Repertoire Project Piece 5: Circle 'Round the Moon

This piece is arranged for 2-part treble voices, and would be great for a beginning choir that is exploring singing in multiple parts. There is a lot of unison singing, and when it breaks into 2 parts, the alto part is written using a lot of contrary motion and movement when the soprano part is not moving. It sits a bit low, so it'd be important to have singers who have a good grasp of head voice drop down to that part, so as to prevent singers from trying to push the part out in an overly chest voice-y way. The text is full of really vivid imagery that would be engaging for the students to sing, and the song itself is really beautiful. Since it is mostly diatonic, it would be a great piece with which to apply sightreading skills by using solfege in the learning process.