Submitted by Suzanne DeVene, Willard, Ohio
Idea posted September 19, 2003
Here is my list of songs that have been successful with my 5th/6th grade choir. (By the way, though I have 5th/6th graders, all this music is written for SAB and sometimes SATB, too.)
Music K-8 Selections"A Song Of Peace" (from Music K-8, Vol. 12, No. 2; also available as a Singles Reproducible Kit)
"Down To The Bone" (from Music K-8, Vol. 3, No. 2)
"Pizza Love" (from Music K-8, Vol. 8, No. 5; also available as a Singles Reproducible Kit)
"Just One Candle" (from Music K-8, Vol. 10, No. 2; also available as a Singles Reproducible Kit)
"The Road To Freedom" (from Music K-8, Vol. 12, No. 3; also available as a Singles Reproducible Kit)
"Where Is The Peace?" (from Music K-8, Vol. 1, No. 4; also available as a Singles Reproducible Kit)
"United We Sing" (from Music K-8, Vol. 3, No. 1; also available as a part of an all-school revue)
Other Selections
"Always Friends," Roger Emerson
"Cameroon," Dorothy Masuka
"Charlotte Town," Emily Crocker
"Drunken Sailor," arr. Emily Crocker
"Folk Song Handjive," Greg Gilpin
"For The Children," Albrecht/Althouse
"Gloria Deo," Mary Lynn Lightfoot
"Morning Star," C. Bennett & B. Robertson
"Music Has Brought Us Together," Jerry Estes
"Pizza," Kirby Shaw
"Remember Me This Way," arr. Teena Chinn (from Casper)
"Sing With Joy!," Donald Moore
"Somewhere Out There," James Horner, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil (from An American Tale)
"Surfin' USA" (forget arranger; big medley of familiar surfin' songs)
"This Old Man," arr. Greg Gilpin (fun arr; our 6th graders really liked it)
"Wade In The Water," arr. Brad Printz
"What's More American?," Kadish & Millet
"Whoa, Mule, Whoa!," arr. Pepper Choplin
"You've Got A Friend In Me," Randy Newman (from Toy Story)