SATB choir (choir divisi) and piano - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.7149-E Composed by Judith Shatin. African American Heritage. 17 pages. Duration 4 minutes, 45 seconds. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #7149-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.7149-E). English.Why the Caged Bird Sings for SATB chorus and piano, is a setting of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem, Sympathy. His poem speaks through poetic metaphor of the suffering of repression. It inspires us to lift up our voices and to speak out in sympathy. Author Maya Angelou used the line, “I know why the caged bird sings� as the title of her autobiographical novel, and also of her own poem of the same name.Commissioned by the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, this setting is energetic and colorful, with skillful painting of the text and a deft piano accompaniment which moves things along without obscuring the vocal writing. Duration: 4:45.

SATB choir and piano 4-hands, or soprano saxophone, percussion (3 Players), harp, contrabass, and piano 4-hands - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.7927-E Composed by David Conte. 15 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #7927-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.7927-E). English.American Triptych presents aspects of spiritual experience as expressed by three North American poets: Americans E. E. Cummings and W. S. Merwin, and Canadian Bliss Carman. Commissioned by the Reading Choral Society, Reading, Pennsylvania, David DeVenney, conductor. The work received its premiere performance on November 13, 1999.The second movement, a modern translation of the tenth century hymn Veni Creator, is more lyrical in character and gives each section of the chorus a solo verse accompanied by obligato solo lines in the instrumental ensemble. The chosen ensemble of instruments (harp, soprano saxophone, double bass, piano and percussion) gives the work a decidedly American character. This work can also be performed with piano four-hands alone, or with piano four-hands and any combination of the ensemble instruments, with the two pianists omitting any doublings as indicated by the cues. Duration: 8:00.

SAB choir, organ - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.5987-E Composed by Paul Gibson. Thanksgiving, Confirmation. 14 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #5987-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.5987-E). English. Psalms 121.Commissioned by their children to honor Warren and Alice Sautebin, this relatively easy setting of the beloved psalm includes a flowing refrain that incorporates the tune Amsterdam, making a connection to the Moravian tradition to which the dedicatees belong.

SATB choir unaccompanied - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8355-E Composed by David Evan Thomas. 21st Century. 10 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8355-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8355-E). English.Forever Toward You was commissioned by Plymouth Congregational Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota, in honor of Claire Colliander. The text is a translation of a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) from The Book of Monastic Life. Rilke’s poem speaks of a desire to encounter the Creator—the You in the title of this composition—and of the necessity for doing so through action, not thought alone. The tempo of the music alternates between those ideas of activity (Allegro energico, Buoyant) and reflection (Poco andante, Molto moderat), giving this three minute piece quite a bit of variety and interest. Duration: 3:00.

Tenor voice solo, TTBB choir, and piano - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8517-E Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. Secular, 21st Century, Americana, Creation/Nature. Octavo. 15 pages. Duration 3 minutes, 15 seconds. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8517-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8517-E). UPC: 600313485176. English.Touching the Infinite Sky is a choral adaptation (for Men's Chorus with Tenor Soloist) of the composer's solo song cycle, Songs from the High Sierra, for High Voice and Piano. The original songs were completed in 2014. The new work was commissioned by Louisiana State University for the Tiger Glee Club, which premiered the music on October 3, 2016 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Soprano solo, SATB choir (choir divisi), and keyboard, or harp (piano) and strings, or chamber orchestra - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8784-E Composed by Kevin Siegfried. Instrument part. 36 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8784-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8784-E). English. Psalms 31:5.Commissioned in 2010 to be performed alongside Gabriel Faure's Requiem, and utilizes the same combination of instruments. The texts for Songs for the Journey have a particularly personal nature. The first text chosen was More Love, a song already written a couple years earlier when the composer and his wife were expecting their first child. The remaining four texts have equally personal associations. Songs for the Journey outlines and explores similar themes as the traditional Latin Requiem - love, faith, mortality, surrender to an eternal will, etc. - but in a less ecclesiastical framework, with poems and texts drawn from a variety of sources. Contents:1. Into Your Hands2. When All That's Left of Me Is Love3. More Love4. Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep (Soprano Solo)5. Celtic Blessing.

SATB choir (choir divisi) and keyboard - Moderately Easy - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8787-E Composed by Kevin Siegfried. Funeral, Wedding. Instrument part. 11 pages. Duration 3 minutes, 15 seconds. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8787-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8787-E). English.More Love is the cornerstone movement of Songs for the Journey, which was commissioned in 2010 to be performed alongside Gabriel Fauré's Requiem, and utilizes the same sonorous combination of horns, harp, organ, violas, cellos, and bass. Songs for the Journey outlines and explores similar themes as the traditional Latin Requiem - love, faith, mortality, surrender to an eternal will, etc. - but in a less ecclesiastical framework, with poems and texts drawn from a variety of sources. In assembling the texts, words of a particularly personal nature were chosen to echo Fauré's intent. The musical style of More Love is simple and direct and the message is positive and affirming, making it appropriate for a variety of performance settings. Duration: 3:15.

