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| Title | Lyricist | Voicing/Instrumentation | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Bell Awakened | Denise Levertov (1923-1997) |
SSAA, piano |
Mod-Advanced |
| A Burst of Song (3 mvts) | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
SATB, mezzo-sop & tenor, soli piano TTBB, piano SSAA, piano |
Mod-Advanced |
| A Kiss of Blessing | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
SATB,piano SSAA, piano TTBB, piano |
Mod-Advanced |
| A Kiss of Blessing | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
Mezzo-soprano solo |
Mod-Advanced |
| A la Media Noche | Traditional Puerto Rican Carol |
SSAA, piano, flute, hand perc. |
Moderate |
| A Portal of Hope | Rumi, adapted by the composer |
SATB, organ |
Moderate |
| A Winter Ride | Amy Lowell (1874-1925) |
SSAA, piano TTBB, piano SATB, piano |
Moderate |
| Adama | Traditional Israeli song |
SSAA a cappella |
Moderate |
| African Lullaby | Traditional Bantu & African American |
SSA, piano, hand drum |
Easy |
| All Winter Long | Native American song text |
SSA, flute, frame drum |
Easy-Mod |
| All Works of Love | Mother Teresa (1910-1997) |
SATB, piano |
Moderate |
| Always Coming Home | Ursula K. LeGuin (b.1929) |
SSAA, piano, cello |
Moderate |
| Amazing Grace | John Newton (1725-1807) |
SSAA a cappella |
Easy-Mod |
| Ancient Ones, The | Patricia Reis |
SSA(div) |
Moderate |
| Angels Singing Out of Tune | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
SSAA, soprano solo, a cappella |
Advanced |
| Arise My Love | Various, adapted by Szymko |
SSA, piano |
Moderate |
| As a Woman | Virginia Woolf (1912-1941) |
SSA a cappella |
Moderate |
| At Such a Dizzy Height (Peace Window) | Adaptation by Robin Lane of quotes and letters of Marc & Bella Chagall; |
SATB, Tenor solo |
Moderate |
| At the Shore of the World | Trad. candomblé song texts, and Rabindranath Tagore |
SSATB, piano, perc.(3) |
Mod-Advanced |
| Ave Maria | Traditional Marian prayer |
SSAA a cappella |
Moderate |
| Be It Therefore Resolved | Kim Stafford (b.1949) |
SATB, opt. ten, bar, mz-sop solo SSAA, opt. ssa trio,piano, violin, cello |
Mod-Advanced |
| Beauty of Your Dreams, The | Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) |
SSAA, piano |
Moderate |
| Benedizione | Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) |
SSAA, piano |
Moderate |
| Blessed Be | Robin Morgan |
SSAA a cappella |
Mod-Advanced |
| Blessing (Just to Be) | Rabbi Abraham Heschel |
SA or any 2-part comb. |
Easy |
| Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
SSAA, piano |
Mod-Advanced |
| Braided Light | Wordless Song |
SSAA, mezzo-sop solo, a cappella |
Mod-Advanced |
| Bright Morning Star | Traditional Appalachian Song |
SSA a cappella |
Easy-Mod |
| Call | Alla René Bozarth (b.1947) |
SSAA, taiko drums(2) |
Moderate |
| Call, The | George Herbert (1593-1633) |
SSA/SATB (double choir) |
Advanced |
| Carpe Diem | Horace (65 BC- 8AD ) |
SSATBB, Contralto solo |
Advanced |
| Circle | Hadwijch II (13th c.), translated by Jane Hirshfield (b.1953) |
SSAA, Soprano solo |
Moderate |
| Come Dance and Sing | Shaker Song (19th c.) |
SSAA, piano |
Easy-Mod |
| Come, Pretty Love | Shaker "Gift" song received by Patsy Williamson (19th c.) |
SSA, hand clapping |
Easy-Mod |
| Coventry Carol | Robert Croo (16th c.) |
SSAA, piano |
Mod-Easy |
