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CoverA Rose in the Deeps of My Heart [level: Medium]
Jonathan Adams
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 982 | duration: 3:05 | price: $2.05
accompaniment: a cappella

The W.B. Yeats poem has inspired a lovely, contemporary madrigal. Skillfully crafted, beautiful choral writing brings this text to life.

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CoverAve Maria [level: Medium]
J. Edmund Hughes | Edith Copley Choral Series
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 977 | duration: 2:30 | price: $2.05
accompaniment: a cappella

The Ave Maria chant forms the basis for this clever, effective piece. It would be especially beautiful in a reverberant setting.

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CoverFire, Burn Bright [level: Medium]
Joan Szymko | Sharon Hansen Choral Series
voicing: SSA | catalog number: SBMP 988 | duration: 2:30 | price: $1.95
accompaniment: piano

This sprightly piece celebrates something we all love on a cold winter’s day: the crackling logs in the fireplace. A traditional folk poem from the English West Country provided the text. A colorful piano accompaniment adds great interest to the clever melodic realization of the text as it describes the various kinds of logs and how they react when lit.

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CoverForever Gone [level: Medium]
Susan LaBarr | Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 990 | duration: 3:25 | price: $2.50
accompaniment: piano

A plaintive song about love lost, delivered by one watching the ocean waves. The piano becomes those waves, supporting the tender, wishful love song. Contemporary in its style, with almost no divisi, many choirs will be drawn to this fine piece.

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CoverFuyu No Uta [level: Easy]
arr. Rachel Stenson | Randy and Rachel Stenson Choral Series
voicing: SA | catalog number: SBMP 979 | duration: 1:40 | price: $2.05
accompaniment: piano, wind chimes

This is a delightful song children in Japan sing when it is snowing outside. (Fuyu means winter.) The text is partly in Japanese, partly in English. The use of wind chimes with the piano provides a light, supportive accompaniment to this fun piece.

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CoverHands Across the Universe [level: Easy]
David N. Childs
voicing: SA | catalog number: SBMP 983 | duration: 4:25 | price: $1.95
accompaniment: piano

Composer Childs turned lyricist, captures the legendary power of song in this meaningful text, and creates a song that needs to be sung. The middle verse: May our song of joy reach across the universe; may it touch upon the hearts of people in the world. Errata: Ms. 33-35 alto text should read "May our song of joy reach across the" Also available for SAB.

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CoverHands Across the Universe [level: Easy]
David N. Childs
voicing: SAB | catalog number: SBMP 985 | duration: 4:25 | price: $2.05
accompaniment: piano

Composer Childs turned lyricist, captures the legendary power of song in this meaningful text, and creates a song that needs to be sung. The middle verse: May our song of joy reach across the universe; may it touch upon the hearts of people in the world. Also available for SA.


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CoverLa Otra [level: Medium]
J. Michael Saunders | Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 986 | duration: 4:50 | price: $2.25
accompaniment: piano, cello

Gabriela Mistral’s dynamic, dramatic poem is given WOW treatment. A stunning piece, La Otra (the other woman) is the inner woman, the feeling woman—the one grief stricken by the devastation caused by WWII and the loss of a son. To be sung in Spanish, mature choirs looking for a centerpiece for a concert should look no further.

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CoverLet All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence [level: Medium]
Ken Berg | Randy and Rachel Stenson Choral Series
voicing: TTBB | catalog number: SBMP 973 | duration: 4:20 | price: $2.05
accompaniment: handbells

The composer created an original chant melody for this text. All voices take their turns singing it

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CoverPeace [level: Medium]
Aaron Pike | International Orange Chorale Choral Series
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 987 | duration: 4:50 | price: $1.95
accompaniment: a cappella

The text, discovered on a memorial in London, memorializes those who gave their lives to preserve peace in our world. A dramatic, and beautiful setting with a quiet, thought provoking ending.

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CoverSnowflakes [level: Medium]
Seth Houston | Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 972 | duration: 4:30 | price: $1.95
accompaniment: piano, flute, cello

Longfellow’s poem describes snow as it delicately covers barren, frozen land. A vibrant piece, the instruments dramatically color the picture as the choir tells the story. A great piece for the winter season and the mature choir.
errata: flute m. 37 should be G flat, not F flat.

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CoverStill, Still, Still [level: Medium]
arr. Paula Tillen | Sharon Hansen Choral Series
voicing: SSAA | catalog number: SBMP 976 | duration: 4:00 | price: $1.95
accompaniment: piano, flute

A charming arrangement of this beautiful carol with the flute adding color and interest, and a conclusion that cleverly weaves in Stille Nacht.

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CoverUkrainian River Song [level: Easy]
Roman Yakub
voicing: SA(T)B | catalog number: SBMP 980 | duration: 2:30 | price: $2.50
accompaniment: piano

Excitement abounds here. Written in the style of a Ukrainian-Carpathian folk song, the driving rhythms of a vibrant folk dance are the mainstay of the piece. The lyric transliteration makes singing the short Ukrainian text easy; most the the text consists of energetic nonsense syllables.

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CoverUmi Sono Ai [level: Medium]
Kousaku Dan, arr. Rachel Stenson | Randy and Rachel Stenson Choral Series
voicing: TTBB | catalog number: SBMP 974 | duration: 4:40 | price: $2.20
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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CoverWhat Child Is This? [level: Medium]
arr. Lindsay Goodson | Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series
voicing: SATB div. | catalog number: SBMP 975 | duration: 4:45 | price: $2.05
accompaniment: a cappella

An elegantly beautiful arrangement of this beloved carol. The melody is the English Greensleeves, refreshingly new to the ear as it veers from the usual tune for this carol. Both men and women get the opportunity to sing the tune in this creative setting.


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