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*Body Percussion Starter Pack – Mixed*
A curated bundle of some of Moira’s favorite body percussion pieces for mixed voices.
*Body Percussion Starter Pack – Treble*
A curated collection of Moira’s favorite body percussion pieces for treble voices.
*Popular Titles – Mixed*
A curated collection of Moira’s most popular titles for mixed voices.
*Popular Titles – Treble*
A curated collection of Moira’s most popular titles for treble voices.
*Songs of Justice & Protest – Mixed*
A curated bundle of Moira’s most powerful Justice & Protest songs for mixed voices.
*Songs of Justice & Protest – Treble*
A curated bundle of Moira’s most powerful Justice & Protest songs for treble voices.
A Man Was Born
A simple, drone based tune inspired by the Appalachian ballad style.
A Što Ćemo
A famous Bosnian Sevdah. Moira first heard sung in Zagreb. Passionate love song.
Africa
Slightly re-voiced and text adapted for female voices, a magnificent shape-note hymn
Al Proci
A mysterious song from Macedonia, probably from “Starogradski” style
Angel From Montgomery
This well-loved John Prine song was popularized by Bonnie Raitt, and that is the version that VIDA crafted this arrangement from.
Bellow
Bright, full-bodied and bold for mixed choir.
Bellow in F – Practice Tracks
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Bellow in F# – Practice Tracks
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Bellow in G – Practice Tracks
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Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind
SAA – original text by William Shakespeare
Bring Me Little Water, Silvy – (SSA, SAA, SAT, AAT, ATB)
For SAA / Trio. Closer harmony range than the quartet.
Bring Me Little Water, Silvy – (SSAA, SAAT)
SSAA, SAAT – Especially good for women’s ensemble.
Bring Me Little Water, Silvy – SATB
For SATB – Mixed Ensemble. Keys available: Bb, C major and piano reduction.
Bring Me Little Water, Silvy — TTBB
For TTBB – Moira’s beloved arrangement of Lead Belly’s beautiful song for male voices
Bring Me Little Water, Silvy (SAA) – Practice Tracks
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Bring Me Little Water, Silvy (SATB) – Practice Tracks
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Bring Me Little Water, Silvy (SATBB) – Practice Tracks
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Bring Me Little Water, Silvy (SSA) – Practice Tracks
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Bring Me Little Water, Silvy (SSAA) – Practice Tracks
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Cailin Rua
Simple harmonies enrich to this upbeat Irish broadside song.
Cello Violin Duo
Bela Bartok inspired string duo
Cockles and Mussels (Molly Malone)
An arrangement of a beloved Irish song.
Cúnla
Considered to be part of the Sean Nós tradition of songs and singing, this song has the dance rhythm of a jig
Days Of War
I’ve always been struck by the way angry, abusive actions are a cover up for ignorance and fear, and I was seeing more and more of those actions.
Days Of War – Practice Tracks
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Deep Blue
A soulful ostinato bass, lyrics about wonder and fear.
Deportee
Woody Guthrie’s always timely song about the strange, faceless existence that immigration brings to so many.
Devil’s Nine Questions
A conversation between ‘devil’ and ‘young woman’, with lots of simple, repeated call/response refrains, room for solos and unusual division of 9/8.
Dilmano, Dilbero
A re-working of the song made famous by Les Mystere de Voix Bulgares.
Dressed In Yellow
Moving story of forgiveness in a delicate, ornamented Appalachian style for female voices – a cappella or accompanied
Dressed In Yellow – Practice Tracks
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Dying Californian
Arranged from original SATB shape-note hymn into SSAA. Beautiful pump-organ-like harmony.
Earthly Light
A dreamy, rhythmic song with bird calls built in.
Engines
Singy, sassy, ‘Triplets of Belleville’-like ditty perfect for small ensemble.
Engines – Practice Tracks
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Entra Mayo
A harmony song from 16th century Spain and from Cancionero de Palacio. “In Comes May & out Goes April”
Eya, Forest Song
A fanciful, African-inspired story-song with body percussion – like the music in The Lion King.
Famine Song
A beloved song of empathy by Moira’s first a cappella group.
Festen
Celebratory, upbeat Swedish folk song from Swedish fiddle player, Anders Hall.
Find Ways
A rollicking, post-folk symphony.
Garden Hymn
Gorgeous 6/8 shape-note hymn celebrates earthly beauty
Greta Sails
SAATB or SSAAA + (body) percussion
Greta Sails – Practice Tracks
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Grey Shore
A new traditional love-across-the-water song – mournful and ornamented.
Haiku
Haiku is a meditation on the fragile play between the suffering and pleasure of living encapsulated in this 18th century Japanese poem by Kobayashi Issa.
