Fall 2021 Choral Interactive Catalog

CHORAL DIGITAL CATALOG FALL 2021

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SATB

HIGH SCHOOL / COLLEGIATE

MELISSA DUNPHY Work SATB Chorus (divisi) unaccompanied Commissioned by the Donald Sinclair Sutherland Endowment for the Bradley Hills Presbyterian Chancel Choir, Matthew Robertson, Conductor. The text is adapted from a chapter of the 1923 prose poetry book titled The Prophet by Lebanese-American author Kahlil Gibran, who was influenced by Christianity, Islam, and Sufism. It addresses a path out of despair and meaninglessness through working with love, a message that has as much relevance to today’s world as that of a century ago. Duration: 4:00 Medium 1.3603 $2.35

TOM TRENNEY Our Love Can Mend a Broken World SATB and Piano With its recurring refrain “Let’s see what love can do to mend a broken world,” the message here is timely and timeless. The text contrasts what the world sees with how things could be, counseling unity over division. Duration: 4:00 Medium 1.3604

Choral Score

$2.35

MARQUES L. A. GARRETT Rise, Shine!

SATB divisi with opt. Piano A rousing rendition of the well-known spiritual. There are two versions of this piece, one with piano, SATB choir and no divisi, and one with divisi choir and is a cappella. The piece begins slowly and crescendos into a jubilant exhortation to let your light shine.

Medium 50-6416

Piano Version

$2.25

50-6417

a cappella version

$2.25

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HIGH SCHOOL / COLLEGIATE

SATB

KAREN MARROLLI Warrior Solo Voice, SATB Chorus, Flute, and Drum The composer uses Native America influences to create a stirring anthem about the strength of women facing the trials of life. Powerful imagery in both the text and the music. Duration: 4:30 Medium 1.3620

SATB Version

1.3620A

Flute & Drum Parts

$2.80 $10.00

Undivided SATB Chorus (divisi), Violin, Violoncello, and Piano Appropriate for both sacred and secular settings, Undivided speaks to ideas of peace, unity, respect, and understanding. Duration: 4:00 Moderately Easy 1.3585

Choral Score

1.3585A

Violin & Cello Parts

$2.60 $10.00

HOWARD GOODALL Loving Kindness

An Eastern Blessing SATB Choir and Piano Dedicated to the sacrifice and courage of health workers during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, composer Goodall has set tender music to selected anonymous texts and a quote from Mahatma Ghandi. Duration 4:33 Easy 56-0113

SATB version

$2.75

STUART CHAPMAN HILL When Our Voices Rise Stuart Chapman Hill SATB Chorus (divisi) and Piano Students’ short journal entries became the text for this piece about unity which still allows the individual to shine. Written in a traditional choral idiom, there is nevertheless a “pop/musical theater” vibe in the composer’s intent. Many performance possibilities. Duration: 3:45 Moderately Easy

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1.3609

Choral Score

$2.60

SATB

HIGH SCHOOL / COLLEGIATE

KYLE PEDERSON We Stand on Their Shoulders SATB Chorus, Treble Trio, and Piano This powerful new Charles Anthony Silvestri text honors the work and sacrifice of those who have fought for social justice. This gospel/ pop fusion piece is offered as an anthem of hope and empowerment, reminding both singers and audience that others do not have the right to define us, to take away our power, or to make us hide. Part of the Lee Nelson Choral Series. Duration: 5:00

Get to know composer Kyle Pederson

Medium 1.3624 $2.80

Bend

My King Is Comin’ Soon

SATB Chorus (divisi) unaccompanied

Tenor or Baritone Solo and SATB Chorus unaccompanied

This anthem of affirmation is perfect for school and community choirs and was premiered at the ACDA North/North Central conference in 2020. Addressed to those facing struggles, it presents the metaphor of a tree bending in the wind. As we bend together, our community is strengthened. Duration: 2:45 Moderately Easy

This genre-bending piece—blending elements of rock, gospel, spiritual, and spoken word—is appropriate year round is appropriate year-round. The text recalls iconic stories of rescue and promise in the Old Testament, and invites the listener to imagine a world of mercy, justice, peace, and compassion.

Duration: 3:20

1.3613 $2.35

Moderately Difficult 1.3606 $2.85

Soon We Will Be Done

Exsultate! Jubilate!

SATB Chorus and Piano

SATB Chorus and Piano

Commissioned by The Wartburg Choir, Dr. Lee Nelson, conductor.

