Sing, "Gloria!"

• Text Writer: Parker Ramsay
• Vocal Part(s): Unison
• Vocal Range: d-e’
• Key: E minor
• Meter: 2/2
• Accompanying Instrument(s): Piano (or harp or organ)

Target Age Group: Grades K-2 OR Grades 3-6

Description: Sing, “Gloria” is the first anthem composed by Parker Ramsay, text and tune begun and completed in about an hour when he was eight years old. This delightful Christmas anthem works well in a Christmas pageant or Christmas Eve worship service, with choristers robed or in costume, dressed as angels, shepherds and wise men. The refrain is learned easily by the youngest choristers.

Anthem Warm-Ups

• bars 4-8: pitch accuracy
• bar 13-16: pitch accuracy

Teaching Points

• Vocal Production: tone quality/breath support in lower vocal range, bars 6, 15-16; unified vowel sounds and clear consonants
• Intervallic Tuning: Tuning melodic intervals
• Interpretation: Singing with dynamics