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.

Choir and various instruments - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8599A-E Composed by Robert Kyr. Full score. 19 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8599A-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8599A-E).

Soprano voice solo, SATB choir unaccompanied - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8441-E Composed by Robert Schuneman. Secular, 9/11 Service, Martin Luther King Day, Memorial, 21st Century, Hope/Assurance, Lament/Grief/Sorrow. 8 pages. Duration 1 minute, 55 seconds. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8441-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8441-E). UPC: 600313484414. English.This gentle life lesson and setting begins with the chorus acting as accompaniment to the soloist. Then the sopranos pick up the mantle of the soloist and the chorus sings the words together. The final passage features the soloist providing a descant to the choir. Duration: 1:55.

SATB choir (choir divisi) unaccompanied - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8865-E Composed by Jessica French. Christmas. 18 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8865-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8865-E). UPC: 600313488658. English.Commissioned by Choral Arts Northwest, Robert Bode, director, this text focuses on the beauty of love and peace that can be found in the wondrous mystery of Christ’s birth. The bright light from the star and angels shining down on the manger is represented by the upper voices descending into clustered chords of light on the words “love came down.� The second element is a melody, initially sung by the tenors, that has a gentle, rocking motion—like that of a lullaby—representing Jesus’ mother Mary holding and rocking her child to sleep. These two themes weave together throughout the piece and finally coalesce to express the brightness of the sign that is signaled by the star and angels, as the upper voices sing the words “love divine,� painting colors of gold and white light illuminating the peaceful manger scene.

Tenor voice solo, SATB choir, flute, viola, and violoncello, or piano - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8598-E Composed by Robert Kyr. Holy Week/Three Days, 21st Century. Full score. 7 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8598-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8598-E). English. Psalms 121.The text of Psalm 121 from the Bay Psalm Book is set lyrically for SATB choir, while the tenor soloist comments in short, ornamental phrases on the text O deep unknown. Part of the larger work Tenebrae.Tenebrae is a musical journey through the shadows of the cross. The work is divided into nine individual movements and can be performed with either instrumental trio or piano accompaniment. Staging and program suggestions are included in the full score. Part IV of the �Life unto Life� Cycle.This work may be performed with accompaniment of either instrumental trio or piano. The complete text and suggested staging appear in the full score.Instrumental Parts include: Flute/Alto Flute, Viola, Violoncello.

SATB choir and Piano - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8522-E Composed by Alfonso Maria de' Liguori and Robert Sieving. Christmas, Christmas-Sacred. 12 pages. Duration 3 minutes, 45 seconds. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8522-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8522-E). French, Italian.This Italian Christmas carol dates from 1732 and the lilting melody by Alfonso Liguori is associated with the zampogna, a large-format Italian bagpipe. The text is “From Starry Skies Descending,� as it is translated from the Italian title “Tu scendi dalle stelle,� and the composer's setting uses both Italian and English texts. A tender pastorale with a delicate piano accompaniment, this music manages to be both unusual and yet, somehow familiar.Duration: 3:45.

TTBB choir and English horn - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8324-E Composed by Robert Sieving. Christmas, 21st Century. Instrument part. 9 pages. Duration 3 minutes, 38 seconds. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8324-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8324-E). Latin.Winner of the 2011 VocalEssence Welcome Christmas! Carol Contest, O Stella de Bethlehem includes a singing translation exclusively in Latin. The text appears in the original Polish and in English translation on the penultimate page of the edition; the English Horn part is included. Duration: 3:38.

SATB choir unaccompanied - Moderately Easy - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8251-E Composed by Robert Lehman. Responsorial Psalm/Canticle Setting, 21st Century. Octavo. 11 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8251-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8251-E). UPC: 600313482519. English.Commissioned by Michael J. Diorio and the Choir of Church of the Redeemer, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, this setting of the Responses introduces a very colorful, chromatic harmonic vocabulary to the repertoire.Duration: 3:00.