Spoken-word soloists declaim in an almost rap-like fashion against the choir singing neutral syllables. A fun, fast, swinging piece that your singers will love. Duration: 3:45 Medium

This setting pairs the Latin text with an original English text, which is a response to the question, “Why do we rejoice and shout our praises to God?” The music captures the exuberance of the phrases “Exsultate Deo” and “Jubilate Deo,” but also reflects the quiet joys found in the daily gifts of breath and light. Duration: 3:00

1.3610 $2.85

Medium 1.3580 $2.60

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HIGH SCHOOL / COLLEGIATE

SATB

DOMINICK DIORIO We Reply Dominick DiOrio SATB Chorus (divisi) and Piano with opt. String Quartet or Ensemble Inspired by Leonard Bernstein’s quote about making art in the face of adversity. Full of rhythmic energy and momentum, the clash of violence is balanced by optimism and joy. Incorporates texts from the Jewish sacred prayers Shema and Hashkeivenu. Duration: 4:30 Medium 8963

Piano/Choral Score

$2.60

8963A

opt. Full Score

$27.00

8963B

opt. String Parts

$35.00

RUTHIE FOSTER PAUL RARDIN Death Came A-Knockin’ (Travelin’ Shoes)

Three Treble Soli and SATB Chorus (divisi) unaccompanied This setting requires three treble soloists with power below the staff and confidence in the blues style. The choral backgrounds are deliberately sparse until a climactic group shout for the preacher. The music is driving and relentless, the singers are determined to be “ready to go” into the kingdom of God. The characters in this unique and compelling work: mother, sister, brother, neighbor, preacher, and finally self, remind us that we will all face this journey, so we had best live right and shout “Hallelujah” when our turn comes. Duration: 3:30 Medium 7.0743

Choral Score

$3.05

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Mama Said SATB Chorus (divisi) unaccompanied American blues icon Ruthie Foster released “Mama Said” on her 2007 recording The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster. This arrangement is deliberately “choral,” preferring to honor Ms. Foster’s exquisite vocal shadings—a bend here, a fall-off there—by avoiding exact imitation. The basses provide the rhythm section of electric bass and closed hi-hat cymbal, leaving the upper three parts in gospel harmony in all but a few measures of the piece. The divisi is confined to a few chords and is not difficult.

Duration: 3:00 Medium

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7.0742 $3.05

SATB

HIGH SCHOOL / COLLEGIATE

MATTHEW EMERY Lead Us Home SATB Chorus unaccompanied Commisioned by the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, Lead Us Home speaks to the power music holds; its ability to comfort, to transport, and heal. In moments of conflict, strife, and grief, we turn to music to lead us home and make us whole.

The music is homophonic and set in a hymn-like style. At the end of each concert in its 2018 tour, the orchestra would stand and sing this piece a cappella. Duration: 3:00 Medium 1.3574 $2.05

ELLEN GILSON VOTH Today I Will SATB Chorus and Piano This piece is built upon a question asked of singers and audience members at Westminster Choir College’s 2017 Tour concerts: How would you finish the sentence “Today I will ___” if asked? The music can be divided into four thematic sections, highlighting our immediate surroundings, need for beauty and hope, values, and broad conceptions of humankind as a whole.

Duration: 3:45 Medium 1.3578 $2.35

STEVEN SAMETZ Zinga!

SATB Chorus (divisi) unaccompanied Zinga! Allows for simple staging where the singers make the nonsense syllables into a language which only they can understand, perhaps argumentative, friendly, or conspiratorial.

Duration: 2:45 Difficult 8972 $2.80

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HIGH SCHOOL / COLLEGIATE

SATB

MICHAEL JOHN TROTTA I Celebrate Myself

We Take Up the Task Eternal

SSATB Chorus unaccompanied

SATB Chorus (divisi) and Piano

This work contrasts a simple unison motif with quick ostinato in the lower voices.

