Music of Aaron Copland

For nearly four decades, American composer Aaron Copland achieved a distinctive musical characterization of American themes in an expressive modern style. He was concerned with crafting sounds that would be seen as “American” in its scope, incorporating a range of styles in his work that included jazz and folk and connections to Latin America.

Copland was a renowned composer of film scores as well, working on Of Mice and Men (1939), Our Town (1940) and The North Star (1943)—receiving Academy Award nominations for all three projects. He eventually won an Oscar for The Heiress (1949).

Music of Alice Parker

Alice Parker, internationally renowned composer, conductor and teacher, studied composition and conducting at Juilliard School where she began her long association with Robert Shaw. The many Parker settings of American folksongs, hymns and spirituals form an enduring repertoire for choruses all around the world.

Music of Audrey Snyder

Audrey has published numerous original choral compositions and arrangements spanning the entire spectrum of choral music from Top 40 pop to the classics and from elementary through high school levels. Her creative work along with her arrangements and editions place her in the forefront of writers for the school market.

Widely recognized as one of the top educational choral writers today, Audrey composes music with rare beauty, simplicity and charm. She is a highly regarded educator, clinician, editor and producer.

Music of Cristi Cary Miller

Cristi Miller is highly regarded across the United States as a master teacher, conductor and composer. Cristi has served as the Elementary Representative on the Oklahoma Choral Directors Association Board of Directors as well as the Elementary Vice President and President for the Oklahoma Music Educators Association. Along with her educational responsibilities, Mrs. Miller authors and co-authors a column for a national music magazine entitled Music Express! and was a contributing writer for the Macmillan McGraw-Hill music textbook series, Spotlight on Music. Mrs. Miller is frequently in demand as a clinician and director across the United States and Canada. She has numerous choral pieces and books in publication through the Hal Leonard Corporation and has also been the recipient of several ASCAP awards for her music.

Music of Easter

Music of Emily Crocker

Emily Holt Crocker, Director of the Milwaukee Children's Choir is recognized nationally as one of the leading experts in children's choirs. After a successful 15-year career as a music teacher and choral director in her native Texas, she joined the music publishing industry, and now holds the position of Vice President of Choral Publications for Hal Leonard Corporation.

She holds degrees from the University of North Texas and Texas Woman's University, and has done additional study at UNT (choral conducting), Westminster Choir College (conducting and voice-building), TWU (vocal pedagogy) and Sam Houston State University (Kodaly methods).

Music of Heather Sorenson

Heather Sorenson entered the church music industry in her twenties, and her name quickly became a welcomed fixture in the publishing world. Heather is hired by the largest and most respected publishers in the world, and her pieces remain at the top of Bestsellers lists and Editor's Choice selections.

Music of John Leavitt

John Leavitt currently serves as Director of Choral Activities and Professor of Music at MidAmerica Nazarene University. An extraordinary composer, performer, and clinician for church and school music literature, Dr. Leavitt continues to teach, lecture, and guest conduct numerous workshops, festivals, and symposia. He has served as a regular guest conductor in major venues throughout the United States, including New York’s Carnegie Hall and Washington DC’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Dr. Leavitt’s compositions are represented in nearly every major music catalog. His music is regularly featured on public radio stations and has been performed in more than 30 countries across the world.

Music of Joseph M. Martin

Director of Sacred Publications, at Hal Leonard and Shawnee Press, with responsibilities for overseeing the editorial and creative direction of the company and also coordinating the recording and production aspects of future sacred publishing efforts.

Music of Joyce Eilers

Joyce Eilers is recognized as one of the top choral composers in the country, with hundreds of compositions and arrangements in her catalog, best-selling methods for teaching sight-singing, and for her mentoring of young composers.

Music of Kirby Shaw

Kirby Shaw is one of the most prolific vocal harmony arrangers in the business with many, many hundreds of published arrangements to his credit. Directors like Kirby's approach to a song which can often both challangesand delight the performers.

Music of Mac Huff

Mac Huff is one of the leading choral arrangers and composers in the music industry with over 1,700 published arrangements.

His academic background includes degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Texas-Austin, as well as summer study at the Aspen Music Festival and doctoral work at the University of Southern California.

Over the years he has composed, arranged and musical directed award winning shows for ABC-TV, NBC-TV, The Walt Disney Co., Hallmark, Inc., Colleco, Inc., Canon, Dow Inc., the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Six Flags Show Productions, Union Station Main Stage Shows (Indianapolis), JB Robin Co. (Los Angeles), Howard Lanin Productions (New York) and TMJ Productions (Las Vegas) among others. In addition, he is in demand as a lecturer and as a guest artist for various music festivals and workshops throughout the world.