| Despertar al Amor (Awaken to Love) | Teresa of Avila & Buddhist adage |
SSAA, piano, cello |
Moderate |
| Eagle Rounding Out the Morning | Joy Harjo (b.1951) |
SSAA (opt. Trio), piano |
Moderate |
| Eli, Eli | Hannah Szenes (1921-1944) |
SATB w/opt. sop solo, cello |
Moderate |
| Entro en la Vida | Teresa of Avila (1515-1582), Teresa of Lisieux (1873-1897) |
SATB, piano, brass quintet, timpani |
Mod-Advanced |
| Et in terra pax | Hymnus Angelicus (Gloria) from the Ordinary of the Mass |
SSAA a cappella |
Advanced |
| Eternal Winter | William Blake (1757-1827) |
SATB, sop solo, piano, cello |
Moderate |
| Everything She Touches | Traditional, Wiccan |
SSA, piano, dumbek, finger cymbals |
Easy-Mod |
| Ffe Mwe, Mwe Ffe | Text adapted by Joan Szymko from various sources |
SSAA, soloist, hand drum SATB, soloist, hand drum TTTBBB, soloist, hand drum |
Moderate |
| Finding Her Here | Jayne Relaford Brown |
SSAA a cappella |
Mod-Advance |
| Fire, Burn Bright | Traditional, British Isles |
SSAA, piano |
Moderate |
| Freshness, The | Rumi (1207-1273) translated by Coleman Barks |
SATB, speaker, harp (or piano) |
Moderate |
| Gamaya | Brhadaranyaka Upanishad — I.iii.28 |
SA, piano, alto saxophone |
Easy |
| Gift to Sing,The | James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) |
SATB, piano |
Moderate |
| Giver of Stars, The | Amy Lowell (1874-1925) |
SSAA, piano |
Moderate |
| Go Out In Joy | Isaiah 55:12 |
SSAA, piano, hand clapping |
Mod-Advanced |
| Herbst | Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) |
SATB, Alto solo, piano |
Mod-Advanced |
| Here | Wendell Berry (b.1934) |
SSAA, piano, violin |
Moderate |
| Hodie | Vespers Antiphon for Christmas Day |
SSAA a cappella SSATBB a cappella |
Advanced |
| How Did the Rose | Hafiz (14th c.), translated by Daniel Ladinsky |
SATB, piano |
Moderate |
| Hymn of Grateful Praise | Folliot S. Pierpont (1835-1917) |
SATB, piano SSA, piano |
Moderate |
| I Am | Catherine DeVink |
SSAA, piano, flute, violin, cello |
Moderate |
| I Am a Ruby | Zay Khay Sheen (born Zahida Khatun Sherwani, 1894-1922) |
SSAA, oboe, piano |
Moderate |
| I Dream a World | Langston Hughes (1902-1967) |
SSA, piano |
Moderate |
| I Lift My Eyes | Psalm 121 and Thich Naht Hanh |
SATB, piano |
Moderate |
| I Look Long and Long | Walt Whitman (1819-1992) |
TBB, piano |
Moderate |
| Ich lebe mein Leben | Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) |
SATB, 2 bassoons |
Advanced |
| Illumina le tenebre | Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) |
SATB a cappella |
Moderate |
| Invincible | Anonymous & Albert Camus, adapted by the composer |
SSAA |
Moderate |
| It Is Happiness (3 mvts) | Mary Oliver (1935-2019) |
SSA(A), piano, violin, cello, flute |
Moderate |
| It Takes a Village | West African adage adapted by Joan Szymko |
SATB, soloist, hand drum, shekere |
Moderate |
| Lay Me Low | Sister Addah Z. Potter of the New Lebanon, New York, Shaker community |
SSAA a cappella |
Easy-Mod |
| Let the Children Come | Adaptation of Mark 10:13-16 by Joan Szymko |
SATB, piano |
Moderate |
| Lifting As We Climb | libretto conceived and created by Joan Szymko (from various sources) |
SSAA, piano, alto sax, drumset |
Moderate |
| Light, Beauty, Peace | Chinese Proverb |
SSA, piano |
Moderate |
| Like a Mountain | Music and lyrics by Naomi Littlebear Morena, arr. Szymko |
SSAA, piano |
Moderate |
