New Editions for High School 2007

Spring 2007 Promotion: Download any of these new editions from Hartenshield Music. Royalty details below. All texts are from well known English and American poets; all still resonate with young ambition, young love, and young growth. Minor alterations in some lines offer inclusive language and an additional twist of humor.

The Oubit by Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)
Score (new version, pdf format)

OUBIT: (OO-bit) a hairy caterpillar    FECKLESS: insufficiently vital, careless

It was an hairy oubit, sae proud [she/he] crept alang,
A feckless hairy oubit, and merrily [she/he] sang:
  
...  etc.  ...

O haud your hands frae inkhorns, though a' the muses woo;
For critics lie, like saumon fry, to mak' their meals of you.

Birds by Richard H. Stoddard (1825-1903)
Score (pdf format)


Birds are singing round my window,
   Tunes the sweetest ever heard;

...  etc.  ...

But they will not fold their pinions
   In the little cage of Song!

Goe and Catche a Falling Starre by John Donne (1572-1631)
Score (pdf format)


"Song" 
Goe and catche a falling starre, 
    Get with child a mandrake root,

...  etc.  ...

        Yet [he/she] will be
False ere I come, to two or three.

I Stood and Saw My Mistress Dance by James Shirley (1596-1666)
Score (pdf format)


I stood and saw my mistress dance,
  Silent, and with so fixed an eye,

...  etc.  ...

My wonder, to behold her move 
  So nimbly with a marble heart.

Among other new editions, an a cappella song for Christmas: Young Jesu Sweet by Wedderburn Brothers (15th century)
Score (pdf format)

and an Alleluia, a cappella or accompanied with a unique equal-tempered keyboard part that allows a chorus to sing with pure tuning:
Score (pdf format)

Any high school may receive written permission to duplicate and perform them on payment by check of $0.25 per copy royalty. Please mail to Hartenshield Music, 2314 Ridgeway Road, Wilmington DE 19805. Special arrangements available for college and community choirs.

Caterpillars, Birds, Mandrakes, and School Dances

New Editions of Choral Music for High School

by

William Copper