Soprano voice, mezzo-soprano voice, or tenor voice and piano - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.9229-E Composed by Juliana Hall. 7 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #9229-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.9229-E). English.Written for Jun Mo Yang, a young tenor studying in the graduate Vocal Arts Program at the Bard Conservatory of Bard College. He and his fellow students were working on a special project studying contemporary composers whose work engages with climate change, environmentalism, and the natural environment. The students had been asked to read a chapter from David Haskell’s Sounds Wild and Broken and had further been given the following direction to guide them: “we are assigning each of you to a project in which you will seek out song repertoire from a living composer whose work responds to climate change or the natural environment, heightening our connection to and awareness of the natural world. This topic has arisen from a call to Bard faculty to #MakeClimateAClass: Bard faculty are urged to use our collective power as educators to engage with the climate change crisis.�Jun wrote to me that he was drawn to my music and asked whether any of my songs might fit within this subject area. At the time I had plenty of songs that spoke of the natural world, but none I could categorize as specifically dealing with the class’ more narrow focus, so I offered to write this song on a poem by one of my favorite poets, Carl Sandburg, who even by the early twentieth century was noting the degradation of the natural environment and its impact on life of all kinds trying to adjust to changed circumstances brought on in one way or another by man. I quickly found the poem Buffalo Dusk, seeing how strongly it speaks of the extinction of species and the loss that represents. Jun and his teachers remarked what a “beautiful and sad poem� it was, so in short order I was pleased to present this song to Jun, who gave Buffalo Dusk its first performance in April of 2023 at the Bard Conservatory.

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.849275 Composed by Sarah Jaysmith. A Cappella,Contemporary. Octavo. 8 pages. Sarah Jaysmith #2335363. Published by Sarah Jaysmith (A0.849275). This is a beautiful piece that illustrates the winding-down of the day, the gradual shift from bustling mundane life to the ghostly beauty of a bridge on a misty night. The music reflects that, beginning softly but building to intense emotions - anger, followed by great joy.An original composition of intermediate difficulty, using the text of Carl Sandburg's poem, Clark Street Bridge. SATB, a cappella, duration 4' 05''. Sarah Jaysmith has been composing and arranging choral music for many years. Find her at www.sarahjaysmith.com

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.939694 Composed by Richard St. Clair and Richard St. Clair. 20th Century,Contemporary. Octavo. 4 pages. Richard St. Clair #3000989. Published by Richard St. Clair (A0.939694). A unison (octave) setting of three short poems by Carl Sandburg: (1) Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard, (2) Fog, (3) Grass. Set in a simple tonal style, suitable for amateur choirs as well as professional groups. Duration about 4 minutes total. The MP3 Audio Clip is a computer-generated soundfile.

Small Ensemble - Digital Download SKU: A0.989217 Composed by Mary Ann Joyce-Walter. Contemporary. Score and parts. 6 pages. Mary Ann Joyce-Walter #6202125. Published by Mary Ann Joyce-Walter (A0.989217).

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.781588 Composed by Luke Flynn. Instructional,Standards. Octavo. 8 pages. Luke Flynn Publishing #3225743. Published by Luke Flynn Publishing (A0.781588). White Moon by Luke FlynnCommissioned by Choral Arts Initiative, Brandon Elliott, artistic directorPerfect SATB piece for advanced high school and college choirs; beautiful lullaby with soaring, memorable melodies.Set to text by Carl Sandburg:White moon comes in on a baby face. The shafts across her bed are flimmering. Out on the land White Moon shines, Shines and glimmers against gnarled shadows, All silver to slow twisted shadows Falling across the long road that runs from the house. Keep a little of your beauty And some of your flimmering silver For her by the window tonight Where you come in, White Moon. -Baby Face by Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

Choral Choir (SATB divisi) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1096281 Composed by Mark Lehnowsky. A Cappella,Classical,Contest,Festival. Octavo. 4 pages. Mark Lehnowsky Music #700249. Published by Mark Lehnowsky Music (A0.1096281). A choir favorite, Gather the Stars is a setting of the Carl Sandburg poem Stars, Songs, Faces. My favorite aspect of Carl Sandburg's poetry is that he captures profound thoughts with simple language and direct language. It is a composer's dream. We spend our whole lives chasing our dreams, only to one day let go and say goodbye. Similarly, the piece spends two minutes gathering stars, songs, and faces, gaining momentum...until everything fades again into a beautiful background of stars. Thank you to the 2009 PMEA Region V Choir and Dr. Christopher Kiver for this beautiful performance.

Piano Solo - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1453605 By Carl Sandburg. By Carl Sandburg. Arranged by Joanna Vasanth. Children,Traditional. Score. 2 pages. Joanna Vasanth #1032821. Published by Joanna Vasanth (A0.1453605).

Choral Choir,Choral (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1295262 Composed by Carl Sandburg and Nathaniel Hontz. 20th Century,A Cappella,Contemporary,Religious,Sacred. 6 pages. TigerSong LLC #885562. Published by TigerSong LLC (A0.1295262). A musical setting to Carl Sandburg's 1918 poem Prayers of Steel for SATB choir. A short and powerful anthem, seeking to be an agent for change and growth. Ideally performed without accompaniment, piano reduction included.Lay me on an anvil, O God.  Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar.  Let me pry loose old walls.  Let me lift and loosen old foundations.    Lay me on an anvil, O God.Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.  Drive me into the girders that hold a skyscraper together.  Take red-hot rivets and fasten me into the central girders.  Let me be the great nail holding a skyscraper through blue nights into white stars..

