CHRISTMAS
Comfort Ye- SAT
The classic 17th-century Advent text, "Comfort, Comfort Ye My People”in an original three-part (SAT) gospel/R&B setting.
HEAR IT HERE
Your purchase includes a license to print up to 4 copies of the lead sheet. Additional reprints of the choral score are $2 each.
Price: $5.00
Love Came Down
Original unison gospel/funk setting of the 1885 Christina Rossetti poem, "Love Came Down at Christmas." Your purchase includes a lead sheet and piano/vocal score.
HEAR MP3/WATCH VIDEO HERE
WATCH CHORAL VIDEO HERE
Choral reprint copies are 2.00 each (email Deanna at deannajazz@gmail.com to arrange reprint payment).
Price: $3.00
Never Before
This piece was written for myself and two other women to sing a cappella at a lessons and carols service. The text came out of meditating on the Annunciation (see Luke 1:26-38). Recorded on
From This Place.
Reprint copies are 1.50 each (email Deanna at deannajazz@gmail.com to arrange reprint payment).
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LISTEN TO ENTIRE PIECE Price: $3.00
A Christmas Carol
SATB a cappella setting of a G.K. Chesterton poem. Winner of the 2017 New England Carol Contest. "Ms. Witkowski has composed an elegant setting of a striking poem." Robert Russell, music director of the ChoralArt Camerata, Portland, Maine
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Price: $0.00
LENT/EASTER
Alleluia
Use as a joyful prayer response or gospel acclamation during Easter: Alleluias with a calypso feel!
VIEW AND HEAR HERE. Price: $3.00
Jesus Christ is Risen! Cristo Resucitó!
A bilingual Spanish and English piece originally written for a children's choir to sing on Easter Sunday. Simple enough to be taught by ear to choirs and congregations.
HEAR IT HERE. Price: $2.00
Turning- unison or SATB
Originally written for Lent, a season that invites "turning" or a change in direction, this can be sung with just melody by a congregation, or with four parts for choir.
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PENTECOST
Kindle in Us Your Love
Gospel setting of "Come, Holy Spirit, kindle in us the fire of your love." Great for Pentecost.
VIEW AND HEAR HERE. Price: $3.00
CHORAL ORIGINALS (SAT, SATB, SSAA, SSA)
His Eye is On the Sparrow
A grooving, joyful original setting of the beloved text. Originally commissioned for Palmetto Girls Sing, a 4th and 5th grade girls choir in Greenwood, SC.
Your purchase includes a full piano/vocal score and a rhythm section chart. Additional copies are $2 each.
Price: $5.00
Oração da Viajante (The Traveler's Prayer)- SATB
A tender prayer in Portuguese that asks for grace and strength from the "Mãe querida" ("dear Mother") to have an open heart, see beauty, and hear music. Composed during a 2018 artist residency at the Sacatar Institute in Itaparica, Bahia, Brazil.
VIEW AND HEAR HERE.
Purchase at
MusicSpoke .
Price: $0.00
Turning- unison or SATB
Originally written for Lent, a season that invites "turning" or a change in direction, this can be sung with just melody by a congregation, or with four parts for choir.
VIEW AND HEAR HERE.
Purchase at
MusicSpoke .
Price: $0.00
Comfort Ye- SAT
The classic 17th-century Advent text, "Comfort, Comfort Ye My People”in an original three-part (SAT) gospel/R&B setting.
HEAR IT HERE
Your purchase includes a license to print up to 4 copies of the lead sheet. Additional reprints of the choral score are $2 each.
Price: $5.00
Who Do You Say?- two-part
Originally commissioned by St. Peter Episcopal Church, Ashtabula, OH, this two-part piece is based on Jesus' question to his disciples in Matthew 16, when he asks, "Who do you say that I am?"
Your purchase includes a piano/vocal score and rhythm section lead sheet, as well as a license to print up to 3 copies of the lead sheet only. Reprint copies of the piano/vocal score are $1.50 each (email deannajazz@gmail.com to arrange payment).
HEAR THE MP3/WATCH VIDEO Price: $5.00
Where Shadow Chases Light- SSAA
Winner of the 2016 Illinois ACDA Choral Composition Contest, this SSAA setting of text by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore features lush harmonies and lyrical melodic lines.
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Love Came Down
Original unison gospel/funk setting of the 1885 Christina Rossetti poem, "Love Came Down at Christmas." Your purchase includes a lead sheet and piano/vocal score.
HEAR MP3/WATCH VIDEO HERE
WATCH CHORAL VIDEO HERE
Choral reprint copies are 2.00 each (email Deanna at deannajazz@gmail.com to arrange reprint payment).
Price: $3.00
'I learned that her name was Proverb.'
SSAA setting of a poem by Denise Levertov, which was originally written as a response to a line by Thomas Merton.
Watch a performance of the piece with the Wheaton College Women's Chorale at
this Youtube video.
Listen here to a related WXXI radio interview.
Your purchase includes a choral/piano score.
Reprint copies are 1.50 each (email Deanna at deannajazz@gmail.com to arrange reprint payment).
