First Steps in Music

The First Steps in Music series is an attempt to preserve the rich repertoire of traditional and folk literature, and to enable today's families to recall and learn songs and rhymes that have nurtured wonder and joy in young people for generations. The authentic affection, innocence, and wonder of these songs and rhymes have the potential to plant the seeds of lifelong sensitivity and imagination.

The songs and rhymes contained in our classes have been gathered over the past twenty years. Many of the most interesting examples were collected from the elderly, who often recalled songs and/or rhymes with great affection, reminding them of loving moments the had shared with young people in the past.

The First Steps in Music curriculum is based on an extensive survey of research related to the development of singing and movement skills in young children, as well as many years of practical experience sharing musical activities with this younger age. It is this combination of a research-based curriculum, quality literature, and practical experience that makes the First Steps in Music curriculum unique.

Folk Songs For Choirs

A graduate of the Juilliard School of music, Robert DeCormier's conducting engagements have taken him from Broadway and opera to numerous concert tours throughout the United States and Canada with the Robert De Cormier Singers, seventeen years as music director of the New York Choral Society, conductor and arranger for Harry Belafonte, and from 1978 until 2010, music director for the popular folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary.

He has always been deeply involved with folk music and this series offers a selection of some of his favorite choral arrangements of primarily American folk songs.

Frank Pooler Choral Series

Frank Pooler was an American choirmaster, and former Director of Choral Studies at California State University, Long Beach. He also collaborated with pop music group The Carpenters. Known in both academic and professional music circles for his mastery of contemporary choral repertoire, Pooler served as a guest conductor, clinician, lecturer and adjudicator throughout the continental United States, Canada, Europe, Scandinavia, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Hawaii, and Alaska. He published over 500 compositions, arrangements and editions, which have been performed in Europe and North America.

French Choral Masters

Galaxy Music

Galaxy Music Corporation was founded in 1930 in New York by Marshall Kernochan, a cultivated New Yorker who had a great love of classical music. Kernochan quickly surrounded himself with experienced editors, and the company took off with choral and vocal music, moving into other genres along the way. Among its first composers were Katherine K. Davis, John Work, and Douglas Moore. As the firm expanded its catalog to take a more educational focus, there were also new agreements with overseas publishers, such as Stainer & Bell of London, which gave access to the music of composers like Vaughan Williams, Delius, and Jacob. By mid-century, Galaxy composers included Ivan Galamian, George Rochberg, Alice Parker, and Donald Waxman, as well as composer and Galaxy editor Robert Ward, who would go on to write the Pulitzer Prize-winning opera, The Crucible. John Kernochan, Marshall’s son, ran the company from his father’s death in 1955 until 1989, when he retired from his day job as a professor and authority on intellectual property at Columbia University Law School. At that time, he sold to E. C. Schirmer Music Company, an enterprise with similar scope and history, and the acquisition came under the name of ECS Publishing.

Gentry Choral Series

When Fred Bock left Word Music to strike out on his own in 1968, he decided to name his new company after one of the streets on which his apartment building was located: Gentry Street inspired Gentry Publications. Such was the beginning of what would prove to be a legendary career. He chose wisely, for the other street would have derailed his publishing fate before it even began: Klump Avenue. From the beginning Gentry was an imprint designed for the school market – specifically those higher-end High School, College and University choirs. Gentry Publications continues its long tradition of publishing choral music from some of the finest American composers, arrangers, editors and conductors.

GIA Choral Christmas Series

GIA Choral Classics

Glee

The successful TV series encouraged school kids to get involved with the performing artists and this series of arrangements are perfect for high school ensembles.

Glory Sound

Praise songs, spirituals and Christian choral music arrangements for choirs of all abilities.

Glory Sound Christmas

Gospel Choral Series

A new series of choral arrangements with a tinge of gospel. Or are they gospel songs with a tinge of choral? Either way your choir will be raising their voices to the Lord in this exciting series.

Henry Leck Creating Artistry

An internationally recognized choral director, Henry Leck is a professor emeritus in choral music at Butler University, where he served on the faculty for 27 years. He is the Founder and Conductor Laureate of the Indianapolis Children’s Choir, which he served as Artistic Director for 30 years. Under his leadership. the organization grew to and continues to be one of the largest and most respected children’s choir programs in the world.

