Andrea Ramsey : At the Spring Dawn

Poet Angelina Weld Grimke was an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Here she describes the dawning of a new day, a text captured by the composer in colorful and descriptive writing. Scored for marimba (optional piano) and treble voices, this is a beautiful example of word painting as the choir sings, it is good to love, it is good to be alive.

Composer: Andrea Ramsey

Greg Gilpin has taken this familiar English spring carol and spun an elegant choral of simple unisons, lush harmonies and solo opportunities. The sweet piano accompaniment only tugs at the heart strings more. There is a short a cappella section. Never pushing, this lovely setting teaches the importance of quiet dynamics, blending, musical expression and vocal support. A Branch of May is a beautiful selection for a concert, festival and/or graduation. Available separately: SATB, SAB.

Arranger: Greg Gilpin

Taking its text from a poem written by a 14-year old student for a choral commissioning project in Fairfax County, Virginia, this work opens with a joyful and buoyant call and response over a rhythmically vital piano accompaniment. The music then moves into a jubilant narrative depicting nature's reawakening. Ideal for middle and high school treble choirs.

Composer: Laura Farnell

A lilting, dance-like unison song first published in 1902 that uses word painting devices to represent bird calls and piping sounds. The melismatic passages vocalized on the syllable ah contrast with the predominantly syllabic style. A delightful selection for developing treble choirs. Taken from WE WILL SING! Duration: ca. 2:00.

Arranger: Henry Carey

The King's Singers setting of the famous Simon and Garfunkel song explores the seasons through a gentle vocal tapestry of rhythm and rich harmony with a smooth lead floating above it all.

Arranger: Philip Lawson | Composer: Paul Simon | Lyricist: Paul Simon Performed By: Simon and Garfunkel

The quiet emotion of this classic ballad moves dreamlike from the undulating opening to the surprise harmonic lift. Stunning and expressive! Available separately: SATB, ShowTrax CD. Rhythm parts available digitally (gtr, b, dm). Duration: ca. 4:00.

Arranger: Paris Rutherford | Composer: Vernon Duke | Lyricist: Yip Harburg

Uses: General, Commitment Scripture: II Chronicles 7:14; Psalm 51:10 This treasured song from the golden days of contemporary church music is lovingly set in a new arrangement. With its message of renewal, the text is encouraging to our journey of faith, and the winsome beauty of the melody is undeniable. A beautiful piano accompaniment will support and enhance your presentation, and easy-to-learn choral writing will work for ensembles of any size. Highly recommended!

Arranger: John Purifoy | Composer: Kurt Kaiser

A song to Spring with the opening words Spring has now unwrapped the flowers... With the innocence of the children's voices against the full SATB choral sould and the sonorous brass, the lushness of spring is spread throughout the piece.

Duration 6:00

Composer: Dale Jergenson

This joyful da capo aria by Telemann with violin will showcase developing vocal skills for treble singers in middle school or community children's choir. A delightful introduction to Baroque style!

Arranger: Eloise Porter

Jill Gallina has taken a Mozart classic and arranged a new choral for her top-selling Classics for Children series. This is a wonderful selection for winter, spring, festival or concert situations and a great opportunity to introduce the classics to your young singers and even your audience.

Arranger: Jill Gallina

Composer: Peter Schickele

These texts are taken from the Kokin Wakash , a collection of Japanese waka poetry compiled from various poets in the early tenth century. They show the passing of the season from the first buds hidden beneath the snow to the last petals washing downstream. The simple melodies and clear textures attempt to capture the poets' graceful blending of vivid natural imagery and piercing emotional perception as the sights and sounds of spring are made to express the bittersweetness of our brief existence.

Composer: Philip Reed | Country: Japan

Based on the poem Over the Land Is April by Robert Louis Stephenson, Donnelly and Strid have created an expressive work for SSA voices suitable for concert and contest. Optional flute is included in the choral. Over the high brown mountain the wind of winter blows. Say, love, do you hear me? Over the high brown mountain, I sound the song of spring.

Composer: Mary Donnelly & George L.O. Strid

Treble choirs in middle school and children's choirs will develop important choral skills with this charming original work that imagines the light, warmth and color of spring within winter's cold and dark embrace. Lyrical and expressive, this is a perfect selection for contest or festival!

