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Title Lyricist Voicing/Instrumentation Level
A Bell Awakened Denise Levertov (1923-1997)

SSAA, piano

Mod-Advanced
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 Kiss of Blessing Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

Mezzo-soprano solo
piano, flute, violin, cello

Mod-Advanced
A la Media Noche Traditional Puerto Rican Carol

SSAA, piano, flute, hand perc.

Moderate
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
Adama Traditional Israeli song

SSAA a cappella

Moderate
African Lullaby Traditional Bantu & African American

SSA, piano, hand drum

Easy
All Winter Long Native American song text

SSA, flute, frame drum

Easy-Mod
All Works of Love Mother Teresa (1910-1997)

SATB, piano

Moderate
Always Coming Home Ursula K. LeGuin (b.1929)

SSAA, piano, cello

Moderate
Amazing Grace John Newton (1725-1807)

SSAA a cappella

Easy-Mod
Ancient Ones, The Patricia Reis

SSA(div)

Moderate
Angels Singing Out of Tune Lord Byron (1788-1824)

SSAA, soprano solo, a cappella

Advanced
Arise My Love Various, adapted by Szymko

SSA, piano

Moderate
As a Woman Virginia Woolf (1912-1941)

SSA a cappella

Moderate
At Such a Dizzy Height (Peace Window) Adaptation by Robin Lane of quotes and letters of Marc & Bella Chagall;

SATB, Tenor solo
piano, cello

Moderate
At the Shore of the World Trad. candomblé song texts, and Rabindranath Tagore

SSATB, piano, perc.(3)

Mod-Advanced
Ave Maria Traditional Marian prayer

SSAA a cappella
TTBB a cappella

Moderate
Be It Therefore Resolved Kim Stafford (b.1949)

SATB, opt. ten, bar, mz-sop solo
piano, violin, cello

SSAA, opt. ssa trio,piano, violin, cello

Mod-Advanced
Beauty of Your Dreams, The Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

SSAA, piano

Moderate
Benedizione Francis of Assisi (1182-1226)

SSAA, piano

Moderate
Blessed Be Robin Morgan

SSAA a cappella
optional piano

Mod-Advanced
Blessing (Just to Be) Rabbi Abraham Heschel

SA or any 2-part comb.

Easy
Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

SSAA, piano

Mod-Advanced
Braided Light Wordless Song

SSAA, mezzo-sop solo, a cappella

Mod-Advanced
Bright Morning Star Traditional Appalachian Song

SSA a cappella
TBB a cappella

Easy-Mod
Call Alla René Bozarth (b.1947)

SSAA, taiko drums(2)

Moderate
Call, The George Herbert (1593-1633)

SSA/SATB (double choir)

Advanced
Carpe Diem Horace (65 BC- 8AD )

SSATBB, Contralto solo

Advanced
Circle Hadwijch II (13th c.), translated by Jane Hirshfield (b.1953)

SSAA, Soprano solo

Moderate
Come Dance and Sing Shaker Song (19th c.)

SSAA, piano

Easy-Mod
Come, Pretty Love Shaker "Gift" song received by Patsy Williamson (19th c.)

SSA, hand clapping
SATB, hand clapping

Easy-Mod
Coventry Carol Robert Croo (16th c.)

SSAA, piano

Mod-Easy
Despertar al Amor (Awaken to Love) Teresa of Avila & Buddhist adage

SSAA, piano, cello
surdo (or low frame drum)

Moderate
Eagle Rounding Out the Morning Joy Harjo (b.1951)

SSAA (opt. Trio), piano

Moderate
Eli, Eli Hannah Szenes (1921-1944)

SATB w/opt. sop solo, cello
SSAA w/opt. sop sol, cello
Soprano solo, cello

Moderate
Entro en la Vida Teresa of Avila (1515-1582), Teresa of Lisieux (1873-1897)

SATB, piano, brass quintet, timpani

Mod-Advanced
Et in terra pax Hymnus Angelicus (Gloria) from the Ordinary of the Mass

SSAA a cappella

Advanced
Eternal Winter William Blake (1757-1827)