Hinshaw Sacred Christmas

Howard Goodall Choral Series

Howard Goodall is an EMMY, BRIT, Gramophone and BAFTA -winning composer of choral music, stage musicals, film and TV scores, is well known as a TV and Radio broadcaster and is a leading spokesperson for music education in the UK. His best-known themes & scores include Into the Storm, The Gathering Storm, The Borrowers, Red Dwarf, The Catherine Tate Show, Q.I., Mr Bean, Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie, Mr Bean's Holiday, Blackadder, and The Vicar of Dibley.

Innocent Sounds Treble Chorus Series

Irish Choral Series

David Mooney is one of Ireland's top choral arrangers and his works are sung throughout the country. Bring a touch of the blarney to your repertoire!

Jameson Marvin Choral Series

Jameson Marvin was Director of Choral Activities, Senior Lecturer on Music at Harvard University for 32 years. From 1978 to 2010, Harvard's Choral Program garnered a distinguished national reputation. Under his conductorship, the Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, rose to be among the premier collegiate choruses in America. These ensembles appeared at nine Eastern Division and seven National Conventions of the American Choral Directors Association, and the Choral Program at Harvard was named by Classical Singer magazine the top collegiate choral program in the United States.

Janeal Krehbiel Choral Series

Janeal Crabb Krehbiel founder and director of the Lawrence Children's Choir, is a clinician and festival director throughout the United States. This series features arrangements primarily for treble voices.

Janet Galvan Women's Series

Dr. Janet Galván, Director of Choral Activities at Ithaca College, conducts the Ithaca College Choir and Women's Chorale. Galván has been recognized as one of the country’s leading conducting teachers, and her students have received first place awards and have been finalists in both the graduate and undergraduate divisions of the American Choral Directors biennial National Choral Conducting Competition.

Jewish Music Series

Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series

Dr. cheibe has worked alongside notable conductors such as Jeffrey Kahane, Alain Lombard, Jahja Ling, Max Valdez, James Judd, Edoardo Muller, Thomas Sanderling, and Professor Janos Czifra.

John Purifoy Choral Series

John Purifoy is an ASCAP composer and arranger with various published choral anthems and works recorded by Carol Lawrence, Anita Kerr, the Chicago Master Chorale and other artists.

Jon Washburn Collection

Jon Washburn is the Conductor and Artistic Director of Canada's outstanding professional vocal ensemble, the Vancouver Chamber Choir. Well known internationally for his mastery of choral technique and interpretation, Washburn travels widely as guest conductor, lecturer, clinician, and master teacher.

Joni Jensen Choral Series

Dr. Joni Jensen is the Director of Choral Activities and Associate Professor of Voice at Texas Woman’s University (Denton, TX). She conducts three choirs and teaches voice, conducting, vocal pedagogy, and graduate art song literature.

Judith Clurman Series

Emmy and Grammy nominated conductor, educator, and choral specialist Judith Clurman is driven by a passion for vocal music in all its forms and styles. Equally at home with repertoire from the classical canon to the American Songbook, musical theater and contemporary compositions, Ms. Clurman’s performances are marked by dynamic interpretations and effortless panache.

Judith Herrington Choral Series

Judith Herrington brings more than 35 years of teaching and conducting experience to her work at Tacoma Youth Chorus and Charles Wright Academy in Tacoma, Washington, where she received the Inspirational Faculty Award and the Murray Foundation Chair for Teaching Excellence. A graduate of the University of Oregon, Ms. Herrington earned her Master of Education degree from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. She has furthered her conducting studies through master classes with Rodney Eichenberger and Henry Leck. She has served on the Washington American Choral Directors Association Board as R&S Chair for Children’s Choirs, President and Past-President of the Board and is the 2011 recipient of its Leadership and Service Award. She is an inaugural member of the School of Arts and Communication Advisory Board at Pacific Lutheran University.

Just Voices

The perfect introduction to unaccompanied three-part choral singing! Each book in the Just Voices series contains ten themed songs in simple a cappella arrangements created especially for beginners. Complete with piano reductions for easy rehearsal, all of the songs in the book can be sung by either SSA or SAT choir, making Just Voices the most enjoyable and flexible introduction to unaccompanied choral singing available.

