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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 Christmas Bells SATB/Brass (2 trpts, 2 horns, 2 t-bones, bass trombone, tuba)/Bell Choir/Tymp/Percussion Text in English by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Difficulty rating (1-5): 3+ Duration 5:00 Contact Paul Carey for availability Click to listen to recording on Audio Page
SATB/piano
Secular or Sacred Text in English by Stephen Crane
-- commissioned by the Worcester Polytechnic Institute --
SATB/solo violin & cello
Texts in Spanish by Antonio Machado, 4 movements; Duration approx 15 min.
Difficulty rating (1-5): 3+
Available directly Click to listen to recording on Audio Page SATB
a cappella with divisi
Sacred/Secular text in English by Rabindranath Tagore
Difficulty rating (1-5): 3.5 Available directly
SATBB a cappella
Secular text in Spanish by Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz
Difficulty rating (1-5): 4
Available directly
Fishing in the Keep of Silence
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
The Night is Young
SATB a cappella
Text in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2+
Oxford Univ Press catalog # 0-19-386953-5
Secular text in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2+ Walton cat. # WLG129 Hal Leonard cat. # HL08501658 Click to listen to recording on Audio Page
SATB a cappella (ask about the SA/piano version)
Secular texts in English: May Swenson, Sidney Hoddes, & Grey Held
Difficulty rating (1-5): 4
Walton cat. # WW1407 Hal Leonard cat. # HL08501682 Click to listen to recording on Audio Page The Shy Man
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 Voices of Earth -- Commissioned by the Briar Cliff Singers & Chamber Choir --
SATB /piano
Secular text in English
Difficulty rating (1-5):
2.5
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
Clap Your Hands
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
SSA/piano
Sacred text in English by Diane Lockward
Difficulty rating (1-5): 3
Duration: 3:45 Roger Dean cat # 15/2838R
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
Santa Barbara Music Publishing cat#SMP831
SA/piano (with some divisi)
Irish Ballad in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2
Roger Dean Publishing Company
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 Mashed Potato Love Poem (from "Play with Your Food") SSA/piano Secular text in English by Sidney Hoddes Difficulty rating (1-5): 3 Duration: 2:30 Walton Music catalog #HL08501759
May I Be Happy Morning Person SATB / piano, 4 hands Spiritual or secular text in English Difficulty rating (1-5): 4 Roger Dean Publishing Company
SSAA/piano also available SATB a cappella
Text in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 3
Walton Music catalog #WJMS1088 (SATB version)
Night Song
-- commissioned piece --
SA/piano
Secular text in English by Jean Burden
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2
Duration 2:30 Roger Dean Publishing Company catalog #15/2591R
SA/piano
Secular text in English by Jim Schey
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2
Roger Dean Publishing Company catalog #15/2589R
Paint the Stars
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 #HL 08501658
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
SATB version Walton catalog #WW1407 SATB version Hal Leonard catalog #08501682 Click to listen to recording on Audio Page
Rain
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
Sail Away
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 The Star (Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star)
SA/piano
WA Mozart, arr Paul Carey
Parody of Jane Taylor's original text
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2
Available directly Roger Dean catalog #15/2719R
-- 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
treble unison / piano
Secular text in English by Vachel Lindsay
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2
Roger Dean Publishing catalog #15/2589
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 -- Commissioned by the Santa Fe Women's Ensemble -- SSA / harp or piano Secular texts in English by Elizabeth Searle Lamb and Lonnie Howard Difficulty rating (1-5): 3 Duration 7:00 (2 mvmts) Roger Dean cat. #15/2715R
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
Fishing in the Keep of Silence
TTBB divisi/a cappella also available in SATB divisi /a cappella Secular/Sacred text in English by Linda Gregg Difficulty rating (1-5): 3 Duration 5:00 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
Clap Your Hands
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
Roger Dean Publishing Company 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
SSA/pianoSanta Barbara catalog #SMBP679
May I
Be Happy
SA/piano
Secular text in English by Jim Schey
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2 Roger Dean Publishing Company
Paint the Stars
Peace on
Earth... and lots of
little crickets
-- commissioned piece --
SA/percussion/marimba
Secular text in English
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2+
Walton catalog #WLG129 Hal Leonard catalog #HL08501658 Click to listen to recording on Audio Page
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
Rain
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
treble unison / piano
Secular text in English by Vachel Lindsay
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2 Roger Dean Publishing Company 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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