Ideas for Spring Concerts

Underlined titles are links to miniature scores or a description written by the Dare Team.
(The bad links on this page have been fixed.)
For full details on these titles and playback files for some of them click one of the catalog links at the bottom.

Ideas for full choirs (listed in order of difficulty)

Oriental Breeze — mostly chordal piece; lovely on choir chimes (L1)
On an Indian Trail — suggests young Indian braves moving along a wooded path (L1)
Morning Chimes — our most popular easy piece (L1)
Essay for Bells — low bells get the melody in the A section (L1)
Ballad of Somerset Vale — melody is in the middle range (L1+)
Prairie Days — 2 octaves; melody moves around the range (L1)
Mountain Sunrise — scored for chimes and bells (L1+)
Chant to the Great Spirit — for handchimes and Indian drum; my special favorite (L1+)
Balloons— a thin, light setting suggests balloons floating up in a summer sky (L1+)
Festival Day — the melody dances all around the three octaves (L2)
Legend — a five octave piece with lots of drive (L2)
Lilacs — chromatic passages add challenge (L3)
Soundscape — full sounding piece with interesting harmonic progression (L2)
Concert Piece in C Minor— a brand new release from Flagstaff (L2)

Novelty numbers for fun

Abilene Rag — an original ragtime tune (L2)
Jubilation — chordal melody over malleted bass line; has a "trolley car" feel (L2)
Leprechauns in the Garden — hear the leprechauns dance in this setting for bells and chimes (L2)
Popcorn — mallets and thumb damps add to the effect (L2)

Small group ideas for a change of pace (listed by group size)

Hymn to Joy — an unaccompanied duet to challenge two of your better ringers
Folk Dance from Two Dances — collection for 3 ringers; has optional part for 4th ringer
Fanfare from Little Suite for Four Ringers
Three for Five — collection for 5 ringers; pieces can be used individually or as a related group
Woodland Suite — collection for 5 ringers; pieces can be used individually or as a related group

Complete list of titles published by the Dare Team Press
(All Dare Team Press titles have links to playback files.)

Link to catalog list of titles published by other companies
(Titles published by GIA have links to playback files.)

Page updated on March 18, 2010