Choral TBB choir, piano

SKU: CF.CM8403

Composed by Kirke Mechem. Performance Score. With Standard notation. 12 pages. Carl Fischer Music #CM8403. Published by Carl Fischer Music (CF.CM8403).

ISBN 9780825811647. UPC: 798408011642. 6.875 X 10.5 inches.

Commissioned by the Kansas State University Men's Glee Club in memory of its former president Dennis Clark, this somber work by Kirke Mechem uses text from a poem by the composer. Evoking the searching and yearning to that the living sometimes feel for those who are gone, the music features the shadows of the moon being overcome by the radiance from the stars.

Grade 3

SKU: CL.012-4850-75

Composed by Romeyn. Concert Band. Oversized, spiral-bound score. Composed 2020. Opus III Wind Orchestra Publications #012-4850-75. Published by Opus III Wind Orchestra Publications (CL.012-4850-75).

Chamber Music High voice, Piano

SKU: PR.111402890

Composed by Ricky Ian Gordon. Full score. 44 pages. Duration 20 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #111-40289. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.111402890).

ISBN 9781491134672. UPC: 680160685264.

Whatâ??s in a name? While the title is French for â??Eight Flower Songs,â? the texts are all in English. The poemsâ?? flowers metaphorically evoke fragrance, love and loss, life and death, rebirth and regrowth. Perhaps the texture and beauty of Gordonâ??s music are themselves French. The 20-minute song cycle draws on poems from Wordsworth to Dorothy Parker, as well as from contemporary poets including the composer himself.
When So-Chung Shinn came to me with the idea of commissioning a song cycle with her spectacular husband Tony Lee, she had in mind something having to do with flowers. Tony had asked her what she wanted for her birthday, and she said she wanted to be behind the creating of a new work. Lucky me, I was the recipient of the commission. So-Chung sent me a little description of all the flowers she loves, but I had to take the idea and create a narrative in my head.It is always a matter of pleasing the commissioner, yet coming up with something you can get behind and hear music for as well. I already knew I wanted to use my â??Tulipsâ? poem which is really about the arc of a relationship as represented through the life span of the Tulips, and, in many ways, disappointment; and Dorothy Parkerâ??s â??One Perfect Rose,â? which is wry, bitter, cynical, and funny, in a way only Dorothy Parker can so pithily express.I thought of Jane Kenyonâ??s exquisite â??Peonies at Dusk,â? because knowing she died so young (46) of leukemia, the poem has such a particular resonance, almost humanizing the Peonies, casting the moon as a sentient being, illustrating so beautifully how connected everything is, alive here, and revolving around these exquisite blossoms. Then, I remembered her husband Donald Hallâ??s poem â??Her Garden,â? which he wrote after Jane died, his grief intermingled with his inability to care for what she had created, to keep alive what so represented her aliveness, broken as he was, and I felt I already had a story.I found the Wordsworth, because it felt like pure joy to me, but also, if each of the songs has a color in my head, â??The Daffodilsâ? is pure yellow and a good place to start. My partner Kevin and I live on a lake, and every year, the first Daffodils, the shock of yellows, the oranges, the blinding whites, after the long snowy winters, sing of the newness that is about to enfold us in its green miraculousness.At first, the cycle ended with the Langston Hughes poem â??Cycle,â? or â??New Flowers,â? because it was lovely, and about rebirth, which is obviously optimistic, and apt, but then, my friend Telmo Dos Santos, a wonderful Canadian poet whom I met at Banff, sent me his poem â??Afterlife With Lilacs,â? having no idea what I was working on. I felt I had to add it because it is so dazzling, and it immediately felt like the missing link. Finally, there were unfortunately rights issues, namely, we could not, no how, get in touch with the Langston Hughes Estate, after so many happy collaborations.After almost a yearâ??s frustration, I wrote my own text, â??Play, Orpheus,â? which ended up being fortuitous, because the first time I met So-Chung, she entered the room and the most exquisite scent of Lillies of the Valley, Muguet de Bois, filled the room. I went right over to her and rudely put my nose to her neck, for the intoxication of the scent. So â??Play, Orpheusâ? is for So-Chung, to remind us of the precious treasures of this world flowers remind us of. Everything and everyone lives and dies, lives and dies. Death and resurrection.And of course, this is music, this is song, so the inclusion of the God of music, Orpheus, seems apt. Huit Chansons de Fleurs is really about what flowers represent, their radiance, their flickering impermanence, the way they are used to celebrate, as well as to mourn...... and of course, their fragrance. Their fragrance.Ricky Ian GordonJuly 28, 2021.

