Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.933611 Composed by John Stafford Smith. Arranged by Thomas Coker. Folk,Patriotic. Octavo. 4 pages. Thomas Rembert Coker Jr #3503513. Published by Thomas Rembert Coker Jr (A0.933611). In 2009 when Sanctuary Choir of South Main Baptist Church in Houston where I served as Music Minister was scheduled to sing the National Anthem for the Houston Astros baseball game, I carefully examined the several arrangements in our library and other resources. Finding nothing which met the simple, straight-forward criteria I was searching for, we created this simple arrangement. Since its addition to the music library it has proven very useful on numerous occasions for a variety of groups. About the National Anthem:The lyrics for The Star-Spangled Banner were written on September 14, 1814 from a British ship in the Baltimore Harbor where attorney Francis Scott Key had waited anxiously through the night as the twenty-five hour bombing of Ft. McHenry progressed. He had been sent to negotiate the release of an American civilian and then was held on board the ship.  At the dawn’s early light when the flag could still be seen indicating the British had not taken the fort, he jotted down this poem which on March 3, 1931 finally became the National Anthem of the United States. Interestingly, it was Robert Ripley who in November of 1929 drew a panel in his syndicated cartoon, Ripley’s Believe It or Not stating Believe It or Not, America has no national anthem. With the encouragement of John Philip Sousa, President Herbert Hoover signed into law the adoption of The Star-Spangled Banner to rectify this situation. According to the Smithsonian, the melody, written by John Stafford Smith, was originally titled Anacreon in Heaven. Anacreon was an ancient Greek poet known for his love of wine and love. The song had become the constitutional song of a London gentlemen’s club called the Anacreontic Society. Could this explain the wide range of the melody? By utilizing this tune to the moving text, this once merry drinking song took on a bold new and powerful meaning. Thomas Coker, August 27, 2015  

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.889678 Composed by William Hawley. Contemporary. Octavo. 7 pages. William Hawley #3420491. Published by William Hawley (A0.889678). O How I Love by William Hawley sets an early poem by John Keats written in a moment of sheer joy in poetry and the beauty of Nature. This work for SSAATTBB unaccompanied Chorus was commissioned by The Heartland Chamber Chorale, Robert Nance, Conductor (audio clip). Duration: 4 minutes. ASCAP  http://williamhawley.net

SATB choir unaccompanied - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.7819-E Composed by John David Earnest. Wedding. 16 pages. Duration 7 minutes, 30 seconds. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #7819-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.7819-E). Italian.This piece is a collaborative project with conductor/poet Robert Bode. A choral work in memory of Dr. Morris J. Beachy based on Monteverdi's O Mirtillo. Bode's text and Earnest's music are an evocation of the experience of singing Monteverdi’s madrigal, and certain fragments of his madrigal have been folded into this work—both textually and musically.Commissioned and premiered by the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory Singers in October 2011 under Robert Bode’s direction. The performance of the Fantasy immediately followed a performance of Monteverdi’s madrigal without pause. Duration: 7:30.

Choral Choir,Choral (SATB) - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1315991 Composed by Cheryl Terhune Cronk. A Cappella. 13 pages. Foxglove Music Press #904733. Published by Foxglove Music Press (A0.1315991). The lyrics in this SATB a cappella piece combine the poems To Dianeme by Robert Herrick (1591-1674) and A White Rose by John Boyle O'Reilly (1844-1890).The imitative voices, from Soprano/Alto to Tenor/Bass, give the work a madrigal like quality. This fits perfect into a springtime performance program for high school quartet to choir.

SATB choir (choir divisi) unaccompanied - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.1.3468-E Composed by Joseph Gregorio. National Collegiate Choral Organization Choral Series. Secular, 21st century. 21 pages. Duration 6 minutes, 30 seconds. Galaxy Music Corporation - Digital #1.3468-E. Published by Galaxy Music Corporation - Digital (MQ.1.3468-E). UPC: 600313134685.Love, thricewise was the winner of the 2009 Pacific Chorale Young Composers Competition. It was premiered in February 2010 under the baton of Robert Istad by the John Alexander Singers. The first movement, Liquor and lacquer, sets Witter Bynner's Opus 6 and depicts infatuation through flighty changes of meter and sudden shifts of mode. The second, entitled An amethyst remembrance and based on a poem by Emily Dickinson, is built around a false cadence on the words 'T will keep. It is regretful, slowly building to an anguished climax and wistfully fading away. Finally, Kinsfolk takes Sidney Lanier's A Song of Love as its text. It is both a lighthearted reflection on the paradoxical and complementary relationship between love and pain, and a pining for love. The first two stanzas of Kinsfolk pit the tenors and basses, who deliver the first stanza’s melody, against the sopranos and altos, who answer in the second stanza with the same melody in a key a tritone away from that of the first. The third stanza is a fugato on the same melody, culminating in a fervid fortissimo. Duration approx. 6:30.

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1030960 Composed by John Lasher. Contemporary. Octavo. 7 pages. Era 5000 Music Publishing #1791809. Published by Era 5000 Music Publishing (A0.1030960). SATB. Original setting of the famous Robert Frost poem.