Tenor and string quartet - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q6385

Auf Texte aus der Bibel. Composed by Naji Hakim. This edition: score and parts. Downloadable, Score and parts. Duration 7 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q6385. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q6385).

German • English.

This piece shows my hope to have our churches not only in peace but also in full communion. Naji Hakim Die Taube (The Dove) was commissioned by �Kirchenmusik bei St. Anna Augsburg� to celebrate the 450th anniversary of the Augsburger Religionsfrieden (Religious peace of Augsburg). It is based on three biblical verses related to peace : Gen. 8/11, Luk. 1/79, Joh. 14/27. The music is through composed and develops the character of the verses with contrasted string textures, putting in relief the expressive vocal line, declamation of light and happiness. The work exists in three versions : 1. for Tenor and string quartet, 2. for Tenor and string orchestra, 3. for Tenor and organ. First performance : by Robert Sellier, Tenor, Capella St. Anna Streichquartett, St. Anna Augsburg, Festkonzert zum Hohen Friedensfest, 8 August 2005. Gen.8/11 : �And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off. � Luk. 1/79 : �To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. � Joh.14/27 : �Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you. � ...to guide our feet into the way of peace. (Luke 1,79) Words and music bind people together to form fellowships which guide us into the way of peace. Singing or playing together combine bodies and souls, so that our rhythm and breathing becomes one - a sense of belonging to one another is created which instils the very nature of peace. So it is that by becoming an integral part of the music, our feet are guided 'into the way of peace'. In Luke chapter 1, both Maria and Zechariah are carried away, body and soul, in hymns of thanksgiving. They let God´s melody resound in their bodies. Ignatius, one of the Early Fathers of the Church, might have drawn his inspiration from them when he wrote to the Christians of Ephesus around the year 100, Let God´s melody resound in you. The melody of our life is a single voice within God´s great melody; an everlasting celestial melody, in which we join together as integral parts - with time, we are gradually shown which chords we are given to touch and which chords to form with one another. God´s inextinguishable melody has an infinite galaxy of variations. As you would know, a variation is rooted but limitless. At our christening, God gives us a variation - an inextinguishable variation because of his promise, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. (Matthew 28, 20). Deeply rooted as we are, God leads us through. He calls us to Life out of His Eternity, He lets his melody reverberate in us and finally calls us back, when we die, to His everlasting future. Let God´s melody resound in you and guide your feet into the way of peace. Pastor Hanne Margrethe Tougaard.

Choral Choir,Choral,SAT Chorus - Level 2 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1488763

Composed by Teresa O'Connell (BMI). Arranged by Teresa OConnell (BMI). Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Instructional. 18 pages. Teresa O'Connell (BMI) #1065612. Published by Teresa O'Connell (BMI) (A0.1488763).

Believe There Is Good (3-pt mixed). Also available for SSA.  A beautifully orchestrated backing track is also available separately.

Your singers will love this piece! These inspirational, optimistic lyrics encourage your singers and audience to Believe There Is Good in everyone. Looking for the positive in others, rather than their flaws and showing empathy to people who may be struggling...this is the message of Believe There Is Good. This piece is in a jazzy 3/4 and is very fun to sing for all voice parts. Don't miss this one, and be sure to use the spectacular backing track (sold separately).

Believe there is good, in the midst of the darkness. There is good, beneath the hate and the pain. See the light, see the spark, see the good in every heart. Believe there is good in everyone.

Part One range C4-E5. Part Two range is B3-Bb4. Part Three (bass clef) is F3-D4.

Choral Choir,Choral,SSA Chorus - Level 2 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1488768

Composed by Teresa O'Connell (BMI). Arranged by Teresa O'Connell (BMI). Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Instructional. 23 pages. Teresa O'Connell (BMI) #1065617. Published by Teresa O'Connell (BMI) (A0.1488768).

Believe There is Good (SSA or 3-pt Treble Voices). Also available for 3-pt Mixed Voices. A beautifully orchestrated backing track is available (sold separately.

Your singers will love this piece! These inspirational, optimistic lyrics encourage your singers and audience to Believe There Is Good in everyone. Looking for the positive in others, rather than their flaws and showing empathy to people who may be struggling...this is the message of Believe There is Good. This piece is in a jazzy 3/4 and is very fun to sing for all voice parts.  Don't miss this one, and be sure to use the spectacular backing track (sold separately).

Believe there is good, in the midst of the darkness. This is good, beneath the hate and the pain. See the light, see the spark, see the good in every heart. Believe there is good in everyone.

Part One range is C4-E5.  Part Two range is C3-Bb4. Part Three range is B3-Bb4.

B-Flat Trumpet,Percussion,Piano - Level 5 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1201730

Composed by Brandon Nelson. 20th Century,Chamber,Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival. 37 pages. Brandon Nelson #800346. Published by Brandon Nelson (A0.1201730).

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and his theory on how colors impacted mental states was the inspiration for this piece. He was far more gifted with prose than I, so I’ll him explain further:

We shall not be surprised to find that [colours’] effects are at all times decided and significant, and that they are immediately associated with the emotions of the mind.

Colour, considered as an element of art, may be made subservient to the highest aesthetical needs.

General impressions produced by single colours cannot be changed[.] They act specifically and must produce definite, specific states in the living organ. Experience teaches us that particular colours excite particular states of feeling.

Goethe goes on to detail these notions in an elaborate, deeply imaginative treatise. Sadly for him, this work was coming out just as the science of optics had begun to give the world an empirical understanding of color, leaving Goethe’s romantic ideas in the margins.

But it is those ideas that I find intriguing from a poetic viewpoint, and, in this composition, I shed musical light unto his dramatic descriptions of several different colors.

“Yellow-Red� is described as “primordial, impetuous, robust,� to the point of eliciting “extreme excitement� which disturbs and enrages even animals!

“Yellow� is portrayed as that being nearest to natural light. It is of “utmost purity and beauty[….] Serene, gay, softly exciting.�

The color “Red-Blue� we are told is “something lively without gladness.�

“Blue� is steeped in darkness, a “contradiction between excitement and repose.� It gives one the “impression of cold.� and brings to mind melancholy.

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1216480

By Amy Louise Lewis. By Amy Louise Lewis. Christian,Classical,Contemporary,Religious,Spiritual. Score. 1 pages. Amy Lewis #813057. Published by Amy Lewis (A0.1216480).

This is an enigmatic and rhapsodic piece for solo piano that is composed in Whole Tone C mode and is based on the Book of Revelation Chapter 8 Verses 1-5 in the New Testament Bible. 
Bar 1-18 is based on verses 1-3 and is sharp, spacey and minimal - the sound of silence and of the angels. The emphasis is the sound between the notes.
Verse 4 states: 'And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the Saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.' This section changes tone and phrase. There is a beautiful ascending up the keyboard, which is delecate but with hesitance. It is the light before the darkness; the potential energy before the explosion; the calm before the storm. There must be tension.
Verse 5 states: 'And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar and cast it into the Earth, and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.'
This section therefore is rather more dramatic, with a contrast of high and low pitched notes and chords. 
The final bars of the piece are suspension - sharp and repetative chords and ending on one sharp note - what happens next?

The pianist should pedal freely throughout the piece and add their own dramatic touch to this very illistrative score.