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Elizabeth Alexander

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SEA-011-06 $6.00

Things That Go Bump in the Night

A journey from dusk to dawn, in three movements

SATB, piano and optional flute


Elizabeth Alexander and students from Edward Smith School

I. And the moon is listening...

I lie in bed at night and listen.Doors creak and walls moan,Faucets drip and the house is settling.And the moon is listening...

I lie in bed at night and listen.Mice creep and clocks tick,Marking time while we are dreaming.And the moon is listening...

My cats go bumpity-bump all night,Mischief happening left and right.Bumpity-bumpity-bumpity-bumpity-bump!

I lie in bed at night and listen.Snow falls and branches sway,Wind chimes clatter in the breeze.And the moon is listening...And I drift to sleep...

II. There it is again!

Cracking lumberWakes me from my slumber,And my fear takes hold.Sky and clouds brawl,Simple things make my skin crawl,And the night grows suddenly loud and dark and cold.

I hold my breath and dare not make a peep.I try to go back to sleep...I can’t go back to sleep...

Oooooooooh, Oooooooooh —What’s that?

I hear a creaking and a moaning — Souls in agony are groaning.

Oooooooooh, Oooooooooh —There it is again! — Who’s there?

It’s getting louder, and louder, and louder!Something’s peeking in my window!

Something’s creeping under my bed!Is it alive or is it dead?Does it even have a head?If I close my eyes, maybe it won’t be able to see me!

What’s that shadow that I see?Is it a spider bigger than me?Should I hide or should I flee?

There it is again!

I feel my house shaking...shaking...shaking...

No, YOU’RE shaking!

I’m so scared I rattle the sheets!

I’m so scared I start to freeze!

I’m so scared I start to grow a beard!

Footsteps in the hall...I’m not afraid, not at all....Still, to be quite certain, I’ll hide behind the curtain,Standing very still like a statue...

A roar and a rip and then I know it’s a... it’s a... it’s a...And it’s coming closer, and closer, and closer...

Suddenly it’s here! I’m paralyzed by fear!And it’s coming towards me and I hear this noise:

GET BACK IN BED!

I turn on the light, not a shadow in sight —So I go back to sleep, and I don’t hear a peep.

III. Things That Go Bump in the Night

I pull the covers from my face, and glance around the room.The light of dawn reveals no traceThat I had been visited by creatures of doom.

Things that go bump in the night just mightMake somebody get light with fright.They get so scared that they won’t be prepared for theThings that go bump in the night.

But they know it isn’t true,And hopefully so do you.

WARNING: This piece is not for a shy choir!

Singers are asked to speak, whisper, shout, moan, click their tongues, rub their hands together,snap their fingers, stomp their feet on the floor, and become party cats.

Neither may the pianist be a shrinking violet!

The pianist is asked to strum, pat and dampen strings, as well asplaying chord clusters with the whole forearm.

Many measures in this piece do not have time signatures. Do not panic.These measures contain special effects and spoken words,

and should simply be given as much time as they need.

Composer’s Note: Things That Go Bump in the Night was composed with and for students at EdwardSmith Elementary School through the Syracuse Society for New Music’s Composers-in-the-Schoolsprogram.

The composition of this piece was truly collaborative. Before I came on the scene, the students chose thetheme, and produced a wealth of creative writing on that theme. I edited their poems, stories and

descriptions, assembling the lyrics into three songs. Then, groups of student composers met with me,

choosing time signatures, tempos, and chord qualities; composing melodies, rhythms and harmonies;

assigning parts to instruments; and adding special effects. Finally, I forged their ideas into a large work

which the student musicians performed for their teachers, parents, and friends.

After this piece was completed, I couldn’t believe how many adult choirs wanted to perform this work!

Several did — adapting the children’s choir piece on their own — until finally The Festival Choir of

Madison commissioned an actual SATB version of this song.

