Our music library database now includes every order placed with the library back to September 2002. It paints an interesting picture of the items that are most popular in the schools (not including those pieces that may be in an individual school's library)
The following lists the top loans which the composer, arranger (if there is one) and publisher with choral also including the voicing.
Chorus- Al Shlosha D'Varim (Naplan & Avot/2-Part Treble/Boosey & Hawkes) - 15 Loans
- Three Madrigals (Diemer/SATB/Boosey & Hawkes) - 13
- Praise His Holy Name! (Hampton/SATB/Earthsongs) - 12
- Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel? (Traditional/Emerson/3-Part/Hal Leonard) - 11
- Alexander's Ragtime Band (Berlin/Besig & Price/2-Part Treble/Alfred) - 10
- Ching-a-Ring Chaw (Copland/Fine/SATB/Boosey & Hawkes) - 10
- Niska Banja (Traditional/Page/4-Part Treble/Boosey & Hawkes) - 10
- Three Mountain Ballads (Traditional/Nelson/SSA/Theodore Presser) - 10
- Cindy (Traditional/Wilberg/SATBSATB/Hinshaw Music) - 9
- For the Beauty of the Earth (Rutter & Pierpoint/Rutter/SA/Hinshaw Music) - 9
- For the Beauty of the Earth (Rutter & Pierpoint/Rutter/SATB/Hinshaw Music) - 9
- Hine Ma Tov (Naplan/2-Part Treble/Boosey & Hawkes) - 9
- If Music Be the Food of Love (Dickau & Heveningham/SATB/Colla Voce) - 9
- My Own Song (Kowalski/SA/Hinshaw Music) - 9
- Shenandoah (Traditional/Erb/SSAATTBB/Lawson-Gould) - 9
- Zion's Walls (Copland/Koponen/SATB/Boosey & Hawkes) - 9
- Birdsong (Read/2-Part Treble/Boosey & Hawkes) - 8
- Cantate! (Leavitt/SSA/Hal Leonard) - 8
- The Castle of Dromore (Traditional/Dolloff/2-Part Treble/Boosey & Hawkes) - 8
- A Girl's Garden (Thompson & Frost/SSA/E.C. Schirmer) - 8
- Heart, We Will Forgive Him (Mulholland/SSA/Colla Voce) - 8
- Keep Your Lamps (Traditional/Thomas/SATB/Hinshaw Music) - 8
- Kenya Melodies (Traditional/Hugh/3-Part Treble/Boosey & Hawkes) - 8
- Nigra Sum (Casals/3-Part Treble/Tetra-Continuo) - 8
- O Music (Mason/Rao/Unison/Boosey & Hawkes) - 8
- Salmo 150 (Agular/SATB/Earthsongs) - 8
- Shenandoah (Traditional/Spevacek/3-Part/Jenson) - 8
Band- His Honor (Fillmore/Fennell/Carl Fischer) - 11 Loans
- Shenandoah (Traditional/Tichelli/Manhattan Beach Music) - 11
- Galop (Shostakovich, Dmitri/Hunsberger/Boston Music) - 9
- Pevensey Castle (Sheldon/C.L. Barnhouse) - 9
- Encanto (Smith/Hal Leonard) - 7
- Esprit De Corps (Jager/Edward B. Marks) - 7
- Flourish for Wind Bands (Williams/Oxford University Press) - 7
- O Magnum Mysterium (Lauridson/Reynolds/Peer Music) - 7
- October (Whitacre/Hal Leonard) - 7
- Prelude, Siciliano and Rondo (Arnold/Paynter/Carl Fischer) - 7
- Rhosymedre (Williams/Beeler/Galaxy Music) - 7
- Symphonic Dance No. 3 (William/Sam Fox) - 7
- Ye Banks and Braes O'Bonnie Doon (Grainger/G. Schirmer) - 7