Haiku – Practice Tracks
Practice Track MP3s ‘Haiku’ SATB + soli + piano + percussion All parts sung by Moira Smiley. Please note: individual practice tracks are $0.99 per singer. Purchasing ALL PARTS includes all vocal parts and the rights for your whole choir to use (1-50 singers). Please do not share or distribute these practice tracks outside of […]
Headwaters
Headwaters is a short, 3-movement song cycle based on three maps.
Headwaters – Young Sound Of A River
This is a slightly longer, declarative and bold piece celebrating the beginning of a river and the beginning of a young adult’s life.
House That Jack Built
A folk-pop ballad with a twist.
How Can I Cry
Accompanied or a cappella – A rousing, gospel-inspired tune with room for improvisation
How Can I Cry – Practice Tracks (Dm)
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How Can I Cry – Practice Tracks (Em)
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Ostinato parts create a lovely, minimalist web around this American classic – for full choir
Husha Echoes
For masked singers. Hopi Kachina – inspired chant and improvisation.
I Have A Voice
SSSAAA or SSSAAATB. Forthright lyrics, spoken text, dense harmony and body percussion
I Have A Voice – Practice Tracks
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I Live in California
Moira’s love-song to California, the act of migration to follow your dream. Here, in original solo voice form.
I’m So Glad
Playful, rich chords lean a little toward vocal jazz for mixed ensemble with simple body percussion.
I’m So Glad – Practice Tracks
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In The Desert With You
Seeks to add to the conversation about water conservation and ethical water use with a virtuosic, lush polyphonic vocal texture
Into The Grieving Heart
An exploration of grief through the world of the heart.
John Of Dreams
A Lullaby for mixed voices reminding us that sleep equalizes all.
Keep On
An uplifting protest song written to fight hate.
Leather Britches
Improvised loops and simple, but groovy for mixed ensemble surround a simple Question and Answer
Lewis
In the fuguing tradition of shape-note hymns, a richly layered hymn to life’s big questions.
Light & Shade
For virtuosic sopranos – part of a larger song cycle for two soprani and accordion.
Light Perpetual
SATB (div) + Chamber Ensemble
Loud, O My Throat
Commissioned in 2017 by Ad Astra Festival to explore metamorphosis through place.
Mail Myself To You
3-voice, unusual harmony arrangement of Woody Guthrie’s adorable song
Makedonska
A lament that leads to a fast-paced mouth music piece inspired by Macedonian dance rhythms.
Mazurka
The mazurka is a dance found in both classical and folk music.
Meeting is Over – SATB + Piano
An anthem that celebrates the cycles of life and death, endings and renewal, farewells and reunion.
Mother of Invention
An introspective art-pop ballad about the creative impulse for three voices and your choice of instruments.
Mother of the Child
Original lyrics in English, lead vocal line over ostinato harmony vocals – in the style of South African choral music.
Mourning Dove (Winter At My Window)
Mourning Dove is an intimate story of love, loss and growth and the difference between loneliness and solitude.
Ngoma
Polyrhythmic, joyful song usually performed with body percussion – based on child’s lament from Zimbabwe.
Now is the Cool of the Day
Arrangement of Jean Ritchie’s song about our stewardship of the earth
Oh, Watch The Stars
SAA or SAT or SATB + opt. chordal inst. accompaniment
Oh, Watch the Stars (SAA) – Practice Tracks
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Oh, Watch the Stars (SAT) – Practice Tracks
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Oh, Watch the Stars (SATB) – Practice Tracks
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Oh, Winter
A deeply personal song about family.
One Step Dance
A dreamy, harmonically lush song describing a moment of awakening – three voice parts and piano.
Only Then Do You Know Joy
A pulsing, light-hearted exploration that makes you smile. Commissioned by the Eastern Regional ACDA. Conducted by Craig Hella Johnson, February 2022.
Only Then Do You Know Joy – Practice Tracks
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Our Time / Shout
A new spiritual for soloist and small ensemble.
Our Time, 2018
New words to a spiritual I wrote many years ago. Arranged for mixed voice from a solo vocal + piano performance.
Out of a Child
Moira’s first piece inspired by Béla Bartók: a dialogue between child + instrument.
Parting Friends
New harmonies added to beloved, stark Appalachian / shape-note parting song
Promenade
A stately mouth music piece.
Refugee
A pulsing, powerful song of plain-spoken empathy with simplest Stomp-Stomp-Clap pattern for mixed ensemble
Refugee – Practice Tracks
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Return My Soul
Moira’s lilting setting of old text that reminds us to rest.
Rise To It Now
Commissioned by Atlanta Young Singers, a call to action by young voices!
