Black is the color of my true love's hair

The Blue Green Hills of Earth from Missa Gaia. Composer is Kim Oler

Black is the Color of my True Love's Hair

Beth Armstrong. Bristol RI

Paint it Black (I see a red door etc.)

I really love Craig Hella Johnson's arrangement of Dolly Parton's "Light of a Clear Blue Morning."  

Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair

My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose

 

Britten "The Ballad of Green Broom" (Flower Songs Nr. 5)

Byrd "Though Amarylis Dance in Green"

Stanford "The Bluebird"

 

You might try going to CPDL and doing searches by entering different colours in the search box.

"World of Many Colors" is one my new pieces. I'd be happy to send a perusal copy for you. :)

the text is:

REFRAIN

The world is a coat of many colors, every facet of the rainbow;

The prism always changes but the light remains the same.

Many colors, many shadows are we.  (the refrain becomes a round at the end of the piece)

 

VERSE 1

Hear the song we sing, we are dancing even as we fly

On the wings of hope, eternal as the sky.

 

VERSE 2

Let your voice ring out with the others running on the wind

For the spirit lives inside of every heart.

 

you can also hear it on youtube. 

Thank you,

Stephen Bigger

Walking on the Green Grass - Michael Hennagin

The lyrics of  the second movement of my Earthly Light (for SATB), called "Light Spectrum" are solely the names of the colors of the light spectrum (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet). Let me know if you'd like a perusal copy.

Joshua Shank wrote a fantastic cycle of pieces called "Color Madrigals." All texts by Keats, all with a color in the title.
http://graphitepublishing.com/Music/S001.html
 

1. Serpents in Red Roses Hissing

2. Blue! ‘Tis the Life of Heaven

3. Purple-Stainéd Mouth

4. Yellow Brooms and Cold Mushrooms

5. A Grass-Green Pillow

6. Orange-Mounts of More Soft Ascent

 

My students still have wonderful memories from performing "Sunday" in our color-themed concert a few years ago. Lovely imagery using beautifully colorful descriptions. From "Sunday in the Park with George" by Sondheim.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoeL_ZbqjEk; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITPu7rV9h80;
published by Hal Leonard: UPC: 884088412548 
"Sunday, by the blue purple yellow red water; On the green purple yellow red grass... By the cool blue triangular water; On the soft green elliptical grass; As we pass through arrangements of shadow; Toward the verticals of trees forever; By the blue purple yellow red water; On the green orange violet mass of the grass..." 
 

Canasg can offer a set of four Colour Poems by Richard Nye for SSAATBB voices. Follow the link for information, including the text of the poems, and you can download a perusal copy of the complete score.

Yellow Submarine.

This is pasted from the Resources-Repertoire-Concert Themes page here on Choralnet...  I would add the "Red, Red Rose" by Mulholland, Claussen or Stroope.  They're all great.  CPDL also has some "color" pieces, but I would also encourage you to search for colors in italian, german and french- you'll only find more choices!

 

The above list says it all, but I could add one more if Latin is allowed:  Whitacre's Lux Arumque ("Light of Gold").