Voice and piano

SKU: BR.EB-8881

Repertoire Collection. Composed by Peter Anton Ling. Edited by Peter Anton Ling. Voice; Softbound. Edition Breitkopf.

If only we'd had something like that ... an album for practice, a guide for professional singers as well as for opera enthusiasts.(Franz Mazura, Patron Bass)

Aria; Opera; Classical; Late-romantic. Piano/Vocal Score. 120 pages. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 8881. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-8881).

ISBN 9790004184714. 9 x 12 inches. German / English.

The OperAria repertoire anthology was much applauded when it came on stage with three baritone volumes in 2015. The successful baritone debut was followed in 2017/18 by the appearance of the four soprano volumes, also conquering hearts in no time. Now, another performance: The curtain rises on the bass volumes, the foundation of the vocal family for heavier, darker voices, though nevertheless brilliant and full of radiance. The protagonists have such well-known names as Bartolo, Don Basilio, Colline, Don Pasquale, Falstaff, Figaro, Kecal, Osmin, Sarastro. Other heroes less often in the limelight, such as Dulcamara, Sancho Pansa, Phanuel, and Sir Morosus, can certainly also count on much applause. It is my aim to give students a modern, systematically structured, well-informed vocal coach that meets the demands of present-day stage practice. And, of course, a cohesive repertoire and logical presentation of audition arias for every vocal genre.(Peter Anton Ling)OperAria is the ideal vocal coach for all voice types. Edited by Peter Anton Ling, the books address all singers and are conceived above all for training and auditions. In addition, through their careful selection, they offer valuable inspiration for opera recitals. OperAria - repertoire anthology of opera arias according to vocal criteria (range, tessitura, specifics, type of aria) with due regard to practical aspects of musical and theatrical nature (style, era, role type, national provenance)with comments on the ariasinformation on the composer, the librettist, the work, the range and of versions or casting a short synopsis of the contents illuminating the basic dramatic constellation in the context of the opera's plot an evaluation from the singer's point of viewwith phonetic assistant and text assistantaria texts in the original language spoken by native speakers as an audio file (mp3)aria texts in German and English translations as a text file (pdf)available for download

If only we'd had something like that ... an album for practice, a guide for professional singers as well as for opera enthusiasts. (Franz Mazura, Patron Bass).

SSA/SSA double choir

SKU: CA.2703400

Composed by Sylke Zimpel. German title: Missa Olevanese. Soli, Coro Ssa/Ssa. Sacred vocal music, Masses, Latin. Full score. Composed 2007. 24 pages. Duration 19 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 27.034/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.2703400).

ISBN 9790007101954. Language: Latin.

Poetry is sound sad radiance distinguish this Messa, which is demanding, yet not difficult to bring off. For a double-choir performance no additional music has to be learned, because the two choirs sing in canon. In this form the Mass is ideal for choral meetings and festivals. A choir which has rehearsed the double-choir edition can perform the Mass in either the single-choir or the double-choir version.

Choral SATB choir, piano

SKU: PR.342402070

Composed by Steven Stucky. -. Ars Nova Chamber Singers, Boulder CO. Performance Score. With Standard notation. Composed 7-Feb. 8 pages. Duration 3 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #342-40207. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.342402070).

ISBN 9781491111253. UPC: 680160643226. Octavo inches. Text: Archibald R. Ammons. Archibald Ammons. Text by A.R. Ammons.

