SATB choir divisi and piano, brass quintet and organ, or full orchestra, with optional congregation (Brass/Organ parts include: Trumpet I and II in C and B-flat, Horn in F, Trombone, Tuba, Organ Orchestra: 3[1.2.pic] 3[1.2.Eh] 3[1.2.Bcl] 3[1.2.cbn] – 4 3 3 1 – tmp+3 – hp, org – str – SATB Chorus (divisi)) - Moderately Easy - Digital Download SKU: MQ.50-9851-E Composed by Tom Trenney. Christmas, Christmas-Sacred. Instrument parts. 12 pages. MorningStar Music Publishers - Digital Sheet Music #50-9851-E. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers - Digital Sheet Music (MQ.50-9851-E). English.A highlight of the 2019 Christmas At Luther concerts, this festive work has an optional parts for brass and organ or for full orchestra. At first the choir takes the part of the angels, singing Be not afraid! The first four notes of the piece become a sweeping, recurring refrain, soaring upward like the angels themselves each time the title words appear. The effect of the audience finally joining in the traditional melody for Hark! the Herald Angels Sing is another joyful surprise.

SATB choir, Bb clarinet, and piano - Moderately Easy - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8796-E Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. Christmas, Christmas-Sacred. 20 pages. Duration 4 minutes, 30 seconds. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8796-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8796-E). English.“Angels Singing,â€� is based on the carol “Angels We Have Heard on High.â€� This new arrangement opens with shepherds (Tenor and Baritone soli) hearing angel voices, “o’er the mountains, guided by a Holy light.â€� A few angels (women’s voices) sing in the distance. The carol now shifts to full chorus. Often, the men portray the shepherds, and the women sing as angels. The Clarinet plays a featured role,  enhancing the message of the lyrics. Duration: 4:30.

SATB choir and keyboard, with optional brass quintet or orchestra (Brass: Trumpet I and II in B-flat and C, Horn in F, Trombone, Tuba - Orchestra: 2121 – 2221 – tmp+2 – str – SATB Chorus) - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.50-3107-E Composed by Claude L. Bass. 16 pages. MorningStar Music Publishers - Digital Sheet Music #50-3107-E. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers - Digital Sheet Music (MQ.50-3107-E). English.A joyful and original setting of this great hymn of praise. Very effective brass writing. It is equally effective with keyboard alone.

SATB choir (choir divisi), violin, violoncello, and piano - Moderately Easy - Digital Download SKU: MQ.1.3585-E Composed by Karen Marrolli. 14 pages. Galaxy Music Corporation - Digital #1.3585-E. Published by Galaxy Music Corporation - Digital (MQ.1.3585-E). UPC: 600313135859. English.The desire for people of different backgrounds, experiences, and ideologies to come together for the common good was the inspiration behind this folk-like piece. Composed for mixed chorus, piano, violin, and violoncello; the alto and soprano soloists are optional. Appropriate for both sacred and secular settings, Undivided speaks to ideas of peace, unity, respect, and understanding.

SSAA choir, piano, and optional string quartet - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.1.3550-E Composed by Michael John Trotta. 8 pages. Duration 3 minutes, 40 seconds. Galaxy Music Corporation - Digital #1.3550-E. Published by Galaxy Music Corporation - Digital (MQ.1.3550-E). English.Written for the Jacksonville Children's Chorus, this SSAA setting of a Sara Teasdale text begins in unison. This verse structure is followed by a refrain and a canon between the two voices on the text, the air is blue and sweet. The contrasting middle section allows the voices to become the focal point on the text, let me sing like birds, sing before night. The third movement of the three-movement work, I Will Sing to the Stars. Duration 3:40.

2-part treble choir, brass quintet, percussion, and organ (Instrumental Parts include: Trumpet I and II in B-flat and C, Horn, Trombone, Tuba, Percussion, Organ) - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.9167-E Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. Christmas. 28 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #9167-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.9167-E). English.A festive collection of three Christmas solos for Two-Part Treble Chorus, Brass Quintet, Percussion, and Organ.

SATB choir (choir divisi), with harp or piano - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8854-E Composed by Kevin Siegfried. Instrument part. 36 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8854-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8854-E). English.Commissioned by the Community Chorus at South Berwick, a choir based in Southern Maine, this set of four pieces is written to the poetry of Sarah Orne Jewett, who lived most of her life in South Berwick and is particularly known for the local color and “sense of place� she brought to her writing.

