SKU: HL.48024194
ISBN 9781540002198. UPC: 888680706180. 6.75x10.5 inches.
The anonymous Middle English text is a beautiful, poignant contemplation of mortality, and Argento's setting of it casts a quiet, haunting spell. The men's chorus is occasionally joined by an insistent single chime note. The complete major work “Te Deum” (48002908) was performed at the 2017 National ACDA Conference in Minneapolis.
SKU: BP.BP2297
6.875 x 10.5 inches.
This marvelous new arrangement of the classic hymn for TTBB voices begins with quiet assurance, a beautiful combination of strength and gentleness which continues to build until the congregation joins with the choir and instruments to a dramatic final statement of truth. Optional organ, brass sextet and percussion or orchestral accompaniment are available.ChurchScripture reference: Lamentations.
SKU: BP.BP2238B
Printed product. Full score and parts for flute 1,2, oboe, B-flat clarinet 1,2, bassoon I, II, horn in F 1,2, trombone 1,2, tuba, percussion, harp, violin I, II, viola, cello and double bass.Note: This scoring can be used flexibly to accommodate various instrumental ensemble sizes, allowing balance with choirs of varying sizes, and for more quiet/gentle performances or larger/more dramatic interpretations. Performance options include: The piano part (from choral octavo) can be used with any performance, but is not required if harp and winds are used.
SKU: HL.35030548
ISBN 9781495035913. UPC: 888680082222. 6.75x10.5 inches. Pamela Stewart/Greg Gilpin.
Premiered at Carnegie Hall for the Shawnee Press 75th Anniversary, this powerful and inspirational work, now set for TTBB voices, sings of “hope” described through the phases of life, such as a newborn's cry, the laughter of children, the ashes of the fire of love that has died, the quiet comfort of a dream. Set to haunting and dynamic music with piano or optional orchestra, the work comes to a moving conclusion of “hope is not lost...hope will arise.” Gorgeous, moving and timely.
SKU: BP.BP2168
Printed product. A beautiful, compelling piano accompaniment begins this tender setting of the Robert Browning text. Quiet, conditional statements become a profession of faith as they open into the power of the promise that the everlasting arms my life surround. Perfect for the time of confession and assurance of pardon. Now available arranged for SSAA and TTBB.
SKU: BP.2122
Printed product. Prepare to be stunned by this arrangement of Charles Wesley's beloved carol. Set for SATB choir with a brilliant piano 4-hands or organ accompaniment, it is both powerful and quietly contemplative, capturing every nuance of the text. Two brass scorings are available (large ensemble and quintet, both with percussion), as well as a full orchestral version. The large brass ensemble and orchestral versions also include an optional 30-second brass/percussion fanfare (not printed in vocal score).In addition, a handbell part is available, which may be used with any of the other accompaniment options. An accompaniment CD (piano 4-hands, brass quintet, and percussion) is also available.
SKU: HL.49003214
ISBN 9790220117282. UPC: 888680784249. 8.25x11.75x0.052 inches. Latin.
Glorious Hill may be performed by a male choir.Text by Pico della Mirandola (1463-1497) from De Hominis Dignitate.Glorious Hill was commissioned by the Hilliard Ensemble and first performed by them at its summer Festival of Voices in Lewes, Sussex, in August 1988. It was the first piece I wrote for the ensemble and I focused on the singers' unique ability to move with ease from early music to tonal music of the present day. There were techniques which I asked for which I hardly needed to notate - the staggered breathing of the two tenors to supply a continuous unbroken held note for example - and the piece moves between passages for solo voices and sections of highly chromatic homophony, almost as if the music were switching between the 12th century of Perotin and the 16th century of Gesualdo. Each of the four voices is given its own solo passage, sometimes accompanied, sometimes quietly supported by the other voices.The title, Glorious Hill comes from the name of the small-town Mississippi setting of Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke. I wrote the music for the 1987 production of this play at the Leicester Haymarket Theatre, the first time I had written any incidental music for the stage. Williams makes very specific demands in terms of music and there is one particularly powerful scene, the penultimate one, throughout which music and atmospheric sound effects are continuous. The principle character Alma argues passionately about the vital importance of human choice with the man to whom she has, too late, admitted her love. I watched this section every night throughout the 4 week run of the play watching the different ways in which the actress, Frances Barber, played the scene. There is a powerful emotional and philosophical connection between the imagery of this scene and a passage from the Renaissance philosopher Pico della Mirandola's Oration on the Dignity of Man which forms the text of Glorious Hill. This passage has been described as one of the few passages in Renaissance philosophy to treat human freedom in a modern way. The text, which is sung in Latin, is addressed by God to Adam before the fall from grace.Gavin Bryars.
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