TCDA Commissioned Choral Works
In 1977 TCDA commissioned its first choral work There and Back Again by Alice Parker. Since that year TCDA has commissioned at least one new choral work each year.
In 2005, TCDA's 50th Anniversary Year, four works were commissioned, one for each TCDA Division. Newly commissioned works are premiered at the TCDA Convention each year. Some are by Elementary or Middle School/Junior High School Honor Choirs, others by Directors Choruses or invited choirs.
Whether TCDA commissioned a work in 1981 is unknown. If anyone knows this missing bit of TCDA history, it would be greatly appreciated if he or she would contact the TCDA office with that information.
| Year | Title | Composer | Voicing | Publisher | Publisher Order No. |
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| 2010 | Born In A Symphony | Judith Herrington | ||||
| 2010 | With heart and hand | John Rutter | SATB | Hinshaw Music | HMC2270 | yes |
| 2009 | In Time of Silver Rain | René Clausen | SSA | Roger Dean Publisning | 15/2704R | Yes |
| 2009 | The Elm Tree | Earlene Rentz | SSA | Carl Fischer | Yes | |
| 2008 | Morning Has Broken | Bob Chilcott | SATB | Oxford University Press | Yes | |
| 2008 | Little David, Play On Your Harp | Rollo Dilworth | 2-part | |||
| 2007 | I Will Arise and Make Music | Laura Farnell | SATB | Manuscript | ||
| 2007 | For the Sake of the Children | Jeffery Ames | SATB | Walton | Yes | |
| 2006 | Wind | Mary Lynn Lightfoot | SA | Heritage / Lorenz | 15/2209H | Yes |
| 2005 | Neverending Song of Praise | Cindy Berry | SATB | Shawnee Press | A7952 | Yes |
| 2005 | The Rose and the Gardener | Eleanor Daley | SSA | Alliance Music Publishers | AMP0600 | Yes |
| 2005 | Herding Songs | Lori-Anne Dolloff | ||||
| 2005 | Courage Lives | Mark Patterson | TTB | Lorenz | 15/2089H | |
| 2004 | Sweet Day | Robert H Young | SATB | Gentry | JG2336 | Yes |
| 2003 | Two Choral Sketches 1. Beauty Is in the Garden of Love 2. Oliver Cromwell | David Ashley White | SATB | Alliance Music | AMP0510 | No |
| 2002 | An American Anthem | Allan E Naplan | SAB | Boosey & Hawkes | M-051-47082 | Yes |
| 2001 | Sing Jubilate Deo! | Sheri Riley | SATB | Southern Music Co | SC633 | Yes |
| 2000 | We are the Dreamers | Joan C Varner | SA | Alliance Music Publishers | AMP 0382 | Yes |
| 1999 | Lamentations of Jeremiah | Z Randall Stroope | SATB | Alliance Music | AMP0356 | Manuscript |
| 1998 | The Web | Berry Bertaux | SA | Boosey & Hawkes | M051471485 | No |
| 1997 | Pied Beauty | Dede Duson | SSA | Alliance Music | AMP0269 | No |
| 1996 | Holy Spirit, Lord of Light | Randol Alan Bass | SATB | Plymouth Music Co | SC-155 | Yes |
| 1995 | The Awakening | Joseph M Martin | TTBB; SATB | Shawnee Press | C-286; A 2023 | Yes |
| 1994 | Under My Command | Mary Goetze | SA | Boosey & Hawkes | OCTB6765 | Yes |
| 1993 | Willow By the Water | Lois Land | SATB | Southern Music Co | SC422 | Yes |
| 1992 | Magnigicat and Nunc Dimittis | Peter Mathews | SATB | Southern Music Co | SC-402 | Yes |
| 1991 | Three Spanish Carols | Emily Crocker | SATB | Jenson | 47123049 | No |
| 1990 | Noel (first named Hodie) | James McCray | SATB | National Music Publishers | CH-65 | Manuscript |
| 1989 | Ah! Sunflower | John Corbajian | SATB | (Boosey & Hawkes?) | Manuscript | |
| 1988 | Magnificat | Rene Clausen | SSAATTBB | Foster Music co | MF 421 | Yes |
| 1987 | The American Earth | Dede Duson | SATB | Neil A Kjos Music Co | ED 8671 | Yes |
| 1986 | Pathways to the Cross | Robert H Young | SATB | Gentry Publications | JG2046 | Yes |
| 1985 | Echoes, from Three Songs of Nature | Lloyd Pfautsch | SATB | Lawson-Gould | 52372 | Yes |
| 1985 | Stars, from Three Songs of Nature | Lloyd Pfautsch | SATB | Lawson-Gould | 52374 | Yes |
| 1985 | Winds, from Three Songs of Nature | Lloyd Pfautsch | SATB | Lawson-Gould | 52373 | Yes |
| 1984 | A Red, Red Rose | Thomas Peterson - Student Compsition Contest Winner | SATB | unpublished | No | |
| 1983 | A Separate Song | Dede Duson | SATB Divisi | Neil A Kjos Music Co | ED.8619 | Yes |
| 1982 | Children's Letters to God | C M Shearer | SATB | Southern Music Co | SC115 | Yes |
| 1981 | (Commissioned Work Not Found) | |||||
| 1980 | For the Beauty of the Earth | John Rutter | SATB | Hinshaw Music | HMC-469 | Yes |
| 1980 | Lord, Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace | John Rutter | TTBB | Hinshaw Music | HMC-449 | Yes |
| 1980 | Open Thou Mine Eyes | John Rutter | SATB | Hinshaw Music | HMC-467 | Yes |
| 1979 | Away, Delights | Emma Lou Diemer | TTBB | ABI/Alexander Broude Inc | AB 860 | Yes |
| 1979 | Tell Me, Dearest, What Is Love? | Emma Lou Diemer | SATB | ABI/Alexander Broude Inc | AB 862 | Yes |
| 1979 | Weep No More | Emma Lou Diemer | SSA | ABI/Alexader Broude Inc | AB 861 | Yes |
| 1978 | A Comical Song (No. 2 from A Cycle of Rhymes) | Heinz Werner Zimmerman | 4-part Treble or Male | Carl Fischer | CM8070 | Yes |
| 1978 | Hickory, Dickory, Dock (No. 3 from A Cycles of Rhymes) | Heinz Werner Zimmerman | SATB | Carl Fischer | CM8071 | Yes |
| 1978 | Old King Cole (No, 1 from A Cycle of Rhymes) | Heinz Werner Zimmerman | SATB | Carl Fischer | CM8069 | Yes |
| 1978 | Tweeldedum & Tweedledee (No. 4 from A Cycle of Rhymes) | Heinz Werner Zimmerman | SATB | Carl Fischer | CM8072 | Yes |
| 1977 | There and Back Again | Alice Parker | SATB | Hinshaw Music | HMC279 | No |