SATB choir (choir divisi) and harp or piano - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8490-E Composed by Joseph Gregorio. Advent. 16 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8490-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8490-E). English. Isaiah 61.A triptych of pieces for harp or piano and SATB chorus divisi, using texts by poet Christine Schenk. Here her version of the O Antiphons provides a means of contemporary reflection on those ancient texts. The three short movements are untitled but the texts begin 1. O Wisdom, 2. I wait with quickened hope for crooked paths to straighten, and 3. You who make wastelands bloom. The music is masterful, at times introspective and gentle, at times sweeping and dramatic. A jewel for an accomplished ensemble. Duration: 9:00

SATB choir, piano, and Spoken word, with optional violin, B-flat trumpet, and snare drum - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.1.3682-E Composed by Kyle Pederson. 9/11 Service, National Songs/Patriotic. 104 pages. Galaxy Music Corporation - Digital #1.3682-E. Published by Galaxy Music Corporation - Digital (MQ.1.3682-E). English.An exciting extended work by Kyle Pederson, centered around themes of social justice—inviting the choir and audience into a compelling vision of a world rooted in compassion, freedom, inclusivity and justice. This five-movement, genre-bending work is for SATB chorus, with piano, spoken word, and optional violin, snare drum, and trumpet. Texts by Langston Hughes, Walt Whitman, Robert Bode, Shanelle Gabriel, and Pederson invite the listener to reach out and build bridges of care and connection, that we might find a better way of being in community. That we might stand in solidarity with those whose voices are too often dismissed, regardless of their skin color, sexual orientation, faith background, or other characteristic. That we might not dismiss, disdain, and judge those whose politics are different from ours, but that we might make the uncomfortable effort to see them as people just as worthy of respect and dignity. Each of the five movements in the work can be performed as a stand-alone piece; and choirs are welcome to craft their own spoken word narration (poetry, speech excerpts, etc) throughout the work to explore themes and perspectives that most resonate for their community/audience.

SSAA choir, piano or chamber orchestra (strings: 5-5-3-3-3) - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.6377-E Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. 12 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #6377-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.6377-E). English.Crossing the Bar creates images of the sea, with the final voyage leading us out across the water, to see our Pilot, face to face. The musical setting endeavors to express the growth from peaceful to ecstatic moods, the tolling of the bell, the meeting of the Pilot. May there be no moaning of the bar, when I put out to see.The poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) is characterized by dark, yet transcendent imagery -- the depths of the ocean, the triumph of the spirit. These poems seem well-suited to musical settings for Men's Chorus. The deep tones. The sonority of male voices (perhaps speaking for the poet) rising in song.Throughout the varied imagery of this poetry -- the depth of the sea, the dark of the night, the tumult of passion and the acceptance of death -- there speaks one, central message. Love was my lord and king..

SSA choir, Piano - Moderately Easy - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8224-E Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. 15 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8224-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8224-E). English.This new arrangement focuses on several, specific aspects of the lyrics, and of the journey. Envisioning that one is walking to that land, the piano introduction, in a swing rhythm, is marked At a strolling tempo. When the chorus enters, there is a bounce to their step, with the staccato dots coming each time on the word with- Come and go with me to that land...This is a jaunty expedition. One sees one's parents waiting in that land. Loving friends are there as well. A bit of scat singing and finger snapping adds to the energy.A slower middle section, in blues style, affirms that They'll be no slavery in that land. Shackles are thrown to the ground, and freedom breaks forth. This leads to a quick and energetic return to the gospel song, with a final refrain of They'll be singing in that land, voices ringing in that land!This is very American music, in a gospel, blues, and folk style.

SATB choir, children’s choir (SA), flute, strings, and percussion, or piano - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8776-E Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. 23 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8776-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8776-E). English.Longfellow's poem, The Day is Done, speaks of evening as the time when poetry and music comealive and soothe the cares of day. The musical setting presents the opening lyrics in the children’s voices: The day is done, and the darkness falls from the wings of night. These phrases, or slight variations thereof, return as refrains throughout the song. The verses alternate between the men’s and women’s voices, with the children interjecting refrains or offering commentary in the background. Finally, the children interrupt the SATB dialogue with exclamations of a song! a song! a song! These lead to the climax of the song, given to the children’s chorus, singing And the night shall be filled with music. All voices then join together in celebration: Our song shall fill the night. The accompaniment (originally composed for piano, later adapted for flute, strings, and percussion) delights in text-setting with sparkling arpeggios depicting the celestial harmonies, and filigree patterns for the star-filled night sky. Duration: 5:00.

SATB choir, organ, chamber ensemble, timpani - Moderately Easy to Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.50-4019-E Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach and Michael Burkhardt. Easter. 7 pages. MorningStar Music Publishers - Digital Sheet Music #50-4019-E. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers - Digital Sheet Music (MQ.50-4019-E). Familiar chorus from Cantata 129. Stimulatingopener for the Easter season.