Uses: Holy Week Good FridayScripture: Luke 2:34-35; John 19:26-27The sorrow of the cross pours from the page in this deeply captivating piece that pays homage to a mother's love. Based on an ancientsacred text (Stabat Mater Dolorosa) we experience the loss and deep sadness of the crucifixion and confront the awful price of redemption. The music is a tone painting filled with passion and expressive harmonies. Theconversational qualities of the opening theme clarify the text and allow the director to really work on phrasing and enunciation. Duration: ca. 3:43.

Uses: Good Friday Holy Week Scripture: Matthew 12:48 - John 19:26 A very singular perspective is presented in the text of this emotional anthem for Good Friday. The tears of Mary are used to not only express a mother's pain and loss but the deep sorrow of us all as we consider the cost of grace. The main theme in minor moves with the restraint of a heavy burden as the harmonies provide a deep sense of grief and mourning. The cello adds color and motion to the pulsing of the piano delivering an almost dirge-like impact to the spirit of the work. Passionate poetry meets thoughtful music!

Jesus Reassures His Mother is a setting of medieval lyric poetry written anonymously in the 14th century. The poet recounts a vision of the young Mary rocking the infant Christ to sleep. The child requests hismother to sing a lullaby but alas knowing her child’s fate she is too sad to sing. Jesus tells her that all mothers worry about their children’s futures and insists that she should sing nevertheless. Mary recounts the visit ofGabriel and the events of Christ’s birth but reflects how sad it is to have delivered a child to such a fate. Jesus reassures his mother that he will be with his father in heaven where Mary will come to join Him at the end oftime there to live in eternal bliss. At this point Mary is persuaded by and echoes her child’s reassuring words and she is joined in this by the choir (now representing us all). The vision fades away in the voice of the narratorwhose loneliness and longing return. We learn that it is Christmas Day. This setting grows from the visionary mystical world inhabited by Julian of Norwich whose Revelations of Divine Love provided the inspiration for awork Anne Boyd composed in 1994. The medium has been expanded from the Song Company’s six solo voices used in the Revelations to the double motet choir of the Sydney Philharmonia who commissioned this work for their 75thanniversary. The parts of the infant Jesus Mary the Narrator and the angel Gabriel are taken by choir soloists: soprano alto tenor and bass. The work is situated in the context of Boyd’s personal musical aestheticwhich she describes as the intersection of Christian Love with Buddhist silence.

This is the ultimate Mother's Day anthem recognizing all of the simple loving gestures that mothers do every day without thinking which we hardly notice but would miss so terribly - These Are the Things. J. Paul Williams andDavid Lantz have given us a tender loving and lovely tribute for Mother's Day.

John Rutter's Candlelight Carol for SATBB and Organ or Ensemble. Inspired by Geertgen's painting 'Nativity at Night' Candlelight Carol centres around the love of a mother on that first night in the stable. Orchestral material compatible with both the SATBB and SSAA versions is available on sale and on hire/rental. This is a new version of N3366 (ISBN: 9780193533660).

Faure was not drawn to compose a Requiem because of the death of a loved one even though his mother had died during the early stages of composition and his father had passed away two years before. Faure’s composition does not set his Requiem to the standard liturgical text instead adding a lyrical Pie Jesu and transcendent Paradisum and omitting the Dies Irae and Tuba Mirum - which for most composers are opportunities to demonstrate the dramatic possibilities available with the choral and orchestral forces. As a result the mood of the Requiem is relatively calm and peaceful and often referred to as a lullaby of death.Faure’sunconventional composition has become a firm favourite in the repertoire and available here is the vocal score for Soloists and SATB Choir with Piano Accompaniment as edited by Desmond Ratcliffe.

Full Score for John Tavener's Three Hymns Of George Herbert for SATB chorus percussion and strings. Commissioned by the Legatum Institute [www.LI.com] as part of its ?British and American Notions of Liberty?programme in the year of the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. First performance on 21st April 2013 in Washington National Cathedral by the City Choir of Washington conducted by Robert Shafer.'The ThreeHymns of George Herbert were written after a long illness and represent for me a Hymn of thanksgiving to God for a relative return to health. They are intended to be sung in a large resonant acoustic with the main choir andstring orchestra at one end of the building and an echo choir and string quartet at the other. The percussion (tubular bells gongs and tam-tams) should sound from a gallery or other raised position.The Hymns wereinspired by the transparent poetry of George Herbert and are dedicated in gratitude and love to the memory of Mother Thekla former Abbess of the Orthodox Monastery of the Assumption Normanby near Whitby who died in 2011.' -John Tavener

Par VAN PROOSDIJ PANDA. CHOIREOGRAPHY FOR CANONS An organic way to experience the joy of musical embodied learning Choireography for Canons ? 18 brand new canons choireographed in order to make music and movement go hand in hand. 18 pieces of art written by 6 young composers from all over the world in different levels, styles and languages with accompaniment or a cappella. This book is part of an Ebook , an online learning environment app, which contains digital tools like instructions, 3-step video?s, scores and extra features. The theme of this Ebook is Mother Earth