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CoverA Universal Dream [level: Difficult]
Jenni Brandon
voicing: SSAA | catalog number: SBMP 1058 | duration: 4:45 | price: $2.35
accompaniment: piano, djembe

The text expresses the universal message of liberty and freedom. A unique piece for women, it is both theatric and ethnic in its style, with a rhythmic djembe drum and a text that includes various translations of the word “liberty.” To properly realize its dramatic impact, it is recommended for the large choir.

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CoverAdon Olam [level: Difficult]
Kenneth Lampl | Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series
voicing: SATB div. | catalog number: SBMP 1194 | duration: c. 6:00 | price: $2.60
accompaniment: a calleppa

The award-winning film composer produced a dramatic setting of a celebratory Hebrew text. Rich harmonies and exquisite melodic interest distinguish this fine composition.

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CoverAgnus Dei [level: Difficult]
Jacob Narverud
voicing: SSAATTBB div. | catalog number: SBMP 1471 | price: $2.25
accompaniment: a cappella

Given a good acoustic this unique setting taken from a movement of Narverud’s Missa de Cinque Terre will be a stunning addition to a concert.

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CoverAlleluia [level: Difficult]
Terry Schlenker | Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series
voicing: SATB div. | catalog number: SBMP 707 | duration: 5:00 | price: $1.70
accompaniment: a cappella

A beautiful setting for the advanced choir. Composer Schlenker knows how to create drama in his music—this piece is one of those rare ones that brings chills to the listener.

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CoverAlleluia, Cantate Domino [level: Difficult]
Ko Matsushita | Cameron LaBarr Choral Series
voicing: SSAA | catalog number: SBMP 1168 | duration: 5:00 | price: $2.30
accompaniment: a cappella

A tour de force for the women’s choir, this impressive piece is highly rhythmic, loaded with melodic interest, and extremely well crafted. Looking for drama for your concert, this will fit the bill.

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CoverAlways Something Sings [level: Difficult]
Brandon G. Hurley | Matthew and Michael Culloton Choral Series
Digital Room Octavo
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1352 | duration: 3:28 | price: $1.75
accompaniment: A Capella

This piece was composed with the idea of music living not only in the joyous moments of life, but in some of the darkest. I left the piece fairly empty when it comes to dynamic markings because I believe the conductor can interpret this piece as he or she sees fit. The key component of the piece is keeping the flow, the movement that keeps the piece driving forward. I hope your choir finds this piece not only something fun to sing.

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CoverAnd Now Abide [level: Difficult]
Marcus Paus | Robyn Lana Choral Series
voicing: SSAA | catalog number: SBMP 1320 | duration: 4:30 | price: $1.95
accompaniment: a cappella

A most unusual piece by the eclectic Norwegian composer, it gives the treble choir a chance to explore new dimensions of expression and drama. The text is from the bible: And now abide, faith, hope, love; but the greatest of these is love.

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CoverAngelus [level: Difficult]
Albert Alcaraz
voicing: SATB div.- sop. solo | catalog number: SBMP 1229 | price: $1.95
accompaniment: a cappella

Choirs large and small will enjoy the challenges presented by this dramatic piece with great melodic interest. It brings new breadth to the meaning of multicultural, with the composer in Spain, the commissioning choir in Galway, Ireland, and the recording choir in Argentina.

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CoverAve Maria [level: Difficult]
Juan Ignacio Noroña
voicing: SSA | catalog number: SBMP 1623 | price: $1.95
accompaniment: a cappella

From Argentina comes this lovely a cappella setting of Ave Maria composed by an award-winning composer. Perform it in a resonant hall or church to fully realize its beauty.

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CoverAve Verum Corpus [level: Difficult]
Ariel Quintana
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 507 | duration: 2:30 | price: $2.15
accompaniment: a cappella

Words cannot describe the beauty of this setting. Limited divisi, a final quiet low E flat for basses, gorgeous harmonies, mature choirs will revel in this piece.

