New Generation Choral Series

Ain’t Got Rhythm

from Phineas and Ferb

This groovy song from the hit Disney^® TV series Phineas and Ferb will have your singers and audiences dancing in the aisles at your next performance.  In the episode, the school librarian (a former rock band drummer) argues he is not able to make music anymore unbeknowningly rapping and creating a stomp-like rhythm groove, inspiring the students in the library to erupt into excited mayhem.  This message of hope and changing one’s self view should be the focus of your singers…and having fun!

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Ain’t No Man

SAB with Bass Guitar and Body Percussion

Country artists The Avett Brothers have created many contemporary hits within the past decade. This tune is a favorite for choirs, whereas the only instruments that provides accompaniment are the bass guitar and the body percussion performed by members of the choral ensemble (drums can double this part if needed). The uplifting and optimistic message of this song needs to be heard, and your choir will have a fun time performing this arrangement at your next concert.

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Born is the King (It’s Christmas)

SATB and Piano

This song from Hillsong Worship is an upbeat country-style praise anthem for the Christmas season. The melody is mainly sung by the altos and basses throughout the song, with the tenors and sopranos adding harmonies to heighten its texture. A breakdown section is included with three different melodic lines for your singers to have fun and give their praise. Your guitarist has the chance to shine and drive the rhythms of the accompaniment, with the drums heavily accenting the downbeats. You and your audience will enjoy this arrangement at your next Christmas concerts!

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Brighter Than the Sun

SATB and Piano

This positive upbeat song by Colbie Caillat was destined to achieve worldwide acclaim with its inspirational lyrics and cheerful folk-pop music feel. It became a certified platinum hit in the United States as well as reaching the #1 spot in Billboard charts around the world. Your choir will love to perform this arrangement at your next pops concert. Syncopated rhythms and emphatic beats in the harmonic texture allow your singers to have fun with each other and the audience. Enjoy!

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Change Your Ways

2 Solos, SATB and Piano

A rousing power ballad anthem, similar to the likes of performances by Sandi Patty, that delivers an emotional message with a call to action within one’s journey in faith. Written for the 2019 New Generation Singers Sermon-in-Song Along the Way.

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A Christmas Sing-Along

Unison Voices and Piano

Perfect for Christmas concerts and services, this delightful medley of carols encourages audience participation to create a festive, uplifting experience. Titles include: Joy to the World; Angels We Have Heard on High; Away in a Manger; and Good Christian Men, Rejoice.

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Demons

SATB and Piano

This hit by the musical artists Imagine Dragons speaks of the comfort and love one person needs when everything else around them seems to be falling apart.  Your choir will seem to be singing directly to the audience as they perform this song for your next concert.

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Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel

This fresh and driving arrangement of the beloved spiritual creates a reinvigorating energy for both performers and audiences alike. With a restylized melody and breakdown section leading to the final hemiolic chorus, this song is a definite crowd-pleaser!

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Down to the River to Pray

Small Ensemble and SATB, a cappella

This song uses the style of gang-singing, an early American form of improvised singing in groups (like those featured in the film O Brother, Where Art Thou?). The arrangement creates a format for the choir who wishes to partake in this style, although many other interpretations and voicings can be used.

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God Lifts Me Up

With comforting lyrics accented by syncopations in the music, this upbeat pop shuffle song will make the audience so happy they can’t help but dance along! Written for the 2019 New Generation Singers Sermon-in-Song Along the Way.

Score Previews: SATB Unison/Two-Part

Grateful For

Singer and songwriter Natalie Layne brings a fresh new perspective with her music, inspirational and uplifting while yet remaining grounded in contemporary styles accessible to a wider audience. This song encapsulates her positivity with an easy shuffle in the style of funk. Featuring the sopranos and altos on the verses, the bartiones add in on the choruses and bridge to create more height in the lyrics. Get your praise band together to perform this arrangement at your next worship service and your congregation will feel the inspiration as they dance in the aisles!

