Choral Choir (SATB divisi) - Digital Download SKU: A0.1009476 Composed by Beatrijs von Nazareth, Hadewijch von Brabant, Mechtild von Magdeburg, and Michael Maxwell Steer. 20th Century,A Cappella,Christian,Concert,Contemporary. Octavo. 13 pages. ColourMuse #4966175. Published by ColourMuse (A0.1009476). Three fascinating texts from the three 12/13thC female mystics, who belonged to the Beguine order, set to rapturous music that expresses and embodies all the meanings. Michael Maxwell Steer. Words by 1) Hadewijch von Brabant, 2) Mechtild von Magdeburg & 3) Beatrijs von Nazareth.

Instrumental Solo,Keyboard - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1153365 Composed by Joshua Bickford. Arranged by Joshua Bickford. 19th Century,20th Century,Christmas,Classical,Holiday. Individual part. 11 pages. Joshua Bickford #753620. Published by Joshua Bickford (A0.1153365). This is a piano sonata based on the Christmas Carol, We Three Kings. In movement one, the original carol melody is changed to half notes and is turned into a three voice canon. The overall effect of movement one is the feeling of three mystics and their camels journeying in a foreign land. At the very end of movement one is one exact phrase from the original piece. In movement two, the melody is used in retrograde to create new melodic material. It is a slow movement. To me, it is reminiscent of the music of Satie or Chopin. In movement three, the new melodic material is created by taking the original melody and inverting it. In the development section, phrases from the original melody do appear. The last two measures also contain an exact quote from the original melody. It is an upbeat, fast paced movement.

Piano Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.1119075 Composed by Eamon Mukhopadhyay. Contemporary. Score. 3 pages. Eamon Mukhopadhyay #720487. Published by Eamon Mukhopadhyay (A0.1119075). This entire prelude is a study of touch and melodic outlining. Only in the first measure exists the resemblance of a C minor chord (a minor thirteenth) using the mediant (the third scale-degree of a scale).

Choral Choir (SSAA) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.930211 Composed by John Newell. A Cappella,Contemporary,Sacred. Octavo. 16 pages. Abierto Music #6655655. Published by Abierto Music (A0.930211). This work for chorus SSAA, a cappella, is a setting of powerful and intimate words written by Mechthild of Magdeburg, one of the great medieval mystics; they are found in her great work Das Fließende Licht der Gottheit (The Flowing Light of the Godhead). The text is a very personal expression of the soul's love for God and God's love for the soul. Difficulty level: intermediate/advanced. For more information on the composer's work, visit www.johnnewellmusic.com.

Choral Choir (4-Part) - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.535382 Composed by Carson Cooman. Contemporary,Sacred. Octavo. 187 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3025403. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.535382). The Revelations of Divine Love (Metaphors from Sea and Sky) (2009), an oratorio for soprano,baritone, chorus, and chamber orchestra (0000.1100.1perc.strings), was commissioned for and is dedicated to the choir ofRoyal Holloway, University of London and Rupert Gough, director of choral music.The texts of the work are adapted primarily from the writings of Julian of Norwich (c. 1342–1416).Julian is best-known for her Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love (c. 1393), believed to be the first Englishlanguagebook written by a woman. Considered one of the most significant English mystics of alltime, Julian lived a reclusive life as an anchoress at the Church of St. Julian in Norwich, England (hertrue name is unknown). Regarded even during her lifetime as a spiritual authority, her optimisticvisions have been very influential in the years that have followed.Texts are also drawn from three additional sources: an excerpt from the Book of Margery Kempe(translated by Christopher M. Brunelle), two poems by English poet Robert Herrick (1591–1674),and a poem by the American writer Elizabeth Kirschner (b. 1955).The primary concept underlying this oratorio is the presence of two distinct discourses. One is asequence taken from Julian’s religious visions. The other is a sonic geography of Nantucket Island(located 30 miles off the coast of Massachusetts in the United States). This interconnected conceptwas inspired by the writings of the great Scottish poet George Mackay Brown (1921–1996). Livinghis entire life on Scotland’s Orkney Islands, Mackay Brown consistently explored the transpositionof religious imagery and events to his native landscape. (For example, the poem Apple-Basket, Apple-Blossom takes the story and structure of the Stations of the Cross, and maps them onto imagery ofdistinctly Orcadian character.)The landscape of Nantucket Island has been the driving force behind a large number of mycompositions for many years. In this oratorio, Julian’s visions are transposed from Norwich andmapped onto the Nantucket landscape. Each movement of the work thus has two parallel purposes:a setting of the visionary words, and a portrayal of a specific place in Nantucket’s geography. Muchof the music was planned in the actual locations. Since the soloists and choir must, by necessity, singthe words, a great deal of the landscape is left to the orchestra. Thus, the orchestra’s role issubstantially greater than simply accompaniment.Because of these two discourses, the oratorio is not intended as comprehensive working out of allaspects of Julian’s visions, nor does it use her own structure and sequence. Rather, it takes herbeautiful words, and the fundamentals of her visions, and attempts to create a new narrative andspiritual experience from them.This is the full score.  The vocal score is available for sale.  The parts are available on rental from the publisher.