VIEW CHORAL SCORE SAMPLE PDF Price: $5.00
Never Before
This piece was written for myself and two other women to sing a cappella at a lessons and carols service. The text came out of meditating on the Annunciation (see Luke 1:26-38). Recorded on
From This Place.
Reprint copies are 1.50 each (email Deanna at deannajazz@gmail.com to arrange reprint payment).
VIEW SAMPLE PDF
LISTEN TO ENTIRE PIECE Price: $3.00
We Are Surrounded
An original SATB choral piece inspired by the Gerard Manley Hopkins line, "I say that we are wound/With mercy round and round/As if with air." Watch a performance of the piece at
this Youtube video. Your purchase includes a choral/piano score and a rhythm section lead sheet.
Reprint copies are 1.50 each (email Deanna at deannajazz@gmail.com to arrange reprint payment).
VIEW CHORAL SCORE SAMPLE PDF Price: $5.00
ORIGINAL SONGS, PSALM SETTINGS
Alleluia
Use as a joyful prayer response or gospel acclamation during Easter: Alleluias with a calypso feel!
VIEW AND HEAR HERE. Price: $3.00
Kindle in Us Your Love
Gospel setting of "Come, Holy Spirit, kindle in us the fire of your love." Great for Pentecost.
VIEW AND HEAR HERE. Price: $3.00
Turning- unison or SATB
Originally written for Lent, a season that invites "turning" or a change in direction, this can be sung with just melody by a congregation, or with four parts for choir.
VIEW AND HEAR HERE.
Purchase at
MusicSpoke .
Price: $0.00
We Belong to God (Psalm 100)
Winner of the 2017 Annual Hymn Search of The Hymn Society in the U.S. and Canada.
VIEW AND HEAR HERE.
Price: $3.00
Song of Simeon (Nunc Dimittis)
The New Testament canticle with a congregational refrain and verses for a soloist or cantor. As recorded on From This Place.
VIEW AND HEAR HERE. Price: $5.00
Christ the Light (Phos Hilaron)
This ancient Christian prayer is often used in vespers services. This congregational setting contains an optional instrumental interlude. Recorded on
From This Place.
VIEW LEAD SHEET SAMPLE PDF
VIEW PIANO SAMPLE PDFPrice: $5.00
Hear Us, O Lord/Escuchanos, O Dios
A simple bilingual (English/Spanish) prayer response.
VIEW AND HEAR HERE.Price: $3.00
Mourning into Dancing (Psalm 30)
This contemporary gospel setting of Psalm 30 has a simple congregational refrain, with improvised soloist verses. Hear the piece in a jazz vespers from Saint Peter's Church in NYC at
this Youtube video. Your purchase includes a congregational bulletin insert and a lead sheet for vocal soloist and instrumentalists. Whatever translation of the Psalms you use provides the text for your verses!
VIEW LEAD SHEET SAMPLE PDF
Price: $2.00
CONGREGATIONAL HYMN ARRANGEMENTS (see INSTRUMENTAL for more)
Click on each sheet music thumbnail to view score excerpts.
Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns- downloadable sheet music book
Sheet music e-book with 13 jazz hymn arrangements (lead sheets and piano scores) from Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns.
VIEW A 13 PAGE EXCERPTPrice: $15.00
Shall We Gather at the River?
A reharmonized samba setting of the classic hymn allows congregations to sing the familiar melody without alteration.
SEE VIDEO HERE.
Your purchase includes a lead sheet. A separate piano score will be available in spring 2020.
Price: $1.00
ABBOT'S LEIGH
Lead sheet and piano score. As performed on Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns.
PURCHASE THE MP3 HERE
Price: $3.00
BEACH SPRING
Lead sheet and piano score. As performed on Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns.
PURCHASE THE MP3 HEREPrice: $3.00
FOUNDATION (How Firm a Foundation)
Lead sheet and piano score. As performed on Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns.
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Price: $3.00
HYFRYDOL (Love Divine, All Loves Excelling)
Lead sheet and piano score. As performed on Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns.
WATCH THE TRIO VIDEO
HEAR THE MP3
Price: $3.00
LASST UNS ERFREUEN (All Creatures of Our God and King)
Lead sheet and piano score. As performed on Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns.
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WATCH THE TRIO VIDEO Price: $3.00
NICAEA (Holy, Holy, Holy)
Lead sheet and piano score. As performed on Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns.
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Price: $3.00
There is a Balm in Gilead
Lead sheet and piano score. As performed on Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns.
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Price: $3.00
WOODWORTH (Just As I Am)
Lead sheet and piano score. As performed on Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns.
PURCHASE THE MP3 HERE Price: $3.00
JUSTICE CHOIR
The vocal score to “We Walk in Love,” Deanna’s original SATB song in the Justice Choir Songbook, is available as a free download for non-commercial use at https://songs.justicechoir.org/WeWalk
SONGBOOKS
Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns- downloadable sheet music book
Sheet music e-book with 13 jazz hymn arrangements (lead sheets and piano scores) from Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns.
VIEW A 13 PAGE EXCERPTPrice: $15.00
From This Place: Downloadable Songbook
A PDF version of the 137-page songbook.
