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Secular Works
(difficulty rating 1 = easier, 5 = more difficult)
MIXED CHORUS
1944
(extended work)
SATB/string orchestra
Secular text
in English by Hilda Doolittle
Difficulty rating (1-5): 4
Available directly
SATB a cappella
African-American Spiritual in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 3
Kjos (not yet in print) Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks SATB Secular text in English by Jane Kenyon Difficulty rating (1-5): 3 Available directly Click to listen to recording on Audio Page -- commissioned by the Worcester Polytechnic Institute --
SATB/solo violin & cello
Texts in Spanish by Antonio Machado, 4 movements; Duration approx 15 min.
SATBB a cappella
Secular text in Spanish by Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz
Difficulty rating (1-5): 4
Available directly [HUSH] SATB/cello/piano Secular text in English by Laura Chester Difficulty rating (1-5): 3.5 Available directly Life has Loveliness to Sell unison/piano or SSA/piano Secular text in English Difficulty rating (1-5): 2
Roger Dean (divison of Lorenz)
cat. #15/2314R
Double SATB chorus/bodhrans/percussion
Secular text in English by Paul Carey
Difficulty rating (1-5): 3
Available directly (this piece is currently being edited)
SATB/violin/piano (also available
SA/piano)
Folktext in Armenian (the Armenian is not difficult to
learn)
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2
Santa Barbara catalog # SMBP698
SATB a cappella (ask about the SSAA/piano version)
Text in English by natalie Goldberg
Difficulty rating (1-5): 3
Walton catalog # WJMS1088
by Colum
Sands/arr. Paul Carey
SATB a cappella
Text in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2+
Oxford Univ Press catalog # 0-19-386953-5
SATB a cappella (ask about the SA/piano version)
Secular texts in English: May Swenson, Sidney Hoddes, & Grey Held
SATB/piano
Secular text in English by Theodore Roethke
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2
Available directly
SATB/piano
Secular text in English by
Rabindranath Tagore
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2.5
Roger Dean (a division of Lorenz) cat # 15/2430R
SABar/piano (also available SA/piano)
Secular text in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2
Oxford Univ Press catalog # 0-19-386852-7 You
Gonna Eat That?
-- commissioned by the Fort Wayne, Indiana Children's Choir --
4-part spoken
Secular text in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2+
Available directly TREBLE CHORUS -- commissioned by the Naperville North High School Treble Choir --
SA/piano
Secular text in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2+
Santa Barbara Music Pub #SMBP737
I. No Puedo
apartarme
II. Moreno mio
III. Veo que todas
IV. Agora que se
d’amor
V. Pues todas
SSA/four celli (at times SSAA)
also available as SSA/piano (at times SSAA)
Secular medieval folk texts (in Spanish)
Difficulty rating (1-5): 3
Roger Dean catalog #'s: 15/2323R (mvmt I), 15/2324R (mvmt II), 15/2325R (mvmt III), 15/2326R (mvmt III & IV), 15/2327R (mvmt V) Click to listen to recording on Audio Page
Chants d'Auvergne (Songs of the Auvergne)
Seven songs in a new
arrangement for soprano soloist/SSA/piano
Secular folk texts in Languedoc
Difficulty rating (1-5): 4
Available directly Click to listen to recording on Audio Page
SA/simple percussion/piano
Secular text in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2
Kjos catalog #6335
SSAA/flute/cello/piano/drum
Secular Chinese text in English translation
by Japanese artist/poet Kodojin
Difficulty rating (1-5): 4
Available directly
Tommy Makem/arr.
Paul Carey
Arranged for SSAA/offstage fluteText in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 3
Oxford Univ Press catalog #0-19-386689-7
El
Grillo
(The Cricket)
Josquin desPrez/arr. Paul Carey
SSAA a cappella
Secular text in Italian
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2
Available directly
SSAA/jazz string bass
Secular text in English
SA/piano
Secular text in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2
Duration 3:10 Available directly
Lake Song
-- Commissioned by the Milwaukee Choral Artists --
SSA/piano
Text in English by Colette Inez
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2.5
Available directly
SA/piano (with some divisi)
Irish Ballad in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2
Available directly
Johannes
Brahms / arr. Paul Carey
Ten sections of the original arranged for SSAA/piano four hands
(piano parts unaltered)
Difficulty rating (1-5): 3
Available directly Click to listen to recording on Audio Page Life has Loveliness to Sell SSA/piano Secular text in English Difficulty rating (1-5): 2 Roger Dean catalog # 15/2314R
SSAA/piano
Secular (yet quite spiritual) text by Denise Levertov
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2.5
Duration 3:30 Available directly
SA/piano (also available SATB/violin/piano)
Folktext in Armenian
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2 Santa Barbara catalog # SMBP679
I.
Dicen que no Hablan las Plantas
II.