Student Lyricists: Zara Asman, Jessica Barbour, Kyle Bell, Clarence Brennen, Thomas Brown, Brandon Burchand,

Nicole Caffy, Zack Clark, Kim Crossway, Nick DeCarlo, Sarah Doucette, Corky Ellison, Joshua Gamage, Mallisa

Gasparovic, Max Gerros, Erin Godwin, Caitlin Gucker-Kantor, Anna Guisbond, Gwen Hayward, Jenna Hawkins, Eddie

Herron, Kamesha Huddleston, Stacey Karpouzes, Patrick Kelly, Meagan Kennedy, Nikki King, Jennifer Knight, Michael

McLaughlin,Meghan Mehan, Sean Moore, Kristen Myrick, Katie Ninno, Claire Pietrzak, Logan Pistello, Josh Pagan,

Andrew Post, Kate Price, Chris Resti, Crysten Rushmore, Sulaiman Abdul Sabur, Amy Savage, Sarah Schechter, Lauren

Shaw, Ashley Spinks, Katie Steele, Beth Stricker, Maggie Stonecash, Amanda Sullivan, Kent Sutherland, David Swift,

Daquan Thomas, Joel Tillman, Eric Uhlig, Porsche Walker, Dorsey Williams, Sierra Williams, Rhiannon Wilson, & Jordan

Wood & Katie Wood

Student Composers: Mikel Ashkin, Sean Bailey, Kirsten Barrett, Kim Crossways, Robert Dougherty, Lisa Eade, Emile

Godwin, Jaqual Green, Matt Guisbond, Shatosha McMullen, Ana Riley, Meredith Robson, Katie Scheutzow, Kye Smith,

Alexandra Watson, Matt Abbott, Jessica Barbour, Chris Hall, Elizabeth Klemperer, Elisha Maxfield, Brian McCulley,

Maggie Stonecash, Kent Sutherland, Joel Tillman, Katie Wood, Ashley Bailey, Kyle Bell, Clarence Brennen, Grace

Broadwater, Zach Chase, Sarah Floyd, Tyler McAndrew, Evi Robinson, Daquan Thomas, & Eli Tiffault

Funding for this project was provided by New York State Council on the Arts; The Copland Fund; Martin A

Yenawine and I’m Smart of CNY, Inc. Special thanks to grant-writer Billie Burdick, Neva Pilgrim, and the

teachers at Edward Smith School.

Cover Image: “Halloween Tree” by Lorelyn Medina. GL Images

and students at Edward Smith Elementary School(h=60) Placidly

SATB arrangement © 2011 by Elizabeth Alexander

I. And the moon is listening...

SATB, piano and optional flute

SATB arrangement commissioned by Festival Choir of Madison, WI


Elizabeth Alexander

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lie in bed at night and lis ten,-

Doors creak and walls moan, Fau cets- drip and the house is set tl- ing,-

Doors creak and walls moan, Fau cets- drip and the house is set tl- ing,-

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Tongue clicks, like a dripping faucet. Form mouth into large and small “O”s

Tongue clicks, like a dripping faucet. Form mouth into large and small “O”s

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Mice creep and clocks tick, Mark ing- time while we are dream ing.-

Mice creep and clocks tick, Mark ing- time while we are dream ing.-

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Tongue clicks, like a ticking clock. Form mouth into large and small “O”s