Karl Jenkins Choral Series

Sir Karl William Pamp Jenkins, CBE is a Welsh musician and composer known for "Adiemus", The Armed Man and his Requiem. Jenkins has won many awards in the field of advertising music with credits for Levi's, British Airways, Renault, Volvo and Pepsi to name but a few, but it is for his concerts that he has achieved critical acclaim.

Kids On Broadway

This series focuses on show tunes that are particularly suited for younger singers. Your kids will enjoy performing these arrangements of classic songs.

Kikapust Choral Series

Created by former Swingle Singers Ben Parry and Jonathan Rathbone these are classic vocal jazz arrangements that are perfect for your more accomplished ensembles.

Kings Singers Choral Series

The King's Singers are probably the most acclaimed a cappella male vocal ensemble in the world who are not only great performers but have had as members some of the most highly regarded arrangers in the business. Although a sextet they offer arrangements for several different voicings.

Latin American Choral Series

The Latin American Choral Series brings the exciting sounds of Latin America to choirs throughout the world. Selected by Oscar Escalada, the series includes a tremendous variety of styles ranging from the first polyphonic music composed in the New World, to traditional folksongs, tantalizing tangos, love songs, original compositions, and a mass.

Latin Pop Hits

A new and fun series that will get your choir bailando! The rhythm of the music of these hit songs by top Latin arts is infectious and will get boih the singers and the audiences swaying. Great additions to any choirs repertoire!

Laura Farnell Choral Series

Laura Farnell is an active choral composer, clinician, accompanist, and adjudicator who resides in Arlington, Texas. Laura especially enjoys working with middle school students, as well as composing and arranging for this age group.

Leavensong

Leonard Bernstein Choral Series

Few composers capture their time and become the iconic voice of their age. Writing for small ensembles, symphony orchestras, Broadway, film and opera houses, Leonard Bernstein projected a simple message of understanding and hope employing both complex and simple forms and styles.

While his music finds its spiritual home in his world view, his music speaks with a New York accent, even though he was born in Massachusetts. His love affair with Europe and his sensitivity to his Russian and Jewish roots are never far from his lyrical expressivity, with its fragile sense of optimism, its loneliness, its humor and its demand for acceptance. All of this is wrapped in the rhythmic propulsion of a great American urban landscape. He has left us an aural image of his time and place and, at the same time, an eternal voice of humanity

Let's All Sing

The Let's All Sing series of selected songs are carefully arranged in kid-friendly ranges for young unison voices with some optional harmony for added fun. Perfect for group singing in the classroom, choir or community, these arrangements will be a blast to rehearse and perform! The Piano/Vocal Collection offers fully accompanied songs, and the Singer Edition comes in handy paks of ten with vocal parts only. Check out the professionally-produced recording available separately, for performance and accompaniment possibilities!

Little Voices

Each themed book in the Little Voices series contains five songs that make a perfect introduction to part-singing for beginner groups.

Mark Foster Choral Series

A long-established series of choral arrangements suitable for choirs of all abilities.

Marks Choral Library

An older choral series that have been delighting audiences for many years.

Mary Goetze Choral Series

High quality repertoire for children's and youth choirs, specially selected and arranged by the leading US educationalist Mary Goetze. Dr. Goetze is recognized for her work as a clinician, composer and conductor. Her arrangements and compositions for treble voices are published by Boosey & Hawkes in the Mary Goetze Choral Series. In addition to degrees from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Indiana University, and the University of Colorado, she holds certifications in Kodaly and Orff Schulwerk.

Masterworks for Young Choir

Why should grown ups have all the fun? Introduce the joys of the choral classics to your younger singers with these arrangements especially created for aspiring youth choir. Mozart, Haydn, Handel, Purcell and many other of the great composers of the past are included in the series.

Moses Hogan Choral Series

African-American spirituals comprise one of the world’s greatest and best loved bodies of music, appealing to performers and audiences across all boundaries and Moses Hogan was considered to be a master of genre. His arrangements and compositions can be considered the definitive expression of the musical form and this series is a collection of his finest works.

Music for Christmas

Music for Easter

Music For Womens Voices

A new and growing collection of interesting pieces arranged for three part treble voices. Far from run-of-the-mill these arrangements will prove to be both rewarding and satisfying.

Music for Young Voices

Music from the Movies

Music From Westminster