Song Cycles
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ChildflightScore Available on Amazon
Words and tune by Janet Stimson Piano accompaniment Deborah Stimson-Snow Childflight is a series of ten art songs based on impressions of the world as seen through the eyes of children. It is written for lyric soprano singing with innocence, exuberance and awe. Ten songs including: |
Full Circle
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Full Circle
Score Available on Amazon By Janet Stimson [songs] and Deborah Stimson-Snow [score] Full Circle is a cycle of 12 songs for soprano and baritone about a young couple that take on the challenges of pioneer life and seek to survive as a family. The themes of hope, birth, death, forgiveness, renewal and home are interwoven in both text and music. Reminiscent of Aaron Copland and Ralph Vaughn Williams, the songs are both folk-like and classical in style. This story-based cycle is an excellent concert piece for a theatrical young man and woman. They include Morning, Dance, Ash Grove, Raise the Roof, A Star This Side the Moon, What Will Do, Loss, Away, Like a Bird, Longing, Home and Full Circle. Ten songs including: |
Insects Observed
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Insects Observed
Score Available on Amazon Words and tunes by Janet Stimson with piano accompaniments by Aaron Otheim, Ashley Webster, Deborah Stimson-Snow and Karen Janes Insects Observed is a cycle of eight intimate songs for medium voice and piano. Each piece listens to the miniature world of our smallest creatures and shares its wisdom. Tuneful art song melodies are set against accompaniments ranging from impressionistic to light jazz. Eight songs including: |
Penny Songs
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Penny Songs
Score Available on Amazon Words and tune by Janet Stimson Piano accompaniments by Karen Janes Penny Songs include eleven numbers inspired by the diverse personalities of children, but sung from an adult perspective. For medium voice and piano, they range in style from jazz to traditional. Eleven songs including: |
Song Collections
Quiet Christmas
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Quite Christmas
Score Available on Amazon Quiet Christmas by Janet Stimson with settings by Steve Rice and Karen Janes is a collection of sixteen original songs set in the holiday season. They are not all quiet. Included are subjects such as romantic love, a nativity lullaby, a call for peace, a tribute to soldiers abroad, a bad-boy Santa, and in the title song, Quiet Christmas, an older person’s wistful memories of past holidays. The catchy tunes are set to accompaniments in jazz, spiritual, folk and classical styles. These songs are a great alternative to popular holiday standards for entertainers looking to broaden their repertoire. Meant for all voices. |
Songs of All Sorts
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Songs of All Sorts
Score Available on Amazon by Janet Stimson Songs of All Sorts is a collection of 37 miscellaneous songs in all categories written by Janet Stimson. The genres of story, sacred, love, love unrequited, and novelty are all represented. Some are fully fleshed out with beautiful arrangements, but most are just charts ready for others to arrange in their own way. The themes span from the serious and edgy, to the light and satirical. For all voices, there’s something for everyone. Songs include: |
Angel Voices
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Angel Voices
Score Available on Amazonwww.amazon.com/dp/1082272175 Angel Voices is a collection of six sacred songs, by Janet Stimson [songs], and Deborah Stimson-Snow [score and choral parts]. Four of the texts are inspired by the joyful notion of ascension. The other two are blessings. The book includes the songs: Bound for Heaven Go My Soul May the Lord Watch Over You The Land of the Lord The Twenty-Third Psalm When I Dream. |
Joyful, Joyful !
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Joyful, Joyful !
Score Available on Amazon And other sacred songs for choir By Janet Stimson, Karen Janes and Deborah Stimson-Snow Fourteen songs including: A Blessing We Bring – SATB, traditional blessing. God’s Glory – SATB, upbeat gospel theme. Joyful, Joyful! – SATB, rock hymn celebration with piano, organ, drums and hand bells. Open Your Heart – SA, upbeat rhythmic 2 part children’s piece. Peace in Our Time – SATB + soprano solo, Calypso, whistling. Where You Lead – SATB, easy-listening ballad. World of Angels – SATB, ballad with modern theme. Born of Mary – SATB, light, jazzy, Christmas nativity narrative. Missing the Manger – SATB + baritone solo, personal ballad of redemption. Where We Stand – SA, wedding song in Appalachian style. When I Dream – SAATB, haunting ballad. Go My Soul – SSATBB + soprano solo, dramatic elegy. |
Songcape
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Songscape
Score Available on Amazon by Janet Stimson and Deborah Stimson-Snow Endless Love Evergreen Hold On The Wind & His Bride My Dog & Me One World Music Makes the Moments Fly |
Individual Songs
Songs written and performed by Janet Stimson
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