Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.779348

Composed by John Stafford Smith. Arranged by Shelton Ridge Love. Folk,Holiday,Patriotic. Octavo. 14 pages. Shelton Ridge Love #3096887. Published by Shelton Ridge Love (A0.779348).

Arranged for SATB choir with piano duet (one piano, four hand) accompaniment, this majestic arrangement of The Star-Spangled Banner is perfect for every American patriotic concert or celebration. After a fanfare opening, the audience is invited to participate in the pledge to the flag and the first stanza. The choir then sings the lesser-known second stanza, concluding with a triumphant coda.

At this time, the companion recording includes only digitized voices, so the lyrics for the entire arrangement are included below. (Lyrics by Francis Scott Key)

America! America!
God shed his grace on thee!

O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

O thus be it ever when free men shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the head'n-rescued land
Praise the pow'r that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: In God is our trust!
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Ah! America!

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.978029

Composed by J.C. Baker, Fermata Nowhere. Instructional,Standards. Octavo. 1 pages. J. Gallagher #5034151. Published by J. Gallagher (A0.978029).

For a whole week of Valentine's Day have your students use this fun and engaging sight reading practice with love songs THEY WILL KNOW! I use it as a warm up/ do now at the start of band and choral classes for the first 5-10 minutes or so.

These are quick 2, 4, and 8 measure examples totaling 10 songs for the students to practice sight reading using solfege.

There are some tricky syncopated rhythms involved as well as key changes (C, G, F, D, Bb).

The songs included in the 10 examples are, in order:

1. Can't Help Falling In Love - Elvis

2. Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran

3. We Found Love - Rhianna

4. Just The Way You Are - Bruno Mars

5. She Loves You - The Beatles

6. I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston

7. Shallow - A Star Is Born

8. All Of Me - John Legend

9. Can You Feel The Love Tonight - Elton John/Lion King

10. Love Is An Open Door - Frozen

This is a great warm up exercise at the start of class or rehearsal to get the students focused and their brains warmed up for singing, sight singing, reading, and learning new music.

Typically students can take either the whole sheet down in one day and we spend a good majority of a day on it OR spread it out over the week and do 1 or 2 a day.

Structure it as best you see fit.

The students love competing with each other to see who can figure out the solfege and the song first!

Bonus points if they can name the song, artist, and the correct lyrics!

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1252870

Composed by Elton John and Tim Rice. Arranged by Jeffrey Bowen. Broadway,Contest,Festival,Musical/Show,Pop,Rock. Octavo. 11 pages. Music Arrangement Services Inc. #846673. Published by Music Arrangement Services Inc. (A0.1252870).

From the Musical Production “AIDA�.  This song is about fortune coming to those who are brave.  The song refers to Egypt, the Nile, exploring, the road to a triumphant end, seizing the day, mocking the grave, being free, being young.  This arrangement includes a vocal splash and is designed for high school or college show choir, concert choir or community choir.  Concert Band Score accompaniment also available.  Performance time is approximately 2:10.

Choral Choir,Choral (SATB divisi) - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1310999

By Elton John. By Bernie Taupin and Elton John. Arranged by Roy Rashbrook. 20th Century,A Cappella,Contest,Festival,Singer/Songwriter. 7 pages. Silverbright Music #899973. Published by Silverbright Music (A0.1310999).

One More Arrow originally featured as the closing song of 1983's album Too Low For Zero.

It's a perfect song to include in a programme on the subject of life and remembrance. Bernie Taupin's beautiful lyrics present an elegy for a departed friend or father figure who now lies in the soft brown earth that holds him, forever always young. The lyrics drew from Elton John one of his most gorgeous melodies and I have kept much of the harmony intact in this arrangement, although the second verse gets a bit more ambitious. In addition, the melody is shared out between the various vocal parts, meaning that the basses don't have to spend the entire performance going doo doo!

Scored for Soprano solo, SATB á capella, this moderately difficult arrangement involves frequent splits in the Soprano and Bass parts, occasional splits in the alto and none at all in the tenor! In my arrangements, I like to go one step beyond simply presenting the original song for choir, so in the second verse there's the gentlest of subtle nods to Paul Simon's The Boxer at the mention of he could have been a boxer and the lyric knocked me down provides an opportunity for a choral cascade from top to bottom. And just before the final chorus, the choir's vocal lines represent the trajectory of an arrow, shooting up to a top F in the soprano solo part before descending into the new key of B flat major for the closing section.

For medium to advanced chamber choirs.