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...from staten island to massena
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Junior High and Middle School Choirs

Michael Murphy
Gates Chili Middle School, Chili, NY

murff@frontiernet.net

I hope this page will be an interactive one. Not every MS/JH chorus sings the same level of difficulty, voicings or genres. Please feel free to e-mail me with pieces you have found to be successful. Please include all available voicings, publisher and catalogue number. This is YOUR site!”


Recommended Literatur

April Rain Song

Text by Langston Hughes

Music by Julie Gardner Bray

Three-part mixed

Heritage 15/1089

 

It Sings in Me

Text by Sara Tearsdale

Music by Philip E. Silvey

SAB

Santa Barbara SBMP 808

 

The Arrow and the Song

Text by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music by Lon Beery

Three-part mixed

BriLee Music BL634

 

Can You Hear

by Jim Papoulis

arr by Francisco Nunez

SAB

Hal Leonard 48005164

 

Bonse Aba

Traditional Zambian Song

arr by Andrew Fischer

(SA with B divisi)

Alliance Music Publications 0626

 

April Rain Song

Text by Langston Hughes

Music by Julie Gardner Bray

SAB

Heritage Press15/1089

 

The Open Road

Text by Walt Whitman

Music by John Leavitt

SAB (also available in SATB and SSA)

Hal Leonard 08748060

 

The Wind

Text by Robert Louis Stevenson

Music by Neil Ginsburg

SAB

Heritage Press 15/2159H

 

American Anthem

by Gene Scheer

arr by John Purifoy

SAB (also available in SATB and SSA)

Hal Leonard 08748673

 

Blades of Grass and Pure White Stones

Orrin Hatch, Lowell Alexander and Phil Nash

arr by Keith Christopher SAB

Hal Leonard 08745655

 

Cantate Deo (from /Water Music Suite/)

by G.F. Handel

arr by Becki Slagle Mayo

SAB (also available in 2-part)

Heritage Press 15/2355H

 


Three Brazilian Folk Songs*

arr. Lon Beery & Elisa Dekaney

manuscript

three-part mixed

 

This is Lon’s and Elisa’s piece from manuscript Look for it to be published soon!

 

Climbin’ Up the Mountain, Children!

Spiritual

arr. Rollo Dilworth

3-part mixed

Hal Leonard 08745955

 

Pride (In the Name of Love)

Text by Bono and The Edge

Music by U2

arr. by Mark Brymer

SAB (also available in SATB and SSA)

Hal Leonard 08202162

 

Iko Iko

Music by Rosa Lee Hawkins et al,

arr. by Mark Brymer

SAB (also available in SATB and 2 part)

Hal Leonard 08202148

 

Wall Street Rhythm

(Spoken piece)

by Jay Althouse

3 part

Alfred Publishing 7660

 

The Syncopated Clock

Text by Mitchell Parish

Music by Leroy Anderson

arr by Greg Gilpin

SAB (also available in SATB and 2-part)

Alfred Publishing 28808

 

Turn the World Around

by Harry Belefonte and Robert Freedman

arr by Roger Emerson

SAB (also available in 2-part)

Hal Leonard 08744080

 

Gloria In Excelsis Deo (from /Gloria/)

by Antonio Vivaldi

arr by Sherri Porterfield

SAB

Heritage Press 15/1099

 

In Stiller Nacht (In Silent Night)

by Johannes Brahms

arr by Russell Robinson

SAB