Choir and various instruments - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8325A-E Composed by Robert Lehman. Full score. 22 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8325A-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8325A-E).

SATB choir unaccompanied - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8373-E Composed by Robert Kyr. Advanced/Collegiate. Secular, 21st Century, Creation/Nature. Octavo. 8 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8373-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8373-E). UPC: 600313483738. English.The Rose Led Us to Our Eyes is a setting of a text by poet Ghalib (1797–1869) as adapted by the composer. The music is relatively uncomplicated and mellifluous. Duration: 3:00.

Tenor voice solo, SATB choir unaccompanied - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8478-E Composed by John David Earnest. 12 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8478-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8478-E). English, Italian.The conductor of Choral Arts Northwest, Robert Bode, asked the composer to write a work based on a text about The Blessed Virgin Mary. The final poem in Petrarch's most famous work, Il Canzoniere, was chosen, because it is a prayer to the Blessed Virgin. The composer first quotes a melody by Guillaume Dufay (1397-1474,) and then continues with his own interpretation of the poem, simultaneously using both the original Italian and its English translation, and a few other references to Dufay's music. Duration: ca. 5:20A review of CANW's performance of this piece comments: Perhaps the heart of the program came with the premiere of John David Earnest’s “Vergine Bella.� This gorgeous work caught up the listener from the start, the choir softly singing the first phrases on one note, while the solo tenor came in soaring above them in a beautiful melody..

TBB choir unaccompanied - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8368-E Composed by Robert Kyr. Advanced/Collegiate. Secular, 21st Century, Music. Octavo. 17 pages. Duration 5 minutes, 35 seconds. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8368-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8368-E). English.Commissioned by the Harvard Glee Club, Andrew Clark, Director of Choral Activities. The world premiere performance by the Harvard Glee Club took place on December 22, 2013, in Woolsey Hall at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, conducted by Harris Ipock. As the title suggests, the music and words by the composer are an ode to music. This composition is both skillfully wrought and aurally satisfying. Duration: 5:35.

SATB choir unaccompanied - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.5902-E Composed by Robert Applebaum. Advanced/Collegiate. Chanukah, 21st Century, Folk Song, Holiday. Octavo. 15 pages. Duration 3 minutes, 15 seconds. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #5902-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.5902-E). UPC: 600313459023. 8.5 x 11 inches. English, Hebrew.Published in 2003, Three Pieces for Chanukah is not so much a set of arrangements of familiar words and tunes than it is a set of original compositions based on them. The first two settings feature jazz-influenced, classical harmonic and melodic treatment of the tunes. The mood of the first setting is upbeat and the mood of the second one is more subdued. The mood of the third setting is extremely upbeat; it is composed in a straight funk style, albeit contrapuntal. The front matter to each edition features program notes, a pronunciation guide for the Hebrew words and the Hebrew and English texts.Duration: 3:15.

SSAATTBB choir unaccompanied - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8442-E Composed by Robert Schuneman. Secular, 21st century. 14 pages. Duration 1 minute, 39 seconds. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8442-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8442-E). UPC: 600313484421. English.This setting pokes fun at all of the ways in which phrases about money are coined. The music is appropriately uncomplicated, and nearly always homophonic. Duration: 1:39.

Tenor voice solo, SATB choir, flute, viola, and violoncello, or piano - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8597-E Composed by Robert Kyr. Holy Week/Three Days, 21st Century. Full score. 14 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8597-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8597-E). English. Psalms 23.A setting of Psalm 23 taken from the larger work Tenebrae. The chorus sings the well-known scripture text alone, and then repeats the text while the soloist responds with an original text. Tenebrae is a musical journey through the shadows of the cross. The work is divided into nine individual movements and can be performed with either instrumental trio or piano accompaniment. Staging and program suggestions are included in the full score. Part IV of the �Life unto Life� Cycle.This work may be performed with accompaniment of either instrumental trio or piano. The complete text and suggested staging appear in the full score.Instrumental Parts include: Flute/Alto Flute, Viola, Violoncello.