CMP: Analysis, Selection, Assessment, Strategies, Outcomes Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance - Teaching wiht Intention... Performing with Understanding

Wisconsin Music Educators Association
Wisconsin School Music Association
Department of Public Instruction
Recommended Repertoire for Women's Voices

Selected from the 20 years of performing repertoire
of the choirs directed by Rebecca R. Winnie

WCDA Singspiel 2003

Early Music
O Pastor Animarum    Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) (RRW)
*Caritas Abundat   Hildegard von Bingen (RRW)
A chantar m’er de so qu’ieu non volria   Beatriz de Dia (died ca. 1212) (RRW)
Hodie Christus natus est   Chant
     
Renaissance
Il bianco e dolce cigno   Jacques Arcadelt (c.1505-1568) (RRW)
Je n'ose etre content   Pierre Certon (c.1510-1572)
How Merrily We Live   Michael Este (c.1580-1648)
Da Pacem Domine   Melchior Franck (c.1579-1639)
Tu Mentis Delectatio   Ruggiero Giovanelli (1560-1625)
Virgines Prudentes   Jacob Handl (1550-1591)
Cantate Domino   Hans Leo Hassler (RRW)
*If It Be Love   John Hilton (1599-1657)
*Hor care Canzonette   Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Su su su che'l giorno   Claudio Monteverdi (RRW)
Love Learns by Laughing   Thomas Morley (ca. 1557-1603)
Sweet Nymph   Thomas Morley
Though Philomela Lost Her Love   Thomas Morley
Fammi una canzonetta capricciosa   Orazio Vecchi (1550-1605)
In the Merry Month of May
(from Canzonets to Three Voices, 1608)
  Henry Youll (fl.1608)
The Nightingale   Thomas Weelkes (ca.1575-1623)
Thus Sings, My Dearest Jewel   Thomas Weelkes
     
Baroque
Domine Deus - from Mass in G BWV 236   JS Bach (1685-1750)
Duet from Cantata No. 9   J.S. Bach
Ich jauchze, ich lache, from Cantata BWV 15   J S Bach
Wir eilen mit schwachen, doch emsigen Schritten   J.S. Bach
Aure volanti   Francessca Caccini (1587-after 1637)
*Che Bella Cosa   Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari (1677-1754)
The Lord is My Shepherd   Maurice Greene (1696-1755)
*O Lovely Peace from Judas Maccabaeus   G.F. Handel (1685-1759)
Quando non ho piœ core   G.F. Handel
Ah! quelle erreur! (from the opera Armide)   Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)

Dolcissimo uscignolo, from Ottavo Libro dei Madrigali
(top 4 parts, cello on bass; the part is exactly the same as continuo)

  Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
I. Stabat Mater,from Stabat Mater   G B Pergolesi (1710-1736)
Lauda Jerusalem   Niccola Porpora (1686-1768)
Shepherd, Shepherd, Leave Decoying   Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Sound the Trumpet   Henry Purcell
Trip It In a Ring   Henry Purcell
We the Spirits of the Air   Henry Purcell
Esurientes from Magnificat in G minor   Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Laudamus te, from Gloria R. 589   Antonio Vivaldi
     
Classical
*Miserere mei from Miserere in D Minor (Psalm 51)
  Johann Adolf Hasse (1699-1783)
Dixit Dominus Domino meo, (Psalm 110)
from Vesperae pro Festo Sancti Innocentium
  Johann Michael Haydn (1737-1806)
Overture to Die Zauberflšte   W.A.Mozart, Vocal Arrangement by Arkadi Serper
     
19th Century
Three Shakespeare Songs Opus 39
*Come Unto These Yellow Sands
*Over Hill, Over Dale
*Through the House Give Glimmering Light
  Amy Beach (1867-1944)
Die Meere, opus 20 no3   Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Es tšnt ein voller Harfenklang Opus 17, No. 1   Johannes Brahms
Wenn die Klūnge nahn und fliehen   Johannes Brahms
Ich weiss nicht   Johannes Brahms
Fragen, Opus 44, No. 4   Johannes Brahms
*Salut Printemps (1882)   Claude Debussy(1862-1918)
*Aus meinen Trūnen sprie§en   Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805-1847)
Die Mitternacht war kalt und stumm   Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn
Abendlied   Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
3. Fairy Chorus, from A Midsummer Night's Dream   Felix Mendelssohn
Herbstlied   Felix Mendelssohn
Lift Thine Eyes from Elijah   Felix Mendelssohn
Laudate Pueri Dominum Op. 39, No. 2   Felix Mendelssohn
Wie kann ich froh und lustig sein?   Felix Mendelssohn
Wasserfahrt   Felix Mendelssohn
from The Mikado (1885)
6. Comes a train of little ladies 7. Three little maids from school are we
  W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911) & Arthur Sullivan (1824-1900)
III. Laudi Alla Vergine Maria, from Quattro Pezzi Sacri   Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Che faceste? - from Macbeth   Giuseppe Verdi
     
