Choral Music SATB
All choral music downloads include: Vocal (piano) score, an MP3 recording of the piece (live or midi realized), and separate voice part recordings (midi realized) with the voice part enhanced for more efficient student learning and individual student practice. The music is priced similar to instrumental music. Pay one price for the rights to use the music, you may copy the number of parts you need for your ensemble. Each purchaser will receive a “hard copy” site license giving them and their organization permission to create copies of the music for their specific use. The site license should satisfy any festival’s or evaluation performance requirements for using copied music.
Any published music listed here will have a link to the publisher for purchase of the scores. The files that can be purchased and downloaded on this site for the published music are the practice voice part enhanced practice recordings, as well as the recordings of the piece. These are the files you will receive for the price listed on the product page, not scores. To purchase scores, click on the link to the publisher.
i carry your heart with me - SATB a capella, level 5
A very sensitive setting of Cummings' beautiful text on love with wonderfully rich harmonies and exquisite counterpoint. This setting sounds great in any size choral ensemble, chamber to symphonic choir. Your choir and audiences will adore this uplifting setting of Cummings' classic love poem. For details, preview scores, full text, and recordings, click on thumbnail.
Slumbers Golden (Lullaby) - SATB & piano level 4
A Ballad setting of Gerald Massey's "Lullaby" (1866). Well suited for high school or community choir. The musical setting is sensitive and gentle, evoking a "world of mystic breathing... where spirit sentinels stand by... and wings of love hover nigh!" It is a piece that will sound great in any size choral ensemble, chamber choir to symphonic choir. For details, preview scores, full text, and recordings, click on thumbnail.
...To The Ever-new Dawn - SATB & Piano level 4+
An excellent work for high school, college, and strong community choirs. The work was commissioned by Dr. Peggy Dettwiler, Director of Choral Activities at Mansfield University, Mansfield, Pa. The work is a setting of Look To This Day by Kalidasa from the Sanskrit tradition.taken from 5th century writings attributed to Kalidasa from the Sanskrit tradition. The text extols, in such a wonderful way, that the most precious commodity we are given is the time we have each day. For details, preview scores, full text, and recordings, click on thumbnail.
Music Is - SATB Choir & Strings (piano reduction included) level 5 larger work
A stunning work for high school, college, and strong community choirs. The text is a compilation of thoughts collected by the composer from music colleagues and friends responding to the question; "What is music, what does it mean to you?", From joy with tears, sorrow with smiles, raging peace, shouts of silence, flamboyant simple scenes, and with the final stanzas summarizing music's place in our souls and the deep human connections, the piece reveals the essence of music so well. For details, preview scores, full text, and recordings, click on thumbnail.
Fudgy-Dense, Lip-Smearing Chocolate Chip Cookies - SATB Choir & Piano level 3 +
"F-D,L-SCCC" is No. 1 in a collection of songs written about special desserts on texts by Joe Finetti and would be a great fit for high school, college, & community choirs. It is a reverent tribute to that most amazing home baked treat. Listening to the work one can smell the aroma of mom's (or grandma's) fresh baked chocolate chip cookies. All is so right with the world! Ahhhhhh! For details, preview scores, full text, and recordings, click on thumbnail.
"Frantic Francophilic Flambe (Crêpes Suzette)" - SATB Choir & Piano level 4
No. 2 in a collection of songs written about special desserts on texts by Joe Finetti and would be a great fit for high school, college, & community choirs. A light and sweet piece set in dance like style of a French folk song, with intensity building as the moments of the flambe approach. A wonderfully elegant, lighthearted, yet flamboyant piece. For details, preview scores, full text, and recordings, click on thumbnail.
Dolcissima (Tiramisu) - SATB Choir & Piano Level 4
No. 3 in a collection of songs written about special desserts on texts by Joe Finetti and would be a great fit for high school, college, & community choirs. With apologies to Verdi & Puccini, Dolcissima is a tongue in cheek "Aria" of affection to Tiramisu. It is in the style of any great tenor aria of the romantic period with an out pouring of devotion for the most beloved, Tiramisu! For details, preview scores, full text, and recordings, click on thumbnail.
Moctezuma's Better Brownie Batter (Mexican Brownies) - SATB Choir & Piano Level 5
No. 4 in a collection of songs written about special desserts on texts by Joe Finetti and would be a great fit for high school, college, & community choirs. A tasty history lesson about how Mexican Brownies may have been created set in a Mariachi style. This piece will put smiles on the choir and the audience. Enjoy! For details, preview scores, full text, and recordings, click on thumbnail.
Summertime Joy! (Ice Cream) SATB Choir & Piano Level 5
No. 5 in a collection of songs written about special desserts on texts by Joe Finetti and would be a great fit for high school, college, & community choirs. Summertime Joy is a remembrance of lazy summertime afternoons, as a child, when the ice cream truck would drive down the street, ringing the bells to signal that frozen happiness had arrived. The multi-metric setting gives the work the carefree, jaunty feel of childhood. Take your audience back to those wonderful days! For details, preview scores, full text, and recordings, click on thumbnail.
Invictus SATB Choir & Piano. Level 4
An excellent work for high school, college, and community choirs. The work is based on two William Ernest Henley poems (IV, & XI) from his collection entitled "Life and Death Echoes". The first became known as "Invictus" and Thick Is The Darkness”. The two texts interspersed with each other become dynamic statements about the unconquerable and indomitable human spirit. The famous line; "I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul" is the final line from "Invictus". For details, preview scores, full text, and recordings, click on thumbnail.
Ding-Dong The Witch Is Dead SATB Jazz Choir a capella Level 5
This is a Jazz Choir arrangement of Ding - Dong The Witch Is Dead from "The Wizard Of Oz" by Harburg & Arlen. This arrangement is not for sale or distribution. It appears on the website as an example of my jazz choir arranging. This is a tough, but creative chart for a capella jazz choir. It is written as an SATB arrangement, however with the amount of divisi occurring in both the women's and men's part, it is really 3 part women & 3 part men. To see more of the score and listen to the piece, click on the thumbnail score image.
If you wish to have custom arrangements, or original choral music created for your choir or jazz choir, please contact Brian at: brian@brianscottstorymusic.com.
In The Purple Chill (At Sunrise) SATB a cappella choir. Level 4+
Suited for high school, college, and community choirs. It is one of three pieces from a collection using texts by Bliss William Carman (1861 - 1929). Carman’s poem, “At Sunrise” (1922) beautifully paints the picture of the sun rising with all of its colors and glory, taking over the stars in silence, as a new day is being created with all of its hope and splendor. “In The Purple Chill” is set using shimmering harmonic colors to create a sense of peace and hopefulness for the new day, and a tinge of sadness as the sunrise fades.
Courageous Messengers Of Light (Fireflies) SATB a cappella choir. Level 4+
Suited for high school, college, and community choirs. It is one of three pieces from a collection using texts by Bliss William Carman (1861 - 1929). Carman’s poem entitled “Fireflies” (1922) beautifully captures the image of the "courageous messengers of light" coming out at dusk in the meadow's seeding grass and floating in the sky as night arrives. The soprano obbligato and the harmonies chosen reflect the shimmering quality of the vista of the flashing lights in the night sky.
"Whence Comes Peace" SATB choir & piano Level 3
It is an excellent work for high school, college, and community choirs. It is one of three pieces from a collection using texts by Canadian poet, Bliss William Carman (1861 - 1929). This work is based on his poem entitled “Peace” (1922). There have been edits in the last lines, so the work could end with “who give their lives to love”.