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CoverBabethandaza [level: Medium]
arr. Daniel Hughes | Daniel Hughes Choral Series
RELEASED: February 2023
voicing: TTBB | catalog number: SBMP 1704 | price: $2.50
accompaniment: percussion - claves, shakere, and djembe

This arrangement of Babethandaza adds into its musical fabric one of the most beloved songs from South Africa, Siyahamba. The message of both texts is one of persevering through times of trial. They are a unique pairing in that Babethandaza is a song about gaining strength from our ancestors, while Siyahamba is a song about how divinity helps us move forward. By combining these two texts, this arrangement becomes a song about how the past empowers us, and the present inspires us to move into the future bravely.

Special thanks to Ysaye Barnwell of Sweet Honey in the Rock for the verses in Babethandaza. The words in Babethandaza represent both older and newer versions of the Zulu language; they are not normally found together in the same setting. Ms. Barnwell's own transcription of the piece, in her ground-breaking publication Singing in the African American Tradition, was the first time these two versions have been brought together.

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CoverBagels & Biscuits [level: Difficult]
Theodore Lucas | Charlene Archibeque Choral Series
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 262 | duration: 1:45 | price: $2.50
accompaniment: a cappella

If you seek a fun novelty piece that will entertain your audience and delight your singers, this is it. A great encore or opener.

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CoverBread and Roses [level: Difficult]
arr. Brad Richmond
RELEASED: March 2024
voicing: SSA div. | catalog number: SBMP 1766 | duration: 2'47 | price: $2.40
accompaniment: Tambourine and Hand Drum

A powerful march for treble choirs, this fresh arrangement was inspired by women’s activism during the first decade of the 20th century. “Bread and Roses” was a political slogan that appeared initially in a speech by Helen Todd and later became the title of a poem by James Oppenheim. Composed by Mimi Fariña in the 1950s, and later recorded by a number of folk singers, the arranger was moved to create this new arrangement as a response to the rash of government sanctions against women’s rights in the U.S. and around the world. Ideal for high school, collegiate, and adult community choirs, this is a bold arrangement and strong conversation-starter — a great way to share this important and inspiring story with present-day audiences.

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CoverCaritas abundat [level: Difficult]
Karen P. Thomas | Giselle Wyers Choral Series
voicing: SATB div. | catalog number: SBMP 1245 | duration: 8:00 | price: $2.10
accompaniment: a cappella

Commissioned by Cathedra of the Washington National Cathedral, this stunning nine minute plus setting of the HIldegard von Bingen text could well be the highlight of a program.

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CoverCarpe Diem [level: Difficult]
Joan Szymko | Giselle Wyers Choral Series
voicing: SSAATBB | catalog number: SBMP 862 | duration: 4:45 | price: $2.35
accompaniment: tambourine

Set to an ancient Latin text that proclaims, “seize the day, ” composer Szymko is at her creative best, offering lots of drama as the piece unfolds.

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CoverCome Sleep [level: Difficult]
Daniel Brinsmead | Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1098 | duration: 3:55 | price: $2.05
accompaniment: a cappella

This prize-winning piece by the talented young Aussie composer has intrigued all who have heard it. Harmonically rich, it is a masterful example of how to create musical drama via great melodic interest combined with exquisite tonal shifts realized through superb voice leading.

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CoverCoyote [level: Difficult]
David N. Childs
voicing: SSAATB | catalog number: SBMP 1441 | duration: 5:55 | price: $2.35
accompaniment: drum, gourd

The coyote is here described as a trickster, a coward who gave humankind the fire from its tail, and a loner brother-of-wolf. A drum adds rhythm and substance to the drama that is ever-present in this unique choral offering.

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CoverDance with the Birds [level: Difficult]
Hyun Kook | Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series
RELEASED: July 2022
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1695 | duration: c. 2’17” | price: $2.20
accompaniment: piano

Welsh musician and poet Euan Tait’s lyric, one of his bird series, is magically set in this sparkling art song by Korean composer Hyun Kook. The composer focused the word ‘dance’ in the poem and added mystical atmosphere with whole tone scale in fast minuet style. This challenging work will give much achievement!

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CoverDavid's Lamentation [level: Difficult]
Joshua Shank | Donald Brinegar Choral Series
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 416 | duration: 4:00 | price: $2.20
accompaniment: a cappella

Beautiful, awesome, dramatic, tender-these are just some of the adjectives that describe this piece based on the biblical story of King David mourning the death of his son Absalom.

