A small committee from the UU Musicians' Network has reviewed Singing the Living Tradition and identified material particularly useful with junior choirs and in religious education programs. The hope is that this list will begin to make the hymnbook more accessible to religious education programs.

Children's Choirs, a booklet written by Lynne Beasley and Alfa Radford of the UU Musicians' Network, provides some guidelines and answers a number of questions about starting a children's choir. Copies are available free of charge. Please contact me here at the UUA if you would like a copy of this booklet or if you have other questions about using music with children, starting a junior choir, or about the Musicians' Network.
--Jacqui

Junior Choir Use

73 Chant for the Seasons
83 Winds Be Still
180 Alhamdulillah
196 Singer of Life
202 Come Sunday
214 Shabbat Shalom
226 People, Look East
227 Creche Flickers Bright Here
229 Gather 'Round the Manger (very appropriate for young children)
230 Duermete, Nino Lindo (a lovely Hispanic lullaby)
260 Oshana, Shira Oshana
356 Will You Seek in Far-Off Places?
362 Rise Up, O Flame (good choir response to chalice lighting)
384 Alleluia (Mozart's)
385 Gloria
388 Dona Nobis Pacem
389 Gathered Here
390 Gaudeamus Hodie
393 Jubilate Deo

Hymns and Songs for Children's and Intergenerational Worship

30 Over My Head
38 Morning Has Broken
51 Lady of the Seasons' Laughter
56 Bells in the High Tower
66 When the Summer Sun Is Shining
76 For Flowers That Bloom about Our Feet
95 There Is More Love Somewhere
97 Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
100 I've Got Peace Like a River
104 When Israel Was in Egypt's Land
116 I'm On My Way
118 This Little Light of Mine
121 We'll Build a Land
123 Spirit of Life
131 Love Will Guide Us
141 I've Got a New Name
147 When All the Peoples on This Earth (for Kwanzaa)
149 Lift Every Voice and Sing
152 Follow the Drinking Gourd
154 No More Auction Block for Me
156 Oh, Freedom
162 Gonna Lay Down My Sword and Shield
168 One More Step
169 We Shall Overcome
201 Glory, Glory, Hallelujah!
205 Amazing Grace!
217 O Sing Hallelujah (children can sing the repeated refrains, adults the verses)
305 De Colores
346 Come, Sing a Song with Me
348 Guide My Feet
361 Enter, Rejoice, and Come In
387 The Earth, Water, Fire, Air
392 Hineh Mah Tov
395 Sing and Rejoice
397 Morning Has Come
399 Vine and Fig Tree
400 Shalom Havayreem
401 Kum ba Yah
407 We're Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table
413 Go Now in Peace
414 As We Leave This Friendly Place