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CoverPeace of Wild Things, The [level: Medium]
Joan Szymko
voicing: SSAA | catalog number: SBMP 561 | price: $2.40
accompaniment: piano

Wendell Berry's poem offers respite from the "despair of the world" in the peace found in nature. Composer Szymko does an outstanding job connectng the music to the spirit of the text. A dramatic piece for women's choirs.

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CoverPeace of Wild Things, The [level: Medium]
Joan Szymko | Paul Head Choral Series
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 692 | duration: 4:50 | price: $2.40
accompaniment: piano

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.

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CoverPersimmon Tree [level: Medium]
Emma Lou Diemer
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 13 | duration: 3:10 | price: $2.15
accompaniment: optional piano

An expressive song about love using the seasonal growth of a Persimmon tree as a metaphor. The middle piece of the More Madrigal set challenges the choir to pay close attention to dynamic and articulation markings—the result, a beautifully expressive madrigal. May be performed a cappella or with piano.

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CoverPlace Called Morning, The [level: Easy]
Earl J. Reisdorff
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 934 | duration: 2:45 | price: $1.85
accompaniment: piano

The composer has infused some modern chords into the accompaniment, adding beautiful color to the lovely melody featured in this piece. Also available for SA. The text by Emily Dickinson: Will there really be a morning? Is there such a thing as day? Could I see it from the mountains If I were as tall as they? Has it feet like water-lilies? Has it feathers like a bird? Is it brought from famous countries Of which I have never heard? Oh, some scholar! Oh, some sailor! Oh, some wise man from the skies! Please to tell a little pilgrim

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CoverProud Songster [level: Medium]
Philip E. Silvey
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1073 | duration: 4:10 | price: $2.25
accompaniment: piano, flute

The Songster of the title is not one, but three different species of birds, here cleverly represented by an agile flute. Great interplay between the flute and the singers, coupled with an artistic underlay by the piano, make this a special piece worthy of being called an art song for the chorus.

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CoverRain, Rain! [level: Difficult]
Daniel Brinsmead | Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series
RELEASED: March 2024
voicing: SSAA | catalog number: SBMP 1765 | duration: c. 2'18 | price: $2.70
accompaniment: a cappella

This energetic four-part treble piece will add excitement and contrast to any program. With an original “rainy day” text by Australian composer Daniel Brinsmead, this piece is challenging to learn but great fun to perform. Sound effects, body percussion, and varied rhythmic articulations will keep your singers on their toes while enchanting the audience. Unique!

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CoverRoses, The [level: Medium]
Joan Szymko
voicing: SSAA | catalog number: SBMP 293 | price: $2.40
accompaniment: accordion

"A rose is a rose is a rose" of the opening phrase contains all the words that are used in this song. The accordion accompaniment adds to the unique style of the piece. A great closer. The composer has created an optional piano part to replace the accordion.

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CoverSea Fever [level: Difficult]
Nancy Hill Cobb
voicing: TTBB | catalog number: SBMP 727 | price: $2.30
accompaniment: piano

A great piece for men bolstered by an energetic, sea-rolling piano part. Verse one of the text, a Salt Water Ballad by the English poet John Masefield, sets the tone for this dramatic piece about the love of the sea. - POEM - I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by, And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking, And a grey mist on the sea’s face and a grey dawn breaking.

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CoverSea Shell [level: Easy]
Vicente Chavarria
voicing: SSA | catalog number: SBMP 1323 | duration: 2:00 | price: $1.95
accompaniment: piano

Amy Lowell’s highly imaginative poem would have us find sea shells that sing of ships and sailor men, of fishes and corals under the waves, and seahorses stabled in great green caves. Melodies rule here, with everyone getting a turn at being the “sea shell” singer delivering the tune. This is a fun, delightful piece.

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CoverSing Unto the Sky [level: Medium]
Karen Marrolli | Kyle Pederson Choral Series
RELEASED: July 2023
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1742 | duration: c. 3'00 | price: $2.60
accompaniment: Hand Drum

This bold and exciting new piece by composer Karen Marrolli was inspired by the wild beauty of the High Desert of New Mexico. The delicate relationship between resources and inhabitants in this area of the world highlights our responsibility to be good stewards of the Earth. The music begins simply and builds throughout, illustrating both a growing urgency and a growing and varied chorus of voices coming together to give thanks. SATB a cappella, with a hand drum, this hearty new work makes for an excellent concert/festival opener or processional. The composer provides opportunities in the score for optional solos/small groups, hand claps, and stomps.

