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All Ye Lands, Sing
Alleluia!
- Ben Allaway
- This festive yet easy piece is sure to be a favorite
with church choirs. It includes some unison and two-part writing, and a
dramatic ending.
- SBMP 193
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- Praise to the Lord, All ye who adore,
- Praise and exalt him forever!
- All to his throne now come before.
- All ye nations, all ye lands sing alleluia
- Praise to your maker!
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- Come to the Lord, ye peoples at war,
- Honor his strength and his spirit,
- Work for a peace and fight no more.
- All ye nations, all ye lands sing alleluia
- Praise to your maker!
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- As a sister lvoes a sister,
- I will love your sisters too.
- As a brother loves a brother,
- Love will start our lives anew.
- We will lift them in his name,
- praying for his peace again.
- We will hold our brother's hand.
- Quiet strength in every land.
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- As the father loves his children,
- We will love your children too.
- When a sister loves her brother
- love will start their lives anew.
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Allelujah
- J. Michael Haydn - ed. Michael Cleveland
- A gem from the classic repertoire deserving a place in today's literature.
In a quick three, the piece dances off the page.
- SATB - piano
- SBMP 312
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- text is single word: Allelujah
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Freedom Come
- Ben Allaway
- In the style of a South African freedom song.Easy
choral writing and a narrator soloist provide an uplifting experience.
The words may be altered to suit the occasion, be it Christmas or a special
celebration. The music builds to a dramatic climax. Wonderful way to close
a program.
- SATB - a cappella, conga drums
- SBMP 67
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- Come for the healing,
- Come for the victory,
- we will share the victory,
- Hallelujah!
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- Come with your burden;
- We will share your burden.
- Come with your sorrow,
- We will share your sorrow.
- Sing it away. Hallelujah!
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From this House
- Ben Allaway
- Written as a sequel to Freedom Come; the
mission now is to take the energy and strength of the community From
this House out into the world. Features one soloist.
- SATB - a cappella - double choir, conga drums
- SBMP 225
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- From this house to the world
- we will go hand in hand.
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- We're walking out now
- From this house to the world
- we will go hand in hand.
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- To the world we will go
- We're reaching out now
- From this house to the world
- we will go hand in hand.
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- Built of love for the people
- bringing hope we're calling out
- Look around you find your neighbor
- share the peace
- it's all about freedom with out fear,
- everyone for the future will you give a little now.
- Work for justice, Let the children play,
- songs of hope, Pray for the strength to live
- Now live with honor,
- Let your light shine for a better day,
- Pray we can walk away.
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- The way of peace,
- The way of freedom,
- The way of hope,
- We will walk the way.
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- From this house to the world
- we will go hand in hand.
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- (with Swahili phrases, not included here)
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Give Me Jesus
- arranged by Ron Kauffmann
- Easy, yet very effective, this arrangement will appeal to high school
choirs, and to church choirs with limited rehearsal time.
- SATB - keyboard
- SBMP 247
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- In the morning when I rise, Give me Jesus.
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- You can have all this world, Give me Jesus.
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- And when I come to die, Give me Jesus.
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- If I'm living in the east, or living in the west,
- O the thing that I want best: Give me Jesus.
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Highland Carol
- Ben Allaway
- For this piece, composer Allaway created the [second] verse and added
the lullabye text. The original title of Whittier's poem: A Christmas Carmen.
- SATB - a cappella
- SBMP 393
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- Sing lully lully,
- Sing toorolooro, lully lullay.
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- Sound over all waters, reach out form all lands,
- the chorus of voices, the clasping of hands,
- Sing hymns that were sung by the stars of the morn,
- Sing songs of the angels when Jesus was born.
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- [Come shepherds and sages, O come and adore;
- Come follow the hallowed star shining o'er
- And kneel by the maiden who rocks our new King,
- Give thanks, quiet thanks for the wonders they bring.]
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- With glad jubilations bring hope to the nations.
- The dark night is ending, the dawn has begun.
- Rise hope of the ages, arise like the sun,
- All speech flow to music, all hearts beat as one.
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- Lully lullay my love
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- I Love All Beauteous Things
- Christine Temple-Evans
- A gorgeous melody, a dramatic setting. This is a very unusual piece
you and your singers will love.
- SATB - a cappella
- SBMP 233
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- Robert Seymour Bridges (18441930) was British poet laureate
from 1913. He is best remembered for his long philosophical poem, The Testament
of Beauty, for his metrical studies, and for his editing of the works of
Gerard Manley Hopkins. Trained as a doctor, Bridges gave up his practice
in 1882. His critical works include studies of John Keats and John Milton,
and a highly successful anthology, The Spirit of Man.
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- I love all beauteous things,
- I seek and adore them;
- God hath no better praise,
- and man in his hasty days is honoured for them.
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- I too will something make
- and joy in the making;
- Altho' tomorrow it seem like the empty words
- of a dream remembered on waking.
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- I love all beauteous things,
- I seek and adore them;
- God hath no better praise,
- and man in his hasty days is honoured for them.
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- I too will something make
- and joy in the making;
- Altho' tomorrow it seem like the empty words
- of a dream remembered on waking.
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- Inscription for a Wayside Spring
- Ben Allaway
- A poignant setting of an inspirational English
poem.Expressive interpretation of text and melody will reward performers
with the realization of a gem of the choral literature.
- SATB - a cappella
- SBMP 10
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- The poem "Inscription for a Wayside Spring" was written by
Frances Darwin Cornford, a granddaughter of renowned nineteenth century
anthropologist Charles Darwin. The composer found the text at Winchester
Cathedral on a bulletin cover commemorating the ancient English church's
nine hundredth anniversary.
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- All men from all lands
- kneel before you go;
- Cup you hands like a bowl
- Let me overflow.
- Read what these words tell,
- Lean down and know
- Each one beside my brink,
- Bend down low;
- Lost son, sad daughter
- bend down and drink.
- I am the water that makes men whole.
- I am the cold water that restores your soul.
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- Irish Blessing Neil Ginsberg SBMP 183
- May the road rise to meet you.
- May the wind be always at your back.
- The sun shine warm uon your fields,
- The rain fall soft upon your fields.
- and until we meet again,
- May God hold you in the palm of his hand.
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Kumbaya
- arr. Neil Ginsberg
- A fun, upbeat, different treatment of this favorite campfire song.
The piano gives it real oomph. Enjoy!
- SATB - piano
- SBMP 405
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- Kumbaya was written as Come By Here by Martin V. Frey in the 1930s.
A missionary couple traveling to Angola, South Africa, taught the song
to the natives there. The words changed to their native dialect and Kumbaya
was born. When the song returned to the United States, it retained the
new words and has since been thought to be a folk song of South African
origin titled Kumbaya.
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- Kumbaya my Lord, Kumbaya.
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- Someone's crying, my Lord, Kumbaya.....
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- Someone's singing, my Lord, Kumbaya....
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- Someone's praying, my Lord, Kumbaya.....
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- O Lord, Kumbaya.
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Kyrie
- Michael Mauldin
- A great concert setting, contemporary and beautiful.
- SATB - piano
- SBMP 383
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- poem by the composer
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- O dear God, give us what we need:
- joy and delight in our lovely seed.
- Help us nurture them with such care
- that they themselves with their young may share.
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- Lord, look to your people:
- judge them with equity, be merciful
- Make your face to shine upon us.
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Lord is My Shepherd, The
- David N. Childs
- Poignant melody combines with a contemporary style accompaniment to
create a special setting of this text.
- SATB - keyboard, Ft. horn or trombone
- SBMP 250
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- excellent for church: Psalm 23
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