SATB, sop solo, piano, cello
SSAA, sop solo, piano, cello

Moderate
Everything She Touches Traditional, Wiccan

SSA, piano, dumbek, finger cymbals

Easy-Mod
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
Finding Her Here Jayne Relaford Brown

SSAA a cappella

Mod-Advance
Fire, Burn Bright Traditional, British Isles

SSAA, piano

Moderate
Freshness, The Rumi (1207-1273) translated by Coleman Barks

SATB, speaker, harp (or piano)
SSAA, speaker, harp (or piano)

Moderate
Gamaya Brhadaranyaka Upanishad — I.iii.28

SA, piano, alto saxophone

Easy
Gift to Sing,The James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)

SATB, piano

Moderate
Giver of Stars, The Amy Lowell (1874-1925)

SSAA, piano

Moderate
Go Out In Joy Isaiah 55:12

SSAA, piano, hand clapping

Mod-Advanced
Herbst Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)

SATB, Alto solo, piano
also available for bsn(2)

Mod-Advanced
Here Wendell Berry (b.1934)

SSAA, piano, violin

Moderate
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 Am Catherine DeVink

SSAA, piano, flute, violin, cello

Moderate
I Am a Ruby Zay Khay Sheen (born Zahida Khatun Sherwani, 1894-1922)

SSAA, oboe, piano

Moderate
I Dream a World Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

SSA, piano
SATB, piano

Moderate
I Lift My Eyes Psalm 121 and Thich Naht Hanh

SATB, piano
SSAA, piano

Moderate
I Look Long and Long Walt Whitman (1819-1992)

TBB, 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
SSAA a cappella

Moderate
Invincible Anonymous & Albert Camus, adapted by the composer

SSAA

Moderate
It Is Happiness (3 mvts) Mary Oliver (1935-2019)

SSA(A), piano, violin, cello, flute
Bb clarinet, oboe, eng.horn, bassoon

Moderate
It Takes a Village West African adage adapted by Joan Szymko

SATB, soloist, hand drum, shekere
SSAA, soloist, hand drum, shekere
TTBB, soloist, hand drum, shekere

Moderate
Lay Me Low Sister Addah Z. Potter of the New Lebanon, New York, Shaker community

SSAA a cappella

Easy-Mod
Let the Children Come Adaptation of Mark 10:13-16 by Joan Szymko

SATB, piano

Moderate
Lifting As We Climb libretto conceived and created by Joan Szymko (from various sources)

SSAA, piano, alto sax, drumset

Moderate
Light, Beauty, Peace Chinese Proverb

SSA, piano
SATB, piano
solo voice, piano

Moderate
Like a Mountain Music and lyrics by Naomi Littlebear Morena, arr. Szymko

SSAA, piano

Moderate
Listen Closely Music and lyrics by Steven Walters, arr. Szymko

SSAA, sop solo, 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
Lorica St. Patrick (attributed)

SSA, piano, flute

Moderate
Love Bears All Things 1 Corinthians 13:7-8

SATB, piano, violin

SSAA, piano, cello, violin

Moderate
maggie and milly and molly and may E.E. Cummings (1894-1962)

SSAA, piano

Mod-Advanced
Malala quotes by Malala Yousafzai adapted by Szymko

SSAA

Moderate
Myr, Zaraz Peace, Now (МИР 3APA3)

SATB
SSAA

Easy
Nada te turbe Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)

SSAA, cello
SATB, cello

Moderate
No Time Not to Love Deena Metzger, Joan Szymko

SSSAA

Moderate
Nothing But Mud William Orpen (1878-1931)

SSAATTBB

Advanced
Nothing Short of Grace Joan Szymko

SSA

Moderate
O Lux Beatissima From the sequence, Veni Sancte Spiritus (12th c) and the Hymn, Veni Creator Spiritus (10th c.)