Haycannas
III. Los Astros (The Stars)
SSA/piano
Secular text in Spanish by Rosalia de Castro
Difficulty rating (1-5): 4
Available directly
SSA/piano
Secular text in English by James Agee
Difficulty rating (1-5): 3
Available directly
SSAA/piano also available SATB a cappella
Text in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 3
Walton catalog # WJMS1088 (SATB version)
Peace on
Earth... and lots of
little crickets
-- commissioned piece --
SA/percussion/marimba
Secular text in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2+
Walton Music catalog # pending
SA/piano
Secular text in English by Jim Schey
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2
Available directly
SA/piano, also SATB a cappella
Secular texts in English: May Swenson, Sidney Hoddes, Robert
Brimm,
Grey Held, & Olivia Branche
Difficulty rating (1-5): 3
Available directly
SA/piano
Secular text in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2
Available directly
I. The New Ezekial
II. The New Colossus
SSSAAA a cappella
Sacred and secular texts in English by Emma Lazarus
Difficulty rating (1-5): 4
Available directly
SA/piano
Secular text in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2
Roger Dean catalog #15/2328R
by Daniel E.
Gawthrop/arr. Paul Carey
SSAA a cappella arrangement of
Gawthrop’s original SATB piece
Text in English by Jane Griner
Difficulty rating (1-5): 3
Dunstan House catalog # DH 0319
SA/piano
Secular text in English by Jane Taylor
Difficulty rating (1-5): 1+
Available directly
-- Commissioned by the Michigan State University
Children's Choir --
2 part Treble Choir/piano
Secular text in English by Ivy Eastwick
Difficulty rating (1-5): 1-2 Santa Barbara catalog # SMBP631
SSA/organ
Traditional text in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2
Available directly
2 part Treble Choir/piano
Secular text in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2
Oxford Univ Press catalog #0-19-386738-8
John Alden
Carpenter/arr. Paul Carey
SSAA/piano
Secular text in English by Rabindrath Tagore
Difficulty rating (1-5): 3
Oxford Univ Press catalog #0-19-386691-9
SA/piano
Secular text in English by Robert Louis Stevenson
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2+
Roger Dean catalog # 15/2170R
SSA/piano & violin
Secular text in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2+
Walton catalog # WLG125 (to order, use HL08501630) Winter Solstice SSA / harp Secular text in English Difficulty rating (1-5): 3 Available directly
You Begin
SSA / solo cello
Secular
text in
English by
Margaret
Atwood
Difficulty rating (1-5): 3 Duration 4:10 Roger Dean (a division of Lorenz) cat. #15/2442R
4-part spoken
Secular text in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2+
Available directly
TTBB, some divisi, a cappella
Secular/Sacred text
in English by Linda Gregg
Difficulty level (1-5): 4
Available directly
TTBB a cappella, with final verse descant
Original poem by Leigh Hunt
With extra parody verses in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 3
Santa Barbara Music Pub # SBMP718 Click to listen to recording on Audio Page
TTBB a cappella
Bawdy secular text in English by Seathrun Ceitinn
Difficulty rating (1-5): 3
Available directly
-- commissioned by the Naperville North High School Treble Choir --
SA/piano
Secular text in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2+
Available directly
SA/simple percussion/piano
Secular text in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2 Kjos catalog #6335
SA/piano
Secular text in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2
Duration 3:10 Available directly
The Lady and the Bear
SA/piano (with some divisi)
Irish Ballad in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2
Available directly Life has Loveliness to Sell SSA/piano Secular text in English Difficulty rating (1-5): 2 Roger Dean catalog # 15/2314R
SA/piano (also available SATB/violin/piano)
Folktext in Armenian
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2 Santa Barbara catalog # SMBP679
SSA/piano
Secular text in English by James Agee
Difficulty rating (1-5): 3
Available directly
SA/piano
Secular text in English by Jim Schey
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2
Available directly
Peace on
Earth... and lots of
little crickets
-- commissioned piece --
SA/percussion/marimba
Secular text in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2+
Walton Music catalog # pending
SA/piano, also SATB a cappella
Secular texts in English: May Swenson, Sidney
Hoddes, Robert Brimm,
Grey Held, & Olivia Branche
Difficulty rating (1-5): 3
Available directly
SA/piano
Secular text in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2
Available directly
SA/piano
Secular text in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2
Roger Dean catalog #15/2328R
SA/piano
Secular text in English by Jane Taylor
Difficulty rating (1-5): 1+
Available directly
2 part Treble Choir/piano
Secular text in English by Ivy Eastwick
Difficulty rating (1-5): 1-2 Santa Barbara catalog # SMBP631 Secular text in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2
Oxford Univ Press catalog #0-19-386738-8
SA/piano
Secular text in English by Robert Louis Stevenson
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2+
Roger Dean catalog # 15/2170R
SSA/piano & violin
Secular text in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2+
Walton catalog # WLG125 (to order, use HL08501630)
You
Gonna Eat That?
-- commissioned by the Fort Wayne, Indiana Children's Choir --
4-part spoken
Secular text in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2+
Available directly
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