Piano and voice (solo and SATB chorus) - Digital Download SKU: LV.4490 Composed by John T. Rutledge. Country life, Courtship, Love. Lester S. Levy Collection. 5 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.4490). Save the Sweetest Kiss For Me. Tenth Edition. Words and Music by John T. Rutledge. Published 1876 by Jesse French, 85 & 87 Church St. in Nashville, Tenn. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice (solo and satb chorus) instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Country life, Courtship, Love. First line reads Long I've wandered, darling, wandered, from your little cottage door.. About The Lester S. Levy CollectionThe Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents. Language and concepts within reflect the opinions and values of the time and may be offensive to some.

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1171401 Composed by Roger Quilter. 20th Century,Classical. Octavo. 24 pages. Forsyth Brothers Ltd #771738. Published by Forsyth Brothers Ltd (A0.1171401). A delightful early opus from one of the most individual English songwriters of the Twentieth Century, Roger Quilter (1877-1953). The texts are taken from the works of Seventeenth Century English poet Robert Herrick (ca 1591-1674) whose lyrics Quilter also set to music in his Opus 8 song-cycle To Julia (1905). The Opus 7 settings are dedicated to Quilter's friend Percy Grainger.FIVE LYRICS OF ROBERT HERRICK (SATB & Piano): Cupid A Dirge Morning Song To Electra To Violets  CupidLove, like a beggar came to meWith hose and doublet torn;His shirt bedangling from his knee,With hat and shoes outworn. He asked an alms; I gave him bread,And meat too for his need,Of which, when he had fully fed,He wished me all good speed.Away he went, but as he turned,In faith I know not how,He touched me so, as that I burnedAnd am tormented now. Love’s silent flames and fires obscureThen crept into my heart;And though I saw no bow, I’m sureHis finger was the dart. A DirgeHere she lies, in bed of spice,Fair as Eve in ParadiseFor her beauty was suchPoets could not praise too much.Virgins come, and in a ringHer supremest requiem sing.Then depart but see ye treadLightly, lightly o’er the dead.Morning Song Let's now take our time,While we're in our prime,And old, old age is afar off:For the evil, evil daysWill come on apace,Before we can be aware of. To ElectraI dare not ask a kiss;I dare not beg a smile;Lest, having that or this,I might grow proud the while. No, no, the utmost shareOf my desire shall beOnly to kiss the airThat lately kissèd thee. To VioletsWelcome, maids of honour!You do bringIn the SpringAnd wait upon her She has virgins manyFresh and fair;Yet you areMore sweet than anyY'are the maiden posiesAnd so graced,To be placed'Fore damask roses.Yet though thus respectedBy and byYe do lie,Poor girls, neglected.

Chorus - Digital Download SKU: AX.00-PO-0002540 Another Op'nin', Another Show (from Kiss Me, Kate) - SATB. Composed by Cole Porter. Arranged by Teena Chinn. Choral. 14 pages. Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music #00-PO-0002540. Published by Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music (AX.00-PO-0002540). UPC: 654979197553.What a way to open any concert! The recent Broadway revival of the classic Cole Porter musical Kiss Me Kate has popularized all the great songs from the show again. Teena Chinn has created an exceptionally singable arrangement that will be fun for choirs and audiences alike.Recorded Acc. Available.

Chorus - Digital Download SKU: AX.00-PO-0002292 Another Op'nin', Another Show - SATB. Composed by Cole Porter. Arranged by Philip Kern. Choral. 15 pages. Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music #00-PO-0002292. Published by Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music (AX.00-PO-0002292). UPC: 038081310985.From the musical Kiss Me, Kate comes this quintessential Broadway opener, spectacularly arranged for today's choirs. It's a classic show-biz 2-beat song, complete with unforgettable lyrics about the joys of life on the stage. Featured on the Hooray for Hollywood! movement DVD #28868.Inst. Parts Available (choral); Movement and Staging; Recorded Acc. Available.

