Dear Listers,

Here is the compilation on Animal pieces. As I had asked for SATB and
childrens chorus too, some of you sent recommendations for pieces that
weren't about animals, (which is due to my fuzzy request,) so I haven't
included them in this posting. Thanks to all for your great help!
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Several years ago, I presented a concert entitled "Counterpoint of the
Animals" Included on the program: Ivor Davies' Prayers from the Ark,
Banchieri's Contrapunto bestiale alla mente (Counterpoint of the Animals),
Il bianco e dolce cigno, Arcadelt, The Silver Swan, Gibbons, Audite Nova,
Lasso,Il est bel et bon, Passereau, El grillo, des Pres, And there came all
manner of flies (from Israel in Egypt), Handel. Also, Didn't my Lord
deliver Daniel? arr. Hunter, Daniel Pinkham's Daniel in the Lion's Den,
Ol'Man Noah, arr. Bartholemew, Let me Fly! by Decormier and Who's afraid of
the big, bad wolf? by Luboff. Good luck, Dr.Harry Mechell Director of Choral
Activities Winona State University Winona, MN 55987 hmechell(a)winona.edu
http://www.course1.winona.edu/hmechell ------
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Zooillogical
Mathematical Zoo
A Little Sweep

Polly Murray
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Don't know if you're looking for children's music pertaining to animals, but
if you're looking for advanced, Zae Munn, a composer from Indiana has a
collection entitled 5 Animal Songs. They are rhythmically challenging and
each one is unique unto itself. Our college touring choir performed 3 of them
this past year. (Note--see below for info)

Kate Gabriel
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Conrappunto bestiale alla mente
Adriano Banchieri
El Grillo
Josquin des Pres
The Bee
Frank Bridge The Three Ravens
e.g. arr, Edward Chapman Of Crows and Clusters
Norman Dello Joio A Dog Known as Ego
Lars-Erik Larsson Ngana
Stephen Leek Hakuna Matata
/Elton John (& Tim Rice?) Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf arr. Norman
Luboff
Old Horatius Had a Farm Z. Randall Stroope
Childhood Fables for Grownups Irving Fine
SATB& Children's Choir:
Psalmkonzert Heinz Werner Zimmerman
Celtic Requiem John Tavener
; (if you're truly ambitious, and maybe a little warped)
John M. Crowell
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The following ChoralNet resources may be useful:
choralnet.org Repertoire ; Lists ; Concert Themes ; Environment
choralnet.org/Repertoire/Lists/by Voicing/ Treble with SATB
(there are several of these)

Allen H Simon
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Here are a few suggestions for you from Yelton Rhodes Music.

Critters - Several American Folk Songs (1998)
COMPOSER :: David Evan
AUTHOR :: 1. The Goose, the Hog and my Dog Blue
2. All the Pretty Horses
3. Leatherwing Bat

INSTR :: SSAA a cappella
DURATION :: 08:00
PRODUCT :: YR7300 Full score $2.25

Animal Songs, Five (1998)
COMPOSER :: Zae Munn
AUTHOR :: Text by Peg Lauber
INSTR :: SATB and piano
DURATION :: 18:00
PRODUCT :: YR8302 Full score $3.50
Sales
Yelton Rhodes Music
http://www.yrmusic.com
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Animals, eh?; There are lots of vocal works about birds--

R. Murray Shafer's Bestiary (difficult but wonderful)
Randall Thompson: The Pelican (from The Place of the Blest)
Dinerstein: Frogs
Appalachian lullaby: All the Pretty Little Horses
arr. Copland: I Bought Me a Cat
Tavener: The Lamb
settings of Blake's poem "The Tyger" ("Tyger, tyger, burning bright")
Christmas carols: "Carol of the Animals" ("I, said the donkey, shaggy and
brown...")
Rutter: Donkey Carol ("Donkey riding...")
Quebec folksong: "Were you ever in Quebec...riding on a donkey."
Hindemith: "La Biche" (The Doe) and "Un Cygne" (A Swan) from Six Chansons
Fetler: The Wild Swans
Copland: The Lark

