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CoverThree Love Canons [level: Medium]
Carson Cooman
voicing: any | catalog number: SBMP 1166 | price: $1.85
accompaniment: a cappella

A splendid contrast in a concert program, these clever and sophisticated canons will intrigue audiences and delight singers. Their titles: Leap into Love, From Your Heart, and One Word. The voicing is adaptable to many combinations.

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CoverTimor et tremor [level: Difficult]
Terry Schlenker | Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series
voicing: SATB div. | catalog number: SBMP 701 | price: $1.95
accompaniment: a cappella

A stunning piece for the advanced choir.

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CoverTis a Gift [level: Easy]
arr. Nancy Grundahl
voicing: SSA | catalog number: SBMP 472 | duration: 3:15 | price: $2.15
accompaniment: a cappella

Written to be sung in the round, all parts are easy, yet weave together to form an interesting fabric that works well in a spatial setting.


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CoverTo Daffodils [level: Medium]
Andrea Ramsey
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 745 | duration: 2:50 | price: $2.20
accompaniment: a cappella

A sensitive setting of the Robert Herrick poem. The artistic melodic and harmonic treatment, with very little divisi, this piece can serve the interests of many choirs.

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CoverTo the New Jerusalem [level: Medium]
Walker, arr. Matthew Culloton | Matthew and Michael Culloton Choral Series
voicing: SATB div. | catalog number: SBMP 703 | duration: 3:00 | price: $2.30
accompaniment: a cappella

This arrangement of the upbeat shape-note tune is a great one for a procession, to sing in the round, or just to perk up a concert. The arrangement builds in strength to a dramatic ending.

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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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CoverTuimbe Kwa Furaha [level: Medium]
Robert Begisen
RELEASED: March 2024
voicing: SSA | catalog number: SBMP 1781 | duration: 2'52 | price: $2.70
accompaniment: drum, shaker

Translated as “Let’s sing with Joy!”, here is another cheerful original by Kenyan composer Robert Jim Begisen for treble choirs, a cappella, with optional percussion. Written in Swahili, and complete with a phonetic pronunciation guide and translation. Perfect for holiday concerts or any time of year, this piece is great fun and quick to learn. This works well with treble choirs of all levels and sizes.

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CoverTuli Tuli [level: Easy]
arr. Alex Gartner | Robyn Lana Choral Series
voicing: SAB | catalog number: SBMP 1477 | price: $2.05
accompaniment: djembe

Singers will delight in this fun arrangement of an African song. The lyrics are nonsense syllables, the mood of the piece upbeat. Add a bit of movement, and this will be a program highlight.

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CoverTuli Tuli [level: Easy]
arr. Alex Gartner | Robyn Lana Choral Series
voicing: SSA | catalog number: SBMP 1379 | duration: 2:00 | price: $1.95
accompaniment: djembe

Treble singers of all ages can delight in this fun arrangement of an African song. The lyrics are nonsense syllables, the mood of the piece upbeat. Add a bit of movement, and this will be a program highlight.

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CoverTwo South African Folksongs [level: Easy]
arr. Bruce More
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 411 | price: $2.15
accompaniment: a cappella

Arranger More brought these home from a trip to South Africa. Genuine ethnic flavor abounds in these two folksongs.

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CoverUbi Caritas [level: Difficult]
Joan Szymko
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 291 | price: $2.20
accompaniment: a cappella

Composer Szymko hopes to "arouse the universal longing for the Spirit" with this original setting of the famous antiphon text. Indeed, it will. Stunning, fresh, highly creative, a wonderful challenge for the fine choir. The women's voices are in four parts, the men's in two except for the divisi ending.

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CoverUmahlalela [level: Medium]
Michael Barrett | Cameron LaBarr Choral Series
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1219 | duration: 2:45 | price: $2.15
accompaniment: a cappella

The Pretoria-based ethnic music expert brings us another fine arrangement of a native melody. Powerful in its repetition as is typical of this genre, it could lend itself well to a procession opening a concert, or ending either one section or the concert.

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CoverUnder the Willow [level: Medium]
Stephen Foster, arr. Susan LaBarr | Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series
voicing: SSAA | catalog number: SBMP 896 | duration: 5:05 | price: $2.40
accompaniment: a cappella

A charming piece, the beautiful Foster melody is creatively enhanced by some flourishing vocal lines added by the arranger. This is the rare unaccompanied piece for women’s voices that really works.

