SKU: GI.G-4652
ISBN 9781579990206. Text by John L. Bell.
The Annunciation - The Nativity - The Presentation - The Rejection - The Cross - The Resurrection - The Assumption .
SKU: CA.990800
ISBN 9790007087012. Language: Latin.
John Van Buren's Gloria was composed in 1996 for the Maulbronner Kammerchor, which introduced this work in Germany and on tours to Russia and Argentina. It has since also been heard in Italy, Holland and the USA. John Van Buren writes about his work: The beginning of my Gloria is initially very restrained, even cautious. It is extremely chromatic, the sound only gradually opening out to become a song of praise. The work grows in a steady crescendo until it arrives at an 8-part fortissimo sound (B major). Finally, the expression of great vitality gives place to a soprano melody which floats calmly above the choral sound, and the work dies away pianissimo.
SKU: JU.JMG1350
ISBN 9781959503194. UPC: 850055807747.
If you’re looking for an easily prepared musical treat for Christmas this year, Celebrate the Child is the answer! Created by the always creative yet practical Stan Pethel, the 2-part (opt. SATB) vocal scoring sings effortlessly. Classic contemporary songs such as Breath of Heaven (Amy Grant) and Gloria (Michael W. Smith) are masterfully blended with beloved carols and simple narration. It’s a work perfect for small choirs, senior choirs, ensembles, or any choir desiring a simple (though not simplistic) yet highly effective Christmas presentation. 20 minutes.
SKU: ST.EM18
ISBN 9790220216930.
Though better known as a composer of church and keyboard music, Tomkins wrote secular vocal music that offers a compendium of all the various styles: canzonets, balletts, madrigals and 'sacred songs'. Each was dedicated to one of his relatives, a friend or a colleague. The names of these 28 dedicatees form a fascinating list at the end of the book.CONTENTS Adieu, ye city-poisoning towers (SSATB) Cloris, whenas I woo (SSATB) Come, shepherds sing with me (SSATB) Fond men, that do so highly prize (SST (or A)) Fusca, in thy starry eyes (SSATB) How great delight (SST) It is my well-beloved's voice (SSATTB) Love, cease tormenting (SSA (or T)) Music divine (SSATTB) No more I will thy love (SATB) O let me die for true love (SATB) O let me live for true love (SATB) Oft did I marle (SSAATB) Our hasty life away dost post (SST) Oyez! Has any found a lad? (SATB) Phyllis, now cease to move me (SSATB) Phyllis, yet see him dying (SSATB) See, see the shepherds' Queen (SSATB) Sure there is no god of love (SSA) The fauns and satyrs tripping (SSATB) To the shady woods (SSATB) Too much I once lamented (SSATB) Turn unto the Lord (SSATTB) Was ever wretch tormented? (ST (or A) TB) Weep no more, thou sorry Boy (SATB) When David heard (SAATB) When I observe (SSAATB) Woe is me (SSATBB) Yet again, as soon revived (SAT (or A) B).
SKU: GI.G-6048
English. Text Source: Based on Psalm 10. Text by Ruth Duck. Scripture: Psalm 10.
SKU: BP.BP2339
UPC: 748769023396. 6.875 x 10.5 inches.
The ST CLEMENT tune, often associated with an evening hymn, is here paired with a fresh morning hymn of praise: Hail, holy light! The world rejoices as morning breaks and shadows fly; all nature blends her myriad voices to greet the dayspring from on high... Break forth, in glory far excelling, O light eternal, love divine! Howard Helvey's choral and piano writing shine exquisitely as always in this anthem.
SKU: HL.277282
UPC: 840126915006. 6.75x10.5 inches.
Program note:Looking Up is a piece for large chorus and orchestra, and is in three sections, played without pause. In the 16th century, a variety of psalters in meter were printed in England, with the idea of making psalm-singing something that could happen easily at home, with the rhyming meter being an aid to memorization. These translations are wonderful exercises in brevity and sometimes clumsy rhymemaking, and were usually prefaced by a lengthy explanation as to their merits; the title of one of the first such volumes in English is: The Psalter of Dauid newely translated into Englysh metre in such sort that it maye the more decently, and wyth more delyte of the mynde, be reade and songe of al men. I thought it would be appropriate to set one of these introductions, and the first section of Looking Up sets the preface to Thomas Ravenscroft's psalter (1621), in which he writes: “The singing of Psalmes (assay the Doctors) comforteth the sorrowfull, pacifieth the angry, strengtheneth the weake, humbleth the proud, gladdeth the humble, stirres up the slow, reconcileth enemies, lifteth up the heart to heavenly things, and uniteth the Creature to his Creator.”It begins meditatively, but eventually grows agitated and fervent, with a vision of the “quire of Angels and Saints” “redoubling anddescanting” - an ecstatic and terrifying vision of the skies opening up. Ravenscroft then encourages the use of instrumental musicfor worship, at which point, a long, acrobatic orchestral interlude with jagged edges antagonizes the choir, who sing a kind of private, anxious meditation on two pitches.One of the most delicious biblical texts is an Apocryphal prayer known as the Benedicite or the Prayer of the Three Children (the same who were rescued by an angel after King Nebuchadnezzar tried to have them burnt in an oven for not bowing to his image). The text is repetitive, obsessive, and a gift to composers - each line is an invocation of an element of the natural world, followed by the phrase, “blesse ye the Lord, praise him & magnify him for ever.” In Looking Up, the setting begins with three solo voices, and then grows to include the whole choir, itemizing the whole of creation. The idea that these boys are spared from the furnace and then five minutes later are saying, “O ye the fire and warming heate, blesse ye the Lord...” has always felt very loaded to me, and the orchestra plays with this conflict between joyful praise and a more terrible (in the 16th-century sense) awefor the divine.The text for the third, and shortest, section is taken from Christopher Smart's (1722-1771) A Song to David, purportedly written during his confinement in a mental asylum. This ode to King David points out how David, as the author of some of the Psalms, observes the whole world from the “clustering spheres” to the “nosegay in the vale.&rdquo.
SKU: OU.9780193551046
ISBN 9780193551046. 10 x 7 inches.
For SATB, with piano or drum or unaccompanied The Sarah Quartel Songbook brings together a selection of the composer's best-loved pieces for mixed voices, including favourites such as Sing, my Child, Voice on the Wind, and Swept Away.
SKU: ST.CN17P
ISBN 9790220224744.
This setting of Videntes stellam aims to explore the extremes of emotion surrounding the revelation of Christ. The piece begins by depicting the vision of the star and the journey of the Kings, utilising a bright harmonic language in the organ and emphatic, cascading outbursts of praise from the choir, periodically interrupted by more reflective iterations of the text. Following a final declaration of exaltation and joy, the piece concludes with a peaceful and reverential picture of the giving of gifts to the infant Jesus, fading away as the organ takes up the original theme under the final statement of '... myrrham' from the choir. Suitable for evensongs or concerts throughout the whole of the Advent, Christmas and Epiphany seasons. Videntes stellam was the 2013 winner of the New Music for St Paul's Cathedral Composition Competition.
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