Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.841363 Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn, Samuel Arnold, and William H. Cummings. Arranged by Michele Galvagno. Christian,Christmas,Praise & Worship,Sacred. Octavo. 18 pages. Artistic Score Engraving di Galvagno Michele #6098159. Published by Artistic Score Engraving di Galvagno Michele (A0.841363). This year's Christmas publication choice fell on a song very dear to me: Hark! The herald angels sing. The text, inspired by Luke’s Gospel (2:14), appears for the first time in a collection of Christmas carols called Hymns and Sacred Poems in 1739, jointly written by Charles Wesley (1707-1788 ) and George Whitefield (1714-1770), two of the founding members of the Methodist movement.The version we know today is the one adapted by William H. Cummings (1831-1915) from the section Vaterland, in deinen Gauen of the Festgesang zum Gutenbergfest, WoO 9, by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847). The story, however, is more complex and articulated than that.The original version of the text, written by Wesley, bearing the title Hymn for Christmas-Day, had received only slow and solemn music for its verses, music now almost completely discarded. Also, his original opening lines were Hark! How all the welkin rings / Glory to the King of Kings .The version that has been passed to us is the result of alterations made by different hands, especially those of Whitefield, who changed the initial couplet into the one we know today.In 1840-one hundred years after the publication of Hymns and sacred Poems-Mendelssohn composed a cantata commemorating Johann Gutenberg’s invention of movable-type printing. The English musician William H. Cummings finally adapted Mendelssohn’s music around 1855 in order to fit the music to the verses and give it its present look.In this edition we propose the version that every listener expects to hear when reading the title on the programme and, immediately after, one of the few original versions that have reached us in their entirety, that is the one set to music by Samuel Arnold (1740-1802) and available today in The British Minstrel, and Musical and Literary Miscellany, vol. 3, published in 1843.The proposed instrumentations are those of the classical string quartet and the cello quartet. Both variants are very simple to perform and are certainly suitable for small string ensembles formed in musical schools. In the cello quartet version, the only relatively complex part is that of the first cello, which should be left to the teacher or to a student able to play up to the 7th position without excessive troubles.I hope this music can bring you the serenity that made me prepare it.

Choral Choir,Choral,SATB Chorus - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1451464 Composed by Traditional Irish folk tune/poem by Thomas Moore. Arranged by Scott S. Stewart. 19th Century,Celtic,Folk,Irish,Romantic Period,Singer/Songwriter. 6 pages. Scott S. Stewart #1030846. Published by Scott S. Stewart (A0.1451464). “At the Mid Hour of Night” comes from The Irish Melodies, National Airs, Sacred Songs, Etc., of Thomas Moore, published between 1807 and 1834.  Moore, himself a singer and accomplished musician, is now best remembered for the lyrics of “The Minstrel Boy” and “The Last Rose of Summer.”  His poem “At the Mid Hour of Night” is about love, loss and belief in the afterlife as a place where love persists.  The suggested ‘tune’ for this poem is the harp air: O! Molly Dear AKA Molly My Dear an Irish air and fiddle tune.  This 2024 setting of Moore’s masterpiece is scored for 4-part SATB ensemble to be performed a cappella.  Performance time: 2:55+.

Piano and voice (solo and SATB chorus) - Digital Download SKU: LV.4986 Composed by Eduard Holst. Attics, Musical instruments, Nostalgia. Lester S. Levy Collection. 6 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.4986). The Quaint Old Organ. Introducing the Hymn of Old Hundred [Doxology]. By Dockstader's Minstrels by Eduard Holst. Published 1889 by Willis Woodward & Co., 842 & 844 Broadway in New York. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice (solo and satb chorus) instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Attics, Musical instruments, Nostalgia. First line reads I was searching thro' the garret on a dismal rainy day.. 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.

Piano and voice (solo and SATB chorus) - Digital Download SKU: LV.13928 Minstrel shows, Death, Courtship & love, Ethnic stereotypes. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.13928). Katy Darling. Words By J.C. Greenham. Music n. Published [n.d.] by Firth, Pond & Co., 547 Broadway in New York. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice (solo and satb chorus) instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Minstrel shows, Death, Courtship & love, Ethnic stereotypes. First line reads Oh! they tell me thou art dead, Kay Darling; That thy smile I may never more behold!.. 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.

Piano and voice (SATB chorus) - Digital Download SKU: LV.11040 Advice, Wealth. Lester S. Levy Collection. 5 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.11040). Favorite Melodies of the Campbell Minstrels. A Dollar or Two. Melville. Published 1855 by J. Ballhouse, 52 Fourth St. in St. Louis. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice (satb chorus) instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Advice, Wealth. First line reads Be sure and take care of your money my boys.. 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.

Piano and voice (SATB chorus) - Digital Download SKU: LV.11041 Advice, Wealth. Lester S. Levy Collection. 5 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.11041). Favorite Melodies of the Campbell Minstrels. A Dollar or Two. Melville. Published 1855 by J. Ballhouse, 52 Fourth St. in St. Louis. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice (satb chorus) instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Advice, Wealth. First line reads Be sure and take care of your money my boys.. 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 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.511870 Composed by Stephen L. Lawrence. Arranged by Bragi Thor Valsson. A Cappella. Octavo. 6 pages. Bragi Thor Valsson #5335635. Published by Bragi Thor Valsson (A0.511870). An SATB arrangement of this beautiful song from Sesame Street If I Were (Kermit's Minstrel Song), originally performed in a very memorable fashion by Jim Henson as Kermit The Frog in 1981.The arrangement is a capella and the melody alternates between soprano (in the short fa la la section) and the tenor (all the verses). If you have any questions or comments, you are welcome to email the arranger on bragithorvalsson@gmail.comLink to a full recording of this arrangement: http://bragi.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/If-I-Were-SATB.mp3

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.631311 By New Christy Minstrels. By Woody Guthrie. Arranged by Stephen DeCesare. Folk. Octavo. 10 pages. Exultet Music #6530997. Published by Exultet Music (A0.631311). One of the United States' most famous folk songs. which was written in critical response to Irving Berlin's God Bless America. When Guthrie was tired of hearing Kate Smith sing God Bless America on the radio in the late 1930s, he wrote this song and it has been freshly arranged for SATB with Piano accompaniment. Accessible and appropriate for any school or concert setting.

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.790834 By New Christy Minstrels. By Woody Guthrie. Arranged by Mary S Jones. Folk. Octavo. 9 pages. Mary S Jones #5356101. Published by Mary S Jones (A0.790834). A light-hearted, fun S.A.T.B. & Piano arrangement of this popular song that includes a chorus for audience sing-along. Ready for your Patriotic Concert! (Also fits the Canadian version.) .