The Little Mermaid (Choral Highlights): 3-Part Mixed Choral Octavo

Mark Brymer's arrangement captures the sweep and accessibility of Menken's melodies while respecting the three-part voicing constraints. Your students will recognize these songs immediately, which means they can focus on blend, intonation, and musical shaping rather than learning unfamiliar material. The orchestrations sing naturally across mixed voices without awkward register demands.

Bright, confident, and deeply melodic. These are songs built for the stage, with harmonic colors that shift from warm and intimate to grand and celebratory. Singing them reminds performers why they joined choir in the first place.

Intermediate choirs with mixed voices seeking repertoire that energizes both singers and audiences. If your group has limited experience with Broadway style or needs confidence builders that still feel musically substantive, this collection delivers both.

• Balance the harmonic parts by having singers listen across the texture rather than locking onto their own line. These arrangements often layer melody with countermelody, and clarity comes from ensemble awareness rather than volume.
• Let the Broadway roots show through your phrasing. Menken's melodies have shape and narrative arc; resist the urge to keep dynamics perfectly even across a phrase.
• Consider which songs anchor your program and which serve as connective tissue. Some of these highlights work best in sequence, while others stand powerfully alone.

String two or three of these highlights together as a medley for a spring concert, or bookend your program with a Menken moment that audiences will carry out of the auditorium. The material works equally well as a standalone concert or woven into a larger thematic program.

• Singing in three-part mixed voicing with accurate part independence
• Phrasing in Broadway style with attention to text expression
• Balancing melody and harmony across the ensemble
• Sustaining legit vocal technique through extended passages