- Folk Dances (Shostakovich/Reynolds/Carl Fischer) - 6
- The Hounds of Spring (Reed/Edward B. Marks) - 6
- Amazing Grace (Tichelli & Newton/Manhattan Beach Music) - 5
- Black Horse Troup (Sousa/Fennell/Alfred) - 5
- Caccia and Chorale (Williams/C.L. Barnhouse) - 5
- A Festival Prelude (Reed/Edward B. Marks) - 5
- First Suite For Band (Reed/Edward B. Marks) - 5
- Gavornka Fanfare (Stamp/Neil A. Kjos) - 5
- The Great Locomotive Chase (Smith/Belwin-Mills) - 5
- The Lord of the Rings: The Hobits (de Meij/Amstel Music) - 5
- On An American Spiritual (Holsinger/TRN Music) - 5
- Sea Songs (Williams/Boosey & Hawkes) - 5
- Sleep (Whitacre/Eric Whitacre) - 5
- Symphony No. 1 (In Memoriam Dresden - 1945) (Bukvich/Wingert-Jones) - 5
- Variations on a Korean Folk Song (Chance/Boosey & Hawkes) - 5
- Vesuvius (Ticheli/Manhattan Beach Music) - 5
- With Quiet Courage (Daehn/Daehn Publications) - 5
Orchestra
- Russian Easter Overture (Rimsky-Korsakov/Nieweg & Bradburd/Edwin F. Kalmus) - 9 Loans
- Hungarian March (Berlioz/Edwin F. Kalmus) - 8
- Bacchanale (Saint-Saens/Isaac/Warner Brothers) - 7
- American Suite (Gould/Belwin-Mills) - 6
- Carmen Suite No. 1 (Bizet/Edwin F. Kalmus) - 6
- Hoe-Down (Copland/Boosey & Hawkes) - 6
- Overture to Nabucco (Verdi/Dackow/Ludwig Music) - 6
- Academic Festival Overture (Brahms/Edwin F. Kalmus) - 5
- Enigma Variations (Eltgar/Edwin F. Kalmus) - 5
- Nabuco Overture (Verdi/Edwin F. Kalmus) - 5
- Radetsky March (Strauss/Isaac/Wynn Music) - 5
Strings
- Capriccio Espagnol (Rimsky-Korsakov/Dackow/Ludwig) - 4 Loans
- Folk Tune and Fiddle Dance (Fletcher/Boosey & Hawkes) - 4
- St. Paul's Suite (Holst/G. Schirmer) - 4
- Allegro in D for Strings (Vivaldi/Frackenpohl/Ludwig Music) - 3
- Ashokan Farewell (Unger/Custer/Alfred) - 3
- Queen Noor Suite ( Washburn/Belwin-Mills) - 3
- Rumanian Folk Dances (Bartok/Willner/Boosey & Hawkes) - 3
- Single Symphony (Britten/Oxford University Press) - 3
- Three Divertimenti (Mozart/Edwin F. Kalmus) - 3
- Toccata (Frescobaldi/Higgins/Neil A. Kjos) - 3
Jazz Band- Don't Get Sassy (Jones/Kendor) - 4 Loans
- Get it On (Chase & Marinan/Jennings/Jenson) - 3
- Land of Make Believe (Mangione/Lopez/Alfred) - 3
- Maiden Voyage (Hancock/Taylor/Jenson) - 3
- Moten Swing (Moten & Moten/Wilkins/Sienna Music) - 3
- Now's the Time (Parker/Niehouse/C.L. Barnhouse) - 3
Vocal Jazz- Voice Dance (Jasperse/Shawnee Press) - 4 Loans
- Caravan (Ellington/Meader/University of North Carolina) - 2
- The Lady is a Tramp (Rodgers & Hart/Zegree/Williamson Music) - 2
- The Look of Love (Bacharach & David/Zegree/Hal Leonard) - 2
- Night and Day (Porter/Schmutte/Alfred) - 2
- This Can't Be Love (Rodgers & Hart/Rutherford/Williamson Music) - 2
The following are new pieces that we have added to the Music Library since February 12. 
