Music Suggestion DayToday, you get a chance to be the chorus teacher.

I go through hundreds of songs each year, trying to find something ‘just right’ for each of my choruses to sing. Today, you will help me with that process.

You will be using the www.jwpepper.com website to search for choral music to sing for our winter concert. Many of the songs on the pepper website have audio samples for you to listen to, so please use

headphones.

You will then give me your suggestions via a quia survey.. You must make at least 3 suggestions (and up to 5 - if you have more than that, you’ll need to pick your favorites).

You earn a 5 point grade for successfully using the computer to search for and report your suggestions.

The next pages will give you some tips for navigating the pepper website to find appropriate music for your chorus.

7th and 8th Grade chorus will each perform one Christmas-y or wintery song AND one Hanukkah-y song in the winter concert.

The 8th grade wintery/Christmas-y song will be recorded for the More 101FM Christmas Choir Competition

9th Grade chorus will most likely perform 1 Christmas-y, 1 Wintery, and 1 Hanukkah-y song in the winter concert.

All choruses should look for either Wintery, ’Christmas-y’, or ‘Hanukkah-y’ Songs

Pepper WebsiteYou can search for any song you want, or you can browse in categories.

SEARCH

BROWSE

Pepper WebsiteYou will want to narrow your searches/browsing down to “Choral” music

Pepper WebsiteOnce you find a song you’re interested in, click on the ‘play’ button (if it has one) for an

audio recording (or at least sample) of the song.

CLICK TO PLAY!

Pepper WebsiteYou should narrow your search by ‘voicing’, depending on which chorus you are in.

Pepper WebsiteYou should narrow your search by ‘voicing’, depending on which chorus you are in.

9th Grade Chorus should look for SAB or SATB songs

7th Grade Chorus should look for Two-Part or Three-Part Mixed songs

8th Grade Chorus should look for SAB or Three-Part Mixed songs