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CoverSleep Now [level: Medium]
Joseph Piontek
RELEASED: March 2024
voicing: SSA(A) | catalog number: SBMP 1783 | duration: 3'55 | price: $2.70
accompaniment: piano with optional harp

James Joyce’s well-known poem is beautifully set to music in this lovely new lullaby for treble choirs with piano and optional harp. A stunning showcase piece for winter concerts, contests, or choral festivals, the choral writing is lush and the text is heartwarming. The glorious piano accompaniment and heavenly harp writing is the icing on the cake.

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CoverSnow by Morning [level: Medium]
Joshua Shank
voicing: SSA | catalog number: SBMP 445 | duration: 4:45 | price: $1.95
accompaniment: piano

A musical, whimsical poem meets with a highly imaginative young composer: the result is magic.

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CoverSong Has a Bird for Rhythm [level: Medium]
Giselle Wyers
RELEASED: September 2023
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1746 | duration: c. 2’52 | price: $2.50
accompaniment: piano

Rhythmic and joyful! A great new concert, contest, or festival piece for mixed concert choirs with piano accompaniment. The text is a call to action for all humankind to embrace that which is best and most noble in society. The poet describes birds as spiritual creatures that fly and reside near the boundary between physical and heavenly worlds, while the composer paints the poetry symbolically in the music to portray humankind striving for freedom, as the birds continue to “carry storylines” through generations into the best future possible…“Is not the future in song?” A unique and thought-provoking work!

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CoverStars Above the Hill, The [level: Medium]
David Dickau | Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 953 | duration: 4:30 | price: $1.95
accompaniment: piano

Set to a poem by Canada’s beloved poet Bliss Carman, the text celebrates the beauty of nature, and the immense impact of a star-lit sky, quietly, but profoundly suggesting “how small a thing is man.” A beautiful, elegant piece.

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CoverSun’s A-Risin’ [level: Medium]
Ben Allaway
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 298 | price: $1.85
accompaniment: piano

Always clever, Allaway has pulled out all the stops in this fun-filled, three -minute-long farm epic. Put on your straw hats and red scarves and enjoy. The "piano-picker" will have a ball and will need a special bow after this one.

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CoverThe Moth’s Serenade [level: Medium]
Andrea Ramsey | Janeal Krehbiel Choral Series
voicing: SSA | catalog number: SBMP 1410 | price: $2.05
accompaniment: piano

Clever goings on here, starting with the famous poem by Paul Fleischman, herein enhanced by the special drama of the music. Can be performed as a stand-alone work or with the other movements of  “A Joyful Noise” : Honeybees & Jubilant Cicadas—this sophisticated work will be fun for both the audience and the singers.

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CoverThe Old Lost Road [level: Easy]
David N. Childs
voicing: CCB | catalog number: SBMP 1051 | duration: 2:30 | price: $2.05
accompaniment: piano

A beautifully crafted piece written especially for cambiata voices, the whimsical Rudyard Kipling text will intrigue young singers. A fine piano accompaniment arts to the artistic merit of the composition.

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CoverThe Soul of a Tree [level: Medium]
Amy F. Bernon | Jamie Hillman Choral Series
RELEASED: July 2022
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1683 | duration: 3’15” | price: $2.40
accompaniment: piano

Ancient trees represent longevity, wisdom and steadfastness in our ever-changing world.  Amy Bernon brings these qualities to life in “The Soul of a Tree” through new melodies that echo those from early music. This piece was runner-up of the first ACDA Pearl Prize contest.

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CoverThe Waters Wrecked the Sky [level: Medium]
Connor J. Koppin
voicing: SSA | catalog number: SBMP 1365 | duration: 6:20 | price: $2.10
accompaniment: piano

This unique composition uses a single motive to link formal sections of the piece and portray the profound feeling one experiences in the aftermath of a storm where a natural landscape remains completely the same, yet is entirely changed. The talented composer herein creates drama to be expressed by both the pianist and the singers.

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CoverThere Will Come Soft Rains [level: Medium]
Brian Holmes | Matthew and Michael Culloton Choral Series
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1062 | duration: 4:15 | price: $1.95
accompaniment: a cappella

Two poems by Sara Teasdale contrast the sadness and ugliness of war with the resilience and splendor of nature in springtime. A masterful setting of these profound texts, with great word painting and sensitivity, it would fit especially well in thematic concerts about war or peace or nature.

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CoverThis Is the Morning That Will Rise [level: Medium]
Matthew Emery | Jamie Hillman Choral Series
RELEASED: March 2024
voicing: SAB. opt. T | catalog number: SBMP 1773 | duration: 4'21 | price: $2.70
accompaniment: piano

A lyrical new piece for mixed choirs — SAB with an optional Tenor part, and piano accompaniment. Stylistic features include offbeat rhythms paired with modern harmonies and a contrasting piano part. Uplifting lyrics make this an enjoyable song to learn and to perform.