Kirin Nielsen
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I have a fondness for the poetry of Edward lear, there is a Unison setting of
the Jumblies (owl and Pussycat) by Armstrong Gibbs, a setting of the Quangle
Wangle Quee (all imaginary animals) by myself (send me an address I will send
you  copy). As for SATB And Children, Andrew Carters Benedicite (OUP)
Contains some wonderful Childrens songs set inside a larger SATB framework
Tim Knight
www.tim-knight.20m.com
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I recently did an animal-theme concert with my (SATB) youth choir programme
follows, lots of lovely stuff there. Quite a few pieces came from the
"Chester Book of Madrigals" animal volume (they have thematic volumes
seasons, love, war & politics etc)

Paul Ayres
UK
electronic mail paulayres(a)clara.net
website http://home.clara.net/paulayres

Orlando Gibbons - The silver swan
Josquin des Prez - El Grillo
Johann Sebastian Bach: Schafe können sicher weiden (aka Sheep may safely
graze)
solo song: arr. Paul Ayres - Poor Fish (Robin Bailey)
Charles Stanford - The Blue bird
Pierre Passereau - Il est bel et bon
traditional, arr. Darryl Runswick - The Frog and the Crow
traditional - The Three Ravens (English folksong)
John Tavener - The Lamb (William Blake)
Benjamin Britten - Rejoice in the Lamb (Christopher Smart)

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I ran an expert search in Musica using this criteria (children, SA,animals,
English) and came up with some fun looking stuff i.e. Jean Berger's "A
Child's Book of Beasts."

Freida Holober
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Skylarks
by Steven Stucky

charles bruffy
kansas city chorale
phoenix bach choir

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Check out "Benedicite" by Andrew Carter. Written for SATB and children's
choir with keyboard or orchestra accompaniment. Several pieces talk about
animals. Also, the three children's choir pieces are published separately
under the title "Bless the Lord." Great fun for everybody! Oxford is the
publisher.
Brian C. Clissold, Music Director Battle Creek Girls' Chorus Battle Creek
Community Chorus abclissold(a)worldnet.att.net
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........a long list about insects on choralnet.org, hit search, then type in
insects. Here's what I did on "Birds, Beasts and Bugs" two years ago, with
additional choices below.
University at Albany Chamber Singers "Birds, Beasts and Bugs!"
PROGRAM Madrigals
Sweet Suffolk Owl (1619) Thomas Vautor (c. 1590-?)
The Silver Swan (1612) Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
Der Gutzgauch auf dem Zaune saß (c. 1539) Lorenz Lemlin (c. 1496-1549)
Part Songs from Six Chansons Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) La Biche (The Doe)
Un Cygne (The Swan)
Lerchengesang (Song of the Lark), op. 48 #4 Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Contrasts (1999) Robert H. Young (b. 1923) (GEntry)
For Sweet Things Dying A Birthday The "Sacred Beast"
The Lamb (1981) Robert Boyd
The Falcon (1956) John Gerrish
Little Innocent Lamb Spiritual, arr. Marshall Bartholomew
Folk Songs The Cuckoo American, arr. Robert Heninger (Santa Barbara Music)
Three Ravens English, arr. Thomas Ravenscroft (c. 1582-1635
Sohran Bushi (Fisherman's Work Song) Japanese, arr. Osamu Shimizu
El Perequito Venezuela, arr. Modesto Bor
Hold My Mule While I Dance Josey Spiritual, arr. Jester Hairston
Humorous Beasts Chameleon Wedding (from And Sparrows Everywhere) Libby Larsen
(ECS) (and looks at the others in "And Sparrows Everywhere")
Mosquitos (from Due North) Stephen Chatman from Lullabies and Nightsongs
(1965) Alec Wilder, arr.
Land The Elephant Present The Answer

