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*The Garden – Mixed*
$4.00 – $4.00

A curated collection of Moira’s music for mixed voices that celebrates our natural world.

A Man Was Born
$1.95

A simple, drone based tune inspired by the Appalachian ballad style.

A Što Ćemo
$1.95 – $1.95

A famous Bosnian Sevdah. Moira first heard sung in Zagreb. Passionate love song.

Africa
$1.95 – $1.95

Slightly re-voiced and text adapted for female voices, a magnificent shape-note hymn

Al Proci
$1.95 – $1.95

A mysterious song from Macedonia, probably from “Starogradski” style

Angel From Montgomery
$1.95

This well-loved John Prine song was popularized by Bonnie Raitt, and that is the version that VIDA crafted this arrangement from.

Bellow
$2.75 – $2.75

Bright, full-bodied and bold for mixed choir.

Cailin Rua
$1.95

Simple harmonies enrich to this upbeat Irish broadside song.

Cúnla
$1.95 – $1.95

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
$2.25 – $2.25

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.

Deep Blue
$1.95

A soulful ostinato bass, lyrics about wonder and fear.

Deportee
$2.25

Woody Guthrie’s always timely song about the strange, faceless existence that immigration brings to so many.

Devil’s Nine Questions
$1.95 – $1.95

A conversation between ‘devil’ and ‘young woman’, with lots of simple, repeated call/response refrains, room for solos and unusual division of 9/8.

Dressed In Yellow
$2.00 – $2.00

Moving story of forgiveness in a delicate, ornamented Appalachian style for female voices – a cappella or accompanied

Dying Californian
$0.50 – $0.50

Arranged from original SATB shape-note hymn into SSAA. Beautiful pump-organ-like harmony.

Earthly Light – TB + String Quartet
$1.95 – $1.95
Earthly Light Parts: TB + String Quartet + Percussion Pages: 4 Pgs with Cover (Conductor's score) Description: 3 min. -- A dreamy, rhythmic song with bird calls built in. A sonic picture of the moment just before a midsummer afternoon storm. The sky is very black, swollen with rain. Birds call and fly nervously in the [...]
Engines
$1.95 – $1.95

Singy, sassy, ‘Triplets of Belleville’-like ditty perfect for small ensemble.

Entra Mayo
$1.95 – $1.95

A harmony song from 16th century Spain and from Cancionero de Palacio. “In Comes May & out Goes April”

Eya, Forest Song
$1.95

A fanciful, African-inspired story-song with body percussion – like the music in The Lion King.

Famine Song
$1.95 – $1.95

A beloved song of empathy by Moira’s first a cappella group.

Festen
$1.95 – $1.95

Celebratory, upbeat Swedish folk song from Swedish fiddle player, Anders Hall.

Garden Hymn
$1.95 – $1.95

Gorgeous 6/8 shape-note hymn celebrates earthly beauty

Grey Shore
$1.95 – $1.95

A new traditional love-across-the-water song – mournful and ornamented.

Haiku
$2.75 – $2.75

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
$0.99 – $50.00

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 […]

Haiku – SATB + String Quartet + Piano + Percussion
$2.75 – $2.75
Haiku Parts: SATB + String Quartet + Piano + Percussion Pages: 5 Pgs with Cover (Conductor's score) Description: 3 min. -- “In this world we walk on the roof of hell gazing at flowers” Haiku is a meditation on the fragile play between the suffering and pleasure of living encapsulated in this 18th century Japanese [...]
Headwaters
$1.95 – $6.95

Headwaters is a short, 3-movement song cycle based on three maps.

How Can I Cry
$2.25 – $2.25

Accompanied or a cappella – A rousing, gospel-inspired tune with room for improvisation

Husha Echoes
$1.95

For masked singers. Hopi Kachina – inspired chant and improvisation.

I Have A Voice
$2.25 – $2.75

SSSAAA or SSSAAATB. Forthright lyrics, spoken text, dense harmony and body percussion

I Live in California
$1.95

Moira’s love-song to California, the act of migration to follow your dream. Here, in original solo voice form.

I’m So Glad
$2.75 – $2.75

Playful, rich chords lean a little toward vocal jazz for mixed ensemble with simple body percussion. 

In The Desert With You
$2.75 – $2.75

Seeks to add to the conversation about water conservation and ethical water use with a virtuosic, lush polyphonic vocal texture

John Of Dreams
$1.95 – $1.95

A Lullaby for mixed voices reminding us that sleep equalizes all.

Keep On
$2.25 – $2.25

An uplifting protest song written to fight hate. 

Leather Britches
$1.95 – $2.00

Improvised loops and simple, but groovy for mixed ensemble surround a simple Question and Answer

Lewis
$1.95 – $1.95

In the fuguing tradition of shape-note hymns, a richly layered hymn to life’s big questions.