The homophonic refrain declaims, “all forces have been steadily employed to complete and delight me.” After building to a high point with a soaring descant for soprano, the work recedes in intensity with a harmonic restatement of the opening motif. Duration: 4:00 Medium

The music opens with a triumphant call to action. The second section introduces a simple theme sung by the upper and the lower voices consecutively. The middle section features the upper and the lower voices in close harmonies musing on the wonder of the stars and planets. The work then restates the simple theme, ending with the triumphant call. Duration: 5:15

1.3583 $2.80

Medium 1.3584 $2.80

STEPHEN CHATMAN TEASDALE LOVE SONGS Oh day of fire and sun Chatman sets Sara Teasdale’s dramatic poem with excitement, speed, and extremity. The syncopated homophonic choral textures, high tessituras, and expansive gestures of the piano accompaniment serve to explore the vivid images of Teasdale’s text. Duration: 1:30

CLARA SCHUMANN/ JAMES MCCULLOUGH

8803

(Liebst du um Schönheit)

SATB Choral Score

$2.35

SATB Chorus and Piano

The Mystery This poem depicts deep, lasting love while also raising a question “Can I ever know you / Or you know me?” Chatman’s expressive setting begins simply, builds in complexity, and then recedes. Duration: 2:30 8804

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SATB Choral Score

If You Love for Beauty

$2.35

Clara Schumann’s solo song expressing thankfulness for “True Love” has been expertly and effectively adapted for a variety of voicings by composer/scholar James McCullough Duration: 2:30 Medium 1.3589 $2.05

SATB

GWYNETH WALKER TWO SUFFRAGE SONGS Sister, Come By Here!

SATB Chorus (divisi) and Piano The first movement of Two Suffrage Songs is an adaptation of the spiritual, “Jesus, won’t you come by here?” in which the singers call out for others to join the cause. A jaunty piano part in swing eighths supports. The choral writing is approachable and fun. Duration: 2:45 Medium

HIGH SCHOOL / COLLEGIATE

ROBERT SCHLIDT Perhaps They Are Not Stars SATB Chorus (divisi) unaccompanied Based on an Inuit proverb, a mood of contemplation is set by a leisurely text rhythm and lush chords. The proverb’s counterpoint to the title is that stars are our lost loved ones shining light upon us. The music is timeless and touching.

Duration: 3:30 Medium 1.3596 $2.35

8944 $2.60

Never Sit Down!

SATB Chorus (divisi) and Piano This second movement of Two Suffrage Songs is based on the spiritual “Sit Down, Sister!” Here it is revisited with a Suffragette theme; the upbeat nature of the music reflects the energy and motivation of the strong women who fought for the right to vote. The text directly refers to Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott. The piano accompaniment punctuates and enlivens. Fun to learn and to sing. Duration: 3:15 Medium 8945 $2.60

STACEY V. GIBBS Little Innocent Lamb SATB divisi, a cappella A new take on this classic spiritual, this unaccompanied setting has divisi in all parts, a touch of chromaticism that is totally in character, and variation in texture, tempo, and mood. The careful writing makes it completely feasible for a small, skillful group as well. The familiar and fun parts of the text are all there with slight adaptations. Duration: 3:30 Moderately Difficult 50-0499 $2.50

JENNAYA ROBISON Sim Shalom SATB Chorus and opt. Piano or String Quartet Although the work is newly composed, the music seems reminiscent of what you might hear in a Hebrew morning service, and the melody is one that you will carry with you throughout the entire day. Suitable for both concerts and worship services. Duration: 2:15 Moderately Easy 1.3587

Piano/Choral Score

$2.05

1.3587A

String Quartet Score $12.00

1.3587B String Quartet Parts $22.00

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HIGH SCHOOL / COLLEGIATE

TREBLE CHORUS

RENÉ CLAUSEN The Music of Being SSA and Piano or Chamber Orchestra An original text and musical composition that speaks to the importance and uniqueness of each individual. Beautiful and elegant descriptions of our how our lives intertwine all placed in the context of what it is like to make music together. A truly moving piece. Duration: 4:00 Medium 1.3605

Piano/Choral Score

$2.80

1.3605A

Addtl Chamber Score $40.00

Chamber Orchestra Score and Parts, Rental

PHILIP REED Four Spring Songs SSA Chorus unaccompanied Simple melodies and clear textures capture the poets’ vivid natural imagery of the sighs and sounds of spring. Duration: 5:00 Moderately Easy 1.3602 $2.80

KAREN MARROLLI Warrior Solo Voice, SSAA Chorus, Flute, and Drum The composer uses Native America influences to create a stirring anthem about the strength of women facing the trials of life. Powerful imagery in both the text and the music. Duration: 4:30 Medium 1.3621

SSAA Version

1.3620A

Flute & Drum Parts

$2.80 $10.00

Undivided SSAA Chorus (divisi), Violin, Violoncello, and Piano Appropriate for both sacred and secular settings, Undivided speaks to ideas of peace, unity, respect, and understanding. Duration: 4:00 Moderately Easy

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1.3588

Choral Score

1.3585A

Violin & Cello Parts

$2.60 $10.00

TREBLE CHORUS

HIGH SCHOOL / COLLEGIATE

FRANK FERKO FOUR AMERICAN FOLK SONGS SSAA unaccompanied Moderately Difficult

Skip to My Lou

This setting is a brisk one, with coy syncopation and lots of interplay.

