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Available from Colla Voce Music
| Alleluia | SATB div. | Original a cappella setting of the text featuring body percussion |
Available from Imagine Music Publishing
| Cantate Domino | SATB | Original a cappella setting of the text featuring 21st century harmonies and driving rhythms |
| Joshua | SATB | A cappella arrangement of the traditional song |
| Little Wheel | SSA | A cappella arrangement of the spiritual |
| Squirrel, Squirrel | SAATB & flute | Original composition with text from a 19th century children’s poem |
Available from ArrangeMe.com
| A Ram Sam Sam | SATB | A cappella arrangement of the traditional two-part canon with a newly composed ground bass |
| Body Percussion Canon | 4 parts | Original body percussion composition. (Premiered by the Easton Area HS Concert Choir. |
| Fiddle-de-Diddle | SATB piano | Arrangement that combines the folk songs “Hey Diddle, Diddle” & “Fiddle de Dee”. (Premiered by the Easton Area SD All-City Chorus.) |
| Mice on the Run | SATB | Humorous a cappella arrangement combining “Hickory Dickory Dock” and “Three Blind Mice” |
| Pax e concordia | SATB | Original polyphonic setting combining the texts “Dona Nobis Pacem”, “Shalom Chaverim” and “Salaam Aleykum”. (Premiered by the Easton Area HS Chamber Singers 2015) |
| The Silent Choir (or “Who Was That Masked Choir?”) | 4-part choir | Humorous original composition featuring body percussion. (Premiered by the Easton Area HS Concert Choir 2020. Recognized at the PMEA 2021 State Conference.) |
| Sloop John B | SATB | A cappella arrangement of the folk song. (Premiered by the Wandering Singers. Also performed by the Northampton Area HS Chorus.) |
| Oh, Susanna | SATB | A cappella arrangement of the Stephen Foster song featuring body percussion |
| Viva la Musica | SATB | A cappella arrangement of the Michael Praetorius canon with a newly composed ground bass |
| We Wish You a Merry Christmas | SATB | A humorous a cappella arrangement of the traditional song. |
| Yankee Doodle | SATB | A cappella arrangement of the folk song |
Available from petedeshler.com
| Afterglow | SATB, trombone | Original setting of the poem by Helen Lowrie Marshall. (Commissioned by the Reverend Donald Brown & Jerusalem Western Salisbury Church.) |
| Agnus Dei (from Mass for Jerusalem) | SATB | Original a cappella, polyphonic composition. (Premiered by the Jerusalem Singers.) |
| America, the Beautiful | SATB, piano and 3 trumpets | Arrangement of the American Folk Song. (Premiered by the Easton Area SD All-City Chorus.) |
| Benediction | SATB | Original a cappella composition featuring a quote from “Abide with Me”. |
| Cape Cod Girls | SATB | Arrangement of the folk song. |
| Chase the Squirrel | SATB or SSA | Arrangement of the folk song that features a ground bass to accompany the round. |
| Fish of the Sea | SATB | Arrangement of the Scottish folk song. |
| Going to Boston | SATB or SA | Arrangement of the folk song. |
| I Believe in Music | SATB and rock band | Original setting of a text by Samantha Nuttall. |
| I Have Had Singing | SATB | Original a cappella composition featuring an original inspirational text. |
| Kyrie (from Mass for Jerusalem) | SATB | Original a cappella, polyphonic composition. (Premiered by the Jerusalem Singers.) |
Lord, Make Us Instruments | SATB | Original a cappella setting of the Francis of Assisi text. (Premiered by the Jerusalem Singers.) |
| O Dar Vaig Iss So Fargneechet | SATB | Original arrangement of a traditional PA German melody. (Premiered by the Jerusalem Singers.) |
| Oh, Shenandoah | SATB (opt. piano) | Arrangement of the American folk song. |
| Twinkle, Twinkle Little Black Sheep | SATB | Humorous arrangement of “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”, “Baa, Baa Black Sheep” and the ABC song. |
| Voices Lost | SATB | Original composition inspired by the loss of live performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Premiered by the Easton Area HS Chamber Singers.) |
| We Choose the Moon | SATB choir & recorded sounds | Original composition using text from a speech by President J. F. Kennedy. |
Pete Deshler
Pete is a composer, conductor and music educator based in the Lehigh Valley, PA.
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