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Have Yourself a Merry (Blessed) Little Christmas

Did you know that the famous tune Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas has alternate lyrics?  After the success of the original, one of its writers Hugh Martin could not find success in his other endeavors.  With economic woes and falling notoriety, Hugh wrote new lyrics for the tune to encapsulate his feelings of his once-great success, but more importantly for the reason he wrote that song in the first place.  This arrangement incorporates those new lyrics with the original chorus, and it will surely warm your heart upon hearing these new words paired with the familiar melody.

Score Previews: SATB SAB SSA TBB Unison/Two-Part

Home

“Just know you’re not alone, ’cause I’m gonna make this place your home.” This instant Billboard-charting classic by Phillip Phillips has a comforting message juxtaposed with its upbeat folk accompaniment.  Your singers can’t help but feel happy performing this arrangement!

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Hope Was Born This Night

SAB and Piano

Welcome the holiday season with this song about hope and praise for Jesus born on Christmas day! The powerful anthem by the band Sidewalk Prophets creates an inviting atmosphere to bring everybody in celebration. This arrangement alternates each verse between upper and lower voices, culminating in all voices coming together to sing the chorus and bridge. The syncopated rhythms and easy dance-like feel of this work will bring a musical groove to your Christmas performances.

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I Believe in Father Christmas

In response to the hyper-commercialism toward Christmas, this song by Greg Lake (of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer fame) brings a folk-like accompaniment to the poignant lyrics, a humbling perspective for the spirit of the holiday season. First premiered at the 2011 New Generation Singers Christmas Concerts.

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I Don’t Want Christmas to End

A humble and heartfelt message to the feeling we experience at Christmastime, this Zach Williams tune certainly carries the holiday spirit in its musicality. In a strutting 12/8 meter and lyric-driven melody, your choir will enjoy performing this work for your next concert. Premiered at the 2022 New Generation Singers Christmas concerts.

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I’ll Be Home for Christ(mas)

Using the chorus of the famous holiday song I’ll Be Home for Christmas, this original brings a refreshing perspective on the Christmas season while maintaining nostalgia to the holiday music of the 1930’s and 1940’s.  With an accompaniment for a pianist with intermediate skills, this will surely bring delights to performers and audiences alike.

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In This Very Room

SATB and Piano

Highlight your accompanist with this setting of a modern classic hymn. The arrangement begins as though it were a music box playing, then showing off its idiomatic virtuosity as the song blossoms. Easy voice leading and sustainable phrasing for the choir makes this work come to life with a lush, lyrical quality. Perfect for any worship service or concert performance.

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It’s That Time of Year (Christmastime)

This is how you bring hip-hop to the holiday season! This original Christmas tune is a surefire way for your choir to let loose and have fun during the holiday season! Written for the 2019 New Generation Singers Christmas concerts.

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Joy Has Come!

SATB and Piano

This upbeat original uses syncopation yet singable melody as a driving force to head into the holiday season. With hidden motifs of familiar Christmas tunes in the accompaniment and a bell-like texturization for the choir in the bridge, there is only one word to truly describe this song: JOY! Written for the 2018 New Generation Singers Christmas concerts.

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Let It Be

with Hey Jude

One of the all-time famous works by The Beatles, this arrangement aims to capture the heart and spirit of the original song. The lyrics create a wise and comforting message to live your best life (with subtle inferences to the Virgin Mary) with a supportive melodic line and harmonies accessible for all voices. Optional solos may be taken to direct its message even further. This arrangement also includes the bridge from another Beatles classic Hey Jude, with the invitation for your audience to sing along. Your choir will definitely enjoy singing this Lennon & McCartney hit!

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Little Blue

SATB and optional Solos with Piano

Megastar Jacob Collier has taken the world by storm with his ingenious performances and beautiful covers of pop music’s biggest hits – his original works should also be appreciated for their simplistic message through grand musical scoring. This adaptation of the hit with Brandi Carlile brings a calm, serene setting to the accompaniment for the opening and closing sections of the work, with an added rhythmic vitality in the second verse. Your choirs and audiences will love this work at your next pops concert.

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The Little Drummer Boy

The classic holiday favorite gets a refreshing new arrangement which puts a solo drummer in the center of your performance!  With a rhythmic drive in the instrumentals, the choir brings an almost-ethereal feeling to the performance.  A noteworthy bit of information: both the composer and arranger hail from St. Joseph, Missouri.  A unique arrangement to have in your library.

