By Mark Mummert. For 2-part mixed voices, piano. Holy Cross Day, Good Friday, Lent, Holy Week/Three Days. Moderately Easy. Octavo. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers

Composed by Andre J. Thomas. For 2-part voices and piano (with optional full orchestra). Octavo. Heritage Music Press #15/3316H. Published by Heritage Music Press

Choral, Violin (2-part treble, violin) Composed by Lee Dengler. Shawnee Press. Anthem, Concert, General Worship, Sacred. Octavo. 16 pages. Shawnee Press #E5543. Published by Shawnee Press

Chamber Music String Quartet

SKU: PR.144402180

After Zurbarán. Composed by James Primosch. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. 20+8+8+8+8 pages. Duration 18 minutes. Merion Music #144-40218. Published by Merion Music (PR.144402180).

UPC: 680160027156. 9.5 x 13 inches.

The concerts and exhibits of the Cleveland Museum of Art were an important formative influence for me during my student days. So when the invitation came to create a new work celebrating this institution on its seventy-fifth anniversary, I was not only happy to accept, but knew immediately that I wanted to write a piece that would somehow relate specifically to the museum. I decided to make the work a reflection on a painting in the museum's collection: Zurbaran's The Holy House of Nazareth. My quartet is not program music in a narrative sense, but rather a kind of meditation that takes its tone from this painting's remarkable integration of intense affect, mysterious repose and secret geometry. Besides Zurbaran's painting, the piece is occupied with a purely musical object of contemplation: the hymn tune Picardy, best known with the text Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence. This tune permeates the harmonic and melodic life of the quartet, sometimes appearing in a very simple, straightforward fashion, but often hidden amidst more complex structures. I was attracted to the melody for its musical qualities, but later realized that the hymn's text also resonates with the mood of the painting; the words speak of a reverent awe, of cherubim with sleepless eye, and of the mystery of the Incarnate Word who must suffer: King of kings, yet born of Mary...

By John G. Mortimer. For Brass Quintet. Swiss import. Level: Grade 2. Published by Editions Marc Reift. (EMR 5583)

Chamber Music String Quartet

SKU: PR.14440218S

After Zurbarán. Composed by James Primosch. Full score. With Standard notation. Duration 18 minutes. Merion Music #144-40218S. Published by Merion Music (PR.14440218S).

UPC: 680160027170. 9.5 x 13 inches.

The concerts and exhibits of the Cleveland Museum of Art were an important formative influence for me during my student days. So when the invitation came to create a new work celebrating this institution on its seventy-fifth anniversary, I was not only happy to accept, but knew immediately that I wanted to write a piece that would somehow relate specifically to the museum. I decided to make the work a reflection on a painting in the museum's collection: Zurbaran's The Holy House of Nazareth. My quartet is not program music in a narrative sense, but rather a kind of meditation that takes its tone from this painting's remarkable integration of intense affect, mysterious repose and secret geometry. Besides Zurbaran's painting, the piece is occupied with a purely musical object of contemplation: the hymn tune Picardy, best known with the text Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence. This tune permeates the harmonic and melodic life of the quartet, sometimes appearing in a very simple, straightforward fashion, but often hidden amidst more complex structures. I was attracted to the melody for its musical qualities, but later realized that the hymn's text also resonates with the mood of the painting; the words speak of a reverent awe, of cherubim with sleepless eye, and of the mystery of the Incarnate Word who must suffer: King of kings, yet born of Mary...

(from Water Music). Composed by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). Arranged by Charles Evans. For brass quintet (2 trumpets, french horn, trombone and tuba). Grade 3.5. Score and set of parts. Published by Kendor Music Inc

Soprano & Orchestra (2 flutes, oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon, 2 trumpets, trombone, 2 percussion, strings, Percussion: gong, vibraphone, bells, glockenspiel, cymbal, tambourine, maracas) - Moderately Difficult

SKU: OU.9780193467194

Composed by Alun Hoddinott. Voice & Piano. Pieces & Studies. Vocal Score. 28 pages. Duration 16'. Oxford University Press #9780193467194. Published by Oxford University Press (OU.9780193467194).

ISBN 9780193467194. 12 x 8 inches.

Three songs for soprano and orchestra to poems by George Herbert and Henry King.

Composed by Karen Lakey Buckwalter. For handbells (3-5 octaves) (optional handchimes (3-5 octaves)). Handbells. General. Level 2. Handbell score. Published by Chorister's Guild