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CoverDear Sarah [level: Difficult]
James Syler | Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 686 | duration: 8:14 | price: $2.60
accompaniment: piano

The text is a poignant letter written by a young man to his wife during the Civil War just days before he was to be killed in the Battle of Bull Run. Great emotion runs deep in this fabulous piece.

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CoverDiffusa est gratia [level: Difficult]
Vytantas Miskinis | Baltic Series edited by Vance Wolverton
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 521 | duration: 3:00 | price: $2.20
accompaniment: a cappella

The Lithuanian composer has created a beautiful contemporary motet featuring chant-like melodies, a dramatic climax, and a hushed ending.

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CoverDo Not Go Gentle [level: Difficult]
David N. Childs
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1064 | duration: 5:20 | price: $1.95
accompaniment: a cappella

The famous Dylan Thomas poem is given impassioned treatment with soaring melodies and dramatic harmonies. This one will give the audience goose bumps.

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CoverDone Made My Vow [level: Difficult]
arr. Stacey V. Gibbs | Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series
RELEASED: March 2024
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1770 | price: $2.70
accompaniment: a cappella

Another powerful Traditional Spiritual arrangement from Stacey Gibbs for divisi mixed choirs, unaccompanied. Rhythmic, exciting, and powerful! A great sacred choice for contests and festival choirs, and a strong way to end a concert.

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CoverDormi Jesu [level: Difficult]
Kim André Arnesen | Joel Rinsema Kantorei Choral Series
voicing: SSATB | catalog number: SBMP 1357 | duration: 6:15 | price: $2.15
accompaniment: a cappella

Awesome best describes this composition. Fine choirs will delight in performing this splendid piece. The solos optionally can be performed by a small group.

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CoverDown by the Salley Gardens [level: Difficult]
arr. Tim Harbold
RELEASED: March 2023
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1717 | price: $2.40
accompaniment: a cappella

A gorgeous new take on a well-known traditional Irish Folk Song. A cappella, with full eight-part divisi throughout. Lush harmonies and a flowing, memorable melody make this a stunning and unique setting. "Sing in" the spring season with this new elegant arrangement for advanced mixed ensembles.

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CoverEt In Terra Pax [level: Difficult]
Joan Szymko
voicing: SSAA | catalog number: SBMP 493 | duration: 3:20 | price: $2.40
accompaniment: a cappella

Based on the lydian mode, this is a show piece for the advanced treble choir.

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CoverExultate Pacifica [level: Medium]
Randall Johnson | Randy and Rachel Stenson Choral Series
RELEASED: June 2022
voicing: TTBB | catalog number: SBMP 1686 | duration: c. 2'40" | price: $2.30
accompaniment: piano

Dr. Randall Johnson is known for a unique mix of classical and contemporary jazz harmonies contrasting with driving rhythms and melodic sensitivity. Exultate Pacifica combines melodic and rhythmic fragments from island cultures throughout the Pacific. Prominent in this short piece is a gentle hymn from the Solomon Islands.

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CoverEzekiel [level: Difficult]
arr. Stacey V. Gibbs | Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series
voicing: SATB/SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1267 | duration: 3:35 | price: $2.50
accompaniment: a cappella

The double choir feature is designed to double the excitement of this outstanding arrangement. I toffers great fun for the singers as they “have at it.” Allow some space between the two choirs to add to the visual drama of the performance.

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CoverGabriel's Message [level: Difficult]
arr. Joshua Shank | Matthew and Michael Culloton Choral Series
voicing: SATB / solo quartet | catalog number: SBMP 644 | duration: 7:20 | price: $2.30
accompaniment: a cappella

Notes from the composer: I see this carol as a scene: Mary sits in the dark when light gently breaks in the room as the angel Gabriel reveals himself and slowly unfolds his wings. (The opening phrase is meant to convey this.) The rest of the piece is essentially a quiet waltz of profound, inner joy between the angel and the maiden.

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CoverGo From Me [level: Difficult]
David Rossow
Digital Room Octavo
voicing: SATB div. | catalog number: SBMP 1335 | duration: 4:51 | price: $1.75
accompaniment: A Cappella

The Elizabeth Browning poem dramatically comes to life in this excellent setting.

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CoverGo, Lovely Rose [level: Difficult]
Eric Whitacre
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voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 432 | duration: 3:33 | price: $2.05
accompaniment: a cappella

Re-issued in 2002 after some minor revisions by the composer. Stunningly beautiful. One of THE THREE FLOWER SONGS by Eric Whitacre.

