Owen McGowan

MUS 410
Treble Choir
Title Metsa Telegramm
Composer/Arranger Uno Naissoo
Publisher and Publisher Number Shawnee Press (35014178)
Voicing/Instrumentation SSA
Voice Part Ranges S1 (C4-E5), S2 (B3-C5), A (G3-C5)
Accompaniment Piano and woodblock
Suitability (secular, sacred, special) Secular – in Estonian
Other notes (poet, curricular About warning of environmental issues
connections, etc.)
Tonal Needs Minor, singing M2, octave portamento, mostly
stepwise or skips
Rhythmic Needs 4/4, Whole, dotted half, half, dotted quarter eighth,
quarter, eighth pairs, eighth rest & eighth note, eighth
note dotted quarter

Title Nine Hundred Miles

Composer/Arranger Traditional, arr. Rollo Dilworth
Publisher and Publisher Number Hal Leonard Corp. (00254540)
Voicing/Instrumentation SSA
Voice Part Ranges S1 (D4-F5), S2 (C#4-D5), A (A3-D5)
Accompaniment Piano
Suitability (secular, sacred, special) American folk song
Other notes (poet, curricular Connect to historical work songs, railroad songs, and
connections, etc.) songs of travel in the American folk song tradition
Tonal Needs Minor, singing in m3 and M2, raised 7th, tone cluster
 (CDE)
Rhythmic Needs 6/4, 4/4, whole, dotted half, half, quarter, eighth note
pair, eighth rest eighth note, sixteenth note grouping,
eighth two sixteenths, two sixteenths eighth, sixteenth
dotted eighth, dotted eighth sixteenth, sixteenth-
eighth-sixteenth, sixteenth rest eighth note sixteenth
note

Title Baba Yetu

Composer/Arranger Christopher Tin
Publisher and Publisher Number Hal Leonard Corp. (00346160)
Voicing/Instrumentation SSAA
Voice Part Ranges S1 (D4-E5), S2 (B3-C#5), A1 (G3-Ab4), A2 (G3-G4);
Alto solo (G3-D4), Soprano solo (D4-A5)
Accompaniment Piano
Suitability (secular, sacred, special) Sacred – in Swahili
Other notes (poet, curricular Connection to video game music
connections, etc.)
Tonal Needs Major, singing in M3 m3 P4, all tonal leaps except
M7, slow chromatic descending notes, chord tone
leaps, dominant seventh chords
Rhythmic Needs 4/4, Whole, dotted half, half, quarter, all sixteenth
eighth note combinations, eighth rest pair of sixteenths
 SATB Choir

Title The Seal Lullaby

Composer/Arranger Eric Whitacre
Publisher and Publisher Number Hal Leonard Corp.
Voicing/Instrumentation SATB
Voice Part Ranges S (Ab3-F5), A (Ab3-Ab4), T (C3-Eb4), B (F2-C4)
Accompaniment Piano
Suitability (secular, sacred, special) Secular
Other notes (poet, curricular Based on The Seal Lullaby by Rudyard Kipling
connections, etc.)
Tonal Needs Minor, bass divisi, only two accidentals in the whole
piece, soprano line leaps often, M2 harmony
Rhythmic Needs 3/4, Dotted half, half, quarter, dotted quarter eighth
note, pair of eighths, eighth rest eighth note, sixteenth-
dotted eighth
Title Jubilate Deo
Composer/Arranger Peter Anglea
Publisher and Publisher Number Hinshaw Music Inc. (08764836)
Voicing/Instrumentation SATB
Voice Part Ranges S (C#4-F#5), A (C#4-B4), T (E3-F#4), B (A2-B3)
Accompaniment Piano
Suitability (secular, sacred, special) Sacred – in Latin
Other notes (poet, curricular Mixed meter – swapping between simple and
connections, etc.) compound meters
Tonal Needs Major, M2, divis bass, divisi soprano, divisi tenor
Rhythmic Needs 10/8 (3+3+2+2), 6/8 (felt in 2 and 3), 4/4, dotted half,
half, quarter, single eighth note, eighth note pair, three
eighth notes, triple quarter notes

Title Spiritual
Composer/Arranger Ysaye Barnwell
Publisher and Publisher Number Barnwell’s Notes, Inc. (YMB124)
Voicing/Instrumentation SSATB
Voice Part Ranges S1 (F4-Db5), S2 (Ab3-Bb4), A div (A3-Bb3)(Db4-F4)
T (Eb3-Ab3), B (Bb2-F3
Accompaniment Acapella
Suitability (secular, sacred, special) Secular
Other notes (poet, curricular Piece is about issues of today, references geological
connections, etc.) locations,
Tonal Needs Bb minor including raised 6th and 7th scale degrees, m3
skips and P5 jumps
Rhythmic Needs 4/4, pair of eighth notes, eighth note tied to quarter
note and longer, dotted eighth-sixteenth, eighth-
quarter-eighth, syncopation with ties, eighth two
sixteenths, two sixteenths eighth, barred sixteenth
notes
*Need rhythmic independence between parts,
sometimes they are very similar but different*