Choral Choir,Choral,SATB Chorus - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1503844 Composed by Carl Sandburg and Nathaniel Hontz. 20th Century,Contemporary,Holiday,Patriotic,Sacred. 7 pages. TigerSong LLC #1079298. Published by TigerSong LLC (A0.1503844). Carl Sandburg's Thanksgiving poem Fire Dreams, set for SATB choir. The music follows the rhythms of the poem, as it meditates on pilgrims and gratitude, and their place in our modern consciousness. The poem was written to be read aloud on Thanksgiving Day. Piano accompaniment intended for rehearsal only (although it can accompany performance).I remember here by the fire,In the flickering reds and saffrons,They came in a ramshackle tub,Pilgrims in tall hats,Pilgrims of iron jaws,Drifting by weeks on beaten seas,And the random chapters sayThey were glad and sang to God.And soSince the iron-jawed men sat downAnd said, Thanks, O God,For life and soup and a little lessThan a handout to-day,Since gray winds blew gray patterns of sleet on Plymouth Rock,Since the iron-jawed [wo]men sang Thanks, O God,You and I, O Child of the West,Remember more than everNovember and the hunter's moon,November and the yellow-spotted hills.And soIn the name of the iron-jawed menI will stand up and say yes till the finish is come and gone.God of all broken hearts, empty hands, sleeping soldiers,God of all star-flung beaches of night sky,I and my love-child stand up together to-day and sing: Thanks, O God..

Contralto voice and piano - Moderately Easy - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8970-E Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. National Songs/Patriotic. 39 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8970-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8970-E). English.A collection of songs based upon the writings of Will Cather and Carl Sandburg. Originally conceived as a set, but pieces may also used individually. The Sandberg texts which connect the Cather poems are all excerpted from the poem “Prairie.� The music and the Sandburg writing is personal, narrative and expressive and contrasts with Cather’s style of descriptive imagery.

Soprano voice and piano - Moderately Easy - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8994-E Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. National Songs/Patriotic. 39 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8994-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8994-E). English.A collection of songs based upon the writings of Will Cather and Carl Sandburg. Originally conceived as a set, but pieces may also used individually. The Sandberg texts which connect the Cather poems are all excerpted from the poem “Prairie.� The music and the Sandburg writing is personal, narrative and expressive and contrasts with Cather’s style of descriptive imagery.

Large Ensemble Choir,Hand Percussion,High Voice,Low Voice,Piano Accompaniment,Train Whistle - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.917297 Composed by Robert Chamberlin. 20th Century. Score and parts. 6 pages. Robert Chamberlin #5196191. Published by Robert Chamberlin (A0.917297). The Song of Joe is based on one of the stories from Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories.  Three boys share a secret unfulfilled ambition of riding the railroad.  When this unfulfilled ambition made them sad, they would sing The Song of Joe.  This musical setting of Sandburg's text has the three boys (TTB) singing from the stage and Joe (T) singing off stage.  Instruments include piano, slide whistle, train whistle, and sand block.  The parts for the three boys can be simply a trio or can be sung with a larger ensemble.

Concert Band - Digital Download SKU: AX.00-PC-0000836_WPTBBTC (wp) B-flat Tuba T.C.. Composed by Robert Sheldon. Instructional. World Part. 2 pages. Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music #00-PC-0000836_wpTBBTC. Published by Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music (AX.00-PC-0000836_WPTBBTC). UPC: 038081268958.A Prairie Portrait was inspired by the poetry of Carl Sandburg. The lyrical quality of the music is a testament to the loving words he wrote as a tribute to his birthplace. The pioneer spirit shines through the opening of the work, full of youthful optimism and energy. The lyrical section that follows represents the poet's hankering for another day and beautiful night on the prairie, giving us the warm feelings of love and security we all feel about the place we call home. This title is available in SmartMusic.

Piano,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.951285 Composed by Michael Hoppe. 20th Century,Contemporary,Romantic Period. 7 pages. Chordially Yours Music #5741141. Published by Chordially Yours Music (A0.951285). Lover's Lament featuring Lily Hayden's beautiful violin playingwas first used in the spoken word album The Lover a disc of Carl Sandburg's love poetry set to music, and wonderfully narratedby Tim Wheater. Eventually, I later used the music for Lux Aeternain Requiem

Soprano voice,Vocal Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1102000 Composed by Mark Lehnowsky. Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Opera,Wedding. 6 pages. Mark Lehnowsky Music #705388. Published by Mark Lehnowsky Music (A0.1102000). Carl Sandburg wrote such an incredible poem, and I felt an obligation to capture its spirit. Passionate and painful, simple and loving, the music dramatizes the story of someone who would endure any hardship if the Gods would only see fit to leave them a little love. They demand it. They beg it. They wait for it. Give this work a chance, and please send me a recording.