Variable Voicing Setting

This three-part (CBB) piece is arranged specifically for all-male groups.  It will be a quick-learn for mid-level age young men, and easy to sing since the parts are written especially for their voices.  Just as with all the pieces in this series, it will be great for your patriotic program.

 

Click to access Three-Part Variable Style. which describes how the piece may be sung by different age groups

Words by Katharine Lee Bates

Music by Samuel A. Ward

Arranged by Bob Siltman

Three-part Variable Voicing with Piano

CP Catalog #P980147

Mixing Melody Setting

America, the Beautiful is written in Four-Part Mixing Melody Style.  It has four written parts but each of the parts may be sung as a unison piece or you may combine any two, three, or four-parts as you desire depending upon the current voicing of your choir.  Each of the four melodies are very fluid so the piece has a nice legato effect.  It has limited ranges and tessitura which make it apropos for early adolescent singers, but it is also recommended for older adolescents or adults, particularly if the choir has an over abundance of women and just a few men.  You will access the choral score when you click the title above.  If you are interested in performing fewer parts, click here to view and hear all four parts separately or combined in various ways.

 

Click to access Four-Part Mixing Melody Style which describes the features in more detail of  this unique melody-oriented choral series.

Words by Katharine Lee Bates

Music by Samuel A. Ward

Arranged by Don L. Collins

Four-Part Mixing Melody Style with Piano

Catalog Numbers:

Part 1:  M110109p1

Part II:   M110109p2

Part III:  M110109p3

Part IV:   M110109p4

Choral Score:   M110109cs