Ruth Coberly
Composer, Singer, Conductor
Treble Voices
Break, Break, Break
SSA or TTB, unaccompanied
Text by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Singing of Loss
Three songs for women's voices
SSAA, unaccompanied
Texts by Lenore McComas Coberly
"Aunt Pearl"
"Finding My Sister's Grave Up on Two-Mile"
"Mountain Woman"
Recorded by the University of Northern Colorado Women's Glee Club under the direction of
Dr. Jill Burgett
February 25, 2014
Summer is A-Comin' In
S/A, Piano
suitable for beginning choirs
English Bells
SSAA or SATB, unaccompanied
A medley of old English rounds about bells
Tingalayo
S/A, Piano
arrangement of West Indies folk song suitable for beginning choirs
Mixed Choirs
1865
SATB, Trumpet
Text taken from Lincoln's Second
Inaugural Address and Psalm 133
English and Hebrew
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Recorded by the Concert Choir at
Adams State University under the direction of
Dr. Beth Robison
November, 2015
Cherry Blossoms NEW!
SATB, unaccompanied
English translations of classical Japanese poems about cherry blossoms.
Christmas is a Gift
SATB, Piano
Text by Lenore McComas Coberly
English Bells
SATB or SSAA, unaccompanied
A medley of old English rounds about bells
The Hosting of the Sidhe
SATB, Soprano solo
unaccompanied
Text by W. B. Yeats
Make We Merry
SATB, Soprano, Tenor and Bass Solos
unaccompanied
Anonymous 15th century text
suitable for Winter/Christmas concert opener or Madrigal dinner
Rise Up, My Love
SAB, Piano
Text from Song of Solomon
suitable for young choirs
There is Sweet Music Here
SATB, Piano
Text by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Three Shakespeare Sonnets
SATB, Piano
"Love Alters Not" (Sonnet CXVI)
"Why?" (Sonnet XXXIV)
"Who Will Believe?" (Sonnet XVII)
Recorded by the Colorado Chorale under the direction of Dr. Frank Eychaner
March, 2014 (Click the Sonnet number to link to the performance.)
Through the Kitchen Window
SATB, divisi
unaccompanied
Text by Lenore McComas Coberly