Piano and voice (solo and SATB chorus) - Digital Download SKU: LV.585 Composed by Edwin Christie. Fathers & children, Spouses, Stairways, Doors & doorways, Farewells, Travel, Love. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.585). Come Home Early Tonight. Words by Dexter Smith. Music by Edwin Christie. Published 1872 by Oliver Ditson & Co., 277 Washington St. in Boston. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice (solo and satb chorus) instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Fathers & children, Spouses, Stairways, Doors & doorways, Farewells, Travel, Love. First line reads Let me kiss you, papa darling, ere you go away from home!.. About The Lester S. Levy CollectionThe Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents. Language and concepts within reflect the opinions and values of the time and may be offensive to some.

Choral Choir,Choral (SATB divisi) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1308788 Composed by Charles Tenet. Arranged by Tobi Crawford. Jazz. 11 pages. Tobi Crawford #898034. Published by Tobi Crawford (A0.1308788). *Purchase 10 copies to perform this piece with your ensemble of any size*Purchase the instrumental pack (bass and drum part) here: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/en/product/beyond-the-sea-instrumental-pack-only-22605052.htmlThis arrangement came to me over a number of weeks in a very organic way that began with the ostinato piano figure that prevails throughout the piece. I began playing it unattached to any tune and I just liked the way the line descended in the left hand and how I had to find voicings in the right hand that made harmonic sense – like a puzzle. As I was playing around with this puzzle, thoughts of my father were swirling around in my head – I was at the end of a 4 year period of separation from my parents owing to the fact that I’m a Canadian expat living in the US and the borders were closed for a long time because of Covid, and then I had work visa issues and my parents were getting older before my eyes. They were also losing friends to cancer and other ailments and my dad, in particular, had experienced the loss of many close family members and friends during our separation and it was taking a toll. One day I sat down and played the now familiar-to-me ostinato but randomly I started to sing “Beyond the Sea� over it and it fit perfectly. I thought it a happy coincidence. As the days went on I committed to putting my ostinato with Beyond the Sea and the lyrics started to seep into my brain. I have, of course, heard these lyrics many times before, (who hasn’t seen Finding Nemo?) but the lyrics didn’t mean what I thought they meant… They’re NOT about the ocean, they are about my dad!!! Well, kind of… I realized, through careful reflection and by slowing the words down, that the lyrics are talking about a person in heaven who is patiently waiting for their partner to join them. Somewhere beyond the seaShe’s there watching for me…It’s far beyond the starsIt’s near beyond the moon And the lyrics end with them meeting, “We’ll meet beyond the shore, we’ll kiss just like before,� and the song ends with: “and never again I’ll go sailing.� It’s like the big bang went off in my head about why all these thoughts of my dad, and his friends, and this arrangement, and what it all meant suddenly just MADE SENSE and I was able to start formulating a plan. Performance Suggestions: The improvisation solo in the middle should be free of any traditional “scat syllables� and should be more of a lament. Listen to singers like Aubrey Johnson improvise on ballads for inspiration. An idea for that improv section might be to have a male singer start the improv, then a female singer joins (as if together in heaven) then they sing letter F together (warning: will cause tears…). All solo sections do not have to be sung as written – soloists can take liberties with the melody as the spirit moves.

