Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1027467 Composed by Keane Southard. Contemporary. Octavo. 8 pages. Spindrift Pages #546435. Published by Spindrift Pages (A0.1027467). Do You Hear How Many You Are? for SATB choir was written in April and May of 2010. The origins of this piece and text come from a very interesting experience I had in December of 2009. I have been learning a lot in the past few years about the state of our world and the many huge problems and crises we are faced with in the near future, and this discovery has been so daunting and overwhelming to me. So much change needs to happen in order for the near and long-term future of our world to be just and stable that I have felt a lot of guilt over my choice of profession. Why have I chosen to be a composer and musician when I could make more of an impact on solving these problems if I were a scientist or policy maker etc.? I have been struggling to find a solution to this dilemma for a while now and I just happened to be thinking about it, while filled with lots of stress and worries, one night as I was falling asleep in December of 2009. At the moment when I was in that state halfway between sleep and consciousness, I suddenly heard the line Do you hear how many you are? in my head, yet I felt as though I didn't come up with the line but that it was said TO me. I was instantly comforted, as if a load fell off my shoulders, and then I began to hear it being sung, which I knew was the beginning of a choral piece. I woke up, wrote down the music I was hearing (about the first six measures of the work) and then wrote down this entire poem. I truly feel that this message came to me for a reason, and that I need to share it through the music I create. Those of us who want to change the world for the better are not alone; we are many and we will make our voices hear in order to heal the world. -Keane Southard Duration: c. 3 minutes -Winner, 2010 Ars Nova Singers Colorado Composers Competition (Professional Division) -1st Prize, Warren County Summer Music School's Promising Young Composers Competition, 2014 Premiered June 3, 2011 in Boulder, CO by the Ars Nova Singers, Thomas Morgan-conductor PROJECT : ENCOREâ„¢ has found this work to be of exceptional merit. Its panel of internationally known conductors has selected this work for inclusion in its catalog of recommended choral music. Website: keanesouthard.instantencore.com.

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.627629 Composed by Stephen DeCesare. Broadway,Christian,Christmas,Film/TV,Musical/Show. Octavo. 62 pages. Exultet Music #6035855. Published by Exultet Music (A0.627629). Once, long ago, a majestic church stood on a high hill in the center of a great city. But more remarkable than its tall towers, great archways and grand entrance was the legend surrounding the bells. It was the custom on Christmas Eve for all the people to bring to the church their offerings to the Christ-child. And there had been a time when an unusual offering brought magnificent music from the chimes which were rung, everyone believed, by the angels. But lately, no offering had been great enough...that is until young, poor brothers, Pedro and Manuel, make their first pilgrimage through the snow to give their simple gift.This touching story is enhanced with a re-enactment of the nativity by the children's choir. Score and script included as well as unlimited performance rights for one year.  To hear the entire score, please visit the YouTube link.  If you are interested in accompaniment tracks, please contact: mtapublishing@gmail.com and ask about pricing.  

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1133196 Composed by Alan Bullard. Classical,Contest,Festival. Octavo. 12 pages. Colne Edition / BullardMusic #733358. Published by Colne Edition / BullardMusic (A0.1133196). Who is the mysterious horseman, riding by in the night? Is it a highwayman? Is it a messenger? Is it a doctor? Is it a refugee? Why Does He Gallop?, a lively setting of words by Robert Louis Stevenson captures the mystery of the galloping stranger, with rhythmic drive and an easy-to-learn voice parts. Why Does He Gallop? is the second movement of Pictures of Night by Alan Bullard: a suite in five movements for SATB, optional youth choir, and piano. Why Does He Gallop? is also available for unison voices from this site. Alan Bullard's choral works are performed worldwide, and many have been recorded and broadcast. He has a reputation for music that choirs enjoy performing, and which speaks directly to audiences. The Colne Choral Series contains a range of Bullard's pieces for adult and youth choirs of all types, including cantatas and choral suites as well as individual movements. For full details please visit www.colneedition.co.uk or www.alanbullard.co.uk.

Choral Choir (SATB) - Digital Download SKU: A0.944043 Composed by Ofer Ben-Amots. A Cappella,Contemporary,Jewish,Sacred,World. Octavo. 16 pages. The Composer's Own Press #4799917. Published by The Composer's Own Press (A0.944043). Psalm 42, one of the most beautiful, intimate, and powerful texts in the Bible, set for a cappella choir to the original Hebew text.Translation: Psalm 42 (selected verses: 12, 7-9)Why so downcast, my soul, and so disquieted in me?Have hope in God; I will yet praise Him, my saving presence, my God.My God, my soul is downcast within me;therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and Hermon, from Mount Mizar.Abyss calls to abyss when your cataracts sound―all Your breakers and waves have passed over me.By day may the LORD command His faithful care, that at night His song be withme, a prayer to the Deity of my life.