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CoverUpon the Heights [level: Medium]
Ben Sides
voicing: SATB div. | catalog number: SBMP 1362 | duration: 3:20 | price: $1.95
accompaniment: a cappella

Having chosen poignant biblical verses, the composer beautifully succeeds in bringing them to radiant life. Starting with just the low basses, the piece builds to a conclusion befitting the “Heights” of the title. With melodic interest present in all voices, singers will love this.

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CoverVeni, Veni Emmanuel [level: Medium]
arr. Allen Koepke
voicing: SATB div. | catalog number: SBMP 850 | duration: 3:00 | price: $2.25
accompaniment: a cappella

Koepke takes beloved O COME EMMANUEL to new exciting heights, concluding the dramatic arrangement with a powerful ending.

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CoverVenite adoremus [level: Difficult]
Pawel Łukaszewski | Cameron LaBarr Choral Series
voicing: SSAA | catalog number: SBMP 1153 | duration: 2:20 | price: $2.25
accompaniment: a cappella

Dramatic tempo changes are the hallmark of this clever piece. Alternating between quasi-renaissance and highly-spirited in style, it is a both colorful and charming, and works very well as an a cappella piece.

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CoverVerses Left to Write [level: Medium]
Timothy Jon Tharaldson | Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 866 | duration: 4:20 | price: $2.40
accompaniment: a cappella

A poignant setting of this interesting text that offers hope for the future with “Verses left to write.”

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CoverWade in de water [level: Medium]
arr. Allen Koepke
voicing: SSAATTBB | catalog number: SBMP 227 | price: $2.15
accompaniment: a cappella

Hold your hats, this one will raise the house. A favorite of honor choirs.

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CoverWait With Me [level: Medium]
Coleman Peterson
RELEASED: January 2023
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1715 | duration: c. 3’55” | price: $2.50
accompaniment: a cappella

Powerful harmonies. Captivating lyrics. High school and college ensembles of all sizes will bond together singing this ballad and creed of true friendship. With glorious suspensions and modern parallel a cappella movement, this mixed choral piece explores the promises we can make to the people we love -- that when life's storms set in, we'll be right at their side, waiting with them for the wind to stop howling and the sky to open.

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CoverWait With Me [level: Medium]
Coleman Peterson
RELEASED: July 2023
voicing: TTBB | catalog number: SBMP 1744 | duration: c. 3’55 | price: $2.50
accompaniment: a cappella

Powerful harmonies. Captivating lyrics. High school and college Tenor-Bass ensembles of all sizes will bond together singing this ballad and creed of true friendship. With glorious suspensions and modern parallel a cappella movement, this choral piece explores the promises we can make to the people we love -- that when life's storms set in, we'll be right at their side, waiting with them for the wind to stop howling and the sky to open.

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CoverWake up, Ollie Brown! [level: Medium]
Ben Allaway
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 45 | price: $2.30
accompaniment: a cappella

A variety of African-American musical styles join in this choral drama. Four soloists are featured and are backed up by a “chorus of angels.” A dramatic piece.

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CoverWalk in Jerusalem [level: Difficult]
arr. Paul Rardin | Jerry Blackstone Choral Series
voicing: TTBB | catalog number: SBMP 348 | duration: 6:00 | price: $2.35
accompaniment: piano or a cappella

Arranger Rardin is at it again, here with a gospel rock setting of the wonderful spiritual. Dig in and enjoy the fun this one provides. Audiences are guaranteed to love it. (Note: the recording is a cappella - the piano version was created after this recording was made)

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CoverWalk Together Children [level: Medium]
arr. Stacey V. Gibbs | Lori Hetzel Choral Series
voicing: SSAA | catalog number: SBMP 1273 | duration: 3:50 | price: $2.50
accompaniment: a cappella

At last, prolific composer Gibbs has given women a turn at one of his spirituals. They will love singing this special arrangement.

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CoverWaly, Waly [level: Medium]
arr. Joan Szymko
voicing: SSAA | catalog number: SBMP 364 | duration: 2:50 | price: $1.50
accompaniment: a cappella

At times woven like a tapestry, other times in rich harmonic texture or simply in unison, this is a masterful setting of this long-time favorite Scottish ballad.

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CoverWana Baraka [level: Medium]
arr. Shawn L. Kirchner
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voicing: SSATBB | catalog number: SBMP 482 | duration: 3:00 | price: $2.50
accompaniment: a cappella

An upbeat Kenyan religious folk song that will be a concert favorite for any season of the year. The arrangement builds with great excitement leading to an extensive rhythmic play on the word alleluya. The short text is Kenyan; a pronunciation guide is included. Also available for SSA div. or TTTBBB.

