Keep Your Lamps!: SATB: Vocal Score

(with Keep Your Lamps)-Crisp and rhythmic writing creates the original tune that is partnered with the spiritual Keep Your Lamps. An excellent choice for young and developing voices using short musical phrases that weave throughout creating an exciting learning process and performance. The piano is supportive and has the effect of a train rolling down the track keeping this arrangement flowing yet punctuated.

Four Songs for Treble Chorus-Here is a collection you will return to again and again! The four short songs for beginning and developing SSA choirs provide many options for developing tone quality and performance skills along with good part-writing andappealing subject matter. Songs may be sung a cappella or accompanied making this especially good for contest programming. Songs include: Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burnin' The Secret I Know Where I'm Goin' French DancingSong (Sur le pont d'Avignon).

Ten 2-Part Reproducible Concert Chorals-The developing choir is a unique ensemble and ranges in size from many to just a few in age from younger to older and from the experienced to brand new singers. Both male and female are a part of these groups with ever-changing vocal challenges. Educators who teach this wide group of musicians know there is a need for many tools of repertoire that build bridges to the art of choral singing.Partner Songs for the Developing Choir is designed to help teach harmonic singing through sophisticated melodies and distinguished texts appealing to singers from upper elementary through middle school and early high school and can even continue for the less-experiencedor smaller adult choir. Some of the choral works are very basic in form and melodic writing while others might include a bridge or B section or more intricate melodies expanding the harmonic learning.This reproducible collection with helpful rehearsal suggestions and online access to Full Performance and Accompaniment Only audio recordings and Singer PDF parts can be used all year long with spirituals Latin settings multicultural patriotic Christmas and holiday selections.Songs include: Akatonbo Bethlehem Lullaby Et in Terra Pax Jingle All the Way Joshua Fit the Battle Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning Musica Dei Skatin' and Sleighin' Swing Low Sweet Chariot You're a Grand Old Flag. Suggested for Grades 3-9.

Here is the traditional spiritual in a contemporary and dramatic setting for women's unaccompanied voices opening with a beginning unison melody performed in a slow heavy manner. When the tempo picks up the melody is supportedby the other voices and a recurring rhythmic groove that adds to the urgency of the text.