SATB chorus divisi and piano - Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.AHM-17-E Composed by Christopher Aspaas. 20 pages. Aspen Hill Music - Digital #AHM-17-E. Published by Aspen Hill Music - Digital (MQ.AHM-17-E). English.This setting attempts to capture the many moods of the text by Mechtild of Magdeburg (translated by Jane Hirschfield): frustration, wistfulness, urgency, and ecstasy. A disjunct opening fanfare intermingled with solos develops into a more lyric section with stumbling rhythms in the accompaniment. A restatement of the opening text, I cannot dance, O Lord, unless you lead me, is pressing and rhythmic followed by a flowing and melodic realization of whirling into love..

SATB choir a cappella - Easy - Digital Download SKU: MQ.AHM-01-E Composed by Christopher Aspaas. Instrument parts. 4 pages. Aspen Hill Music - Digital #AHM-01-E. Published by Aspen Hill Music - Digital (MQ.AHM-01-E). English.This three-part setting of a Hebrew call to prayer translates to, Blessed is Adonai, the blessed one, for all eternity. Lines are woven between the vocal parts in the contemplative setting.

SATB chorus divisi a cappella - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.AHM-35-E Composed by Christopher Aspaas. 12 pages. Aspen Hill Music - Digital #AHM-35-E. Published by Aspen Hill Music - Digital (MQ.AHM-35-E). English.This setting, written for the St. Olaf Chapel Choir, was premiered at the 2012 Christmas Festival at St. Olaf. A beautiful weaving together of the traditional Spiritual and John Jacob Niles' memorable tune, I Wonder as I Wander, provide a powerful opportunity for discovering our place in this world. The shift of mode in the last section of the work brings a sense of arrival--of home.

SATB choir and keyboard - Easy - Digital Download SKU: MQ.AHM-24-E Composed by Christopher Aspaas. Score. 12 pages. Aspen Hill Music - Digital #AHM-24-E. Published by Aspen Hill Music - Digital (MQ.AHM-24-E). English.This arrangement of Bach's masterpiece was created for the 2012 Lutheran Summer Music Concert Choir and includes a simplified accompaniment for keyboard/piano. It now includes multiple texts for use throughout the year—three anthems in one score! Can be sung with other (more complex) versions of the accompaniment.

SATB choir a cappella - Moderately Easy - Digital Download SKU: MQ.AHM-54-E Composed by Christopher Aspaas. 8 pages. Aspen Hill Music - Digital #AHM-54-E. Published by Aspen Hill Music - Digital (MQ.AHM-54-E). English. Isaiah 41:10; Matthew 28:20.This benediction begins with Isaiah 41, “Do not be afraid, for I am with with you...� and continues with words of tremendous love and promise. With the entrance of the Matthew text, “Behold, I am with you always...� the mood shifts from uplifting to mysterious as it is sometimes difficult to sense God’s presence in our everyday lives. The basses here represent the everlasting love of God.  .

SATB choir and Piano - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.AHM-41-E Composed by Christopher Aspaas. 8 pages. Aspen Hill Music - Digital #AHM-41-E. Published by Aspen Hill Music - Digital (MQ.AHM-41-E). English.This flowing piece for a cappella choir and soloists gives new life to Will L. Thompson's beloved hymn. This arrangement sets the first and last verse, capturing the image of Jesus “waiting and watching� in the now, and the “wonderful love He has promised,� from the past and for our future. Only a few moments of divisi in the bass section mean this can be sung by medium-sized ensembles.

SATB choir and handbells or tone chimes - Easy - Digital Download SKU: MQ.AHM-33-E Composed by Christopher Aspaas. 8 pages. Aspen Hill Music - Digital #AHM-33-E. Published by Aspen Hill Music - Digital (MQ.AHM-33-E). English.This introit sets the popular chant tune, Divinum Mysterium, to an equally beloved text whose words of pilgrimage and deliverance resound. Free-ringing bells or chimes support the vocal lines and can be transposed to fit any program. An alternate text, Guide Me Ever, Great Redeemer is also included.

SATB chorus divisi and piano - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.AHM-47-E Composed by Christopher Aspaas. Evensong. 12 pages. Aspen Hill Music - Digital #AHM-47-E. Published by Aspen Hill Music - Digital (MQ.AHM-47-E). English. Luke 2:29–32.Written for the 2012 Lutheran Summer Music Concert Choir, this work for choir and keyboard (either piano or organ) is the perfect end to any worship and music event. The story of Simeon's faith and celebration of the newborn Christ-child—“a light to lighten the Gentiles, and to be the glory of the people Israel�—is one to inspire singers of all ages.

