Choral Choir,Choral,SATB Chorus - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1490010 Composed by Text: Eden Reeder Latta (1839 - 1915) Tune: Henry Southwick Perkins (1833 -1914. Arranged by Ken Litton. Christian,Lent,Religious,Sacred. 11 pages. Artist of Note, Inc. #1066874. Published by Artist of Note, Inc. (A0.1490010). Whiter Than the Snow/Eden Reeder Latta  - Henry Southwick Perkins BLESSED BE THE FOUNTAIN arr. Ken Litton (ASCAP)As an SBC music missionary active in Brazil I quickly discovered the hymns missionaries had taken with them as the work gained impetus from the 1890s when the Bagbys arrived to build on the foundation laid by early pioneers like Solomon Ginsburg. I found myself leading those hymns from the nearly 100 year old Cantor Cristão (Christian Singer) in the strongly attended evening services at the Igreja Batista Rio Doce (Sweet River Baptist Church) in Recife, with people literally leaning in through the windows from outside to sing along. Just a normal p.m. attendance or... curiosity about the missionary leading? No, certainly it was the message of the gospel in these great hymns and in the Brazilians’ creative work as well. I mainly remember holding that small print hymnal in one hand and leading with the other (shaking badly) and singing in Portuguese!From that kind of congregational participation I vividly remember the hymn Blessed be the Fountain by Eden Reeder Latta (1839 - 1915) and Henry Southwick Perkins (1833 -1914) with it’s energetic dotted eighth and sixteenth rhythm figures and text of confession based on Zechariah 13:1. That text was very important in the lives of disciples in Brazil and in my own heart. Here I have used only the verses of the text and tune, simply smoothing out the rhythm and adjusting the lyric to more modern usage (yet preserving the devotional pronouns Thee, Thy and Thine).The tune BLESSED BE THE FOUNTAIN is altered in rhythm, tempo and one descending interval from the original.  The arrangement is by me, having built the intro, interlude and key change as well as the ending from the material that constituted the refrain in the origina. As a bridge and additional textual/musical impulse into the key change and final verse I’ve interpolated the refrain from the well-known gospel hymn Whiter than Snow (FISCHER) by James Nicholson and William G. Fischer.The voices include a wide variety of unison, two-part and four-part passages that are well within the capability of the average church choir. The accompaniment difficulty level is about as minimal as it can be I hope, while still reflecting support for the voices, a measure of variety as well as some real independence.I certainly think choirs of some ability and their dedicated accompanists will enjoyWhiter Than the Snow as much as I have in developing it.

SATB choir, children’s choir (SA), flute, strings, and percussion, or piano - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8776-E Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. 23 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8776-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8776-E). English.Longfellow's poem, The Day is Done, speaks of evening as the time when poetry and music comealive and soothe the cares of day. The musical setting presents the opening lyrics in the children’s voices: The day is done, and the darkness falls from the wings of night. These phrases, or slight variations thereof, return as refrains throughout the song. The verses alternate between the men’s and women’s voices, with the children interjecting refrains or offering commentary in the background. Finally, the children interrupt the SATB dialogue with exclamations of a song! a song! a song! These lead to the climax of the song, given to the children’s chorus, singing And the night shall be filled with music. All voices then join together in celebration: Our song shall fill the night. The accompaniment (originally composed for piano, later adapted for flute, strings, and percussion) delights in text-setting with sparkling arpeggios depicting the celestial harmonies, and filigree patterns for the star-filled night sky. Duration: 5:00.

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.891181 Composed by Kings of Orient, John H. Hopkins. Arranged by Richard Donn. Christmas,Contemporary,Holiday,Sacred,Traditional. Octavo. 12 pages. Cartecay River Music Publishing #3493767. Published by Cartecay River Music Publishing (A0.891181). SAW YOU NEVER, IN THE TWILIGHT (w/We Three Kings)  This haunting and mysterious anthem for SATB choir leads you to imagine yourself joining the wise men gently rocking atop the camels as they followed the new star on their way to see the newborn savior.  It opens with unison men singing the refrain of We Three Kings (as from afar).  These two carols of the wise men (Saw You Never, in the Twilight and We Three Kings) are masterfully woven together in 6/8 time.  Your choir and congregation will love this unique and easily accessible anthem for Advent and Christmas.  Duration: 3:40  A piano accompaniment track is available through SheetMusicPlus.com.