20th Century
Gloria Tibi from MASS   Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
Excerpts from A Ceremony of Carols
Balulalow
As Dew in Aprille
This Little Babe
Deo Gracias
  Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
*Fancie   Benjamin Britten
The Little Horses   Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Simple Gifts   Aaron Copland
*Messe Basse   Gabriel FaurŽ (1845-1924)
*Two Eastern Pictures   Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Hymn of the Travellers
from Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, Group III
  Gustav Holst
Ladybird   Zolt‡n Kod‡ly (1882-1967)
Excerpts from Petites voix   Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
God's Bottles   Randall Thompson (1899-1984)
Pueri Hebraeorum (1928)   Randall Thompson
A Girl's Garden   Randall Thompson
Sigh No More, Ladies
from Sir John in Love or In Windsor Forest
  Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
     
Contemporary Composers
We Are...   Ysaye M. Barnwell
Wanting Memories   Ysaye Maria Barnwell
No Mirrors (1991)   Ysaye M. Barnwell
When I Set Out For Lyonnesse   Keith Bissell
The Last Song   Bourland (bell hooks, poet)
Sigh No More Ladies   Robert A. Boyd
Under the Greenwood Tree   Robert A. Boyd
Married to a Soldier   John Clements
Think on Me   Mary Queen of Scots, arr. Mulholland
Heart, We Will Forget Him (1985)   James Quitman Mulholland
Measure Me, Sky   James Mulholland
Escape at Bedtime   Alice Parker
The Sower   Imant Raminsh
For the Beauty of the Earth   John Rutter
     
Other Traditions
*Cum ba yah   arr. Ysaye Barnwell
Wade in the Watah   arr. Ysaye Barnwell
Sim Sholom   arr Leonard Berkowitz
Denko (Mali, West Africa)   arr. Nitanju Bolade Casel
*Diu Diu Dang A   Arr. CHIEN Shan-Hua (b. 1954)
Harriet Tubman   Walter Robinson arr. John Coates
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child   arr. Robert De Cormier
Feel Good   L. Craig Tyson & Leonard Scott, Arranged by Baker/Elliott
Ca' The Yowes   arr. Mary Goetze
Great Gettin' Up Mornin'   Spiritual, arranged by Mary Goetze
Scarborough Fair   arr Mary Goetze
Shenandoah   arr Mary Goetze
Poor Man Lazrus   arr Jester Hairston
Ain't That News   Stephen Hatfield
Camino, Caminante   Stephen Hatfield
Nukapianguaq (Inuit Chants)   Adapted by Stephen Hatfield
Las Amarillas (Mexican Folksong)   arr. Stephen Hatfield
La Lluvia   Stephen Hatfield
ODI ODI   Tamil Song arr. by Stephen Hatfield
*Run Children Run   Arranged by Stephen Hatfield (b. 1956)
Koivisto-Polska   Folk melody from Finland, Arr. Jan-ke Hillerud
The Cuckoo   arr. James Mansfield
Three Mountain Ballads
He's gone Away, Will He Remember?, Barbara Allen
  arr. Ron Nelson
Hotaru Koi   Japanese Children's Song, Arranged by Ro Ogura
*Hamisha Asar (from the Sephardic Tradition of Bosnia)   Flory Jagoda, arr. Nick Page
Niska Banja   arr. Nick Page
Come On Up   Traditional Spiritual, Arranged by Alice Parker
I Am In Love, I Dare Not Own It,   Appalachian Folk , Arr. Alice Parker
Every Night When The Sun Goes In   Appalachian Folk Song, arr. Suzanne Hunt Paterson
I'm Goin' Up A Yonder   Walter Hawkins Arr. Martin Sirvatka
Two Native American Songs   Cherokee Songs Arr. Barbara Sletto
Utopia (modern shape note composition)   Moira Smiley (b. 1976)
Palomita   Traditional Lament from Peru, Arr. Randal Swiggum
Bushes and Briars   Ralph Vaughan Williams
* Da Mai Hao Zi, from Three Chinese Songs   Arr. Liu Zhuang
     
A cappella Vocal Jazz
How Deep is the Ocean   Irving Berlin, Arr. Kirby Shaw
How Do I Love Thee?   Nathan Christensen
*Don't Get Around Much Anymore   Duke Ellington, Arr. Ward Swingle
Of Thee I Sing (manuscript)   George and Ira Gershwin, Arr. Les Thimmig
Bye Bye Blackbird   Dixon/Henderson arr. Arabian
Somewhere Out There   Horner, Mann, & Weil, Arr. Kirby Shaw
I'm Always Chasing Rainbows   Arranged by Kirby Shaw
Rock-A-Bye Baby   Arranged by Michele Weir
     
Holiday Music
S'vivon (Hanukkah)   Arranged by Betty Bertaux
Go Where I Send Thee   Traditional Spiritual, Arranged by Stephen Hatfield
*The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy   Traditional Trinidad Carol Arranged by Stephen Hatfield
Ding Dong! Merrily On High!   Arranged by Ed Lojeski
A Christmas Alleluia   Arranged by Undine Smith Moore (1904-1989)
Seven Principles (Kwanzaa)   Bernice Johnson Reagon
The Holly and The Ivy   Arranged by John Rutter
In Dulci Jubilo   Traditional German Carol, Arranged by R.L. de Pearsall and Adapted by John Rutter
Quem Pastores Laudavere   Arranged by John Rutter
Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day   Traditional English Carol, Arranged by John Rutter
Christmas Is Coming   Arranged by Lana Walter