SSATB choir and cello (SATB) - Moderately Difficult

SKU: OU.9780193408210

Composed by Cecilia McDowall. Secular Choral - Mixed Voices. New Horizons. Secular. Cello part. 12 pages. Duration 13'. Oxford University Press #9780193408210. Published by Oxford University Press (OU.9780193408210).

ISBN 9780193408210. 12 x 8 inches.

For SSATB and cello Night Flight was written to mark the centenary of Harriet Quimby's pioneering flight across the English channel and won the 2014 British Composer Award in the Choral category. McDowall uses vocal clusters and haunting solo cello lines to set texts by Sheila Bryer on the mysterious powers of the sea, earth, and air.

Choral (SSATBB)

SKU: HL.1233526

Composed by Laurel Luke Christensen. Gentry Publications. Octavo. 24 pages. Gentry Publications #JG2666. Published by Gentry Publications (HL.1233526).

UPC: 196288147305. 6.75x10.5x0.052 inches.

SSATB Choir

SKU: CA.966500

Composed by Paul Ayres. Edited by Stefan Schuck. Contemporary Choir Music. Sacred vocal music. Full score. Composed 2005. 8 pages. Duration 4 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 09.665/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.966500).

ISBN 9790007167707. Text language: Latin/English.

Interestingly, Ayres combines the Latin text of the hymn with his translation here: in the style of a free motet-like cantus firmus, he interprets the Latin text impressively in music, making use of glissandi, wide leaps and unison twelve-tone linear construction for the dramatic second verse with its deceptive vision of night. He places the motet sections after the translated text, but quite simply with the Gregorian cantus firmus and in the style of medieval organum, however with interesting, diatonically written dissonant sounds. This rewarding piece is challenging, but well worth singing in a concert or church service.