| Listen Closely | Music and lyrics by Steven Walters, arr. Szymko |
SSAA, sop solo, piano |
Moderate |
| Lo Lefached | Rebbe Nachman of Breslov |
SATB SSAA |
Mod-Advanced |
| Look Out | Wendell Berry (b.1934) |
SSAA, alto solo SATB, alto solo |
Moderate |
| Lorica | St. Patrick (attributed) |
SSA, piano, flute |
Moderate |
| Love Bears All Things | 1 Corinthians 13:7-8 |
SATB, piano, violin SSAA, piano, cello, violin |
Moderate |
| maggie and milly and molly and may | E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) |
SSAA, piano |
Mod-Advanced |
| Malala | quotes by Malala Yousafzai adapted by Szymko |
SSAA |
Moderate |
| Myr, Zaraz | Peace, Now (МИР 3APA3) |
SATB |
Easy |
| Nada te turbe | Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) |
SSAA, cello |
Moderate |
| No Time Not to Love | Deena Metzger, Joan Szymko |
SSSAA |
Moderate |
| Nothing But Mud | William Orpen (1878-1931) |
SSAATTBB |
Advanced |
| Nothing Short of Grace | Joan Szymko |
SSA |
Moderate |
| O Lux Beatissima | From the sequence, Veni Sancte Spiritus (12th c) and the Hymn, Veni Creator Spiritus (10th c.) |
SSAA a cappella |
Advanced |
| Only Light, Only Love | Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. |
SSAA a cappella |
Moderate |
| Oración por la Paz (Prayer for Peace) | Anonymous | Moderate | |
| Organize, Agitate, Educate! | Joan Szymko after quotes by Sarah Grimke, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Carrie Catt, Anna Julia Cooper, Lucy Stone | Moderate | |
| Our Common Prayer | Parker J. Palmer |
SATB, piano |
Mod-Easy |
| Peace Like a River | Traditional, African American |
SSAA, piano |
Moderate |
| Peace of Wild Things, The | Wendell Berry (b.1934) |
SSAA, piano |
Moderate |
| Pendulum | Amanda Harter and Christopher Behrens |
SSAA, piano |
Moderate |
| Quite Regularly Gay | Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) |
SSAA, sop solo SSSATB, solo |
Moderate |
| Reaching Back from Here | Nancy Wood |
SATB, piano |
Moderate |
| Red and Green | Maddy Prior |
SATB, piano, drums (kit or low tom) SSAA, piano, drums (kit or low tom) |
Moderate |
| Remembering | Joan Borysenko (b.1945) |
SATB (w/div), oboe, cello |
Mod-Advanced |
| River | Text adapted by the composer from "Hopi Prophesy" and quote by Edward E. Hale (1822-1909) |
SSAA, treble solo SATB, treble solo |
Mod-Advanced |
| Roses, The | Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) |
SSAA, accordion (or piano) |
Moderate |
| Shadow and Light | Libretto conceived and created by Joan Szymko (from various sources) |
SATB Chorus / Chamber Orchestra mezzo-soprano, tenor and soprano soli |
Moderate |
| Shape Note Hymns for Christmas | Traditional |
SSA, piano |
Moderate |
| She Who Makes Her Meaning Clear | quote by Audre Lorde (1934-1992) |
SSAA (w/div) |
Mod-Advanced |
| Singing Place, The | Lily A. Long (1860-1927) |
SSAA, piano |
Mod-Advanced |
| Sioux Prayer | Traditional Lakota Sioux |
SSA a cappella |
Easy |
| Song Coming Toward Us | Carolyn Forché (b.1950) |
SSAA, piano, cello |
Moderate |
| Songs of Experience: 1.The Fly | William Blake (1757-1827) |
SATB, basso solo, cb, kazoos |
Mod-Advanced |
| Songs of Experience: 2. The Garden of Love | William Blake (1757-1827) |
SATB, alto solo, cb |
Moderate |
| Songs of Experience: 3. Eternal Winter | William Blake (1757-1827) |
SATB, sop solo, piano, cello |
Moderate |
| Stars In Your Bones | Alla Bozarth |
SSAA, piano |
