Mixed Voices
Title | Lyricist | Voicing/Instrumentation | Level |
---|---|---|---|
A Burst of Song (3 mvts) | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
SATB, mezzo-sop & tenor, soli piano TTBB, piano SSAA, piano |
Mod-Advanced |
A Kiss of Blessing | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
SATB,piano SSAA, piano TTBB, piano |
Mod-Advanced |
A Portal of Hope | Rumi, adapted by the composer |
SATB, organ |
Moderate |
A Winter Ride | Amy Lowell (1874-1925) |
SSAA, piano TTBB, piano SATB, piano |
Moderate |
All Works of Love | Mother Teresa (1910-1997) |
SATB, piano |
Moderate |
At Such a Dizzy Height (Peace Window) | Adaptation by Robin Lane of quotes and letters of Marc & Bella Chagall; |
SATB, Tenor solo |
Moderate |
At the Shore of the World | Trad. candomblé song texts, and Rabindranath Tagore |
SSATB, piano, perc.(3) |
Mod-Advanced |
Be It Therefore Resolved | Kim Stafford (b.1949) |
SATB, opt. ten, bar, mz-sop solo SSAA, opt. ssa trio,piano, violin, cello |
Mod-Advanced |
Blessing (Just to Be) | Rabbi Abraham Heschel |
SA or any 2-part comb. |
Easy |
Call, The | George Herbert (1593-1633) |
SSA/SATB (double choir) |
Advanced |
Carpe Diem | Horace (65 BC- 8AD ) |
SSATBB, Contralto solo |
Advanced |
Come, Pretty Love | Shaker "Gift" song received by Patsy Williamson (19th c.) |
SSA, hand clapping |
Easy-Mod |
Eli, Eli | Hannah Szenes (1921-1944) |
SATB w/opt. sop solo, cello |
Moderate |
Entro en la Vida | Teresa of Avila (1515-1582), Teresa of Lisieux (1873-1897) |
SATB, piano, brass quintet, timpani |
Mod-Advanced |
Eternal Winter | William Blake (1757-1827) |
SATB, sop solo, piano, cello |
Moderate |
Ffe Mwe, Mwe Ffe | Text adapted by Joan Szymko from various sources |
SSAA, soloist, hand drum SATB, soloist, hand drum TTTBBB, soloist, hand drum |
Moderate |
Freshness, The | Rumi (1207-1273) translated by Coleman Barks |
SATB, speaker, harp (or piano) |
Moderate |
Gift to Sing,The | James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) |
SATB, piano |
Moderate |
Herbst | Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) |
SATB, Alto solo, piano |
Mod-Advanced |
Hodie | Vespers Antiphon for Christmas Day |
SSAA a cappella SSATBB a cappella |
Advanced |
How Did the Rose | Hafiz (14th c.), translated by Daniel Ladinsky |
SATB, piano |
Moderate |
Hymn of Grateful Praise | Folliot S. Pierpont (1835-1917) |
SATB, piano SSA, piano |
Moderate |
I Dream a World | Langston Hughes (1902-1967) |
SSA, piano |
Moderate |
I Lift My Eyes | Psalm 121 and Thich Naht Hanh |
SATB, piano |
Moderate |
Ich lebe mein Leben | Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) |
SATB, 2 bassoons |
Advanced |
Illumina le tenebre | Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) |
SATB a cappella |
Moderate |
It Takes a Village | West African adage adapted by Joan Szymko |
SATB, soloist, hand drum, shekere |
Moderate |
Let the Children Come | Adaptation of Mark 10:13-16 by Joan Szymko |
SATB, piano |
Moderate |
Light, Beauty, Peace | Chinese Proverb |
SSA, piano |
Moderate |
Lo Lefached | Rebbe Nachman of Breslov |
SATB SSAA |
Mod-Advanced |
Look Out | Wendell Berry (b.1934) |
SSAA, alto solo SATB, alto solo |
Moderate |
Love Bears All Things | 1 Corinthians 13:7-8 |
SATB, piano, violin SSAA, piano, cello, violin |
Moderate |
Myr, Zaraz | Peace, Now (МИР 3APA3) |
SATB |
Easy |
Nada te turbe | Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) |
SSAA, cello |
Moderate |
Nothing But Mud | William Orpen (1878-1931) |
SSAATTBB |
Advanced |
Our Common Prayer | Parker J. Palmer |
SATB, piano |
Mod-Easy |
Peace of Wild Things, The | Wendell Berry (b.1934) |
SSAA, piano |
Moderate |
Quite Regularly Gay | Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) |
SSAA, sop solo SSSATB, solo |
Moderate |
Reaching Back from Here | Nancy Wood |
SATB, piano |
Moderate |
Red and Green | Maddy Prior |
SATB, piano, drums (kit or low tom) SSAA, piano, drums (kit or low tom) |
Moderate |
Remembering | Joan Borysenko (b.1945) |
SATB (w/div), oboe, cello |
Mod-Advanced |
River | Text adapted by the composer from "Hopi Prophesy" and quote by Edward E. Hale (1822-1909) |
SSAA, treble solo SATB, treble solo |
Mod-Advanced |
Sioux Prayer | Traditional Lakota Sioux |
SSA a cappella |
Easy |
Songs of Experience: 1.The Fly | William Blake (1757-1827) |
SATB, basso solo, cb, kazoos |
Mod-Advanced |
Songs of Experience: 2. The Garden of Love | William Blake (1757-1827) |
SATB, alto solo, cb |
Moderate |
Songs of Experience: 3. Eternal Winter | William Blake (1757-1827) |
SATB, sop solo, piano, cello |
Moderate |
Step By Step | Preamble to the Constitution of the American Miners Union (1870) |
SAB |
easy-moderate |
Stille Nacht | Josef Mohr (1792-1848) |
2-part (any voicing), piano, violin, flute |
Easy |
The Journey | David Whyte |
SATB |
Moderate |
The Summer Day | Mary Oliver (1935-2019) |
SSA, piano, flute obbligato SAB, piano, flute obbligato |
Moderate |
There Shall Be Christmas Day | Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918) |
SATB a cappella SSAA, piano |
Mod-Advanced |
To Build a Swing | Hafiz (14th c.), trans. Daniel Ladinsky |
SATB, piano, violin |
Advanced |
To the Holy Spirit | Wendell Berry (b.1934) |
SATB, piano |
Mod-Advanced |
Todo o Meu Ser (All of My Being) | Orpingalik by way of Knud Rasmussen c. 1921-24 |
SATB, opt. solo, conga drum, pandeiro, clave |
Moderate |
True Love at Every Moment Praises God | Mechtild de Magdeburg (c.1210-c.1285) |
SATB a cappella |
Moderate |
Ubi Caritas | Traditional Roman Catholic antiphon |
SSAATTB a cappella |
Moderate |
Until | Hafiz, translated by Ladinsky |
SATB, a cappella |
Mod-easy |
We Are All Bound Up Together | Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) |
SSAA SATB |
Easy |
We Are Clay | Book of Isaiah |
SATB, piano, opt. flute |
Easy-Mod |
Where Is the Door to the Tavern? | Hafiz (14th c.) translated by Daniel Ladinsky |
SATB, cb, bottles edge-blown as aerophones |
Mod-Advanced |
Words | Joan Szymko |
SSA SA p> SA SATB |
Easy-Moderate |
Ye Jaliya-o | Traditional Lambago lyric (West African griot praise) and Catherine deVink, adapted by Szymko |
SATB (w/div), hand drums (2), perc. |
Mod-Advanced |