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CoverGo, Tell it on the Mountain [level: Difficult]
arr. Joshua Shank
voicing: SATB div. | catalog number: SBMP 580 | duration: 4:05 | price: $2.05
accompaniment: a cappella

Striving to make the text of this well known Christmas spiritual vividly come to life, composer Shank has created an awesome arrangement which builds a mountain of sound before it ends quietly and poignantly announcing the news: Jesus Christ is Born. Don't miss this one if you have an outstanding, mature choir. Your audience will be moved to heartfelt silence and will leave the concert talking about this piece.

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CoverGod’s Grandeur [level: Difficult]
Daniel Brinsmead | Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series
voicing: SATB div. | catalog number: SBMP 1263 | duration: 3:45 | price: $2.10
accompaniment: piano

As is the title, the piece is grand in its scope. Designed to be a “wow” concert closer, this amazing piece requires a capable pianist and mature, adept singers.

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CoverGospel Plow [level: Medium]
Hans Bridger Heruth | Cameron LaBarr Choral Series
voicing: SATB div. | catalog number: SBMP 1598 | price: $2.35
accompaniment: a cappella

This spiritual setting is destined to take its place among the great arrangements of all time. Highly rhythmic and ever energetic, it is a great concert closer or festival highlight.

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CoverHodie [level: Difficult]
Joan Szymko
voicing: SSAA | catalog number: SBMP 356 | price: $2.05
accompaniment: a cappella

The opening unison chant is first contrasted by vigorous rhythmic sections, then developed with masterful weaving of the vocal line. A must for outstanding treble choirs.

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CoverHope and Love [level: Medium ]
Carson Cooman
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1141 | duration: c. 3:00 | price: $1.95
accompaniment: a cappella

The prolific and versatile composer chose a poem of award-winning poet Jane Hirshfield as text for this stunningly beautiful a cappella piece. Musically and poetically, this is exemplary of the finest in creativity.

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CoverI Am Your Sunlight [level: Difficult]
Mikael Carlsson
voicing: SATB div. | catalog number: SBMP 1050 | duration: 3:40 | price: $2.25
accompaniment: a cappella

The Swedish composer chose an intense love poem by Australian poet Janet Jackson and created a stunning choral rendition. A composer of film music, it should come as no surprise that great drama abounds in this composition. The adept mature choir, or the young choir with close ties to contemporary sounds, will delight in the challenges of this special piece.

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Coveri thank You God [level: Difficult]
David N. Childs | Paul Head Choral Series
voicing: SATB div. | catalog number: SBMP 1325 | duration: 5:30 | price: $2.35
accompaniment: piano

Majestic in scope, this is a dramatic setting of this beloved text. Opening with 4-part writing, it matures to 5-parts with solos by a soprano and tenor, then features a short double choir section before the impassioned 6-part ending. Large choirs will delight in the challenges and rewards of this splendid piece.

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CoverIf you will have me [level: Difficult]
Nathan Jones | Bowling Green State University Choral Series
Digital Room Octavo
voicing: SSAATTB | catalog number: SBMP 1486 | duration: 5:18 | price: $1.75
accompaniment: a cappella

Lush harmonies, dramatic melodies. and a large pallette of dynamics here result in a stunning composition worthy of the finest choirs.

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CoverInfinity [level: Difficult]
Kim André Arnesen | Joel Rinsema Kantorei Choral Series
voicing: SATB div. | catalog number: SBMP 1372 | duration: c. 7:10 | price: $2.20
accompaniment: a cappella

The profound poem takes us to the “furthest star” and challenges humanity with “one chance for us all.” Not one to shrink from drama, the composer has met the challenge of creating what might be called a mini-opera with this 7 minute masterpiece.