Tongue clicks, like a ticking clock. Form mouth into large and small “O”s

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Opal Palmer Adisa, poet B Margaret & George Alexander, parents B Yehuda Amichai, poet B Bjorn Arneson, generousweb designer B Scott Bates, poet B Abbie Betinis, composer/colleague B Dennis Blubaugh, music dealer B MichaeldeVernon Boblett, poet B Ray Bradbury, writer B Norbert Capek, visionary B e. e. cummings, poet B Philip Dacey,poet B Emily Dickinson, poet B Evelyn Dudley, poet B Rob Eller-Isaacs, minister/writer B Sophia Lyon Fahs, writer B Richard M. Fewkes, writer B Pesha Gertler, poet B Richard S. Gilbert, minister/writer B Jack Gallagher,composer/teacher B Paul Gerike, proofreader B Steve Harper, technical advisor B Steve Hawkins, generous webdesigner B Edie Hill, composer/colleague B Langston Hughes, poet B Mark Humphrey, piano technician B Karel Husa,composer/teacher B Kalidasa, poet B Garrison Keillor, storyteller B Denise Levertov, poet B George Ella Lyon, poet B Jonathan Machen, artist B Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet B J. David Moore, composer/colleague B Joan WolfPrefontaine, poet B Gerald Rich, poet B Carl Sandburg, poet B King Sigismund III, religious reformer B StevenStucky, composer/teacher B Rabindranath Tagore, poet B Howard Thurman, civil rights leader/writer B JohnGreenleaf Whittier, poet B Theodore Chickering Williams, poet B Daniel Winter, pianist/teacher B Nancy Wood,poet B Yehudi Wyner, composer/teacher B Paul Adams, technical advisor B Opal Palmer Adisa, poet B Margaret &George Alexander, parents B Yehuda Amichai, poet B Bjorn Arneson, generous web designer B Scott Bates, poet B Abbie Betinis, composer/colleague B Dennis Blubaugh, music dealer B Michael deVernon Boblett, poet B RayBradbury, writer B Norbert Capek, visionary B e. e. cummings, poet B Philip Dacey, poet B Emily Dickinson, poet

B Evelyn Dudley, poet B Rob Eller-Isaacs, minister/writer B Sophia Lyon Fahs, writer B Richard M. Fewkes, writer B Pesha Gertler, poet B Richard S. Gilbert, minister/writer B Jack Gallagher, composer/teacher B Paul Gerike,proofreader B Steve Harper, technical advisor B Steve Hawkins, generous web designer B Edie Hill,

composer/colleague B Langston Hughes, poet B Mark Humphrey, piano technician B Karel Husa, composer/teacher B Kalidasa, poet B Garrison Keillor, storyteller B Denise Levertov, poet B George Ella Lyon, poet B Jonathan Machen,

artist B Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet B J. David Moore, composer/colleague B Joan Wolf Prefontaine, poet B Gerald

Rich, poet B Carl Sandburg, poet B King Sigismund III, religious reformer B Steven Stucky, composer/teacher B

Rabindranath Tagore, poet B Howard Thurman, civil rights leader/writer B John Greenleaf Whittier, poet B

Theodore Chickering Williams, poet B Daniel Winter, pianist/teacher B Nancy Wood, poet B Yehudi Wyner,

composer/teacher B Paul Adams, technical advisor B Opal Palmer Adisa, poet B Margaret & George Alexander, parents B Yehuda Amichai, poet B Bjorn Arneson, generous web designer B Scott Bates, poet B Abbie Betinis,

composer/colleague B Dennis Blubaugh, music dealer B Michael deVernon Boblett, poet B Ray Bradbury, writer B

Norbert Capek, visionary B e. e. cummings, poet B Philip Dacey, poet B Emily Dickinson, poet B Evelyn Dudley, poet B Rob Eller-Isaacs, minister/writer B Sophia Lyon Fahs, writer B Richard M. Fewkes, writer B Pesha Gertler, poet

B Richard S. Gilbert, minister/writer B Jack Gallagher, composer/teacher B Paul Gerike, proofreader B Steve Harper,technical advisor B Steve Hawkins, generous web designer B Edie Hill, composer/colleague B Langston Hughes, poet

B Mark Humphrey, piano technician B Karel Husa, composer/teacher B Kalidasa, poet B Garrison Keillor, storyteller

B Denise Levertov, poet B George Ella Lyon, poet B Jonathan Machen, artist B Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet B J.

David Moore, composer/colleague B Joan Wolf Prefontaine, poet B Gerald Rich, poet B Carl Sandburg, poet B King

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A LOT OF HARD WORK &CREATIVITY

WENT INTO BRINGING

THIS MUSIC TO YOU...

