SKU: WD.080689686238
UPC: 080689686238.
Yes I Will, a song of promise and hope, is a gentle and uplifting reminder that no matter where we are, no matter what is happening in our lives, no matter the trials we may be facing, our God never fails… In our waiting, lowest points, and heavy hearts, we can still sing for joy in the Lord…the One thing we can always count on. Made popular by Vertical Worship and specially arranged and orchestrated by Daniel Semsen, this anthem will meet each person in your congregation where they are and give them hope in the One who will work all things out for our good.
SKU: GI.G-10489
UPC: 785147048916. English. Text Source: Lutheran Book of Worship, 1978. Text by Isaac Watts.
The entire story of Christ’s passion is told in this anthem—the fateful night, the bitter scene, the Body broken—it’s all there. Even though betrayed, Christ spoke words of love, reminded us of his broken body, and told us that we would celebrate this event while waiting for the marriage supper that will take place when he returns. The music portrays the powerful forces working against him, but also reminds us of his coming again in glory.
SKU: AU.9781506456935
ISBN 9781506456935. 7x10.25 inches.
A poignent and profound text with a beautiful melody, perfect for All Saints, funerals, or any time of remembering. [The following story comes from the Brokering family, and might be great to include in the long description. I have a whole email from his daughter about it--DCS] Herb Brokering wrote this text to honor his wife Lois and the legacy of their faithful love. On the day she died in a car accident, he happened to be reciting this poem to a group of ministers and thereafter kept it in his shirt pocket for weeks to come as a tribute to Lois and a comfort to his family.
SKU: HL.1311455
UPC: 196288177319. 6.75x10.5x0.036 inches.
Looking for a fantastic setting of Langston Hughes' poem “In Time of Silver Rain”? Look no further. This poem was featured in Hughes' 1947 poetry collection Fields of Wonder. With everything happening in our world today, this poem portrays an optimistic outlook on life. Although there is no consensus on the meaning of “silver rain,” here it represents the idea that, as in life, something good can come from both gentle and heavy rain. It also symbolizes winter's end and the spring rain's arrival. For all who are navigating the ups and downs of life in every season, take comfort in knowing that spring will come, bringing new beginnings. Like no one else can do, André Thomas has written a fantastic setting honoring the words of Hughes. This piece come highly recommended for your mixed choral ensembles of various levels.
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: HL.403394
UPC: 196288058595. 6.75x10.5x0.029 inches.
Here is a beautiful love song, passionate and stirring. The composer listed the expression as bittersweet, which is the essence of the poem, the events all happening on a golden day. This is an appropriate piece for a school or community choir concert.
SKU: BT.WH29152
ISBN 9788759858219. English.
A Lyke-Wake Dirge - A Border Ballad Op. 110 a - a choral classic by Vagn Holmboe for SATB Choir A Cappella. 'The Lyke Wake Dirge is a moral ballad from the border telling the story of what will happen to the soul after death. If he has never given shoes and stockings to the poor, then the 'whinnes' will torment him and pierce him to the bone. If he has never given food and drink to the poor, then the fire of purgatory will burn him to the bare bone. However, if he has done all these good works, then Christ shall receive his soul.'.
SKU: HL.14019693
ISBN 9788759862513.
FORORD TIL ANDEN UDGAVE Siden Lydformning-Kordramatik blev udarbejdet i de forrygende tressere, de vilde eksperimenters tid, har udviklingen stabiliseret sig en del.Hvor tit horer man i dag om happenings eller antimusik? Det har ogsa vist sig, at mange af forsogene med ny notation har vaeret for vidtgaende, derfor har det vaeret nodvendigt at revidere andenudgaven og fjerne de mere modepraegede pafund fra 68.Men ellers er bogens grundide uaendret. Satserne kan udfores af folk uden saerlige forudsaetninger i korsang, ligesom der heller ikke anvendes instrumenter eller rekvisitter.Satserne fungerer bedst med grupper pa mindst 25. Det kreative element ogimprovisationsstyringen er stadig en vigtig del af bogen.Det er meget betydningsfuldt, at den enkelte korsanger i gruppen fornemmer sit specielle ansvar for den overordnede helhed.
SKU: HL.49045586
ISBN 9790001166270. UPC: 841886032705. 7.5x10.75 inches. Latin.
As a singing teacher, choir director and not least as a passionate professional choir singer, Irina Rebhuna is perfectly familiar with the possibilities of the human voice. And so it is hardly surprising that the Latvian musician born in 1988 has devoted herself especially to the composition of vocal music. Her sacred choral work Libera me, Domine for mixed a cappella choir (SSAATTBB) won the special prize for the 'best composition for 4-6 voices' at the International Composition Competition 'Musica Sacra Nova' 2016. This church music gem, in which the eponymous Gregorian chorale is intonated by one of the (two) bass baritone sections at the beginning - over a musical tapestry woven by the remaining voices - and taken up again by all tenors at the end, is ideal for ambitious amateur choirs. The idea behind this work, says the composer, is 'the human reflection on the uncertain - on death, on Judgment Day or on what is inexplicable to us. Such as humility, excitement, fear,and atonement. The chant ends without ending, there is no solution. Life goes on because we ask the following question again and again: What will happen next?'.
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