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CoverWana Baraka [level: Medium]
arr. Shawn L. Kirchner
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voicing: SSA div. | catalog number: SBMP 554 | duration: 3:00 | price: $2.05
accompaniment: a cappella

An upbeat Kenyan religious folk song that will be a concert favorite for any season of the year. The arrangement builds with great excitement leading to an extensive rhythmic play on the word alleluya. The short text is Kenyan; a pronunciation guide is included. Also available for SSATBB or TTTBBB.

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CoverWana Baraka [level: Medium]
arr. Shawn L. Kirchner | Daniel Hughes Choral Series
voicing: TTTBBB | catalog number: SBMP 807 | duration: 3:00 | price: $2.20
accompaniment: a cappella

An upbeat Kenyan religious folk song that will be a concert favorite for any season of the year. The arrangement builds with great excitement leading to an extensive rhythmic play on the word alleluya. The short text is Kenyan; a pronunciation guide is included. Also available for SSATBB or SSA div.

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CoverWe Are A Chorus [level: Medium]
Alice Parker
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1498 | price: $2.15
accompaniment: piano

This is a fun, upbeat piece not to be missed. The legendary composer wrote both the text and the music. It will be a stunning opener for a concert or it could make a great encore.

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CoverWe Carry Peace [level: Medium]
David N. Childs
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1124 | duration: c. 5:00 | price: $1.95
accompaniment: a cappella

The fascinating, profound text, by New Mexico poet Keith Wilson, gets sensitive treatment in this beautiful choral setting.
The first stanza:
We carry peace with us in a small sack.
We throw it like seed.
There is always Enough to go around.
Though, most do not pick it up.

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CoverWe Were Not Made for Silence [level: Difficult]
Melinda Bargreen
RELEASED: March 2023
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1710 | price: $2.40
accompaniment: A cappella

Composer Melinda Bargreen has written an impassioned, empowering new work for unaccompanied mixed chorus. With rich harmonies in full eight-part divisi throughout, this piece is bold and unifying. Written in response to choruses being "silenced" during the Covid pandemic, yet applicable to any challenging situation one faces in everyday life: "there is no way to stop our hopes, our dreams, our music.” Especially appropriate for large ensembles.

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CoverWeeping Mary [level: Medium]
arr. Brad Holmes | Charlene Archibeque Choral Series
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 750 | duration: 2:00 | price: $2.15
accompaniment: a cappella

Shape note music comes to life with the SATB choir divided into three choirs to lend a dramatic, antiphonal effect to this arrangement. At times all singers are involved, or only one of the three choirs, or a combination of two. The voicings: Choir I: SSA; Choir 2: SAT; Choir 3: A/T TB. The recording conducted by the arranger demonstrates the performance style needed for this piece.

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CoverWere You There? [level: Medium]
arr. Kevin S. Foster
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1080 | duration: 3:50 | price: $2.35
accompaniment: a cappella

The arranger works his special magic as he uses the title words, “Were you there?” to become a musical underlay for the other questions that make up this text. The story having been told, the underlay of “Were you there?” then becomes a musical collage, with repetitions gently leaving one to ponder the question. A captivating, thoughtful arrangement, excellent for church or the concert hall.

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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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CoverWhen I Hear Her I Have Wings [level: Medium]
Mark Templeton | Paul Head Choral Series
voicing: TTBB | catalog number: SBMP 673 | duration: 2:00 | price: $2.05
accompaniment: a cappella

A sensitive, beautiful love song set to a text by Mary Coleridge. A special piece for the men’s choir.

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CoverWill the circle be unbroken? [level: Medium]
arr. Paul Rardin
voicing: SSA trio/SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1268 | duration: 4:55 | price: $2.05
accompaniment: a cappella

This popular hymn dating back to 1907 is cleverly arranged to come full-circle, with three treble soloists the book-ends of the piece. Made famous by many gospel singers, this special arrangement will be a joy for singers and audiences.

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Coverwinter [level: Difficult]
Joshua Shank
voicing: SATB/solo quartet | catalog number: SBMP 534 | duration: 7:27 | price: $2.50
accompaniment: a cappella

Snow gently and dramatically falls in a colorful, artistic musical creation for the advanced choir. Text by e.e. cummings.

