Fun Friday Resources

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A very special edition of Fun Friday Resources today: actual resources that I am trying to give away. If you are a church choir director, read on! (Or even if you know one, read on; I’m easy.)

As mentioned on Wednesday, I retrieved a large blue storage tub from our storage unit with 100 pounds of music stuff in it, mostly from my time as a church choir director. During that ten years, I wrote a lot of music, and when I left the position I took my music with me. (I will not go into details as to why; let your imagination run riot.)

Now, twenty years later, I wonder why I still have this stuff. It’s not as if I am ever going to direct a church choir again, and I can certainly use the tub to hide other things from myself.

And so I am giving any or all of this away to anyone who wants it.

My music

These are folders with 20–30 copies of each piece.

  • O Alleluia §

  • Benedicttion #2 §

  • Kyrie (Mass in C) §

  • Sanctus/Hosanna (Mass in C) §

  • I Was Glad §

  • I Shall Say of the Lord §

  • Introit for Lent

  • Benediction for Lent

  • Psalm 125 (They that trust in the Lord/Jerusalem) §

  • Psalm 81 (A loud shout raise to Jacob’s God)

  • My Soul Longeth for Thee

  • They That Wait Upon the Lord §

  • Steadfast Love of the Lord

  • Trumpet in Zion §

Pieces with § next to them can be found (PDF score and mp3 file) at https://www.dalelyles.com/mymusic/general/

Choral music books

  • Music from Taizé

  • Carols for Choirs I

  • Carols for Choirs II

  • Sunday Savers II

  • Cantate Domino (World’s Student Christian Federation Hymnal, 1951)

  • Church Hymnal (Tennessee Music & Printing Company, shaped notes, 1951)

  • New Church Anthem Book

  • John Rutter Carols

  • Gospel Mass

  • Sing & Be Happy Songs for Children

  • Methodist Hymnal

  • The Hymnbook (old Presbyterian hymnal)

Vocal/Choral instruction

  • Sing Legato

  • Melodic Message (recorder method book)

  • The Creative Use of Choirs in Worship (Hopson)

  • Choral director’s rehearsal and performance guide

Reference/Study

  • Choral Settings of the Scriptures with English Texts (lectionary)

  • Old Songs for New Millennium (a study of Psalms)

  • Presbyterian Hymnal Companion

  • Sing with Understanding: introduction to Christian hymnology

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If you want them, email me. We’ll discuss how to get them into your hands.