Morten Lauridsen's setting of Chanson Eloignee arranged for unaccompanied SATB choir.Lauridsen was commissioned by the Pacific Chorale (Directed by John Alexander) to write an a capella work for their inaugural concert at the Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa California which took place on the 22nd October 2006. Lauridsen chose to set a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke (having use…
For SATB Choir Unaccompanied-Commissioned by the British Broadcasting Corporation for the Pro Musica Girls' Choir of Hungary winner of the 2003 Let the Peoples Sing competition.
POD-How Sweet I Roamed is a work by Julian Marshall for Unaccompanied SATB Choir. Setting two texts from poems by William Blake a full performance lasts around 5 and a half minutes.
Spiritual-This wonderful spiritual is treated in an expressve upbeat and playful manner in this arrangement by David L. Brunner. Arranged for SATB Chorus a cappella.
Two contrasting traditional American tunes one a rousing Fiddle song from the Tennessee mountains and the other a soothing and gentle lullaby are arranged here for SATB unaccompanied by John Rutter.
H. A. Schimmerling's Kde Su Kravy Moje (G'de Soo Krahvy Moye) for SATB chorus a cappella.This is a gay and effective choral arrangement of a well-known Slovak Folk tune. It tells the story if a girl cowherd who awakens from a nap to find that during her slumber her cows have wandered away over the meadows. She cries out 'Where are my cows?' and begins to hunt for them calling for them by their …
Using the traditional lyric May the road rise to meet you Joyce's a cappella creation makes a moving easily-taught concert closer. Available: SATB a cappella.
Hear My Prayer by Moses Hogan for SATB a cappella.Dedicated to the memory of Jester Hairston this original spiritual by Moses Hogan is a reverent prayer of hope. For a cappella mixed voices its quiet but dramatic rubato style is powerfully moving.
To Thee the victorious Leader-Vzbrannoy Voyevode (To Thee The Victorious Leader) is a work by Sergei Rachmaninoff for Unaccompanied SATB Choir. From the 'All-Night Vigil ' this is the Vocal Score featuring a pronunciation guide and an explanation of the transliteration and translation. The lyrics are in the original and a phonetic transliteration.
The text of this work was written by a young junior high Irish boy who very soon after lost his life in a street shooting. And so the poem became the voice of all children victims in a world of war and violence and for their universal longing and hope for peace. Available: SATB a cappella SSA a cappella.
14th century carol-Originally arranged for New York Polyphony this ancient carol tells the story of Christmas - from the shepherds to the kings to our own rejoicing for the Christ child. Uncomplicated in its construction with utmost care given to each iteration of the melody.
For unaccompanied SATB chorus. Commissioned by the Friends of All Saints’ Music Northampton for Lee Dunleavy and the Choirs of All Saints’ Church Northampton in memory of Miss Valerie Travis (1918-2008). First performed by the Choirs of All Saints’ Church Northampton conducted by Lee Dunleavy on 19 December 2010.
A festive pop classic by Mariah Carey choruses can now put their own spin on All I Want For Christmas with this SATB A Cappella arrangement.This single sheet choral pop is perfect for choirs wanting to create their own Christmas programme piece by piece.
Edward Elgar's They Are At Rest for unaccompanied SATB choir.Described by Elgar as an elegy for unaccompanied chorus this mournful reverent setting was composed for a service commemorating Queen Victoria on the anniversary of her death. The text is by Cardinal John Henry Newman whose poem The Dream of Gerontius was set by Elgar in one of his most enduringly popular works.
Peter Maxwell Davies' 1994 work for unaccompanied SATB choir using text from George Mackay Brown's 1971 poem A Hoy Calendar.A girdle round the year in five minutes. In twelve clear simple images George Mackay Brown'spoem turns through the months of Orkney life and as it turns so the modal music for a modestly able school or amateur choir moves it on its way with images of matching lucidity.V…
Enigma I - IV und VI-For mixed chorus a cappella.Text by Leonardo da Vinci from Profezie.The very concise pieces of medium difficulty can easily be handled by competent amateur choirs.With his extremely impressive musical language Furrer captures the poetry and timeless imagery of Leonardo's classical literature. The texts describe every day occurrences such as a dream metal and fire. By using…
Für Gemischten Chor 3-F?nf Pop-Songs f?r gemischten Chor SATB a cappella. Band 3 aus der Reihe Sing'n'Swing. Chorpartitur. Mit Akkordsymbolen und Gitarren-Diagrammen.
Here available are these outstanding a cappella collections. Volume 2 songs include The Lion Sleeps Tonight Blue Moon It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday Sixty Minute Man It's Alright Stand By Me and more.Also includes notes for SSAA and TTBB performances.
Gabriel Jackson's In The Half-Light Of Dusk for SATB unaccompanied. In this unaccompanied setting of Thomas A. Clark's poem Jackson beautifully conjures up the atmosphere of the onset of nightfall. Featuring a wide range of rhythms textures and dynamics this is a striking and complex piece with highly imaginative word setting.
