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 say
They were glad and sang to God.

And so
Since the iron-jawed men sat down
And said, Thanks, O God,
For life and soup and a little less
Than 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 ever
November and the hunter's moon,
November and the yellow-spotted hills.

And so
In the name of the iron-jawed men
I 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..

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1008091

Composed by Connie Pwll Walck Tyler. Contemporary,Spiritual. Octavo. 12 pages. Connie Tyler #4833171. Published by Connie Tyler (A0.1008091).

The Tree Song is one of many songs from the novel The Earth Woman Tree Woman Quartet.  This piece for two cellos, a viola and a double bass, with SATB choir evokes the deep voice of the tree.  The choral part is not difficult, but the strings are challenging.  The string parts can be played on a synthesizer.  Contact Connie at connie@deephum for help with this. The song is short, two and half minutes and might be performed with some of the other songs from the book.  Some of the songs can be found on the website www.earthwomantreewoman.com. 

 

The words are:

Waves of things of forms I am exist in dreams within me,
flow through the sap of trees to come and leaves to come,
falling, decaying, the soil I am, a nutrient for things living,
eating the earth, water and sun, fruit I become,
feeding the unrooted beings ever I'm giving.

And then I am free.
I stretch my wings and fling myself into the air.
I sing, I call. My joy is beyond any earthly care.
The snap of the jaws of the four-legged one is only a moment of pain
for I am living again with a diff'rent name.
And when this life's done the worms I become and pass to the earth to gain my rebirth.

 See my website at www.deephum.com and my facebook pages at Connie Pwll Walck Tyler, Deep Hum Productions, and The Earth Woman Tree Woman Quartet. For more information contact me at connie@deephum.com.

Choral Choir (Mixed) - Level 1 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.814671

Composed by Richard E Brown and Richard E Brown. A Cappella,Children,Halloween,Instructional,Standards. Octavo. 4 pages. Dacker Music #2957003. Published by Dacker Music (A0.814671).

Spook Walk is a Halloween novelty feature with a Jaws style ostinato that young children will have fun with. Basically it is 2 parts--girls and boys--with very minimal divisi in the girls' part.   Level VE   -   Duration  2:15