Men's Choir

Dr. Adam Potter, R&R Chair for Men’s Choirs

Sing Your Way Home

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Joseph M. Martin (quoting Antonín Dvořák)

Mark Foster/Shawnee Press/Hal Leonard #35027949

Your guys will love singing this beautiful text:

Sing your way home at the close of the day.

Sing your way home. Drive the shadows away.

Where’er you go, wherever you roam,

it will brighten your road; lighten your load

if you sing, sing your way home.

Martin’s harmonies are mostly diatonic with wonderful moments of dissonance (quickly resolved).

 “Stomp Your Foot!” from The Tender Land

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Aaron Copland

Boosey & Hawkes/Hal Leonard #M-051-45146-4

This classic has fallen somewhat out of fashion, but is great fun for advanced men’s choirs. Great to reinforce vocal production in high and low tessituri. Requires two talented pianists for the piano-duo accompaniment.

Ascendit Deus

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Jacob Handl

CPDL #00833

This polyphonic Renaissance piece is a terrific choice for your advanced men’s choir. Predominantly in the Ionian mode, it is perfect to reinforce rhythmic and tonal reading concepts. Handl (also known as Gallus) demonstrates his mastery of text painting throughout.

Title of Resource: Teaching Music with Passion: Conducting, Rehearsing and Inspiring by Peter Loel Boonshaft

Description of Resource: If you’re in the “mid-semester blues,” this is a great read to invigorate and inspire your teaching again. Through a series of reflections on being a music educator, Boonshaft helps us rekindle the flame that drove us to become teachers in the first place.