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CoverJoy [level: Medium]
Hans Bridger Heruth | Cameron LaBarr Choral Series
RELEASED: January 2022
voicing: SSAA | catalog number: SBMP 1662 | price: $2.70
accompaniment: piano 4 hands

Four hands on the keyboard give great rhythmic support to this dramatic piece. A superb festival offering for the large choir, it is guaranteed to brighten any program. The SSAA setting of Joy is dedicated to Dr. Erin Plisco and the 2021-2022 Missouri State University Women's Chorus

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CoverJubilate [level: Difficult]
Martin Ramroth | Paul Head Choral Series
voicing: SSAA | catalog number: SBMP 1113 | duration: 3:45 | price: $2.40
accompaniment: a cappella

Marked by compelling rhythms, many canonic passages, and short melodic fragments, this piece will challenge and delight singers and fascinate audiences.

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CoverJubilate Deo [level: Difficult]
Isaac C. Lovdahl | Matthew and Michael Culloton Choral Series
Digital Room Octavo
voicing: SATB div. | catalog number: SBMP 1376 | duration: 4:20 | price: $1.75
accompaniment: a cappella

Vibrant rhythms, soaring melodies, and harmonic color are the hallmarks of this highly creative setting. It will offer an interesting challenge for the choir and will thrill audiences.

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CoverLike Barley Bending [level: Difficult]
Daniel Brinsmead | Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series
voicing: SATB div. | catalog number: SBMP 1212 | duration: 5:40 | price: $1.95
accompaniment: violin

Sara Teasdale’s poem of hope comes to sparkling life in this dramatic setting. The violin plaintively illuminates the quieter moments and adds intensity to the more explosive ones. Another extraordinary composition from this young Aussie composer.

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CoverLong Time Trav’ling [level: Medium]
Sacred Harp Tunes, arr. Abbie Betinis | Matthew and Michael Culloton Choral Series
voicing: SATB div. / ten. duet | catalog number: SBMP 702 | price: $2.50
accompaniment: a cappella

This piece is a real musical trip! Adding excitement to the choral rendition are two tenors who join in at the beginning as they ride high-flying above the choir. Reflecting the shape-note performance tradition, the composer next cleverly weaves solfege syllables into the fabric of the tunes; and in one section, we hear the distant sounds of a chain gang creating an underlay to the song. There’s a whole lot happening here. Singers will love this piece.

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CoverL’Ennemi [level: Difficult]
Reed Criddle
RELEASED: August 2023
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1735 | duration: c. 3’35 | price: $2.50
accompaniment: piano

Lyrical and gorgeous, composer Criddle has created a stunning new French piece (“The Enemy”) for advanced mixed vocal ensembles. Perfect for contests and festivals, this is challenging but worth the work. An evocative piano accompaniment paired with soaring vocal lines that are set to a broody text by Charles Baudelaire make this an ideal piece to focus on ensemble artistry and to explore mental health in choral mélodie. Complete with an IPA pronunciation guide as well as word-for-word and poetic translations.

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Covermaggie and milly and molly and may [level: Difficult]
Joan Szymko
voicing: SSAA | catalog number: SBMP 588 | duration: 3:20 | price: $2.20
accompaniment: piano

Always stylish and highly creative, composer Szymko has great fun with this E. E. Cummings poem.

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CoverMissa de Cinque Terre [level: Difficult]
Jacob Narverud
voicing: SAATBB div. | catalog number: SBMP 1464 | duration: 20:00 | price: $12.95
accompaniment: a cappella

This five movement mass, set to the traditional Latin text, is dramatic in its creative approach. Inspired by famous villages in Italy, it reflects their unique beauty with colorful choral writing that builds to the final glorious Agnus Dei.

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CoverMy Spirit Looks [level: Difficult]
arr. Jacob Narverud
RELEASED: January 2022
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1661 | price: $2.30
accompaniment: a cappella

Narverud’s arrangement of Daniel Read’s popular gathering song from the nineteenth century Book of Sacred Harp will encourage ensemble unity and sound exploration while adding contrast on your next concert. With notated stylistic features of shape-note singing traditions developed in the Northeast, this new arrangement is energetic, fun to sing, and promotes social togetherness. The comfortable ranges for all voice parts and octave doubling between Sopranos and Tenors make this an ideal piece for school or community ensembles.

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CoverO nata lux [level: Difficult]
Victoria Davison and Rudy Lupinski
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1427 | price: $2.15
accompaniment: piano, flute

The dramatic setting of this beloved Latin text features memorable melodic treatment, and color provided by the artistic piano and flute accompaniment.

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Ride the Chariot
SATB
arr. Stacey V. Gibbs