VIEW A 13 PAGE EXCERPT Price: $20.00
From This Place: Physical Songbook
Spiral-bound, 137 page songbook.
VIEW A 13 PAGE EXCERPT
Note: For U.S. customers only.
Price: $30.00
From This Place: Physical Songbook and CD
Spiral-bound songbook and From This Place CD.
HEAR CLIPS HERE
Note: For U.S. customers only.
Price: $45.00
MORNING MASS NEW as of Fall 2019!
Morning Mass: Kyrie
Lead sheet, piano score, and bulletin insert.
HEAR IT HERE
Your purchase includes a license to print up to three copies of the lead sheet.
Price: $3.00
Morning Mass: Gloria
Lead sheet, piano score, and bulletin insert.
HEAR IT HERE
Your purchase includes a license to print up to three copies of the lead sheet.
Price: $5.00
Morning Mass: Sanctus
NEW! Lead sheet and bulletin insert. Piano score coming late fall 2019.
HEAR IT HERE
Your purchase includes a license to print up to three copies of the lead sheet.
Price: $3.00
Morning Mass: Agnus Dei
Lead sheet, piano score, and bulletin insert.
HEAR IT HERE
Your purchase includes a license to print up to three copies of the lead sheet.
Price: $3.00
EVENING MASS
Evening Mass: Kyrie
Part of Deanna's larger Evening Mass.
Your purchase includes a piano/vocal score, lead sheet, and bulletin insert. Recorded on
From This Place.
VIEW AND HEAR HERE.
Price: $5.00
Evening Mass: Gloria (SATB)
Part of Deanna's larger Evening Mass. As recorded on
From This Place.
VIEW AND HEAR HERE.
Purchase at
MusicSpoke. Price: $0.00
Evening Mass: Sanctus
Part of Deanna's larger Evening Mass. As recorded on
From This Place.
VIEW AND HEAR HERE. Price: $5.00
ORIGINAL TEXT AND MUSIC
NEW SETTINGS OF OLD TEXT
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say
The text of I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say was written by Scottish poet Horatius Bonar in 1846. The sense of rest and surrender in the imagery is central to this resetting. Recorded on
From This Place. Your purchase includes a lead sheet and fully notated piano part.
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Pass Me Not
A vocal solo setting of the well-loved Fanny Crosby lyric, "Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior." The text of this piece is so heartfelt- like one of the Psalms that cry out to God- that I had to put my own stamp on the music to make it my own prayer. Recorded on
From This Place.
VIEW LEAD SHEET SAMPLE PDFPrice: $5.00
Take My Life and Let It Be
English poet Frances Havergal composed her best known text in 1874. The words offer a prayer of complete surrender to God, almost addressing God as a lover. My setting was originally written as a vocal duet, but can also be performed by a solo vocalist. Your purchase includes two lead sheets (one for a vocal soloist; one for a vocal duo), and a fully notated piano score.
VIEW VOCAL DUET SAMPLE PDF
VIEW ONE VOCAL SAMPLE PDF
VIEW PIANO SAMPLE PDF
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Price: $5.00
O, the Deep, Deep Love
The hymn tune of O, the Deep, Deep Love (commonly known in hymnal indexes as Ebenezer, or Ton-y-Botel) was written by Welsh composer Thomas J. Williams in 1890. Though several different texts have been set to Williams’ tune, the one that informed my arrangement was written in 1875 by Samuel Francis. Francis’ text speaks of the love of God as an ocean that is all around us, free and deep and always moving. Recorded on
From This Place.
VIEW PDF SAMPLE
Price: $3.00
Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns- downloadable sheet music book
Sheet music e-book with 13 jazz hymn arrangements (lead sheets and piano scores) from Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns.
VIEW A 13 PAGE EXCERPTPrice: $15.00
ABBOT'S LEIGH
Lead sheet and piano score. As performed on Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns.
PURCHASE THE MP3 HERE
Price: $3.00
BEACH SPRING
Lead sheet and piano score. As performed on Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns.
PURCHASE THE MP3 HEREPrice: $3.00
FOUNDATION (How Firm a Foundation)
Lead sheet and piano score. As performed on Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns.
HEAR THE MP3
Price: $3.00
HYFRYDOL (Love Divine, All Loves Excelling)
Lead sheet and piano score. As performed on Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns.
WATCH THE TRIO VIDEO
HEAR THE MP3
Price: $3.00
LASST UNS ERFREUEN (All Creatures of Our God and King)
Lead sheet and piano score. As performed on Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns.
HEAR THE MP3
WATCH THE TRIO VIDEO Price: $3.00
NICAEA (Holy, Holy, Holy)
Lead sheet and piano score. As performed on Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns.
PURCHASE THE MP3 HERE
Price: $3.00
There is a Balm in Gilead
Lead sheet and piano score. As performed on Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns.
HEAR THE MP3
Price: $3.00
WOODWORTH (Just As I Am)
Lead sheet and piano score. As performed on Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns.
PURCHASE THE MP3 HERE Price: $3.00
