SSAATTBB choir unaccompanied - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8366-E Composed by Robert Kyr. Advanced/Collegiate. Secular, 21st Century, Creation/Nature. Octavo. 16 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8366-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8366-E). English.This setting of words by Chinese poet Tu Fu as translated and adapted by Robert Kyr features harmonies and melodies that invoke a mountainous landscape. The lyrics also deal with nature and the human condition. Duration: 5:00.

SSAATTBB choir (choir divisi) unaccompanied - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8747-E Composed by Robert Kyr. 15 pages. Duration 4 minutes, 40 seconds. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8747-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8747-E). English.Commissioned by the Radcliffe Choral Society and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, this piece was created to celebrate the awakening and life-transforming power of music, as a force that enlivens and enlightens us. The original text is by the composer. Although the original was for women's chorus and mixed chorus, this version is for SSAATBB chorus alone. Extensive instructions are provided for the ethereal aleatoric section, addressing stage placement, dynamics, use of a solo group, and how the piece should end. Duration 4:40.

SSAATTBB choir (choir divisi) unaccompanied - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8748-E Composed by Robert Kyr. 32 pages. Duration 5 minutes, 40 seconds. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8748-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8748-E). Latin.A setting of a composite text by the composer which combines passages from a variety of sources: the Requiem service (Dies irae, Libera me), the Mass (Agnus Dei qui tollis, Agnus Dei dona nobis pacem), and from a hymn attributed to the Benedictine theologian Maurus (776-856) Veni Creator Spiritus. The images of destruction that begin the work are gradually transformed through an invocation of the energies of creation, as the music of the first half (in minor mode) dissolves into the bright music of the conclusion (in major mode). Duration 5:40.