Choral Choir,Choral (SATB) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1012606 Composed by Michelle Kraak. Easter,Praise & Worship,Sacred. 16 pages. Michelle Kraak #6102931. Published by Michelle Kraak (A0.1012606). The Betrayal is written for choir (soprano, alto, tenor, bass). It is a religious piece based on the passion of Christ. It has aspects of imitation, with a lot of independence in the parts. The vocal parts represent the voice of Jesus, the voices of those who crucified him, a narrator, and also briefly the voice of Peter, Jesus' disciple. The bass primarily sings the role of the people who called for his death, but as the piece continues others join in this role. I wrote some of the lyrics and also pulled some verses in from the Bible. I think this would be a great piece for Holy Week, perhaps on Good Friday or Maundy Thursday. the piece captures some of the intense emotions involved in the crucifixion and would make a great addition to Lenten music in the church. Lyrics:Why did you leave me?Why did you run?I absolved you of your sin. Jesus Christ must die for what he's done. I absolved you of your sin,I saved you from yourselves,I just wanted to lead you,Closer to God. Death! I wanted to give you new life. Three times you will deny me, Woman I do not know him! Jesus Christ must die for what he's done. Why did you leave me? Why did you run?I absolved you of your sin.I saved you from yourselves,I just wanted to lead you, Closer to God. Jesus I didn't know him.I don't know the man! Jesus Christ must die for what he's done. Peter struck him!Cut off his ear,Jesus touched him and healed him,Though the man had come for him. Jesus Christ must die for what he's done. Why should Jesus die for what he's done?Why did I forsake the Son of God?I'd have called for him to be crucified. We are no better,Then the past. Why did you forsake me,Why did you forsake me? Forgive them,For they do not know what they're doing. Forgive them,For they do not know what they're doing. Betrayed with a kiss. Surely he was the son of God.Surely he was the son of God.Surely he was the son of God.4 minutes 29 seconds6 minutes 29 secondsashevilletrumpet.comhttps://www.facebook.com/kraakmichellehttps://www.instagram.com/kraakmichelle/https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-kraak-71b0258a/

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.799676 By Lee DeWyze. By Leonard Cohen. Arranged by D. M. Gardner. A Cappella,Rock. Octavo. 10 pages. D. M. Gardner Music #4803255. Published by D. M. Gardner Music (A0.799676). Hallelujah - For Those Who Fight for FreedomA Tribute to VeteransSATB a cappellaMy orders say we're shipping' outWe don’t have long now to talk aboutThe hundred thousand ways I’m gonna’ miss ya’When we told the kids I’d have to leaveThrough tears, they tried to comfort me And my broken heart cried out a Hallelujah!CHORUS: Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, HallelujahMy boots sink in the desert sandAnd all I want is to hold your handAnd kiss you like the day I whisper'd to ya’But reminding me as I left the gateYou said, Freedom’s call, it can never waitAnd you’d be right there when I came back runnin’ to ya’CHORUS****THIRD VERSE HIDDEN IN HOPES YOU WILL PURCHASE THE MUSIC!  THANKS!***CHORUS X2My darling, would you please sit downAnd gather all the kids around?I got somethin’ that I really need to tell ya’Daddy’s not gonna’ make it home;I tried so hard, but your not alone,‘Cause from way up here, I can see your Momma’s with ya’!CHORUS X2Alternate lyrics for verse four:My darling, would you please sit downAnd gather all the kids around?I got somethin’ that I really need to tell ya’Sometimes you might feel alone, But please don't cry, 'cause I'm coming' home,And don't be afraid, 'cause you know I'm always with ya'!To learn more about the arranger and poet, please visit https://www.dmgardner.com*Please note, all text above is subject to copyright.  Please do not use without purchase!

Choral Choir (SATB divisi) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1161065 Composed by Dave Gardner. Classical,Historic. Octavo. 12 pages. D. M. Gardner Music #761387. Published by D. M. Gardner Music (A0.1161065). The vivid imagery and powerful emotion of Shakespeare’s 128th sonnet resonate throughout this evocative setting of the text. Few pieces elicit as genuine a response from the listener and fewer still are remembered as sweetly by the ear. How oft, when thou, my music, music play’st,Upon that blessed wood whose motion soundsWith thy sweet fingers, when thou gently sway’stThe wiry concord that mine ear confounds,Do I envy those jacks that nimble leapTo kiss the tender inward of thy hand,Whilst my poor lips which should that harvest reap,At the wood’s boldness by thee blushing stand!To be so tickl’d, they would change their stateAnd situation with those dancing chips,O’er whom thy fingers walk with gentle gait,Making dead wood more bless’d than living lips.     Since saucy jacks so happy are in this,     Give them thy fingers, me thy lips to kiss.A great piece for a good high school or college choir looking to a a memorable and fun piece to their repertoire!