The tune itself is even inverted at one point. Not easy but the fun makes up for it.

Duration: 2:15 8904

$2.35

All the Pretty Little Horses

This minor-mode lullaby is set in close harmonies which amplify its dual nature: sometimes soothing, sometimes a bit ominous.

Duration: 2:50 8905

$2.35

Poor Wayfaring Stranger

The textures vary from spare to lush, reflecting the pathos of this mournful folk song.

Duration: 2:50 8906

$2.35

She’ll Be Comin’ ‘Round the Mountain

With it’s swinging rhythms and laughing motif throughout, this is a fitting conclusion to Ferko’s set of four American folk songs.

Eschewing weightier interpretations of the text, this setting is pure fun.

Duration: 2:48 8907

$2.60

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HIGH SCHOOL / COLLEGIATE

TREBLE CHORUS

JENNAYA ROBISON Ring Out! SSAA and Handbells (3 octaves) or Piano An outburst of pure joy for SSAA voices and handbells (3 octaves), the text alternates “Hodie Christus natus est” with the title and Alleluias. In a fast 6/8 after the opening declamatory chords, your singers will take to this music immediately, as will your listeners.

Duration: 2:30 Medium 50-0398

Piano/Choral Score

50-0398A Handbell Parts

$1.95 $10.00

GWYNETH WALKER Love Shall Live Forever Women’s Chorus (SSAA) and Piano The special imagery in each of these poems finds its way into the musical setting. Evening Song features moonlight sparkling on glimmering waves. The Cloths of Heaven has the lover yearning to give his beloved beautiful gifts. She Walks in Beauty provides a strong close to the set, with a quote from the Song of Solomon (Set Me As A Seal) as a coda. Duration: 9:00 Medium 8917 $3.95

CAROL BARNETT My People Are Rising SSAA Chorus, Violin, and Doumbek An unfinished poem begun in Spring 2011 for an unfinished Revolution begun in March of the same year. This dark, dramatic, and powerful work speaks viscerally of the tragic events in Syria, exploring them through Arabic music, utilizing quarter-tone scales, a lack of vertical chord structure, and abundantly ornamented heterophony. The work handles the use of these unfamiliar concepts by tempering the techniques and offering pitch support in the violin. Duration: 8:30

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8759

Full/Choral Score

$2.85

8759A

Instrumental Parts

$12.00

TREBLE CHORUS

HIGH SCHOOL / COLLEGIATE

KYLE PEDERSON

STEPHEN CHATMAN

Exsultate! Jubilate!

TEASDALE LOVE SONGS

SSAA Chorus and Piano This setting pairs the Latin text with an original English text, which is a response to the question, “Why do we rejoice and shout our praises to God?” The music captures the exuberance of the phrases “Exsultate Deo” and “Jubilate Deo,” but also reflects the quiet joys found in the daily gifts of breath and light. Duration: 3:00

Oh day of fire and sun Chatman sets Sara Teasdale’s dramatic poem with excitement, speed, and extremity. The syncopated homophonic choral textures, high tessituras, and expansive gestures of the piano accompaniment serve to explore the vivid images of Teasdale’s text. Duration: 1:30 8809

Medium

SSAA Choral Score

$2.35

1.3579 $2.60

CLARA SCHUMANN/ JAMES MCCULLOUGH If You Love for Beauty (Liebst du um Schönheit) SSAA Chorus and Piano Clara Schumann’s solo song expressing thankfulness for “True Love” has been expertly and effectively adapted for a variety of voicings by composer/scholar James McCullough Duration: 2:30 Medium 1.3590

SSAA and Piano

$2.05

HOWARD GOODALL

The Mystery This poem depicts deep, lasting love while also raising a question “Can I ever know you / Or you know me?” Chatman’s expressive setting begins simply, builds in complexity, and then recedes.