Composer: John Jacobson

Featuring text by William Shakespeare and references to Thomas Morleyis madrigal Now Is the Month of Maying, this playful contemporary choral celebrates young love with sparkling vocal counterpoint. A satisfying yet supportive piano part and some delightful vocal interplay provide many moments of challenge and interest. Fitting for concert or contest.

Composer: Michael Larkin | Poetry By: William Shakespeare

Celebrate the new life that spring brings in this work that is based on a Langston Hughes text and features a baritone soloist, call and response phrases between upper and lower voices, and finally a layered gospel-style section with sopranos floating on top with the text in time of silver rain when spring and life are new. A companion work to When Storms Arise (HL08711567) and Didn't It Rain (HL08711568). Duration: ca. 4:00.

Arranger: Rollo Dilworth | Poetry By: Langston Hughes

The subtle imagery of an awakening spring is perfectly displayed in this exquisite work for treble voices set to a Langston Hughes text. Not to be missed! Available: SSA. Performance Time: Approx. 2:40.

Arranger: Audrey Snyder | Poetry By: Langston Hughes

This Oscar-winning Rodgers and Hammerstein classic was written for the film State Fair in 1945. John Purifoy's well-crafted arrangement is highlighted by warm vocal harmonies and an expressive piano accompaniment.Available separately: SATB, SAB, SSA, ePak(S) and ShowTrax CD. Performance Time: Approx. 3:30.

Arranger: John Purifoy | Composer: Richard Rodgers | Lyricist: Oscar Hammerstein | Musical: State Fair

Here is the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic in an irresistible vocal jazz setting that really swings over a pulsating groove. A fine showcase for jazz and pop groups! Available separately: SATB, SAB, SSA, ShowTrax CD. Rhythm parts (gtr, b, dm) available as a digital download. Duration: ca. 3:40.

Arranger: Kirby Shaw | Composer: Richard Rodgers | Lyricist: Oscar Hammerstein | Musical: State Fair

This delightful artsong, attributed to Mozart, has been arranged for two-part treble voices with the original German and an English text by Audrey Snyder. Long a favorite of young solo singers, now perform this work with your young choirs as well. Available: 2-Part. Performance Time: Approx. 2:40.

Arranger: Audrey Snyder | Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Country: Germany

Beautiful and emotional legato lines transform this Robert Louis Stevenson text into a classic choral work for treble voices. A simple piano accompaniment gently supports the caring vocal lines that ebb and flow with unison and harmonic singing.

Composer: Michael John Trotta | Poetry By: Robert Louis Stevenson

(Frackenpohl) SATB

Composer: William Shakespeare

Taken from the duet collection of Schubert's works for unaccompanied voices, this edition has been transposed from the original key to better suit the range and capabilities of the young treble voice. The addition of French Horns (or Recorders) in performance adds an opulent coloration to the two-part texture. Duration ca. 1:45.

Arranger: Doreen Rao

The beauty and freshness of spring bursts into being with this exuberant original for treble voices. A vibrant theme lends itself to call and response, imitation and variation over a buoyant piano accompaniment contrasting with a more subdued middle section. An ideal concert and festival selection for developing choirs in middle and high school.

Composer: Emily Crocker

This is a marvelous graduation or spring concert selection. Ellen Foncannon's tribute to a dear friend flows beautifully and poetically. Available: 2-Part.

Composer: Ellen Foncannon

Using Mendelssohn's music from Songs Without Words as an introduction and interlude music, this original music and text by Jill Gallina is a wonderful selection for your spring concert. The verses in simple unison and the choruses in harmony are repeated to help retention so that your chorus members can easily learn and enjoy this piece. Available separately: 2-part, StudioTrax CD. Duration: 2:05.

Arranger: Jill Gallina | Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

Composer: George Gershwin

Dramatically combing two Sara Teasdale poems, the composer paints an enlightened statement of the spirit of spring, not with bird calls, but rather as a tone poem for singers.