To benefit Chorus America, Stucky allowed himself to be auctioned off as a prize - the high bidder would receive a new work from the composer. After a few years and not really hearing anything, Stucky suddenly found himself up against a deadline. He reached back to a favorite poem by A.R. Ammons, Eyesight, which, he says, Won't let...his reader rest till the very last word...one of those sudden insights that leave us breathless..
This piece has an odd history. A few years ago, I agreed to be one of the“prizes” in an auction to benefit Chorus America: the highest bidder wouldget a new piece from me, while their money went to the organization. Thewinning bid came from a collection of several professional choruses anddirectors. But I was always a little vague about the details, and, hearingnothing more about it for a few years, forgot the whole thing.One day I received a message from Thomas Edward Morgan, directorof the Ars Nova Chamber Singers in Boulder: they had scheduled thepremiere of my new piece for a few weeks later, and could they have themusic, please? I needed a text, quickly, and (as usual) I was in a Los Angeleshotel room, not at home with my books. So I turned to the internet andsoon tracked down my favorite poet, A.R. Ammons (1926-2001).Once I stumbled on “Eyesight,” I remembered having loved the poemyears before. Archie must have loved it, too, because he included it bothin his Collected Poems 1951-1971 and in the later Selected Poems. It haseverything you want in an Archie Ammons poem: what Edward Hirschcalled his “offbeat, sideways, unpredictable radiance,” his “homespunglory.” It has one of his trademark conversations with a mountain (perhapsfrom his native North Carolina), it has the fluid motion from one line tothe next (enjambment, if you want to get technical) that won’t let him orhis reader rest till the very last word of the very last line, and it has in thatlast line one of those sudden insights that leave us breathless: “some thingsthat go are gone.”I miss Archie, but he’s not gone. I’m grateful for the wonderful poems heleft us, and I’m grateful that he was always generous and kind when I hadthe chutzpah to add my music to his.

Bass voice solo, SATB choir, 2 violins, basso continuo

SKU: CA.5409049

Composed by Michael Haydn. Salve Regina In B Mh 90. Sacred vocal music, Hymns, Feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Hymns in praise of the Virgin Mary. Single Part, Organ. Composed 1768. MH 90. 4 pages. Duration 5 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 54.090/49. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.5409049).

ISBN 9790007225933. Key: B flat major. Language: Latin.

Some forty settings of the four Marian antiphons by Johann Michael Haydn are extant, among them 17 settings of the Salve Regina. The Salve Regina in B flat MH 90, here published for the first time, dates from about 1765, and it survives in a contemporary manuscript copy at Gottweig in Lower Austria. This early composition by Haydn already bears witness to this talent for setting a liturgical text to music. The dialogue between the bass soloist and the choir gives this work a radiance of its own. Score and part available separately - see item CA.5409000.

Piano

SKU: HL.14003163

Composed by William Baines. Music Sales America. Studies & Exercises. Book [Softcover]. Music Sales #NOV271326. Published by Music Sales (HL.14003163).

English.

From Three Concert Studies for the Pianoforte.

By Michele McLaughlin. Piano Solo Personality. New Age, Contemporary. Softcover. Published by Hal Leonard

By Gabriel Jackson. For SATB choir (with divisions), a cappella. This edition: NH5. Mixed Voices. New Horizons. Sacred Choral Leaflet. Vocal score. 8 pages. Duration 2'

Composed by Mark Patterson. General, Epiphany. Octavo. Chorister's Guild #CGA1646. Published by Chorister's Guild

SATB choir a cappella - Late Intermediate

SKU: MN.50-0105

Composed by Chris Williams. MorningStar Music Publishers #50-0105. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers (MN.50-0105).

UPC: 688670503078. English.

A challenging, but lovely setting of a beautiful text by Rumi.

(Christmas cantata). Composed by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767). Edited by Klaus Hofmann. Arranged by Klaus Hofmann. For solo bass voice (baritone voice), SATB choir, 2 violins, viola, basso continuo, [trumpet]. B-Dur (B-flat major). Stuttgart Urtext Edition. German title: Allein Gott in der Hoh sei Ehr. Cantatas, Christmas. Level 3. Choral score. Language: German/English. TVWV 1:58. Duration 18 minutes. Published by Carus Verlag