...AND SOME OF IT

WAS EVEN MINE.

Repeat a few times if desired

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Sopranos and Altos become total party cats: break out the birthday-type noisemakers, slide whistles, maracas, and toy ratchets! (If you can throw in a quick non-deafening vuvuzela blast, go for it!)

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Once again, cats become responsible choral singers. My, how innocent they look!

mis chief- hap pen- ing- left and right,

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Once again, cats become responsible choral singers. My, how innocent they look!

mis chief- hap pen- ing- left and right,

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cats go bump i- ty- bump all night, mis chief- hap pen- ing- left and right,3

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cats go bump i- ty- bump all night, mis chief- hap pen- ing- left and right,

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Wind chimes clat ter- in the

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Wind chimes clat ter- in the

Snow falls and branch es- sway,

Snow falls and branch es- sway,

breeze, And the moon is

breeze, And the moon is

And the moon is

And the moon is

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I drift to sleep.

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I drift to sleep.

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II. There It Is Again!

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Rub hands together

Exhale, making wind sounds

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Crack

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Glissando on middle strings with fingernail (remain seated)

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hold.


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and clouds brawl, sim ple- things make my skin crawl

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and clouds brawl, sim ple- things make my skin crawl

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WENT INTO BRINGING


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WHAT'S THAT?

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WHO'S THERE?

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WENT INTO BRINGING


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Should I hide or should I flee?

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THERE IT IS AGAIN!

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Scratch, scrunchity, scritch...

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I feel my house shaking........... shaking.......... shaking.............

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Spoken by the previous speaker's neighbor

No, YOU’RE shaking!

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I'm so scared I rat tle- the sheets!

I’m...

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I’m...

Stomp foot lightly

I’m...

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I'm so scared I start to freeze!

Stomp foot lightly

I’m...

Stomp foot lightly

I’m...

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I’m so scared I start to grow a beard!

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Stomp foot lightly

I’m...

Stomp foot lightly

I’m...

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steps- in the hall, I'm not a fraid- at all,

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to be quite cer tain,- I'll hide be hind- the cur tain,-

Still,

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to be quite cer tain,- I'll hide be hind- the cur tain,-

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and it's com ing- clo ser,- and clo ser,- and clo ser,-

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den- ly- it's here! I'm pa ra- lyzed- by fear! And it's com ing-

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Spoken. This may be a choir member if you wish, although myfavorite option is planting a deep-voiced male in the audience(with or without a hand held microphone).

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BACK IN BED!

towards me and I hear this noise, I hear this noise:

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don't hear a peep.

don't hear a peep.

don't hear a peep.

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III. Things That Go Bump In the Night

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Right hand notes are for rehearsal only, or in performance without a flutist.

3 3 3 3 3 3

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pull the cov ers- from my face and glance a round- my room.

I

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pull the cov ers- from my face and glance a round- my room.

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They get so scared that they won't be pre -

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Thingsthat go bump in the night just might make some bod- y- get light with fright.

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that go bump in the night, things that go bump in the night,

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that go bump in the night, things that go bump in the night,

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Things that go bump in the night just might make some bod- y- get light with fright.

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pedal simile

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Things

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Things

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that go bump in the night, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump,

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get so scared that they

won't

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be pre pared- for the


Things that go bump in the night just might make some bod- y- get light with fright.

won't be pre pared- for the

things that go bump in the night. bump, bump, bump, bump, bump,

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won't

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Things that go bump in the night, things that go bump in the night,


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Things that go bump, things that go bump, things that go bump, things that go bump,

bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump,

Things that go bump, things that go bump, things that go bump, things that go bump,


Things

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that go bump in the night.

Stomp with opposite feet

Stand very still!

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Stand very still!

Things

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Stand very still!

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Stand very still!

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But

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hope ful- ly-

so do you!

hope ful- ly-

so do you!

hope ful- ly-

so do you!

hope ful- ly-

so do you!