Tenor voice or soprano voice solo, SATB choir, organ - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.6414-E Composed by Leo Nestor. Christmas, Christmas-Sacred. Score & instrument parts. 13 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #6414-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.6414-E). Sing Lullaby was commissioned by music director Michael Batcho for the Choir of the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Milwaukee and composed in California during the summer of 2000. Originally scored for tenor solo, mixed chorus, oboe, French horn and violoncello obbligato and organ, an independent fabric for string orchestra was composed for a performance by the Choir of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on Christmas of the same year. The setting was further developed for the debut performance of The Catholic University of America Chamber Choir and Chamber Players at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in December of 2002. In the 2008 revision, the composer decided that the obbligato trio of clarinet, French horn and bassoon most clearly evoked the ethos of shepherds, offering optimal timbral contrast to string orchestra and chorus. Substantial emendations of the entire score were made for the present edition of Sing Lullaby, first performed by The Catholic University of America Chamber Choir, University Singers, University Chorus and Symphony Orchestra at the Annual Christmas Concert for Charity at Washington's Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on 7 December 2012 with tenor Rick Christman, the composer conducting.Variation form, long favored by composers in settings of strophic music, imparts a perception of improvisation as singers and players alter harmonies, melody and rhythm to forward the unfolding narrative. Sensitive performance will caress the natural undulation of the largely ternary meter, tapering unstressed beats at the ends of phrases while maintaining the steady flow of the accompaniment.Two editions of the work are published: (I) for mixed chorus, solo, obbligato trio and organ and (II) for mixed chorus, solo, obbligato trio, string orchestra, harp and organ. The edition for chorus and obbligato instruments adds timbral variety to a Christmas concert while employing modest instrumental means which are easily available. Although in Version II both harp and organ are scored ad libitum, the harp adds significantly to the counterpoint of the obbligato instruments, providing further rhythmic impetus and textural variety. Conceived for lyric tenor, the solo may also be sung by soprano.

SATB choir, wind quintet, and piano - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8560-E Composed by Libby Larsen. Instrument part. 28 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8560-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8560-E). English.This piece is a three-part collection based on poetry by American pioneers. The texts are full of a kind of raw energy, swashbuckling attitude, and profundity of heart and commitment characteristic of those settlers west of the Hudson. I had also looked at the more erudite essays of Coleridge-Taylor, Thoreau, and Emerson but chose the rougher stanzas because the primitive voices, the pioneers, were profound, simply in the way they expressed the nature of their experiences. The first piece, 'Comin’ to Town,' is about cowboys after a month on the range—bawdy, rowdy, and raucous. The second, 'Beneath These Alien Stars,' is about the bonding of the human spirit to the land. The third piece, 'A Hoopla,' depicts a barn dance and vocalists circle ‘round the instruments, stomp, clap, and generally perform with abandon, vigor, and boisterousness. The Settling Years was commissioned and premiered by The Singing Sergeants and the United States Air Force Band for the 150th anniversary of the Music Educators National Convention.-Libby LarsenInstrumental Parts include: Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon, and Piano.

SATB choir unaccompanied - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8479-E Composed by David Conte. 8 pages. Duration 4 minutes, 30 seconds. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8479-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8479-E). English.The text of Night Prayer was written by the Rev. John Williamson in 1987 for inclusion in A New Zealand Prayer Book. The tone of the prayer is both traditional and contemporary. Its natural and intended use is as Part of the Compline service, the final service of the day in the Christian tradition of canonical hours. This setting is in a reverent, chorale style, rising to a climax with the words, “Let us look… to a new day, to new joys, and to new possibilities.� Night Prayer was commissioned by Good Company, a chamber choir based in Cleveland, Ohio, and was premiered on May 15, 2016. Duration: 4:30.

SSAA choir unaccompanied - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8905-E Composed by Frank Ferko. 9 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8905-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8905-E). English.Commissioned by Christopher Watson, conductor of the Trinity College Choir, Melbourne, for the ensemble's U.S. concert tour in 2020. This minor-mode lullaby is set in close harmonies which amplify its dual nature: sometimes soothing, sometimes a bit ominous.

Soprano voice and baritone voice soli, SATB choir, and piano - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8180-E Composed by Henry Mollicone. 21st Century. 16 pages. Duration 3 minutes, 5 seconds. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8180-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8180-E). English.Henry Mollicone wrote Now I Can See the Light! for the Choir of the Stone Church of Willow Glen, Nancy Wait Kromm, director. Walter Roach, the parishioner who commissioned the piece, asked Mollicone to compose a work in a gospel style. Set to a text by the pastor at Stone Church, Rev. Ken Henry, this anthem is ebullient and spirited. The choral writing is straightforward and accessible, and a high-voice and low-voice soloist are required. Duration: 3:05.

ATB choir (choir divisi) and organ - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8679-E Composed by Michael Gilbertson. Evensong. 12 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8679-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8679-E). English. Luke 1:46-55.This Magnificat was commissioned by the magazine, Choir & Organ, and St. Thomas Fifth Avenue, NYC, for the debut of their newly constructed Miller-Scott organ. The work sets the traditional Magnificat text with long, flowing lines, sensuous modulations, and rich, jazzy sonorities. Duration: 4:00.

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.

SATB choir (choir divisi), with harp or piano - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8854-E Composed by Kevin Siegfried. Instrument part. 36 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8854-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8854-E). English.Commissioned by the Community Chorus at South Berwick, a choir based in Southern Maine, this set of four pieces is written to the poetry of Sarah Orne Jewett, who lived most of her life in South Berwick and is particularly known for the local color and “sense of place� she brought to her writing.