Duration: 2:30 8810

SSAA Choral Score

$2.35

Loving Kindness

An Eastern Blessing SSA Choir and Piano Dedicated to the sacrifice and courage of health workers during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, composer Goodall has set tender music to selected anonymous texts and a quote from Mahatma Ghandi. Duration 4:33 Easy 56-0114

SSA Version

$2.75

13

HIGH SCHOOL / COLLEGIATE

MEN’S CHORUS

KAREN MARROLLI Wild Mountain Thyme TTBB Chorus, Violin, and Piano A combination of two traditional Scottish tunes: “Wild Mountain Thyme,” sung by the voices, and the popular Scottish reel “Whiskey Before Breakfast”, played as a counterpoint by the violin. The two tunes come together to highlight the playful nature of Tannahill’s text, which speaks of going out with one’s love in the romantic blush of spring. Duration: 3:00 Moderately Easy 1.3586

Choral Score

$2.35

1.3586A

Violin Part

$5.00

CLARA SCHUMANN/ JAMES MCCULLOUGH If You Love for Beauty (Liebst du um Schönheit) TBB Chorus and Piano Clara Schumann’s solo song expressing thankfulness for “True Love” has been expertly and effectively adapted for a variety of voicings by composer/scholar James McCullough Duration: 2:30 Medium 1.3591

14

Choral Score

$2.05

MEN’S CHORUS

HIGH SCHOOL / COLLEGIATE

HOWARD GOODALL Loving Kindness

An Eastern Blessing TTBB Choir and Piano Dedicated to the sacrifice and courage of health workers during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, composer Goodall has set tender music to selected anonymous texts and a quote from Mahatma Ghandi. Duration 4:33 Easy 56-0115

Choral Score

$2.75

STEVEN SAMETZ Zinga!

TTBB Chorus (divisi) unaccompanied Zinga! Allows for simple staging where the singers make the nonsense syllables into a language which only they can understand, perhaps argumentative, friendly, or conspiratorial. Duration: 2:45 Difficult 7360 $2.25

GWYNETH WALKER I Thank You God TBB Chorus and Piano or Chamber Orchestra An alternative voicing of one of this composers seminal works. Text adapted from E. E. Cummings “I thank You God for most this amazing day.” This piece was the 1999 Raymond W. Brock Commission from the ACDA and has become wildly popular since its premiere at the 1999 national convention. Duration: 4:15 Medium 9117

Choral Score

$2.85

9117A

Orchestra Score

$24.00

6795

Orchestra Parts

$88.28

15

HIGH SCHOOL / COLLEGIATE

SATB

Holiday

Christmas with

MATTHEW CULLOTON Dedicated to the work of today’s composers, The Singers has premiered and commissioned nearly forty new works since its founding. The ensemble has been honored to debut works by Stephen Paulus, Eleanor Daley, Craig Carnahan, as well as from three composers-in-residence, Abbie Betinis, Jocelyn Hagen, and Joshua Shank. The Singers believes in the value of artistic collaborating, and they have shared the stage with many of the Midwest’s most beloved performers including baritone Peter Halverson, guitarist Jeffrey Van, flutist Linda Chatterton, harpists Min Kim and Judith Kogan, and the Choral Arts Ensemble of Rochester.

In the Bleak Midwinter Soprano Solo and SATB divisi, a cappella Beautiful textural and harmonic touches, sometimes very simple and sometimes more complex, illumine and elevate the text. The soprano solo functions as a lone descanting voice just as the text becomes the most personal, “What can I give him?”

The thought, beauty, and emotion in this setting are not to be missed.

Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming

What Child Is This?

SATB divisi, a cappella

This work begins with a rich and warm set of chords that sets a reflective mood for the entrance of the familiar GREENSLEEVES tune.

SATB divisi, a cappella

A lush and expressive arrangement of this favorite 14th-century carol.

Medium 50-6001

Choral Score

$1.95

Moderately Difficult 50-5922

Medium 50-0456

Choral Score

$2.25

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❅ ❆

Choral Score

$2.25

SATB

HIGH SCHOOL / COLLEGIATE

JAMES MCCULLOUGH

DANIEL SCHWANDT

Mary Had a Baby

Ding Dong! Merrily on High

Tenor Solo and SATB Chorus unaccompanied

SATB and Organ or Piano

Three variants of this spiritual tune. The form reflects a question-and-answer response structure, commonly used in American Black Spirituals. However, the overall musical structure of this work is strophic in its melodic design.