Music of Philip Lawson

Philip joined The King’s Singers in 1994 and sung for over 18 years with the group and performed more than 2,000 concerts, co-presented over 300 workshops and appeared on 25 CDs, several DVDs and numerous radio and television programs. He was also the group’s principal arranger, contributing over 50 arrangements to the repertoire, including 10 for the 2008 album “Simple Gifts”, which went on to win the 2009 GRAMMY award for Best Classical Crossover Album.

Music of Philip Stopford

Philip Stopford is a composer of choral music, conductor and organist from England. Philip began his musical career as a Chorister at Westminster Abbey under the direction of both Simon Preston and Martin Neary. After winning a major Music Scholarship to Bedford School, Philip composed a setting of the Responses which later won the Federation of Old Choristers' Composition Prize.

Music of Roger Emerson

Roger Emerson is a professional composer and arranger with over 900 choral titles in print and over 30 million copies in circulation. He is the most widely performed composer/arranger of popular choral music in the world today. Mr. Emerson has been the recipient of ASCAP's Standard Award for 20 years running and his works have been performed at the White House, Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center. He is in constant demand as a lecturer on pop music and the changing voice and has appeared at numerous MENC and ACDA conferences.

Music of Rollo Dilworth

Rollo A. Dilworth is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities and Music Education at the North Park University School of Music in Chicago, Illinois. Dilworth established himself at a relatively young age as a leading arranger and composer of African American spirituals and his work has been performed by prestigious choirs for many years.

Musical Theatre for Classical Singers

Songs have been chosen which are especially for the classical voice. The editions treat the music as substantial vocal literature in these large, generous collections. Each voice type has a unique variety of literature. The series presents primarily original keys, but there are also appropriate and practical transpositions (particularly for lyric mezzo-soprano).

National Lutheran Choir Series

The National Lutheran Choir, under the direction of Dr. David Cherwien, seeks to strengthen, renew and preserve the Lutheran heritage of choral music through the highest standards of performance and literature.

New York Voices Series

A selection of songs from one of the best vocal jazz groups in the business featuring the arrangements of Darmon Meador.

Norman Luboff Choral Series

With a call from Hollywood to be choral director of The Railroad Hour, a radio weekly starring Gordan McRae, Mr. Luboff entered a period of enormous artistic growth and accomplishment, including the scoring of many television programs and more than eighty motion pictures. He also recorded with America's most noted artists, including Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Jo Stafford, and Doris Day. In 1950, he formed Walton Music Corporation to make his works available in printed form.

The Norman Luboff Choir became one of the leading choral groups in the world, recording a wide variety of music on more than seventy-five LPs and touring yearly from 1963 to 1987. As an educator, Mr. Luboff was in much demand, guest conducting all-state, clinic, and festival choirs of every description in the United States and abroad

Novello Primary Chorals

The Novello Primary Chorals series is the perfect way to introduce ensemble singing to your class or choir. This is the perfect book to introduce ensemble singing to class or choir. Seven classic Abba tunes that children love to sing, in simple vocal arrangements including both unison and part singing. Also included is a Piano accompaniment.

Novello Youth Chorals

Original Keys For Singers

Titles in the Original Keys For Singers series are designed for vocalists looking for authentic transcriptions from their favorite artists. The books transcribe famous vocal performances exactly as recorded and provide piano accompaniment parts so that you can perform or practice exactly as Ella or Patsy or Josh!

Pathways of Song

The Pathways of Song series offers concert songs in easy vocal ranges for the voice student, by composers such as Schubert, Brahms, Handel, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Haydn. The series includes representative repertoire, with English translations and piano accompaniment.

Patriotic Sheet Music Series

There are many occasions besides July 4th to sing a patriotic song and every choir should have a some arrangements in their repertoire.

Pop Choral Series

This series features many of the top hits of the day and also classic popular songs from recent decades. Almost all the top arrangers of contemporary vocal harmony are represented here and these are songs known and loved my many.

Pop Classic Series

Pop Sound of Norman Luboff

Norman Luboff was one of the most famous choral directors of his time with numerous Hollywood credits to his name. This is a collection of his arrangements of popular songs.