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CoverWipip!!! [level: Medium]
Sydney Guillaume | Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 925 | duration: 3:45 | price: $2.35
accompaniment: a cappella

The Haitian born composer honors his roots with this spectacular piece set to a poem by his father, the title meaning “Wow,” and the theme of which translates “Life is beautiful when we love one another.” Fast moving, and highly rhythmic, this one is a winner.

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CoverWith a Lily in Your Hand [level: Medium]
Eric Whitacre
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voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 431 | duration: 2:15 | price: $2.40
accompaniment: a cappella

Re-issued in 2002 after some minor revisions by the composer. The text by Federico Lorca receives dramatic treatment. In English. One of THE THREE FLOWER SONGS by Eric Whitacre.

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CoverWithin the Circles of Our LIves [level: Medium]
Giselle Wyers | Giselle Wyers Choral Series
voicing: SSATB | catalog number: SBMP 1395 | duration: 4:25 | price: $2.05
accompaniment: a cappella

The profound text by Wendell Berry offers some possibilities for choirs wishing to add a bit of staging to their performance. The composer, reflecting on the text, uses ascending intervals of the fifth, sixth, and fourth as motives symbolic of a circle. At the conclusion, the sopranos having been together throughout, now divide into two parts, echoing each other to add to the drama of the ending. This is a cleverly constructed composition that will delight singers as they bring it to life.

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CoverYe Jaliya-o [level: Medium]
Joan Szymko
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 726 | price: $2.60
accompaniment: percussion

From the notes by the composer: I am an admirer of traditional West African music, with its direct simplicity and wonderful rhythmic complexity. I have composed an original piece of music with text excerpts from “The Pulse of Life” by Catherine De Vinck interwoven with the dominant Lambango lyric:

“Ye Jaliya-o, Allah le ka Jaliya da”
Oh music, God created music.

The “you are the heart, you are the sound....” “Pulse of Life” chant begins as an undercurrent that rises and falls until it overtakes the piece. The rhythms in this piece are clearly African influenced, as is its tonality. The raised fourth (C sharp) is characteristic of Sauta, one of the kora traditional tunings. The kora is a 21 s. Also available in SSA.

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CoverYemaya Assessu: A Hymn of Thanksgiving [level: Medium]
arr. Judy A. Rose
voicing: SATB div. | catalog number: SBMP 1537 | price: $2.20
accompaniment: percussion

Starting with a unison chant, this piece with African roots gradually adds layers of sound, building to a dramatic ending. The celebratory text lauds the value of water in our world and introduces the enchanting legend of the Goddess Yemaya.

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CoverYou asked me to speak [level: Medium]
Kim André Arnesen
voicing: SSAATTBB | catalog number: SBMP 1275 | duration: 6:30 | price: $2.05
accompaniment: a cappella

Soaring musical phrases contrasted by those of delicate nuance make up the hallmarks of this sophisticated piece. It is highly recommended for the advanced a cappella choir.

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CoverYou Cannot Lose My Love [level: Medium]
Sara Groves, arr. Susan LaBarr | Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series
voicing: SATB div. | catalog number: SBMP 824 | duration: 2:15 | price: $1.95
accompaniment: a cappella

The song, by an established pop-gospel singer/composer, tells us “you will lose a lot of things, but you cannot lose my love.” A tender love song, beautifully arranged.

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CoverYour Soul Is Song [level: Medium]
Daniel Hughes | Daniel Hughes Choral Series
voicing: SSAATTBB | catalog number: SBMP 1157 | duration: 6:00 | price: $1.95
accompaniment: a cappella

As the music builds to its peak, it travels through lush harmonies, with much textual overlay adding to the intensity of the journey. After a final dramatic choral splash the music peacefully ends with the simple unity of a soul-felt song. Beautiful.

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CoverYove, Malay Mome [level: Medium]
Alexander Tanev, ed. Gabriel Hristova | Bulgaria Choral Series
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 871 | duration: 2:50 | price: $2.10
accompaniment: a cappella

An energetic dance tune by a 20th century eminent Bulgarian composer. The piece has a permanent place in the Bulgarian choral repertoire, often being chosen for tours and contests. Both Bulgarian and a transliteration appear in the score.
Pronunciation: hear the Bulgarian text recited by Gabriela Hristrova FREE Download

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CoverZekiel [level: Medium]
arr. Allen Koepke
voicing: SATB div./tenor solo | catalog number: SBMP 642 | duration: 3:30 | price: $2.35
accompaniment: a cappella

A tenor soloist is featured in this show-stopper arrangement of Ezekiel Saw the Wheel.

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