Moderate |
| Step By Step | Preamble to the Constitution of the American Miners Union (1870) |
SAB |
easy-moderate |
| Stille Nacht | Josef Mohr (1792-1848) |
2-part (any voicing), piano, violin, flute |
Easy |
| The Journey | David Whyte |
SATB |
Moderate |
| The Summer Day | Mary Oliver (1935-2019) |
SSA, piano, flute obbligato SAB, piano, flute obbligato |
Moderate |
| There Are No Farewells | May Sarton (1912-1995) |
SSAA, piano |
Mod-Advanced |
| There Shall Be Christmas Day | Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918) |
SATB a cappella SSAA, piano |
Mod-Advanced |
| This We Know | Chief Seattle (Ted Perry) |
SSA, mezzo-soprano solo |
Moderate |
| This Wonderful Feeling (3 mvts) | Anna Madrigal, Mary Whitney |
SSAA, marimba |
Mod-Advanced |
| This Wonderful Feeling: 1. saboo | Anna Madrigal |
SSAA, marimba |
Mod-Advanced |
| This Wonderful Feeling: 2. In My Quiet Place | Mary Whitney |
SSAA, marimba |
Mod-Advanced |
| This Wonderful Feeling: 3. Purple Night | Mary Whitney |
SSAA, marimba, shaker |
Advanced |
| To Build a Swing | Hafiz (14th c.), trans. Daniel Ladinsky |
SATB, piano, violin |
Advanced |
| To Know the Dark | Wendell Berry (b.1934) |
SSAA, piano |
Moderate |
| To the Holy Spirit | Wendell Berry (b.1934) |
SATB, piano |
Mod-Advanced |
| Todo o Meu Ser (All of My Being) | Orpingalik by way of Knud Rasmussen c. 1921-24 |
SATB, opt. solo, conga drum, pandeiro, clave |
Moderate |
| True Love at Every Moment Praises God | Mechtild de Magdeburg (c.1210-c.1285) |
SATB a cappella |
Moderate |
| Twilight's Ease | Laurie Miller Vischer |
SSAA, piano, optional viola duet |
Moderate |
| Ubi Caritas | Traditional Roman Catholic antiphon |
SSAATTB a cappella |
Moderate |
| Until | Hafiz, translated by Ladinsky |
SATB, a cappella |
Mod-easy |
| Viriditas | Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) Translated into English by Gabrielle Uhlein |
SSAA, a cappella |
Advanced |
| viva sweet love | E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) |
SSAA, piano |
Mod-Advanced |
| Vivos Voco | Medieval Latin virtutes and Julian of Norwich (1342-ca.1416) |
SSAA, piano, handbells |
Advanced |
| Waly, Waly | Traditional Scottish ballad |
SSA a cappella |
Moderate |
| Water Women | Alla Bozarth |
SSAA, piano |
Mod-Advanced |
| We Are a Circle | Music & Lyrics by Rick Hamouris |
SSA, hand drums, perc. |
Moderate |
| We Are All Bound Up Together | Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) |
SSAA SATB |
Easy |
| We Are Clay | Book of Isaiah |
SATB, piano, opt. flute |
Easy-Mod |
| We Shake We Shine | Joan Szymko | Moderate | |
| What We Do— Now | |||
| Where Is the Door to the Tavern? | Hafiz (14th c.) translated by Daniel Ladinsky |
SATB, cb, bottles edge-blown as aerophones |
Mod-Advanced |
| Wing Away | Joan Szymko |
SSAA a cappella |
Mod-Advanced |
| Woman Am I | anonymous |
SSAA a cappella |
Easy |
| Words | Joan Szymko |
SSA SA p> SA SATB |
Easy-Moderate |
| Wynken, Blynken and Nod | Eugene Fields (1850-1895) |
SSA, piano |
Moderate |
| Ye Jaliya-o | Traditional Lambago lyric (West African griot praise) and Catherine deVink, adapted by Szymko |
SATB (w/div), hand drums (2), perc. |
Mod-Advanced |
| You Are the Music | Amy Lowell (1874-1925) |
SSAA (w/div), piano |
Mod-Advanced |
| You Have Struck a Rock | South African women's protest song lyrics |
SSAA a cappella (opt.drum) |
Moderate |