Choral Choir,Choral (SATB) - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.998715 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Contemporary,Easter,Sacred. 8 pages. Robert A. Howard #4967075. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.998715). This is a simple, accessible, six-verse (with refrain) modal setting of the (Good Friday) Reproaches for use in worship or concert. It is designed to be used with congregation if desirable (with them singing the repeated soprano melody throughout). Variation is provided in each successive verse by simple textural change in the (lower) choral parts, doubled in the accompaniment. It is appropriate for virtually any standard and size of 4-part choir, including school, student, community, church and cathedral choirs. The accompaniment can be on organ or piano. This work is also available in versions for SA choir, and for solo/unison voices, again from Sheet Music Plus.

SATB choir (choir divisi) unaccompanied - Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8452-E Composed by Frank Ferko. Advanced/Collegiate. Secular, 21st Century, Creation/Nature. Instrument part. 20 pages. Duration 6 minutes, 7 seconds. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8452-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8452-E). English.In the summer of 2011, while I was visiting my friends Don and Sally Roberts in Santa Fe, Sally asked me if I would be interested in writing a new choral work for Don in celebration of his upcoming 75th birthday. The idea appealed to me very much, so I readily agreed to write the piece. Since Don has enjoyed a lifelong interest in the American Southwest Pueblo people and their customs, Sally provided me with several Tewa texts, in English translation, to consider for musical setting. I was particularly drawn to the imagery of Song of the Sky Loom, so that poem became the basis for the new work. The music begins with two baritone soloists singing an introductory 'call-and-response' to which the entire chorus eventually responds. The opening line of text is first presented in fragmented form, as if voices from all areas of nature gradually rise up and then merge into a unified chordal texture. As the text turns to the imagery of weaving, the musical texture, accordingly, becomes contrapuntal: individual melodic lines, sung by solo voices or small groups (the 'weft'), intertwine with each other and also with the main chorus, which provides the overall harmonic structure (the 'warp'). The following chorale section, infused with occasional chromatic inflections, represents the massive 'rainbow' in the text and brings the work to a unified conclusion. Song of the Sky Loom was first performed by the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, under the direction of Joshua Habermann, on July 19, 2016 with three subsequent performances during the following two weeks. -Frank Ferko Duration: 6:07.

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.583941 By Prince. By Prince. Arranged by Jeff Tincher. Pop,Rock. Octavo. 21 pages. Jeff Tincher #5196161. Published by Jeff Tincher (A0.583941). Here is one of Prince's more popular songs. Title track from his movie soundtrack in the original key, this is the full version of the song. This arrangement includes the guitar solos and the orchestra trail off. There is also additional choral parts not in the soundtrack version. If you want to do a shorter version of this song, you can cut it off at measure 96. If you perform the long version, I would suggest doing the string trail-off (measures 108 to the end) a capella. I classified this as intermediate due to how the verses are written and the possible difficulties for nmany voices singing the synbcopation together. Duration = 8:02. Visit my websites: https://jefftincher.wixsite.com/sheetmusic, https://jefftincher.wixsite.com/music, https://www.facebook.com/jefftincherpublishing.

Piano Accompaniment, Choir, SATB - Early Intermediate - Digital Download By Gene Kelly. Arranged by Stephen DeCesare. Sheet Music Single. 9 pages. Published by Exultet Musi

By Gene Kelly. Arranged by Stephen DeCesare. Sheet Music Single. 9 pages. Published by Exultet Music

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1143973 Composed by Kenny Ascher and Paul Williams. Arranged by J K Szunko. 20th Century,Children,Film/TV,Pop. Octavo. 5 pages. J K Szunko #744283. Published by J K Szunko (A0.1143973). A very accessible version of the whimsical, The Rainbow Connection, from the Muppet Movie. This SATB arrangement was created for a community choir of both first time and experienced singers and so is accessible for a range of performers. It features chord symbols to allow flexibility in choice of instrumental accompanist. This is a nostalgic and heart warming arrangement with rousing harmonies that will have your audiences swaying and singing along. A perfect finale to any performance set Keywords: beginner, intermediate, flexible, amateur, soprano, alto, tenor, bass, group, heart-warming, LGBT, J K Szunko.

