Middle School Lit with the Perfect FitBring Back the Music!

Emily Crocker

Selecting Music

• Well-crafted• Uses appropriate ranges• Smooth voice leading• Interesting vocal lines, especially for emerging low voices

Texts

• A certain level of sophistication or intellectual challenge

• Poetic texts• Languages other than English• Diverse cultures• Folksongs• Romantic love (in 3rd person• Broadway type music (“The Greatest Showman,” “Dear Evan Hansen”)

Adapting Music

• Transpose• Double parts• Pencil in alternate pitches• Pivot Between Parts• Make cuts in voice parts• Write alternate harmonies

Cantate! (2-Part)by Emily Crocker• Contest/Festival for

6th-8th Treble (equal voices; moderate ranges

• Prepare in solfège• Theme + countermelody

easy to learn and interesting for both parts

• Go to unison as needed or eliminate all/part of descant

• Also available TB HL 00324661

All Fly Around (2-Part)arr. Emily Crocker• American folk• Equal voices• Build into harmony from

a unison• Melody, countermelody,

echo patterns• Rhythm/Handclaps• Fiddle obbligato

#HL 00283171

Orphan Girl (SSA)arr. Emily Crocker• Folk/country by Gillian

Welch• Perform with

piano/fiddle or full country band

• Feature soloist & “angel chorus”

#HL 00334033

Joy in the Morning (SSA)by Emily Crocker• Text adapted from “The

Wind in the Willows”• Secular, winter-themed• Piccolo obbligato (or

other C instrument)• Modal (mixolydian) and

compound duple (6/8)• Also available for SAB

#HL 00334954

Glow (SAB)by Eric Whitacreadapt. Emily Crocker• Available for SATB,

SAB, SSA, TBB• Secular• Opt. strings

#HL 00276553

J’entends le moulin (SATB)arr. Emily Crocker• French-Canadian folk

song• Simple melody, easy-to-

learn French• Canonic,

countermelodies

#HL 00327822

Music in the Air TB Collectionarr. Emily Crocker• The Colorado Trail• I Want To Be Ready• Over My Head• Pack Up Your Troubles

in Your Old Kit Bag• Turn the Glasses Over

#HL 00344935

Exsultate Deo (2-Part)by Emily Crocker• Contest/festival for

young choir• Equal voices have

Melody & Countermelody• Learn in solfège

#HL 00363388

Caliban’s Dream (TBB)by Emily Crocker• Text from Shakespeare’s

The Tempest• Dramatic• Rhythmic

#HL 00328645

Peter Pan Suite (SA)by Leonard Bernsteinarr. Emily Crocker1. Who Am I?2. Peter, Peter3. Dream With Me4. My House

Individual movements available digitally

#HL 00276508

Who Is There Like Me (SSAB)by Emily Crocker

“Throughout the world, who is there like little me? I alone can touch the sky” (Winnebago)

• Also available for 2-Part

• Combined mixed and treble choirs #HL 00319942

Courage Calls To Courageby Emily Crocker

In commemoration of the 19th amendment, this work encourages us to stand up for what we believe in, and to have the courage of our convictions in all aspects of civic life.

• Also available for SAB#HL 00325605

Stopping by Woodsby Roger Emerson

• Poetry by Robert Frost• Brisk tempo,

contemporary harmonies

Also available for SATB, SAB

#HL 00326889

Ujedinite Se (Stand United)by Jim Papoulis

• Commissioned by a middle school celebrating their cultures

• Overlapping texts• Rhythmic• Textures

#HL 48024483