Composer: Joshua Shank | Poetry By: Sara Teasdale

Winning eight Tony Awards, Spring Awakening explores the confusion, the frustration, the joy and excitement of the teenage years through vivid and emotional songs and a powerful and dramatic score. This 12-minute medley includes: All That's Known, Don't Do Sadness/Blue Wind, I Believe, Mama Who Bore Me, My Junk, The Song of Purple Summer. Available separately: SATB, SAB, SSA, ShowTrax CD. Instrument Parts available as a digital download (syn 1-2, gtr 1-2, b, dm, perc, glock, vln, vla, vcn, sb). Duration: ca. 11:05.

Arranger: Roger Emerson | Musical: Spring Awakening

Here is a beautiful jazz standard ballad. A bowed string bass is included in the octavo and one of your talented soloists can be featured. This is a concert ballad for your vocal jazz ensemble that is sure to become their favorite.

Arranger: Paris Rutherford

This wonderful text of Robert Louis Stevenson celebrates life in this sensational piece for high school and college. You can almost feel the mist of the highland meadows and will enjoy the calm of contentment as the song finishes.

Composer: David C. Dickau | Poetry By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Composer: Benjamin Britten

The Seasons was commissioned by the South Bend Chamber Singers, Nancy Menk, conductor, and first performed on March 3, 2013 by the South Bend Chamber Singers with the Euclid Quartet in a concert devoted to music about the weather. The texts for this work were selected by the composer, and they represent three different time periods, the 17th, 19th and early 20th centuries, to show that writers have long been fascinated by the seasons and by the distinct weather conditions that each season brings. Although certain types of weather, such as wind or rain, may occur in any of the seasons, the descriptions of weather in these four poems present specific weather conditions which commonly occur in each of the four seasons: a still, hot, sultry day interrupted by the movement of a light breeze from the hills (summer); the cooling morning mists and light frost which signal the coming of winter (autumn); the bitter iciness of fierce winds and frozen air-in this poem, further compared with man's

Composer: Frank Ferko

Spring Rain was commissioned by the Singapore Anglo-Chinese Junior College Choir, directed by Valerie Wilson. The text, sung in Chinese, is from an ancient Chinese poem by Du Fu (712-770), titled "Happy Rain on a Spring Night."

Arranger: Chen Yi | Country: China

Jubilant keyboard textures and vibrant cascading vocal lines in this contemporary festival piece will make you want to rush out and embrace the spring! A contrasting legato middle section adds an expressive touch before it returns to the opening musical material and is propelled to a joyful conclusion. Duration: ca. 3:00.

Composer: Laura Farnell

Edwin Fissinger's music has a distinctly American sound, and his choral set Dakota Prairies uses poems that describe some of our north central states' most beautiful scenery. This is the fourth in the set and uses a poem by Robert I. Richardson. The madrigal-style writing is excellent for choirs of all sizes, from festival to chamber.

Composer: Edwin Fissinger | Country: United States

Commissioned for the 20th Anniversary of the Tacoma Youth Chorus, this accessible work features flowing vocal lines, interesting harmonies and an embellishing flute obbligato, making it a wonderful selection for 2-part children's choirs.

Composer: Keith Loftis

Premiered at the 2001 Pacific Rim Choral Festival, this famous Chinese melody was written by the 19th century blind musician Ah Bing. This arrangement by Leon Shiu-wai Tong features traditional Chinese instruments (which could be performed on mandolin and violin) and the beautiful wordless vocal harmonies of this treasured work.

Arranger: Leon Shiu-wai Tong | Country: China

Originally popularized by the Four Freshmen, this iconic arrangement of the Bobby Troup song helped pave the way for a cappella vocal jazz as well as influencing the singing style of the Beach Boys.

Arranger: Kirby Shaw | Composer: Bobby Troup Performed By: The Four Freshmen

This classic swing tune was arranged for the Michigan All-State Vocal Jazz Ensemble. Beginning with the rubato intro just right for a soloist to stylize in their own way, it launches into a sweet swinging ensemble arrangement that is hip and contemporary and just right for an advanced vocal jazz choir.

Arranger: Greg Jasperse

This composition was inspired by a poem that incorporates various bird sounds, with melodies based on the actual songs. A charming and playful piano part supports the motif of this song - just right for spring concerts! For high school women and beyond.

Composer: Carl Ashley