Mostly homophonic with approachable choral writing, this is a fresh and usefull setting.

Here the traditional text is set to a new melody marked “Jolly and Quick,” and it certainly is. The dance-like organ accompaniment and fun refrains in parallel thirds make this an engaging new Christmas anthem for your choir.

Medium 8864

Choral Score

$2.05

Medium 50-1148 50-1148A

Choral Score

$2.25

Piano Part

$5.00

JEFFREY VAN

JESSICA FRENCH

Tread Softly

Love Came Down at Christmas

SATB Chorus, Violin, and Guitar

SATB Chorus (divisi) unaccompanied

A unique combination of violin and guitar accompaniment, matched with an introspective text and choral arrangement.

This original Christmas work was featured in Christmas concerts with the Dale Warland Singers, and is a part of the Dale Warland Choral Series. Duration: 6:00

Commissioned by Choral Arts Northwest, Robert Bode, director. Upper voices descend into clustered chords of light on the words “love came down.” Next, a gentle lullaby represents Mary rocking her child to sleep. These two themes weave together throughout and coalesce to express the brightness of the sign signaled by the star and angels.

Medium 9119 9119A

Full/Choral Score

$2.35

Violin & Guitar Parts

$15.00

Moderately Difficult 8865

Choral Score

$2.80

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ADVANCED

SATB

DALE WARLAND Choral Series The Dale Warland Choral Series fosters quality choral composition and inspired music making, hallmarks of the tradition of Dale Warland himself, one of the premiere conductors of contemporary choral music.

DALE WARLAND

CAROLYN MCDADE/ DALE WARLAND

Evening Stars

A Teasdale Trilogy

Spirit of Life

TTBB Double Chorus and Piano A set of three pieces based on the poems of Sara Teasdale.

Originally conceived for a men’s ensemble, and a male chorus, but can be performed with double men’s chorus. Each movement may be performed separately. Duration: 10:00 Difficult 9112

$3.65

SATB Chorus (divisi), Flute, and Piano or Harp No other hymn is as well-known or highlyregarded in the Unitarian Universalist movement than “Spirit of Life” by Carolyn McDade. It deals with nearly all the key concepts cherished by this faith. Dale Warland has set this for solo flute, piano (or harp) and SATB choir. The divisi (8 parts in a few places) is perhaps the main challenge in what are otherwise very lyrical and approachable choral lines.

Medium 8872 8872A

Also available separately

The Falling Star

On a Winter Night

Stars over Snow

Duration: 3:00

Duration: 4:30

Duration: 2:31

9113 $2.50

9114 $2.95

9115 $2.35

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Full/Choral Score

$2.60

Harp Part

$10.00

SATB

ADVANCED

ROBERT BUCKLEY FARLEE

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Let Evening Come SATB divisi, a cappella A moving poem by Jane Kenyon that describes the coming of evening and comforting presence of God. Medium 50-8954

Choral Score

$1.95

ERIC WILLIAM BARNUM Responsorials SATB Chorus (divisi) unaccompanied Commissioned by Dr. Geoffrey Boers and the University of Washington Chamber Singers to be short responses to movements of an eclectic Mass, these four Responsorials can be performed together or separately. The texts are extracted and adapted from William Wordworth’s Illustrious metaphysical poem, On the Power of Sound, which delves deeply into the mysteries of the natural (and supernatural) world and its complex relationship with the physics of voice and sound. An expansive feeling of both joy and mystery pervades these short vignettes. Duration: 6:00 .

ENRICO MIAROMA Light

Moderately Difficult 1.3572

Choral Score

$2.95

SSATB Chorus unaccompanied The music begins mystically but moves to a quick triple meter. There is a final reference to the opening texture, this time majestic in mood. The text is by Ragindranath Tagore, whose poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial.

Moderately Difficult 1.3592

Choral Score

$2.60

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ADVANCED

JOSHUA FISHBEIN TWO KEATS CHORUSES SATB Chorus (divisi) unaccompanied Moderately Difficult

The Human Seasons

John Keats’s poem is colorfully painted with dense harmonies, imitative counterpoint, and repeated ostinatos, to evoke spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Like bookends, the opening two lines are repeated at the closing, with the ensemble ending softly together on a complex pentatonic sonority.

8086 $2.80

The Poetry of Earth This music to John Keats’s poem was composed with an English musical aesthetic, appropriate for a text by an English poet. The work employs complex polyphony, reminiscent of the Renaissance, with a rich harmonic palette full of clusters and cross-relations. The piece ends in a dreamlike state, where the grasshopper and cricket are blurred into the overall beauty of nature.

