Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.939894 Composed by Richard St. Clair. A Cappella,Christian,Contemporary,Praise & Worship,Sacred. Octavo. 4 pages. Richard St. Clair #6530009. Published by Richard St. Clair (A0.939894). This powerfully moving setting of the Lord's Prayer is for full chorus or small chorus, suitable for concert or religious services.

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.939656 Composed by Richard St. Clair. 20th Century,A Cappella,Christian. Octavo. 38 pages. Richard St. Clair #3000253. Published by Richard St. Clair (A0.939656). This Latin Mass on all 5 movements of the Mass Ordinarium (Kyrie - Gloria - Credo - Sanctus/Beneductus - Agnus Dei) owes its title to the fact that with one exception every syllable of the Latin text receives one note of sung music. Of this work, eminent musicologist Willem Elders has commented It's interesting to see how you have been dealing with a text that in the past has been set by countless composers. It is what could be called a real 'Missa brevis', and I suppose that the cardinals of the Council of Trent in the 16th century might have been very happy with it, apart then from its harmonies, to which they were not yet used. The sound clip is of the first two movements. Stylistically, the music is mostly tonal with some more contemporary pandiatonic harmonies, and the rhythms are quite straightforward.

Small Ensemble Harpsichord,Organ,Piano,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.939899 Composed by Richard St. Clair. 20th Century,Christian,Contemporary,Praise & Worship. Score and parts. 8 pages. Richard St. Clair #6660019. Published by Richard St. Clair (A0.939899). This energetic 4'20 song sets an Old English poem (in Modern English translation) praising Christ Jesus, the Morning Star. The style is traditionally tonal and suitable for worship or concert venues. The accompaniment is within the range of Church organ, or can be played on the piano or even the harpsichord or any electronic keyboard.

Small Ensemble Double Bass,Flute,High Voice,Piano Accompaniment - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.939710 Composed by Richard St. Clair. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score and parts. 46 pages. Richard St. Clair #3001151. Published by Richard St. Clair (A0.939710). This is a cycle of 10 songs set to poems of the Yuan Dynasty China. The PDF score has the two instrumental parts appended for separate printing. The cycle requires about 16 minutes to perform. The style is mostly freely atonal with some tonal references. The MP3 Audio Clip is the premiere performance by the Row Twelve Contemporary Music Ensemble.

Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.939679 Composed by Richard St. Clair. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score. 3 pages. Richard St. Clair #3000579. Published by Richard St. Clair (A0.939679). This brief (3 minute) threnody for solo piano is a heart-felt memorial to victims of violence in the troubled nation of Somalia. After an anguished atonal beginning, the music settles down into chant-like tonality. The MP3 Audio Clip is the composer at the piano in a solo recital in Boston in 1996. The score is in the composer's own hand.

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.939711 Composed by Richard St. Clair. 20th Century,Contemporary. Octavo. 10 pages. Richard St. Clair #3001321. Published by Richard St. Clair (A0.939711). This short choral work lasting 2 minutes is a 10th anniversary memorial to the crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger who died in takeoff in January 1986. The lyrics are the poem of the same title by John Gillespie Magee. The music, mostly tonal with some advanced harmonies and intricate voice-leading, requires a high soprano solo for the discant melody. The MP3 Audio Clip is a computer-generated soundfile.

Piano Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.939792 Composed by Richard St. Clair. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score. 16 pages. Richard St. Clair #3684059. Published by Richard St. Clair (A0.939792). This avant-garde piece of some 5 minutes duration is the composer's brief foray into the post-Webern avant-garde of Stockhausen, Boulez et al. It was given its premiere in July 1967 at the Marlboro Festival of Music, the composer at the piano (the recording of which is this audio clip). His Piano Piece no. 2 (also for sale at SMP Press) is the composer's second and last avant-garde piece which develops the ideas further from Piano Piece no. 1.

Choral Choir (SATB) - Digital Download SKU: A0.939688 Composed by Richard St. Clair. 20th Century,A Cappella,Contemporary. Octavo. 6 pages. Richard St. Clair #3000689. Published by Richard St. Clair (A0.939688). This musical joke pokes fun at a music critic, Michael Steinberg of the Boston Globe. The joking nature is emphasized by the upper voices in the major mode while the lower voices are in the minor mode. The lyrics are the short poem, Lines to a Reviewer, by the 19th century poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. The music is for SATB voices a capella, for either solo voices or small chorus. Duration about 2 minutes. The MP3 Audio Clip is a computer-generated soundfile.

High Voice,Vocal Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.939889 Composed by Richard St. Clair. 20th Century,Christian,Contemporary,Praise & Worship. 11 pages. Richard St. Clair #6516703. Published by Richard St. Clair (A0.939889). This 4 1/2-minute song for Tenor or Soprano is a setting of the Bible, Gospel of Luke 2:25-32, where Simeon receives and blesses the infant Jesus. This text is often set in Latin as Nunc Dimittis. In this setting, the text is in English.

Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.939819 Composed by Richard St. Clair. 20th Century,Concert,Contemporary. Score. 3 pages. Richard St. Clair #4790475. Published by Richard St. Clair (A0.939819). This short fugue (a fughetta) is built on a twelve-tone row in the manner of the Second Viennese School. It is Bach-like in its dance rhythms and strict fugal counterpoints. A good encore piece.

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.939720 Composed by Richard St. Clair. 20th Century. Score. 11 pages. Richard St. Clair #3002363. Published by Richard St. Clair (A0.939720). These five contrasting folk-pieces are whimsical, mostly tonal and evoking traditional songs. Suitable as teaching pieces for student recital performances. Duration: 9 minutes. The MP3 Audio Clip is a studio recording by the composer at the piano.

Composed by Richard St. Clair. 20th Century,A Cappella,Christian,Contemporar y,Praise & Worship,Sacred. Octavo. 14 pages. Richard St. Clair #6658405. Published by Richard St. Clair

Instrumental Duet Cello,Instrumental Duet,Medium Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.939675 Composed by Richard St. Clair. 20th Century. Score and parts. 10 pages. Richard St. Clair #3000549. Published by Richard St. Clair (A0.939675). A short set of impressionistic poems by Donald Rubinstein, for solo baritone voice and cello accompaniment. Duration about 6 minutes. MP3 Audio Clip of premiere performance by Composers in Red Sneakers, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA.

Piano Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.939884 Composed by Richard St. Clair. 20th Century,Concert,Contemporary,Graduation. Score. 4 pages. Richard St. Clair #6425267. Published by Richard St. Clair (A0.939884). This 2-minute neoclassical waltz plays with tonal and atonal elements couched in the rhythmic style of a romantic waltz.