SKU: HL.139749
UPC: 888680039059. 6.75x10.5 inches.
Originally from the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical State Fair, this beautiful ballad was recently included in the revival of Cinderella. Arranged with an expressive piano accompaniment, this setting is ideal for concert and community choirs from high school through adult.
SKU: C4.9790902257145
ISBN 9790902257145. 8.27 x 11.7 inches.
Written for Chis Watson and the Choir of Trinity College, Melbourne, these fine settings augment the familiar tunes with changes in form. They have been recorded by the Choir of Trinity College under the direction of Christopher Watson on Walking on Waves (ACIS; 194-660-710-178).
SKU: ST.CN23P
ISBN 9790220225147.
Commissioned by the BBC as part of the celebrations for International Women's Day, and reflecting its theme of hope, Like a Singing Bird was premiered live on Radio 3 on 8 March 2015 by Sarah Connolly and the St Catharine's Girls' Choir, conducted by Edward Wickham. The distinctive vocal scoring features a small solo group of sopranos or mezzo-sopranos drawn from the upper-voice ensemble. The anthem is the first of three which are collectively entitled Echoes from Willow Wood, the second also being available in Choral Now. The text, Christina Rossetti's poem 'A Birthday', features in Virginia Woolf's classic essay A Room of One's Own, based on lectures delivered at Newnham College and at Randle's own Cambridge alma mater, Girton, an institution at the forefront of women's education for two centuries. Inspired by the clock in Girton's Stanley Library, the 'chiming rhythms' which are a driving force within the piece offer a further level of connection. The music moves from quiet anticipation to bright affirmation, the sense of something life-changing heralded by an Advent plainchant quoted in the second half. The final couplet is set apart in a hushed recitative, reflecting, in the composer's words, 'the hope I and other young female composers can have as we try to make our mark in what has traditionally been a male domain.'.
SKU: HL.48023653
UPC: 888680091309. 6.75x10.5 inches.
Commissioned for the AGO National Convention in 2014, this piece is about embracing the diverse character of the human voice and exploring the sounds and the emotions those sounds can suggest. With percussion and an alternate organ part is included in the back of the octavo for occasions when an organ is available.
SKU: AP.46416
UPC: 038081527956. English.
A folk-like setting of Maya Angelou's empowering poem, which compares a bird's longing to be liberated with that of all people. Hayes chooses a minor key with plenty of harmonic tension and a walking tempo that suggests the footsteps of those who have come before. The final Picardy third is the ultimate symbol of freedom. This is the second movement from the song cycle Like Dust I Rise.
About Alfred Choral Designs
The Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.
SKU: AP.46596
UPC: 038081531717. English.
Introduce your choir to one of Mozart's most enduring masterworks! Arranger Patrick Liebergen has sensibly adapted the original material into multiple voicings that stay true to the original, while also offering a compelling piano reduction of the original orchestral score. Exciting and dramatic classical rep!
SKU: AP.49714
UPC: 038081568010. English. Words by Andrew Marvell.
A tour de force cornerstone of choral literature. Lloyd Pfautsch's remarkable setting of the 17th-century poem by Andrew Marvell continues to be a popular choice with contest, festival, and collegiate choirs. Lawson-Gould is proud to present new voicings of this a cappella staple, as realized by contemporary composer/conductor Jacob Narverud. Notably authentic, with the original vocal lines still intact.
SKU: SU.80300192
In this medieval mystic text the circle is an image for meditation, first excluding, then embracing, the world. The musical setting reflects the image with contracting and expanding textures, and a soprano solo. English. SSAA a cappella with Soprano solo. Medium-Difficult. SSAA, a cappella Published by: Treble Clef Music Minimum order quantity: 8 copies.
SKU: CA.964420
ISBN 9790007143497. Text language: Latin.
The aged Simeon takes the new-born Jesus in his arms, recognises his significance and celebrates this moment in a paean of praise as the fulfilment of his life. In Matsushita's motet this song of praise, the nunc dimittis, stands at the centre of the composition. Here, the triad of C-F sharp-G, used for the word hodie - today at the beginning, symbolically combines with a Gregorian-like motif, revolving around the central note of B flat in whole-tone movement, and which is used to represent the Virgin Mary. The work ends with a mystical wash of sound, a whole-tone cluster which emerges from the aleatorically repeated basic motifs of the work, and fades away to nothing.
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