Rotary Phone
A solo song about the sweetness of embracing change.
S’loyfn, S’yogn / Dance
9/8 mouth music inspired by Yiddish dance music, paired with a Yiddish song
Sacred Water, Sacred Soil
A new hymn that seeks to find and celebrate the things we can all agree are sacred and needed for human thriving
Sandoya Santo
A polyrhythmic mouth-music piece in 5/8, with body percussion.
Sephardic – Ladino text set in two ways – slow/mournful and dancelike
Seven Generations
A piece meant to reconnect our generations in music-making, and conversation about what our connections truly are amidst storms of information that would divide us.
Shosholoza
VIDA’s arrangement of a legendary South African song.
Si Verias
A playful, satirical piece from the diaspora of the Sephardic Jews. It features upbeat, 9/8 rhythm, unusual folk harmony, verses in Ladino, refrains in Turkish and a chance to play with vocables and clapping.
Silverlake
Describing the wakefulness that comes in the early AM – as the mind wrestles with the questions of fate & divinity.
Silverlake (SSATB) – Practice Tracks
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Sing About It
A soulful, rhythmic call to learn to listen, and how to stand up for each other.
Sing About It (SSAAA in Dm) – Practice Tracks
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Sing About It (SSAAA in Em) – Practice Tracks
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Sing About It (SSATB) – Practice Tracks
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Sing The World Awake
No matter how stuck we think we are, we are always at a new beginning — we have just begun here.
Sing The World Awake SATBdiv. – Practice Tracks
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Sing The World Awake SSAAdiv. – Practice Tracks
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Snake Song
Imitative, stark play between voice and instrument.
Somagwaza-Hey Dama
A polyrhythmic 11/8 mouth-music ride through a S. African and an Ethiopian song
Spring
Mouth music, based on playground sounds.
Stand In That River – SA
SAATB or SSAAA + (body) percussion – Short Description.
Stand in That River – SATB
A new spiritual to join the Americana tradition, in ¾, a cappella or accompanied by piano.
Stand in That River – Trio
A new spiritual to join the Americana tradition, in ¾, a cappella or accompanied
Stand In That River (SATB in B) – Practice Tracks
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Stand In That River (SATB in C) – Practice Tracks
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The Call
SAAwTsoli+BP or SATBdiv.+BP or SSAAA+Vc+BP or TTBBB+BP
The Call (SAAwTsoli) – Practice Tracks
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The Cuckoo
Fast-paced, mouth music and Appalachian dance-song lyrics with simple hambone-like body percussion
The Little Road
A wistful, resolute song about choosing to learn new things.
The Little Road SAA – Practice Tracks
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The Little Road SSA – Practice Tracks
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The Song Among Us – Secular Liturgy
This inclusive, secular liturgy is loosely structured on two ceremonies of transformation: The five movements of a Mass and the structure of a mediation or therapy session.
There Is More Love Somewhere
Traditional, as sung by Bessie Jones for Alan Lomax. Arranged by Jayme Stone & Moira Smiley
They’re Red Hot
An arrangement of Early blues legend Robert Johnson’s playful street-call song “Hot Tamales” with body percussion & a new bridge.
They’re Red Hot SAA(TB) – Practice Tracks
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Time In Our Voices
It’s a piece about how our voices change over time to carry different perspectives on life, time and the role we play in the world.
Time In Our Voices – Practice Tracks
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Treat A Stranger Right
Arranged by Moira Smiley and Alexander Lloyd Blake. Learned from singer, Sidney Hemphill Carter as recorded by Alan Lomax in 1959 in her Tate County, MS home.
Treat A Stranger Right – Practice Tracks
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Tryptophan Hand Jive
An original 4-part body percussion piece by Moira Smiley.
Unzip The Horizon Digital Songbook
122 Page downloadable PDF Songbook including sheet music, lead sheets, “study links” and much more.
Utopia
Written to join the shape-note tradition, using the beautiful lyrics by Joseph Swain (fl. 1791).
Visa Fran Jarna
Traditional Swedish song, as recorded by Jan Johansson.
Wales
Moira’s first song in shape-note style. Sweet, organ-like harmony. Lyrics of longing.
Wayfaring Stranger
2.5 min. — Soulful, call & response arrangement of this American folk classic
Wayfaring Stranger – Practice Tracks
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Wire You Here
SSAATBB + percussion with mobile phones and string trio
Wiseman
Lilting, uplifting song about the power of love – as told by someone who has come through great suffering.
Wiseman – Practice Tracks
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World Will Not Pause
Richly layered, emotional song for mixed chorus (or voices + strings) and piano.
World Will Not Pause – Practice Tracks
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