8087 $2.85

The Unexpected SATB Chorus and Piano The text writer, “Paulo,” is one of several young poets served by Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop, which supports DC youth incarcerated as adults. The author relates being in a courtroom to hear his sentencing. The music is dramatic, declamatory, descriptive of the swirling feelings, yet also empathetic. Unusual and provocative, the work ends with “I cannot hold myself together, I am still adding the numbers.”

Difficult 8868 $2.80

Piping Down the Valleys Wild SATB Chorus and Piano The text is William Blake’s “Introduction” from Songs of Innocence.The music is distinctively pastoral and playful, with rhythms and textures which evoke the echoes one would hear in the hills and valleys. A substantial piano accompaniment supports the frolicking.

Medium 7979 $2.60

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SATB

SATB

ADVANCED

DAVID CONTE MADRIGALS FOR THE SEASONS SATB Chorus (divisi) unaccompanied Difficult

A Summer’s Day

A Summer’s Day strives to capture the pleasure of the freedom of movement afforded by the season.

Images of nature are illuminated, climaxing in the splendor of God’s sun: “His Caravan of Red.” Duration: 2:30 8892 $2.60

Snow-flakes

The poetic structure of this Longfellow poem is reflected in the musical phrases. Mournful harmonies on wordless syllables accompany the main melodic line. The mood is sorrowful, as the speaker searches for signs of God’s presence in the face of grief.

Duration: 5:30 8894 $2.60

Autumn

Spring

Conjuring up vivid images of the season, this movement is an expressive Larghetto in the minor mode. The ending includes a surprise harmonic twist that expresses both the acceptance of death and the peace that it offers.

Duration: 4:45

A celebration of the arrival of Spring, this movement explores the harmony of man with the natural world. The setting is in a lively compound meter and is the only movement with piano. This madrigal features melismas on the word “merrily,” bringing the set to a joyous conclusion. Duration: 2:30

8893 $2.60

8895 $2.85

JORGE MARTÍN One Hour to Madness and Joy SATB Chorus (divisi), Percussion, and Organ Assembled from passages in Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, this work conceptually compares his rolling verses with those of the Psalms, so it is fittingly accompanied by the organ, historically associated with religious services. One percussion instrument is featured in each of the four movements, to give each of them a unique perspective on the voice of God. Difficult 8871

Full/Choral Score

$8.75

8871A

Percussion Part

$12.00

8871B

Organ Part

$25.00

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ROBERT CONVERY The Beautiful Land of Nod SATB Chorus unaccompanied The iconic poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox is set here in a lilting and gentle composition that may be done by an ensemble or by a full choir. Peaceful, serene, and comforting. Commissioned by “The Crossing” and Donald Nally. Program notes available as a free download. Duration: 5:30 Moderately Difficult 8998 $2.35

Voyages SATB Chorus unaccompanied A six-movement set of variations in which the thematic material for each movement is drawn from the preceding movement. Based on a cycle of poems by Hart Crane. Commissioned and performed by Grammy winning conductor Donald Nally and The Crossing Choir. Duration: 20:00 Difficult 8999 $6.75

MELISSA DUNPHY Waves of Gallipoli SATB Chorus (divisi) unaccompanied Commissioned by the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus, Artistic Director Philip Barnes. The peninsula at Gallipoli in Turkey is now marked with the graves of Australian and New Zealand infantry. Five soldier epitaphs have been included here, along with lines from poet Leon Gellert, a Gallipoli veteran. In the music we hear the undulating of the sea lapping the coastline, sad melismas complement the idea of “moaning”, following the epitaphs, a single voice sounds the bugle call, “The Last Post”, memorializing the soldiers who fell at Gallipoli. Duration: 5:00 Moderately Difficult 8827 $3.00

REX ISENBERG Hear, O Israel SATB Chorus and Organ or Piano An English-language setting of the Sh’ma and V’ahavta prayers from the Jewish tradition. Shared across Jewish and Christian liturgy, these biblical passages (Deuteronomy 6:4–9, Psalm 72:19, Numbers 15:40–41) comprise the essential Jewish “credo” recited by observant Jews in their daily prayer. This text is presented in a joyous, triumphal setting which is suitable for Christian and Jewish contexts alike.

Medium 8866 $2.85

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