SATB chorus divisi a cappella - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.AHM-50-E Composed by Christopher Aspaas. 12 pages. Aspen Hill Music - Digital #AHM-50-E. Published by Aspen Hill Music - Digital (MQ.AHM-50-E). English.Samuel Longfellow's words from 1864 dramatically depict the bitterness of a Minnesota winter, “...all the earth lies dead and drear.� “And yet, God's love is not withdrawn� is Longfellow's faithful response to the winters in our lives. This a cappella setting for SATB choir uses changes of mode and dynamic to contrast the stark cold of the season with the warmth of “summer's joyous rays.� Composed in memory of Barbara Aspaas (1941-2014).

SATB choir a cappella - Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.AHM-12-E Composed by Christopher Aspaas. 12 pages. Aspen Hill Music - Digital #AHM-12-E. Published by Aspen Hill Music - Digital (MQ.AHM-12-E). English. Psalm 39.With an opening melody that hearkens to Henry Purcell's touchstone setting, dissonant harmonies and metrical shifts take us in a very different direction. The discord of the piece seeks to emphasize the longing and need of one who feels unimportant, small, and like a stranger to God. The piece slowly builds several times, eventually reaching out with a tremendous crescendo followed by an unresolved plea, hear my cry..

SATB choir, soloists, cello, and piano - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.AHM-27-E Composed by Christopher Aspaas. 20 pages. Aspen Hill Music - Digital #AHM-27-E. Published by Aspen Hill Music - Digital (MQ.AHM-27-E). English.Music Makers, Dreamers of Dreams was commissioned by One Voice Mixed Chorus, Minnesota's own and North America's largest LGBT and straight allies chorus under the direction of Jane Ramseyer Miller. The text is a combination of Arthur O'Shaughnessy's Ode, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and an anonymous text spoken at a GALA national conference: We have started a song and it cannot stop. Set for baritone soloist, piano, cello and SATB choir, the work seeks to empower singers of all ages through this stirring text setting.

SATB choir, brass, organ and optional children/youth - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.AHM-39-E Composed by Christopher Aspaas. Christmas. 16 pages. Aspen Hill Music - Digital #AHM-39-E. Published by Aspen Hill Music - Digital (MQ.AHM-39-E). English. Psalm 98; Isaiah 9.This work was commissioned in honor of Cortlandt M. Koonts (Corky) longtime Erskine Music Professor and former Bonclarken Music Conference Director and Coordinator. Set for brass, organ, SATB, and children's choir, the work combines original music with the beloved and familiar melody, Joy to the World. A great selection for combined forces on a festival Sunday.

SATB choir and Piano - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.AHM-15-E Composed by Christopher Aspaas. 16 pages. Aspen Hill Music - Digital #AHM-15-E. Published by Aspen Hill Music - Digital (MQ.AHM-15-E). English.

SATB choir and Piano - Moderately Easy - Digital Download SKU: MQ.AHM-48-E Composed by Christopher Aspaas. 16 pages. Aspen Hill Music - Digital #AHM-48-E. Published by Aspen Hill Music - Digital (MQ.AHM-48-E). English.Thomas Hood's poem, The Stars are with the Voyager, has inspired many lyric and lush choral settings of this text. As I read Hood's story of constant love, I feel the inevitable promise found there, but also a sense of timeless adventure. At the beginning of this setting, the piano represents the rolling waves of the sea—relentless and full of energy—and the unyielding march of time. The fourth verse becomes contemplative following the setting of the sun and grows into the brighter day before a layering of the opening melody that moves into the distance.

SATB choir a cappella and percussion - Easy - Digital Download SKU: MQ.AHM-32-E Composed by Christopher Aspaas. Advent, Christ the King. 8 pages. Aspen Hill Music - Digital #AHM-32-E. Published by Aspen Hill Music - Digital (MQ.AHM-32-E). English.An exciting piece with driving rhythms, a call-and-response inner section and exciting ending. This Nigerian folksong has proven to be a favorite for choirs of all ages. This arrangement for mixed choirs was created for the St. Olaf College Summer Music Camp Choir.