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HERE YOU GO: ONE FINAL STOMP! *

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* In the original children's choir version of this piece, I wrote "Bring Down the House!" here. I am reluctant to write this in the adult choirarrangement, lest you actually bring down the risers! So I will instead ask for singers standing on the floor or stage to gives us a whompin'stomp, and those on risers to stomp less dramatically. - E.A.

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Selected Choral Music by Elizabeth Alexander

April Rain Song (Langston Hughes) SATB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-006-01

Before the Bread (English folk prayer) SSSS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-023-00

Blessed Be the Flower That Triumphs (Michael deVernon Boblett) SATB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-078-00

Cherish Your Doubt (Alexander) SATB & piano / SSAA & piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-063-01 / SEA-063-02

Climb (Edna St. Vincent Millay) SATB & piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-059-00

Dragon Dance (Elizabeth Alexander) S & piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-001-00

Die Gedanken Sind Frei (155h century German protest song, arr.) SATB & piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-087-00

The Earth Called To My Friend (Nancy Wood) SSA & piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-057-00

Even a Fist Was Once an Open Palm (Yehuda Amichai) SATB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-026-01

Faith Is the Bird That Feels the Light (Rabindranath Tagore) SSA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-068-00

Fighting Over What We Believe (Alexander) SAB youth choir, SATB & piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-099-00

Finally On My Way To Yes (Pesha Gertler) SSATB & piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-019-00

Folks, I’m Telling You (Langston Hughes) SSATB & piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-027-00

For So the Children Come (Sophia Fahs) SATB & piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-010-00

Glen Song (Scott Bates) SSATB & piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-025-00

Go Out! (John Murray) SATB & piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-081-00

I Write This Poem Out of Darkness (George Ella Lyon) SSA, flute, violin & piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-024-00

If You Can Walk You Can Dance (Zimbabwean Proverb) SAB & piano / TTB & piano . . . . SEA-022-03 / SEA-022-05

Immortal Love (John Greenleaf Whittier) SATB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-017-00

Infant Holy, Infant Lowly (arr. Polish carol) SSA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-020-00

The Journey (Evelyn Dudley) TTBB / SATB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-075-00 / SEA-075-01

Jump! (Ray Bradbury) SSA & string quartet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-090-00

Life is not a Garden (Alexander) SATB & piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-064-00

May This Be a Working Alleluia (Alexander) S children’s choir, SATB & piano (opt. flute & 2 trumpets) . . SEA-098-00

Morning Bread (Amy Lowell) SATB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-060-00

...or a musician (Philip Dacey) SATB & orchestra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-007-00

A Palette To Paint Us As We Are (Gerald Rich) SA & piano / SATB & piano . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-014-00 / SEA-014-01

Praise Wet Snow Falling Early (Denise Levertov) SATB & piano SEA-015-00

Reasons for the Perpetuation of Slavery (Alexander) SSAA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-091-00

Spring Grass (Carl Sandburg) SATB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-006-03

They Have Freckles Everywhere (Alexander) SSAA & piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-076-00

Those Who Wish To Sing Always Find a Song (Swedish proverb) SSS, oboe & piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-022-01

To Make a Prairie (Emily Dickinson) SSA & piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-016-00

Tomorrow, God Willing (Garrison Keillor) TTBB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-077-00

Trust the Seeds (Alexander) SATB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-009-00

We Lift Up Our Hearts (Richard Fewkes) Children’s choir, SATB & piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-021-00

We Remember Them (Sylvan Kamens & Jack Riemer) SATB & piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-083-01

Where There Is Light in the Soul (Chinese proverb) SAB/SATB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-070-00 / SEA-070-01

When the Song of the Angels Is Stilled (Howard Thurman) SSAA / TTBB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-062-04 / SEA-062-02

Why I Pity the Woman Who Never Spills (Joan Wolf Prefontaine) SSAA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-058-00

CD: Finally On My Way To Yes — Award-winning choral works by Elizabeth Alexander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEA-CD-001

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