SSAA a cappella

Advanced
Only Light, Only Love Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

SSAA a cappella

Moderate
Oración por la Paz (Prayer for Peace) Anonymous Moderate
Organize, Agitate, Educate! Joan Szymko after quotes by Sarah Grimke, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth,
Carrie Catt, Anna Julia Cooper, Lucy Stone Moderate
Our Common Prayer Parker J. Palmer

SATB, piano

Mod-Easy
Peace Like a River Traditional, African American

SSAA, piano

Moderate
Peace of Wild Things, The Wendell Berry (b.1934)

SSAA, piano
SATB, piano

Moderate
Pendulum Amanda Harter and Christopher Behrens

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
Roses, The Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

SSAA, accordion (or piano)

Moderate
Shadow and Light Libretto conceived and created by Joan Szymko (from various sources)

SATB Chorus / Chamber Orchestra

mezzo-soprano, tenor and soprano soli 

Moderate
Shape Note Hymns for Christmas Traditional

SSA, piano

Moderate
She Who Makes Her Meaning Clear quote by Audre Lorde (1934-1992)

SSAA (w/div)
hand perc. (2)

Mod-Advanced
Singing Place, The Lily A. Long (1860-1927)

SSAA, piano

Mod-Advanced
Sioux Prayer Traditional Lakota Sioux

SSA a cappella
SAB a cappella

Easy
Song Coming Toward Us Carolyn Forché (b.1950)

SSAA, piano, cello

Moderate
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
Stars In Your Bones Alla Bozarth

SSAA, piano

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 Are No Farewells May Sarton (1912-1995)

SSAA, piano
(opt. string quartet, fl accomp)

Mod-Advanced
There Shall Be Christmas Day Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)

SATB a cappella

SSAA, piano

Mod-Advanced
This We Know Chief Seattle (Ted Perry)

SSA, mezzo-soprano solo

Moderate
This Wonderful Feeling (3 mvts) Anna Madrigal, Mary Whitney

SSAA, marimba

Mod-Advanced
This Wonderful Feeling: 1. saboo Anna Madrigal

SSAA, marimba

Mod-Advanced
This Wonderful Feeling: 2. In My Quiet Place Mary Whitney

SSAA, marimba

Mod-Advanced
This Wonderful Feeling: 3. Purple Night Mary Whitney

SSAA, marimba, shaker

Advanced
To Build a Swing Hafiz (14th c.), trans. Daniel Ladinsky

SATB, piano, violin

Advanced
To Know the Dark Wendell Berry (b.1934)

SSAA, piano

Moderate
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
SSA, 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
Twilight's Ease Laurie Miller Vischer

SSAA, piano, optional viola duet 

Moderate
Ubi Caritas Traditional Roman Catholic antiphon

SSAATTB a cappella

Moderate
Until Hafiz, translated by Ladinsky

SATB, a cappella

Mod-easy
Viriditas Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) Translated into English by Gabrielle Uhlein

SSAA, a cappella

Advanced
viva sweet love E.E. Cummings (1894-1962)

SSAA, piano

Mod-Advanced
Vivos Voco Medieval Latin virtutes and Julian of Norwich (1342-ca.1416)

SSAA, piano, handbells

Advanced
Waly, Waly Traditional Scottish ballad

SSA a cappella

Moderate
Water Women Alla Bozarth

SSAA, piano

Mod-Advanced
We Are a Circle Music & Lyrics by Rick Hamouris

SSA, hand drums, perc.

Moderate
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
We Shake We Shine Joan Szymko Moderate
What We Do— Now
Where Is the Door to the Tavern? Hafiz (14th c.) translated by Daniel Ladinsky

SATB, cb, bottles edge-blown as aerophones
SSAA, cb, bottles edge-blown as aerophones
opt. accordion accompaniment

Mod-Advanced
Wing Away Joan Szymko

SSAA a cappella

Mod-Advanced
Woman Am I anonymous

SSAA a cappella

Easy
Words Joan Szymko

SSA

SA

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SA

SATB

Easy-Moderate
Wynken, Blynken and Nod Eugene Fields (1850-1895)

SSA, piano

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
You Are the Music Amy Lowell (1874-1925)

SSAA (w/div), piano

Mod-Advanced
You Have Struck a Rock South African women's protest song lyrics

SSAA a cappella (opt.drum)

Moderate