Additional:
White Horses Gwyneth Walker (ECS)
Water Night Eric Whitacre
The Lamb - many settings: Tavener, Earl George, Ken Neufeld, etc
El Grillo - Josquin
Bugs - Pinkham
Paul and His Chickens/Palpa Haugen - Ellingboe - Kjos
Audite Nove - Lassus
The Cricket's Widow (from Madrigals from the Japanese) - Robert Baksa
Listen to the Lambs (psiritual) - Dett - GSC
The Serpent - Jeffers - Earthsongs\BArnyard Cogitations (rounds on Ogden
Nash) - Quincy Porter
I am The Phoenix - Vecchi (Io son fenice)
Anschiedslied der Zurvogel - Mendelssohn, op. 63 -NMP
And the White Rose is a dove - Williametta Spencer - NMP
Departmental (ants) - Robert Ross
Metaphor (The Fly, The Flea, the Spider) - Caltabiano - presser
Who will remember - David York - earthsongs
A cuckoo flew out of the woods - Bisbee - SBMP
Crazy cantata (3 blind mice) - Robert Russell Bennett - Chappell
A Musical Menagerie - Hageman - Presser
Frogs - Dinerstein - C Fischer (six pieces)
Voyagers (butteflies) - J Adams - Alliance
Whippoorwill - Bales - Alliance
Due North - Chatman - ECS (5 pieces, includingWoodpecker, MOsquitoes, Varied
Thrushes)
I Know a Bird - Diemer - SBMP
The Reluctant Dragon - Rutter
Butterflies - Palmgren (Walton?)
It was a time - Dowland
The Lowest Trees have tops - Dowland
The Brave fly - Gesualdo
El Gavilan - Carrillo
Yaravi: danza del norte - Donaire
El Alcatraz - Luis Craff
Listen to the Mockingbird - Kubik
The Turtle Dove - Vaughan Williams
The Bluebird - Stanford
Nachtigall - Mendelssohn
Lerchengesang - Mendelssohn
The Hedgehog - Poulenc
The Cuckoo - Tchaikovsky (Ne Cuckoosche - folk songs)
Chants des Oyseaux - Jannequin
Black Sheep - Rutter
Contrapunto bestiale - Banchieri
Sweet Suffolk Owl - Vautor
Il bianco e dolce cigno - arcadelt
El Perequito - Modesto Bor - Third Planet Music
Noiseless Spider - Clausen
All Creatures Now - Bennett
the Fauns and Satyrs (Triumphs of Oriana)
Come, Blessed Bird (Triumphs of Oriana)
Dainty Fine Bird - Gibbons
Salovushko - Tchaikovsky
of Crows and Clusters - Dello Joio
Der Falke - Brahms
Lone Dog - Britten

David Griggs-Janower

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I have a set of 4 unpublished "Creaturesongs" for SSA+. Interested?
Bob Jordahl
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De Animals A'Comin', a spiritual arranged for Men's voices by Marshall
Bartholemew is wonderful.
Barbara Wagner, Minister of Music, Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo
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A wonderful work by Andrew Carter...Benedicte #4 in the work is Badgers and
Hedgehogs #7 is Butterfliew and Moths
Donna Otto Artistic Director Coastal Sound Music Academy
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Andrew Carter - Bless the Lord - Oxford U166. four unison songs from his
"Benedicite" and one for U/SATB.
Lynn: The Ladybug and her friends. Suite of short pieces. Legacy Music
Publishers, 1370 Holly Drive West, Broomfield, CO 80020. legacymusic1370(a)aol.com>
Keith Reas, Alexandria Choral Soceity, VA
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Do you plan to extend the "animals" concept to include bugs? Here are some
suggestions:
El Grillo (Josquin des Prez)
The Bee (Frank Bridge)
The Three Ravens (arr. Edward Chapman)
Of Crows and Clusters (Dello Joio)
Childhood Fables for Grown-ups (Irving Fine, not choral, for soloist)
2. Tigeroo 4. The Frog and the Snake
Duetto Buffo Di Due Gatti--Comic Duet for Two Cats (Gioacchino Rossini)
This could be for any two voices (soli to inclusion of the children's choir)
A Dog Known As Ego (Lars-Erik Larsson)
Contrappunto bestiale alla mente--The Animals Improvise Counterpoint
(Banchieri)
Miniatures from a Bestiary--Part II (Ron Nelson)
Hakuna Matata (from the Lion King)
Old Horatius Had a Farm--spoof piece on Old MacDonald (Z. Randall Stroope)
Ngana--Australian piece about a shark and fish (Stephen Leek)
Mata Del Anima Sola--Venezuelan piece that includes a mare (Antonio Estévez)
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf (arr. Norman Luboff)

