Chœur de femmes avec orchestre

Based on the 19th Century American Tune Knoxville.

This piece is accessible for even the youngest choir. Teaching possibilities include learning verse form, establishing a legato line, and carrying longer phrases through breath management and staggere...

This lively, rhythmic song gives very sensible advice to anyone who happens to catch a rattlesnake. The music builds steadily from start to finish, with the melody sung as a single line, then as two-...

This setting of the familiar poem by Jane Taylor is through-composed but conservative in its re-use of melodic materials. The strophic nature of the original text is avoided by irregular phrase length...

Three Shaker Songs draws its text from anonymous Shakers of the 19th century. The music reflects the very direct meddage of the texts: the joyous riddance of “Old ugly” (the Devil); a self...