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CoverTo make a prairie… [level: Easy]
Kenneth Carter
voicing: SA | catalog number: SBMP 1031 | duration: 5:30 | price: $1.95
accompaniment: piano, clarinet

Emily Dickinson’s whimsical poem comes to sparkling life via a beautiful melody for the singers. The clarinet gets a turn at the melody, and the piano adds color and support. Mostly in unison, the two-part writing is equal in range. Some humming, along with buzzing of the bee sounds, make this is a great piece for teaching vocal techniques to young singers.

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CoverTrees [level: Medium]
Daniel Brinsmead | Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1117 | duration: 3:55 | price: $2.15
accompaniment: a cappella

“I think I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree” states the beloved poem by Joyce Kilmer. Marked “espressivo,” choirs will delight in creating their unique stamp on this beautiful composition.

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CoverTwo Faces of Autumn [level: M]
Christopher Fox
voicing: SA | catalog number: SBMP 1527 | price: $2.15
accompaniment: piano, violin

The first “face” is foot-stomping fun with a fiddle leading a hoe-down parade, followed by a second gentler lullaby “face” that puts the piece to rest.

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CoverUmi Sono Ai [level: Medium]
Kousaku Dan, arr. Rachel Stenson | Randy and Rachel Stenson Choral Series
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 995 | duration: 4:40 | price: $2.50
accompaniment: piano

A beautiful, beloved Japanese song, it tells of a man who goes to the ocean to reflect upon his life. In each wave he sees opportunity. Though the retreat of each wave may reflect his failures, a new wave of hope soon appears. It carries him, it lifts him, and sends him toward his destiny. Sing the song in the original Japanese, or in the English version provided by Randy Stenson.

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CoverWaking, The [level: Medium]
Giselle Wyers | Giselle Wyers Choral Series
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 868 | duration: 3:17 | price: $2.30
accompaniment: piano

This delightful setting of a Theodore Roethke poem gloriously describes awakening to the beauties and wonders of nature. Vivid imagery, lovely vocals, and a flowing accompaniment all combine to create a piece that is especially suitable for spring and summer concerts. Also available for SSA.

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CoverWaking, The [level: Medium]
Giselle Wyers | Giselle Wyers Choral Series
voicing: SSA | catalog number: SBMP 1053 | duration: 3:20 | price: $2.40
accompaniment: piano

This delightful setting of a Theodore Roethke poem gloriously describes awakening to the beauties and wonders of nature. Vivid imagery, lovely vocals, and a flowing accompaniment all combine to create a piece that is especially suitable for spring and summer concerts. Also available for SATB.

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CoverWalkers with the Dawn [level: Difficult]
Luke D. Rosen | Bowling Green State University Choral Series
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1562 | price: $2.25
accompaniment: piano

The Langston Hughes text comes to vivid life in this highly rhythmic piece that might have listeners covertly tapping their feet.

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CoverWho Shot Cock Robin? [level: Easy]
arr. John F. Campbell
voicing: SA | catalog number: SBMP 367 | price: $2.15
accompaniment: piano

Originally an English folk song, now claimed by America as it was re-created in the Southern Appalachians, this easy, fun song is enlivened by a rhythmic accompaniment.

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CoverWind, The [level: Easy]
B. Wayne Bisbee
voicing: unison | catalog number: SBMP 589 | duration: 1:30 | price: $2.20
accompaniment: piano

Just sing the music or choose to add the special effects suggested by the composer. Young choirs will delight with this vividly expressive piece.

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CoverWinter Lullaby (little Dear-my-Soul) [level: Medium]
Luke Flynn
RELEASED: July 2023
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1737 | duration: c. 4'03 | price: $2.60
accompaniment: piano

A beautiful new lullaby for mixed choirs with piano accompaniment. Film and television composer Luke Flynn sets Eugene Field’s warm and cozy, feel-good poetry to a lyrical and timeless melody that SATB ensembles of all ages will love singing. Stunning and memorable!

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CoverWren Song, The [level: Easy]
arr. John F. Campbell | Robert J. Ward Choral Series
voicing: Two-Part Treble | catalog number: SBMP 366 | duration: 1:50 | price: $2.15
accompaniment: piano

Expertly arranged in two parts with a colorful piano accompaniment, The Wren Song tells a fabulous tale with historic significance. Young choirs will find this a delight.

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