Light & Shade
$1.95

For virtuosic sopranos – part of a larger song cycle for two soprani and accordion.

Loud, O My Throat
$2.25 – $2.25

Commissioned in 2017 by Ad Astra Festival to explore metamorphosis through place.

Makedonska
$2.25 – $2.25

A lament that leads to a fast-paced mouth music piece inspired by Macedonian dance rhythms.

Mazurka
$2.25 – $2.25

The mazurka is a dance found in both classical and folk music.

Mother of Invention
$2.00 – $2.00

An introspective art-pop ballad about the creative impulse for three voices and your choice of instruments. 

Mother of the Child
$1.95

Original lyrics in English, lead vocal line over ostinato harmony vocals – in the style of South African choral music.

Ngoma
$2.25 – $2.25

Polyrhythmic, joyful song usually performed with body percussion – based on child’s lament from Zimbabwe.

One Step Dance
$2.25 – $2.25

 A dreamy, harmonically lush song describing a moment of awakening – three voice parts and piano.

Only Then Do You Know Joy
$2.25 – $2.75

A pulsing, light-hearted exploration that makes you smile. Commissioned by the Eastern Regional ACDA. Conducted by Craig Hella Johnson, February 2022.

Our Time, 2018
$2.00 – $2.00

New words to a spiritual I wrote many years ago.  Arranged for mixed voice from a solo vocal + piano performance.

Out of a Child
$1.95

Moira’s first piece inspired by Béla Bartók: a dialogue between child + instrument.

Parting Friends
$1.95

New harmonies added to beloved, stark Appalachian / shape-note parting song

Refugee
$2.25 – $2.75

A pulsing, powerful song of plain-spoken empathy with simplest Stomp-Stomp-Clap pattern for mixed ensemble

Rise To It Now
$2.25

Commissioned by Atlanta Young Singers, a call to action by young voices!

Rotary Phone
$2.00 – $2.00

A solo song about the sweetness of embracing change.

Sacred Water, Sacred Soil
$2.75 – $2.75

A new hymn that seeks to find and celebrate the things we can all agree are sacred and needed for human thriving

Sacred Water, Sacred Soil – SATB + String Quartet + Piano
$2.75 – $2.75
Sacred Water, Sacred Soil Parts: SATB + String Quartet + Piano Pages: 4 Pgs with Cover (Conductor's score) Description: 3:30 min. -- What can we agree is sacred? What blesses us with vitality through no doing of our own? “Sacred Water, Sacred Soil” is a new hymn that seeks to find and celebrate the things [...]
Seven Generations
$1.95 – $2.25

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
$1.95 – $1.95

VIDA’s arrangement of a legendary South African song.

Si Verias
$1.95 – $1.95

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
$2.25 – $2.25

Describing the wakefulness that comes in the early AM – as the mind wrestles with the questions of fate & divinity.

Sing About It
$2.75 – $2.75

 A soulful, rhythmic call to learn to listen, and how to stand up for each other.

Sing The World Awake
$2.25 – $2.25

No matter how stuck we think we are, we are always at a new beginning — we have just begun here.

Snake Song
$1.95

Imitative, stark play between voice and instrument.

Spring
$1.95

Mouth music, based on playground sounds.

The Call
$2.75 – $2.75

SAAwTsoli+BP or SATBdiv.+BP or SSAAA+Vc+BP or TTBBB+BP

The Cuckoo
$2.25

Fast-paced, mouth music and Appalachian dance-song lyrics with simple hambone-like body percussion

The Little Road
$2.25 – $2.25

A wistful, resolute song about choosing to learn new things.

The Song Among Us – Secular Liturgy
$12.00 – $65.00

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.

They’re Red Hot
$2.25 – $2.25

An arrangement of Early blues legend Robert Johnson’s playful street-call song “Hot Tamales” with body percussion & a new bridge.

Time In Our Voices
$1.95 – $10.95

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.

Treat A Stranger Right
$2.25 – $2.25

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.

Utopia
$1.95 – $1.95

Written to join the shape-note tradition, using the beautiful lyrics by Joseph Swain (fl. 1791).

Wales
$1.95 – $1.95

Moira’s first song in shape-note style. Sweet, organ-like harmony. Lyrics of longing.

Wayfaring Stranger
$1.95 – $2.25

2.5 min. — Soulful, call & response arrangement of this American folk classic

Wire You Here
$2.75 – $12.00

SSAATBB + percussion with mobile phones and string trio

Wiseman
$2.75 – $2.75

Lilting, uplifting song about the power of love – as told by someone who has come through great suffering.

World Will Not Pause
$2.75 – $2.75

Richly layered, emotional song for mixed chorus (or voices + strings) and piano.