Choral Choir (Mixed) - Digital Download SKU: A0.835784 Composed by Paul Burnell. Contemporary. Octavo. 2 pages. Paul Burnell #3396247. Published by Paul Burnell (A0.835784). For voices and instruments.  The words adapted from the poem by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)Duration 3:00 The piece can be performed in several ways - possible options are: The 1st verse/refrain is solo voices (perhaps one voice, or one section). Men would sing an octave lower.The 2nd, 3rd and 4th verses/refrains are accompanied by an increasingly layered drone. The drone could be a mix of organ and/or instruments and voices. The voices sing the drone to ‘ay’ and will need to stagger their breaths. By the 4th verse the drone is in three lines - and perhaps is in organ or instruments alone because voices are all singing the melody line. The ascending chromatic line could be doubled an octave lower. Each line of the drone begins at the end of the previous refrain.At each verse more singers join the melody line. The melody may be played by organ/instruments as well. The 4th refrain is the loudest.The 5th verse is sung without the drone. It might be effective for this to be performed with a gradual diminuendo, or for singers to drop out one by one.

Choral Choir,Choral (SATB divisi) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1109087 By Kevin Longley. By Kevin Longley. Arranged by Kevin Longley. A Cappella,Christian,Praise & Worship,Religious,Sacred. 10 pages. Kevin Longley #711630. Published by Kevin Longley (A0.1109087). Inspiration While I have recited the Nicene Creed countless times, in July 2021 something changed. The church had cleared the return of the choir, post pandemic, and it was my first Sunday of singing in well over a year. That Sunday as I recited the creed something happened when I reached the line “And His Kingdom Will Have No End�. Was it louder? Was it spoken with greater conviction? Something was different! Maybe it was just me. I'm not sure but all I know is that every Sunday thereafter it had the same impact on me. Within a few weeks I decided to compose a choral piece about that very line. I had to! The Music For the most part the harmony and structure are traditional but do contain harmonic structures with a contemporary flair. The arrangement is refrain, verse, refrain, verse, bridge and then refrain. The first and 3rd refrains are highly similar while the second refrain contains a soprano section descant while featuring the bass's carrying the main melody. The overall intent of the music is that on every return to the refrain, it is louder than the previous refrain. This signifies the singers confidence growing, in the existence of God's Kingdom, after each verse. With that said the piece starts quietly, almost being heard from a distance. The refrain lyrics speak to the hope that we carry for God's kingdom while the verses speak to God and Jesus in a more intimate way. The bridge speaks to the strength of the Kingdom and then leads back to the opening refrain, now in double forte. The high point in the piece is reached where volume, emotion and a significant ritard occur at the phrase “we'll be together�. From there the piece decreases in volume ending in a quiet confidence repeating “No end, no end, no end�.

Choral Choir (SATB) - Digital Download SKU: A0.1019365 Composed by Kevin Longley. Christian,Praise & Worship,Sacred. Octavo. 10 pages. Kevin Longley #6344809. Published by Kevin Longley (A0.1019365). With My HeartInspiration In 2012 my wife suggested we attend a church service at a Catholic church in town called Holy Cross. It was unclear as to where this came from; my wife has never been one to attend church services. I agreed though I was puzzled. On our first attendance what caught my ear was the beautiful sounds coming from the choir. There was a choir director playing the piano and singing soprano, one alto, one tenor and one bass. They sounded quite good especially the director; she had studied at Julliard and there were several other choir members who were trained musicians. It was only a few months later that I found myself singing with the choir during lent. From this experience was born With All My Heart, written for the Holy Cross choir. The Music The music is upbeat, contemporary, with lyrics modified from Psalm 103. Completed in 2013, it was my first church piece in a dozen years. A simple structure of ABABCB with a soloist for the C section. Program Notes I thank God for leading my wife to this church as it lead to my resumption of singing for the Lord and continued composing of church music to this day in 2021.

