Sing together, discover poetry, build skills, and learn new musical concepts! Written for two to six voices or groups for beginning to intermediate skill levels (plus a few challenges!), this all-new collection of Gathering Rounds moves from easy to challenging over the course of each month and over the course of the year. Gathering Rounds are great for choral warmups, icebreakers, sight-reading, processionals, recessionals, transitions, encores, sing-alongs, and just for fun.
 
This second volume offers a round for each week of the year featuring poetry and prose by women – some famous, some infamous, some longtime favorites, some newly discovered, all captivating – set to music by Stacey Philipps. These rounds and canons are welcoming, encouraging, flexible, musically and textually meaningful miniatures to enjoy with anywhere from a few people around a campfire to a large choir in a traditional performance space. Each round is rated according to GIA Music's Difficulty Level Criteria from Teaching Music through Performance in Choir.
 
In the Portland-Metro area? Free delivery! Out of the USA? Please get in touch for shipping rates. Can't wait for the book? Want to catch a glimpse of what's inside? Download a collection of 16 FREE rounds from Volumes 1 and 2 (links below next to the free rounds). Feel free to copy, share, distribute, and perform these 16 free rounds under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
 
A portion of the proceeds from this collection will benefit the Institute for Composer Diversity. Find out about the resources available through this excellent organization at www.composerdiversity.com.
 
Individual rounds are available at the links below for $1 each for 8.5" x 11" digital sheet music only. Purchase a complete book to enrich learning with additional materials, including program notes, poet biographies, and difficulty levels for each song, plus a thorough index of musical concepts and themes, as well as expert sight-singing tips by Aubrey Patterson, Oregon Repertory Singers Youth Choir Artistic Director.
 
Song list
Never the Same
Summer Night
Night Swim
Silver
Filled with Music
Twilight
Dream (free!)
A Golden Storm
Dragonfly/Maple Leaf
Days of Parting
Cups of Gold
October
Ghost Upon the Shore
City in Mist
Sun A-Glow, Rain Below
Arrive Here
Song in the Mouth
Spreading Light (free!)
Blow, Wind, Blow
Together
Apple Cake
Every Moment
Clouds
Winter Morning
Snowflakes
Never Give Up
Catch the Light
Some Day in February
Sing to Me
Timberline
Why Not?
Sky in Early March
Too Early, Too Late
You Sang!
Light of Daffodils
Bursting
Come Full Circle (free!)
Iris
Rainy Day
Blossoming
Tiny Bird
Maytime Snow
May Night
Even If
Evening
Lovely, Laughing June
Wanting to Know
Rose of Day
Lean, Learn (free!)
Mermaid's Song
City Walk
Circling spiraling creation