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Lord of the Dance

This contemporary worship song by Steven Curtis Chapman is now available for your chorus to perform!  Your choir, with a piano accompaniment reflective of the guitars from the original song, will enjoy singing this arrangement on and off the stage.

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Lord, I Want to Be a Christian

SATB and Piano with C-Instrument

This is an easily learned anthem based on the familiar melody associated with the text. The writing is mainly two-part throughout, but cue notes for four-part texture are included at the dramatic high point of the piece. This is a simple but moving setting of a beloved hymn. Written for the 2010 New Generation Singers Sermon-in-Song He’s Alive, Forever, Amen!.

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Lost

The gospel strut tempo juxtaposes the powerful, comforting lyrics speaking to those who feel left out. This song is appropriate for the Christmas season, but may also be performed in general settings. Written for the 2018 New Generation Singers Christmas concerts.

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Love, Take Me Over

SATB and Piano

This arrangement of the upbeat contemporary worship song by Steven Curtis Chapman is an absolute delight!  Even the altos get to sing the melody during the chorus!  With a seemingly half-time groove and driving melodic line, your singes will not want to stop singing this song even after the concert is over.

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Old Man’s Rubble

T(T)B and Piano

This contemporary Christian song by Elliot Brown Bannister III was first performed by The Imperials before gaining popular acclaim with its performance recordings by Amy Grant. A thoughtful lyrical text drives the tempo and creates the groove for the tenors and basses to easily sing. The arrangeemnt brings more excitement with its upward key changes and repertive chorus. An optional Tenor I part is included as cue notes. Have fun!

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Poor Wayfarin’ Stranger

This traditional spiritual has been given a new groove with a bass line strut.  With a solo feature, this fresh perspective will be enjoyable to perform by your singers and a wonderful treat for your audience.

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Steal Away

SATB, unaccompanied

This new arrangement of the traditional spiritual utilizes its simple melody to fully embellish and illustrate its lyrics. With cascading and building voicings, including a section with an improvisatory descant, this will be a fresh addition to your choral library. Written for the 2017 New Generation Singers Sermon-in-Song Soul Aflame.

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Wake Up

An easy groove worship song by Signature Sound and Ernie Haase will be an excellent addition to your choral library. The gentle walking pace and lyrical melody make this song accessible to your singers and allows them a better opportunity to simultaneously perform and praise. Give your soloist the chance to shine as the choir supports with pop chord voicing throughout. Appropriate for your next worship service or church concert.

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Washed By the Water

This tune by Jason Crabb has a funky groove with its inspirational message that will get your singers and audience to dance with spirit and have so much fun. With unison verses and harmonized choruses, this will become an easy read for your choir and a favorite to perform. This arrangement was originally created for the New Generation Singers Summer 2022 sermon-in-song Road to the Sun.

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What Child is This? / Coventry Carol

SATB, a cappella

What Child is This? / Coventry Carol is an SATB a cappella setting combining two traditional Christmas songs. This thoughtful arrangement weaves together the familiar melodies with rich harmonies, offering choirs a beautifully expressive and contemplative work for the season.

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When You Believe

from The Prince of Egypt

SATB and Piano

A heart-warming message brings this Disney pop song classic from The Prince of Egypt has become a worldwide favorite.  Each voice part gets a chance to sing the melody.  This arrangement will be a highlight at your next concert.

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Wondrous Love

The timeless folk hymn will be an excellent addition for your choir! Can be performed a cappella or with the piano accompaniment, each voice is given a chance to perform the melody as the dramatic texture expands and heightens to its ultimate finale. The powerful text will resonate with your singers and make for a very impactful performance. “And when from death I’m free, thru all eternity, I’ll sing on.”

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You Will Be Found

from Dear Evan Hansen

Solo, SATB and Piano

This moving song from the Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen will be a definitive crowd-pleaser and give your choir the sense of being welcomed and finding friendship.  With a moderately difficult piano accompaniment and male solo opportunity, this arrangement will be a highlight at your next concert. Written for the 2017 New Generation Singers Sermon-in-Song Soul Aflame.

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