PraiseSong

PraiseSong Christmas Series

Pro Vocal for Singers

Whether you're a karaoke singer or an auditioning professional, the Pro Vocal series is for you. The books contain the lyrics, melody and chord symbols for eight hit songs. The CDs contain demos for listening, and separate backing tracks so you can sing along. The CD is playable on any CD player, but it is also enhanced so that PC and Mac computer users can adjust the recording to any pitch without changing the tempo! This innovative feature allows singers to transpose songs to any key to suit their voice type. Perfect, for home rehearsal, parties, auditions, corporate events, and gigs without a backup band. Available in editions for Men, Women and Mixed Collections.

Randy Stenson Male Chorus Series

Randolph C. Stenson is on the music faculty at St. Mary’s International School in Tokyo, Japan, where he conducts the St. Mary’s Men’s Choir, Varsity Male Ensemble, and International Show Choir. With more than twenty years experience in developing male ensembles, his groups have gained international recognition, winning top honors and awards at competitions and festivals in Japan and abroad.

Mr Stenson’s choirs have appeared with such diverse performers and musical organizations as Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras, John Ken Nuzzo, John Denver, Perry Como, Yuzo Kayama, Alexander Mikhalov, John Rutter, and the Covent Garden and La Scala Opera Companies. They have performed for Japanese television and radio audiences, members of the Japanese Imperial Family, government ministers, visiting dignitaries including former President Reagan, and have been featured guests the world over.

Rene Clausen Choral Series

Rene Clausen has served as conductor of The Concordia Choir of Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota since 1986. Additionally, he is the artistic director of the award-winning Concordia Christmas Concerts, which are frequently featured by PBS stations throughout the nation.

Robert Young Choral Series

As an award-winning member of ASCAP, Dr. Young had more than 100 choral compositions published by some of the most prestigious publishing companies in the United States. It was his work with the Baylor Chamber Singers and the beautiful performance venue of the Armstrong Browning Library that provided much of the inspiration for his numerous choral compositions.

Ron Kean Multicultural Choral Series

Dr. Ronald Kean, Emeritus Professor of Music at Bakersfield College, spent six years as ACDA Repertoire and Standards Chair for Ethnic and Multicultural Perspectives at state, division, and national levels. He is frequently called upon to adjudicate festivals, lecture, and to conduct workshops and honor choirs in the US and abroad.

Rosephanye Powell Choral Series

Dr. Rosephanye Dunn Powell has been hailed as one of America’s premier women composers of choral music. She has an impressive catalogue of works published by some of the nation’s leading publishers. Her work has been auctioned by Chorus America and her compositions are in great demand at choral festivals around the country, frequently appearing on the regional and national conventions of the American Choral Directors Association, as well as Honor Choir festivals. Dr. Powell’s compositions include sacred and secular works for mixed chorus, women’s chorus, men’s chorus, and children’s voices.

Royal School of Church Music

At its founding in 1927, RSCM was organization that consisted of a training college for church musicians (called the College of St. Nicolas) and an association of affiliated churches committed to attaining high standards of musical performance. The RSCM has grown to become an international and ecumenical organization, with more than 11,000 affiliates in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Nigeria and throughout Europe. RSCM America has more than 400 affiliates crossing denominational lines and the boundaries of nearly every state.

Sacred Christmas Choral

Satisfying arrangements of sacred Christmas music for choirs of all abilities.

Schirmer Choral Classics

Schirmer Opera Anthology

The G. Schirmer Opera Anthology series revolutionized opera aria study after its release in 1991.

Secular Christmas Choral

A large series of several hundred arrangements by some of the top vocal harmony arrangers of the day. Lots of Christmas fun here!

Setting the Standards

A truly great songs will last forever as exemplified in this series of some of the all-time popular favorite songs, both modern and decades old. Fresh arrangements by top arrangers have been created for intermediate and developing choirs who will have lots of fun performing these classic songs

Shawnee Classic Series

Shawnee Press Christmas

Since 1939 Shawnee Press has led the way in providing music of the highest quality to schools, churches, choirs and vocal ensembles. Here is a collection of their most popular Christmas music perfect for beginning to intermediate choirs.

Shawnee Press Directors Series

Shawnee Press Gospel Series

Shawnee Press Multi-Cultural Series

Shawnee Press Patriotic Series

Shawnee Press Pop Series

Since 1939 Shawnee Press has led the way in providing music of the highest quality to schools, churches and ensembles of all abilities. This series feature pop hits from some of the top performers of the day.

Shawnee Sacred