revealed, use movement scarves or ribbon wands for added effect (instructions included in the publication). An optional recorder part adds to the multicultural character. This title is available in Music Prodigy.
Composer: Andy Beck
Take a winding journey down the river, riding on the buoyant notes of the flowing piano part. This uplifting nature-inspired choral will move choirs to sound their very best. Equally delightful to sing and hear.
Arranger: Douglas Wagner | Composer: Douglas Wagner
Fluid vocal parts glide effortlessly over a shimmering piano accompaniment in this nature-inspired contemporary choral. Musical quotes from familiar "river" songs are a noteworthy surprise at the end. An extraordinary piece! Accompaniment included on PianoTrax 2 CD (00-31290). This title is available in Music Prodigy.
Composer: Andy Beck
This setting of native American chants is accessible and a valuable tool to understanding early American culture. 'The earth is our mother, we must take care of her,' -- how true these words ring. The use of simple percussion instruments adds authenticity to the performance.
Arranger: Lana Walter
A sense of awe and mystery is depicted in the text and music of this original work as well as our unique connection to nature, the earth, the sun and the movement of the spheres. Although not specifically limited to the Winter Solstice, the mood of this piece gives it special appeal for winter and holiday programming. Available separately: SATB, SSA. Duration: ca. 2:55.
Composer: John Purifoy
A model of warmth and sincerity, the words of Stephen Jett resonate with respect for the earth and our personal connection to it.
Composer: David L. Brunner
This choral pairs two venerable Native American songs: a Hopi chant and a traditional Arapaho Native song. With recorders and percussion, the songs are blended together to form a partner song at the conclusion of the piece. A striking addition to your concert! Available: 3-Part Mixed; 2-Part; StudioTrax CD.
Arranger: Jill Gallina | Country: Native American
The mystery and majesty of Yellowstone is perfectly portrayed in this choral tone poem that celebrates the beauty of this American treasure. An ideal concert and festival work, it may be performed by voices and piano or with the optional orchestration. Available separately: SATB, SAB, SSA, ChoirTrax CD. Chamber Orchestra score and parts available digitally (fl1, fl2, ob, bn, tpt, hn, tbn, bar, timp, vn1, vn2, va, vc, db). Duration: ca. 3:20.
Arranger: Audrey Snyder
Uses: General, Thanksgiving Scripture: Genesis 1:1; Psalm 24:1-2; Psalm 66:1 This sparkling original is refreshingly innovative. With a text that focuses on the beauty of creation, this anthem is especially well-suited for Spring services, but could also find a home during the Thanksgiving season. The optional instruments allow directors to explore fresh new acoustic sounds in their service planning. Wonderful! Parts (gtr, bass) available as a digital download.
Arranger: Roger Thornhill | Composer: Diane Hannibal
Wendell Berry's poem offers respite from the "despair of the world" in the peace found in nature. Composer Szymko does an outstanding job connecting the music to the spirit of the text. A dramatic piece.
Composer: Joan Szymko
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