Ralph Hughes Sacramento Master Singers
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I have a really fun, "jazzy" piece (originally written for children's choir,
but it could certainly be performed by women's voices) entitled "The
Dinosaurs' Tale" for Treble Voices, Flute, Double Bass and Piano 4-hands; -
Duration: 3 minutes. It is available from my publisher, Schaffner Music....
Schaffner Music Sole Agent: Schaffner Publishing Co. Box 1162 Merchantville,
NJ 08109-0162 TEL: (856) 854-3760 FAX: (856) 854-5584 E-Mail:
102057.3355(a)compuserve.com Allen Bonde Mount Holyoke College
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The Kings Singers have published a charming arrangement of The Owl and the
Pussycat. Counterpoint of the animals - Banchieri and Elliot Levines
Cantata of the animals. Gordon King Verona, NJ
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There is a set of Prayers from the Ark published by Boosey & Hawkes. I don't
recall the composer. It is a set SATB of humorous prayers of the bugs and
animals on the ark. Prayer of the Cat features a Baroque style fugal section.
Very well done, cerebral humor appreciated by adult and old student
audiences. David Nordli
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One of the Chester Books of Madrigals is entitled "The Animal Kingdom". There
is also a pair (?) of suites by Jean Berger (Belwin; old publication) on
Ogden Nash poems about animals (some of the same ones that sometimes find
their way into performances of the Saint-Saens). I have written two pieces
for SATB with children's choir: *Images of Christmas* (Thomas House/Presser)
2-pt children, SATB, hp/pno and/or organ. *Bring Many Names* (Text by Brian
Wren) SATB, unis. children, org. Unpublished but engraved and available from
yours truly.

Robert Ross, Artistic Director Voces Novae et Antiquae Philadelphia, PA
VocNovEtAn(a)aol.com
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Have you looked at the "Prayers from the Ark" by Ivor Davies? They're very
charming, a cappella pieces for SATB (there may be some divisi -- it's been a
while). I think Boosey & Hawkes publishes them. There's also Jean Berger's
"Child's Book of Beasts" for SA (there are two sets of songs), which are
settings of Hillaire Belloc poems.

Ann Foster FosterMuse(a)aol.com

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A DOG WALKS -ssa and piano and
BUTTERFLIES -ssa
these two pieces are from my 3 JAPANESE LYRICS published by Boosey and
Hawkes.
Charming poetry is by Michio Mado and translated into English by the
Empress Michiko of Japan.

Wayland Rogers
www.waylandrogers.com
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Consider "Frog Song" at http://www.gladdemusic.com/frogsong.htm. I guess a
frog qualifies as an animal, yes?

Brad Nelson, Composer
www.GladdeMusic.com
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Another animal piece: Five canzonets by Jean Berger published by A. Broude.

These are humorous pieces.

Gordon King
Verona, NJ
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I don't know if you're interested in a large work, but "The Web of Life"by
John Biggs is for SATB, children's chorus, narrator, & small chamber
orchestra - 50 min. It's listed at http://consortpress.com Let us know if
you'd like to see/hear the music.

Paul Mark
office(a)consortpress.com
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Try The Biblical Book of Beasts by Daniel Pinkham.

Meredith Monk's Panda Chant II, (Boosey & HAwkes)
Jean Absil's Le Bestiare

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We have several songs about animals contained in printed music in three
songbook collections for elementary school classrooms or unison treble
choirs. Composer is Canadian, Donna Rhodenizer. We may be contacted directly
for orders via web site www.redcastlepublishing.com or by email
donna(a)redcastlepublishing.com Animal songs are as follows:
I Need a Home for my Dinosaur (title of book)
Ed the Invisible Dragon
Cool Bob (rap about a cool cat)
The Computer Cat (book title)
Songs: The Computer Cat
Forty Little Birdies
Penguin Ball
Pondering Penguins
I Wonder (..if a penguin has closets full of clothes...)
Penguin Parade
My Hamster
Now is the Time(book)
Song: Dust Bunny Rag I hope this is helpful to your search for animal songs
in printed music
Andy Duinker
Red Castle Publishing
www.redcastlepublishing.com
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There is a wonderful CD put out by the excellent choral group Spirit that was
a benefit for the Sedgwick County Zoo and is a wealth of information plus
some good arrangements. You can purchase it through the zoo sight or by
calling Sherri Pilgreen at 316-682-3969.
Doris Prater
Wichita, KS

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Cynthia Powell, Artistic Director
The Stonewall Chorale, NYC
CPowell508(a)aol.com
Christ Episcopal Church
105 Cottage Pl.
Ridgewood, NJ 07450
website:www.christridgewood.org