Wiki Choral Composition Page
The Road Not Taken
Ground Rules
Here are the ground rules to keep us all on the same page:
- For this project, we will be using Sibelius 4.0 exclusively. Although I use Finale frequently and think it’s a great application, I decided on Sibelius 4.0. If you have an earlier version of Sibelius, you won’t be able to participate. Sorry.
- While there is no limit to the length of the piece, it should be appropriate for a middle school chorus.
- You may add 8 measures at a time, but you must wait until someone else has added to the composition before adding additional measures.
- You can add less than 8 measures, or even a few bars of one voice if you’d like. Don’t feel that you need to compose 8 full measures - especially if you having students participate.
- You may always edit any of the material in the previous measures, though you are not required to.
- You must sign your name in boxed text above the measures you composed.
- The finished piece will not be published through a traditional outlet. It will only be available for free on this site. No commercial gain shall be received by any of the composers involved.
Group members
- James Frankel (jtfrankel@hotmail.com)
Text
The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Files
Sibleius 4.0 File: 
The Road Not Taken.sib
To view the file as a Scorch page, click HERE.
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Anonymous said
at 9:53 am on Apr 15, 2007
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