Upper voice choirs – SA, SSA, SSAA, and even SSSSAAAA (!)

Easy

  • Why We Sing – SA and piano, part of #ChoirsForClimate, available under Creative Commons (download for free if you’re using it for campaigning or fundraising for ecological causes. Could also be performed unison with all on the top line.
  • New! Tell Them Of Us – SA a cappella, a setting of a First World War epitaph. Ideal for Remembrance, Veteran’s Day, or similar occasions. Pay-what-you-want!
  • We Are One Voice – available for SAA choir and piano (also for SA or flexible 2-part choirs)
  • Child In The Manger – 3′, SA choir and piano, fairly easy. Buy it from MusicSpoke. This has been sung by several UK choirs. The recording below is by Cantemus, a girls’ choir at George Watson’s College in Edinburgh, directed by Steven Griffin.
  • Loch Lomond for 2-part SA choir (could also be sung by women/men, or high/low voices) – first verse with easy harmony; second verse can be sung to the same harmony or to a slightly more challenging version. Easy, 2 minutes. Single copies 50, PDF £10.
  • A Red Red Rose for 2-part SA choir. Easy, 2 minutes. Single copies 50p, PDF £10.
  • Ye Banks and Braes for two-part choir – SA, SB or TB (or ST/AB). Single copies 50p, PDF £10.
  • To order any of those three arrangements, email me: if you order them as PDFs, it’s £15 for two or £20 for all three.
  • Carmina Gadelica is available for SSA choirs; email me for copies.
  • A Bicycle Wheel – a 3-part round, ideal for singing outdoors or at anything associated with bicycles! Pay what you want for this piece.

Medium

  • The Rules – SA and piano, part of #ChoirsForClimate and #ChoirsForEcocideLaw, available under Creative Commons (download for free if you’re using it for campaigning or fundraising for ecological causes). Quite dark and angry.
  • “No Man Is An Island” (SSA) – free, see the #choirsagainstracism page for details.
  • “Be Still, My Blessed Babe” (unison and piano). £2+postage per copy or £25 for a PDF, email me to order. Recording below, sung by Ruth Carlyle and played by David Barton:
  • Patapan – for SA choir (occasional divisi to SSA, two optional SSAA chords), moderate difficulty, 3′. Text in English. Recording now available on SoundCloud! You can buy this from MusicSpoke.

Difficult

  • 3 Memories of Kurdistan (SSSSAAAA choir)
    For a more advanced women’s choir. Words by Aine McAllister, drawn from the collective memory of women she has worked with in a refugee camp in Grande Synthe, France. Download the score (Creative Commons 4.0 License); you can hear demos at the #choirsagainstracism page, and here’s “My Father”, the last movement, recorded by KC VITAs Chamber Choir, Kansas:
  • Drop, Drop, Slow Tears – for SSA trio or choir. World premiere available – contact me if interested, would be happy to give free scores in exchange for a recording.
  • Thou Knowest, Lord – for SSAA choir, no further divisi (ideally this could be sung by a choir of unbroken voices, girls and/or boy trebles, but would also suit a female voice choir or four good soloists). Quite difficult unaccompanied, but could be performed with organ accompaniment. Available from MusicSpoke.
  • La Belle Dame Sans Merci. 7′, four solo sopranos and harp, professional difficulty. Words by John Keats. Hear a recording. £50 for printed scores and parts, or for PDFs.