Choral SATB choir - Digital Download SKU: H1.C5288DP Arranged by Larry Shackley. Spirituals & Gospel, Jazz / Swing, General Worship, Eternal Life, Gospel, Spiritual. Octavo. 12 pages. Hope Publishing - Digital #C5288DP. Published by Hope Publishing - Digital (H1.C5288DP). Popular spiritual With this spirited setting, Larry Shackley continues his series of jazz-flavored spirituals for church and school choirs. You can hear the train wheels turning in the opening accompaniment, then the voices enter one by one, singing: Gospel train is a-comin', comin'! The driving, bluesy piano part provides the energy for the joyous refrain. A smooth, serene middle verse leads to a final visit from the gospel train, ending in an exuberant coda.

SATB choir, Piano (With Optional Accompaniment MP3, Full Orchestra) - Digital Download SKU: LX.10-5750L Arranged by Lloyd Larson. Sacred Anthem, Christmas. Octavo. 16 pages. Lorenz Publishing - Digital Sheet Music #e10/5750L. Published by Lorenz Publishing - Digital Sheet Music (LX.10-5750L). The arranging talents of Lloyd Larson are on full display in this medley of two cherished carols. This piece is extracted from his cantata, A New and Glorious Morn, and opens with an optional narration under a quiet underscore. The choir begins singing O Holy Night simply, but it culminates in a grand treatment of its well-known refrain. The congregation is then invited to join the choir in several verses of Silent Night. This anthem will create a special moment in your worship service or concert! An SATB version is also available.

Choral Choir,Choral,SATB Chorus - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1496732 Composed by PERSONENT HODIE from the Piae Cantones, 1583. Arranged by Ken Litton. 20th Century,Advent,Christian,Christmas,Sacred. 19 pages. Artist of Note, Inc. #1073248. Published by Artist of Note, Inc. (A0.1496732). Jazz Hodie (On this Day Earth Shall Ring)PERSONENT HODIE arr. Ken Litton (ASCAP) Those who have the good fortunate to hear Gustav Holst’s arrangement of PERSONENT HODIE as a choral processional with its engaging melody, measured gait and echoed text have never forgotten the magical moment—and were never really ready for it to end. Hailing from the The Oxford Book of Carols this German plainsong melody—from the Piae Cantones, 1583—has made its way into strong choral and worship traditions at Advent/Christmas.Of all the current texts and arrangements available, this version honors Holst’s unison accompanied setting in an unexpected subtle jazz styling, with the hope of bringing additional range to its established place in advent literature (both in terms of style and in appeal to a variety of age groups). And, On This Day Earth Shall Ring, translated by Jane M. Joseph  (text in the public domain) gives it just the traditional touch needed for Jazz Hodie (On this Day).This SATB setting of the tune offers accompaniment designed for piano or organ, optional acoustic/string bass and an optional part for a single player involving three of the percussionist section best friends in the : the suspended cymbal, mallets (vibraphone, marimba or bells or bell lyre), and a small triangle. It should be noted that an electronic piano/synthesizer voice could substitute well for the mallets and the use of handbells is also viable. Perfect for Lessons & Carols presentations!The unison singing and bell-tone echoes of the first stanza/refrain soon give way to smooth, contrasting jazz harmony. The choral ranges are very much within the reach of the average choir and the voicings vary from unison to three and four parts, followed by a return to the character of the opening. The piece builds toward a close with a choral ascent in the final bars and a bass line reminiscent of the first verse, but with an extra jazz twist. But, it can easily be restarted for processional use by simply dropping back into the C minor introduction’s bass line. Note: the String Bass/Electric Bass part is included!Also available in a Hymn Sheet Version that includes everything needed for a small ensembe and/or the worshiping congregation.All this from the places you go for the best in downloadable resources:Sheet Music Direct Sheet Music Plus As well as via Hal Leonard InStore™ retailers.Also…be sure to check out other titles from East of the Altar/Artist of Note, Inc.Thanks, as always to the good folks at ArrangeMe.com, a division of Hal Leonard.