A Cappella Americana

Drill Ye Tarriers Drill. This American folk song from the time of the building of the railroads is both familiar, brawny and humorous. The arrangement is enjoyable and the story comical, making it a great concert selection. Easy to medium in difficulty.

Traditional Appalachian Song-A sorrowful American song that explores the themes of loneliness and loss. Simple and extremely effective arranging allows singers to express the text with tremendous drama. From the Amanda Quist Choral Series.

Lux Nova sees Eric Whitacre's best-selling 'Lux Aurumque' re-imagined with a middle section of new material from his musical 'Paradise Lost'. Lux Nova works best with a pure balanced shimmering tone with strict attention to the dynamic colors and a slow luscious pacing. This piece for unaccompanied SATB Choir incorporates poetry by Edward Esch translated into Latin by celebrated American lyricist Charles Anthony Silvestri. Eric Whitacre's Lux Nova was featured in the 2014 iTunes festival. Duration: approx. 4:20.

Classic American folk songs arranged for a cappella singing. Selections include: America the Beautiful Shenandoah Simple Gifts Skip to My Lou Yankee Doodle and nine more!

Das Te Deum Deutsch 'Herr Gott Dich loben wir' for 12-part mixed Chorus a cappella (SSMezMezAATTBarBarBB).The Te Deum in the translation of Martin Luther 1529. Heinz Werner Zimmermann (born 11 August 1930 in Freiburg im Breisgau) is a German composer. Zimmermann had his first composition instruction from 1946 to 1948 with Julius Weismann and studied from 1950 to 1954 in Heidelberg with Wolfgang Fortner as well as at the Kirchenmusikalisches Institut Heidelberg (Institute for Church Music) there. After passing his examinations at the Freiburg Conservatory under Harald Genzmer he became Fortner’s successorin Heidelberg. Here he maintained close contacts with the musicologist Thrasyboulos Georgiades whose rhythm and language studies influenced him the most along with his occupation with American spirituals and jazz. From 1963 to 1976 Heinz Werner Zimmermann was director of the Spandauer Kirchenmusikschule (Spandau school of church-music) in Spandau and then from 1975 to 1996 as successor to Kurt Hessenberg as composition teacher at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (Brusniak 2001). Zimmermann’s best-known works are his sacred motets with plucked Double Bass his Organ psalms and his 'Prosalieder'. Among his chief works are his Missa profana the sacred oratorio The Bible of Spirituals as well as his Symphonia sacra. Amongst other honors Zimmermann has been awarded the Music Prizes of the cities of Stuttgart and Berlin a Villa Massimo Stipend in 1965/66 and received in 1982 the Johann Sebastian Bach Prize. The American Wittenberg University in Springfield bestowed upon him an honorary doctorate Zimmermann wrote three American theses including one at the Stanford University in California. (Source: Wikipedia)

SSAATTBB a cappella. Text by American poets Sara Teasdale and Paul Dunbar and British writer Siegfried Sassoon. This Choral Cycle includes three pieces: Birds at Dusk (Teasdale) The Caged Bird (Dunbar) and Everyone Sang(Sassoon).

Irish Lullaby (also known as 'Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's an Irish Lullaby)') is a classic Irish-American song originally written in 1913 by composer James Royce Shannon and brought back to prominence by Bing Crosby's performance in 1944's ‘Going My Way’. The delightful lilting song as sung by the King's Singers arranged for SATTBB a cappella by Keith Abbs will become an invaluable addition to your choral library. Piano accompaniment included for rehearsal only. Duration ca. 3:20 minutes.The King’s Singers is a Grammy Award-winning British male sextet founded in 1968 at King’s College Cambridge. The group has alwaysconsisted of six singers in total with their membership constantly changing. Over the decades the ensemble has reached an ever-widening international audience and popularity today appearing in around 125 concerts each year mostly in Europe the US and the Far East.

A modern interpretation and setting of the Christmas text about the Immaculate Conception by the award winning American composer Matthew Brown, who has had his choral works premiered all over the US. / Choeur Mixte (SATB) A Cappella

A Spiritual Reflection is an African-American spiritual piece which has been beautifully arranged by Moses Hogan for SATB (divisi) a cappella. The song is based on I Am A Poor Pilgrim and Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child and a piano accompaniment is scored for rehearsal purposes.

Prelude-For mixed choir or septet of soloists (SSATTBB) a cappella. Latin.In 1955 while in the midst of working on a musical version of Voltaire's Candide with the distinguished American playwright Lillian Hellman Leonard Bernstein composed French and Latin choruses as incidental music to the play The Lark adapted by Miss Hellman from the original French version by Jean Anouilh. Since the drama was about the of Joan of Arc Bernstein’s music was deliberately evocative of that Saint’s medieval era.

A shimmering a cappella refrain provides an especially memorable highlight at the end of Mark Hayes', otherwise accompanied, choral arrangement. Originally penned by the 'Father of American Music,' this beloved song has long been associated with the grand pageantry of the Kentucky Derby. / Choeur TTBB