SKU: OU.9780193572263

ISBN 9780193572263. 10 x 7 inches.

For SSATB and piano Come Back Like the Sea sets a Sara Teasdale poem that uses the metaphor of the ocean's tide to symbolize life's ups and downs. The music captures the sea imagery and sense of yearning with a captivating opening soundscape, melodies that ebb and flow like the tide, and an evocative piano part that weaves throughout the work.

SKU: GI.G-9610

UPC: 785147961000. Latin. Text Source: Attr. Ambrose of Milan, 340–397. Text by Ambrose of Milan.

Composer's Notes When I met Kelsey Rose in Oxford in St. Stephen’s House chapel over the summer of 2017, we had both just attended a very moving candlelit concert by Westminster Williamson Voices, featuring my setting of “Tenebrae lumini.” I was delighted to be asked to write a piece for compline in Princeton University Chapel, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Anglican/Episcopal chaplaincy at Princeton University. “Aurora” is the result of that meeting. Composing by commission often throws up some interesting challenges. The piece had to fit both as an accompanying piece to the plainchant of compline, whilst simultaneously being a celebratory anthem. I was instantly drawn back to the poetry and hymns of St. Ambrose of Milan, particularly “Aurora iam spargit polum.” Fragments of chant (both real and imagined) are used to create the powerful imagery of the descending golden light of dawn. The piece reaches its climax with the plea for the despair of night to “vanish,” which it then does, leaving the sopranos alone on a high G.

SKU: JK.01427

Luke 2:8-20, Psalm 95:6.

Brent Jorgensen adds to his multi-cultural Christmas series with this delightful piece, The Carols of France Medley, including the song He Is Born, (Il Est Né). Other songs include Hurry, Shepherds, (Quittez Pasteurs) and Angels, We Have Heard On High..

SKU: JK.00929

Patriotic anthem for mixed chorus (SSATB) and piano, with text adapted from The New Colossus, a poem by Emma Lazarus graven on a tablet within the pedestal on which the Statue of Liberty stands.
Composer: David Len Allen
Lyricist: Text adapted from The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus
Difficulty: Medium
Performance time: 3:00.

SKU: JK.01124

Moroni 10:4-5.

Scriptural setting arranged for mixed chorus (SSATB) and piano, of Moroni 10:4-5.
Composer: Richard W. Smith
Lyricist: Moroni 10:4-5
Difficulty: Medium-easy
Performance time: 4:30
Reference: Moroni 10:4-5.

SKU: JK.00935

Doctrine and Covenants 18:10-16, 1 John 2:10.

Beautifully sacred setting from Missa Mormonis, sung as an earnest request for the Lord to be patient with an imperfect child--in words reminiscent of O Divine Redeemer. Arranged for mixed chorus (SSATB) and piano by Lynn S. Lund. Also available for SAB choir (#00562).
Composer: Lynn S. Lund
Lyricist: Psalms 25
Difficulty: Medium / medium acc.
Performance time: 5:30
Reference: Doctrine and Covenants 18:10-16, 1 John 2:10.

SKU: HL.50405570

7.0x10.75x0.067 inches.

Latin Only.

SKU: OU.9780193379725

ISBN 9780193379725. 12 x 8 inches.

For SSATB & piano or string orchestra The Shipping Forecast is in 3 movements: 'Donegal', 'They that go down to the sea in ships', and 'Naming'. The first and last movement are settings of poems by the poet, broadcaster, and academic, Sean Street.

SKU: CA.927600

ISBN 9790007296117. French. Text: Gautier, Theophile.

A prevailing melancholy mood is characteristic of Theophile Gautier's (1811-1872) poetry; a melancholy mood which inspired composers such as Hector Berlioz and Gabriel Faure to compose settings. Tristesse (Sadness) is taken from the 1838 collection La Comedie de la Mort (The Comedy of Death). With over 50 poems this is regarded as Gautier's major Romantic work. Although the narrator in the poem is conscious of the joy and zest for life of spring coming into bloom around him, he cannot share this: Helas! j'ai dans le coeur une tristesse affreuse. (Alas, in my heart I bear a terrible grief.). Faure's setting portrays this effect less as a dramatic sigh than a melancholic unworldliness with peaceful piano accompaniment in the minor key. This art song was originally composed not for chamber choir, but for solo voice and piano. Denis Rouger has carefully adapted it to suit the requirements and expressive possibilities offered by a larger ensemble, without losing any of the qualities of the original in the process. Each part in the choir has a melodic line drawn from the harmonic and rhythmic framework. In the process, the variety and refinement of the choral language combines with an enormous flexibility in form and expression, as French melodies or German art song demand from a soloist and pianist.The songs have been recorded by the figure humaine chamber choir on the CD ... Wo die Zitronen bluhn (Carus 83.514).

SKU: CA.925700

ISBN 9790007249199. Key: A flat major. Language: German. Text: Ruckert, Friedrich.

SKU: CA.924300

ISBN 9790007244385. Key: C minor. Language: French. Text: Prudhomme, Sully.

SKU: CA.925900

ISBN 9790007249212. Key: B flat major. Language: German. Text: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang.

SKU: CA.924100

ISBN 9790007244361. Language: French. Text: Gounod, Charles.

In Charles Gounod's L'absent, composed in 1873, the absent one asks at night time whether the beloved remembers him in the light of the moon and at the sound of the evening prayer bells. These art songs were originally composed not for chamber choir, but for solo voice and piano. Denis Rouger has carefully adapted them to suit the requirements and expressive possibilities offered by a larger ensemble, without losing the any of the qualities of the original in the process. Each part in the choir has a melodic line drawn from the harmonic and rhythmic framework. In the process, the variety and refinement of the choral language combines with an enormous flexibility in form and expression, as French melodies or German art song demand from a soloist and pianist. The songs have been recorded by the figure humaine chamber choir on the CD Kennst du das Land ... (Carus 83.495).