SKU: AP.30745S
UPC: 038081351414. English.
With a fanfare-style beginning, Jack Bullock's treatment of O Come All Ye Faithful builds upon the text Joyful and Triumphant. In a comfortable range, it's a stunning holiday choice for your beginners' first holiday program. A tremendous opener or closer sure to bring in the holiday season with acclaim! This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.
SKU: HP.921
UPC: 763628109219.
Included are 18 metrical canticles, all paraphrases from the pen of Carl P. Daw, Jr. These are set to both a traditional tune and a contemporary tune created specifically for each text.
SKU: ST.CN7P
ISBN 9790220224645.
A tour de force of choral energy and expertise in rhythmic precision, this is aerial music, fleet and vibrant as voices proclaim Martin Luther's vision of universal peace above a torrent of cascading organ scales. The brightness of the Lydian mode matches this joyful proclamation, intoned chant-like in bold, clear intervals recalling the sounds both of medieval music and its refraction through the ears of modern masters like Stravinsky and Tavener. Cunningly constructed too, on a four-bar ostinato, the music reverses its opening scale figure for a quieter section before building again to an extrovert ending that repeats the chant against new organ figures in a clinching 'alleluia'.
SKU: CF.CM9599
ISBN 9781491154212. UPC: 680160912711. 6.875 x 10.5 inches. Key: Eb major. English, Latin. Original.
A dynamic opener or closer for any concert program, Come Raise a Song on High includes English and the Latin text Cantate Domino, popular because of its joyful nature. The bright, rhythmic A-section contains a powerful, exciting accompaniment and should be sung with strength and exuberance. Keep the syncopated rhythms accurate and sing with precise diction by energizing consonants and executing clean cut-offs. Sing with a full forte, yet maintain beauty and do not over-sing. The slower B-section is legato with a flowing piano accompaniment. Sing expressively with energetic softer dynamics to aid the singers in adding more expressiveness. Observe the sudden dynamic changes in the final A-section. Latin pronunciation: Kahn-TAH-teh DAW-mee-naw KAHN-tee-koom NAW-voom, Kahn-TAH-teh DAW-mee-naw AWM-nees TEH-rah. Latin text translation: Sing to the Lord a new song, Sing to the Lord all the earth.A dynamic opener or closer for any concert program,A Come Raise a Song on High includes English and the Latin text Cantate Domino, popular because of its joyful nature. The bright, rhythmic A-section contains a powerful, exciting accompaniment and should be sung with strength and exuberance. Keep the syncopated rhythms accurate and sing with precise diction by energizing consonants and executing clean cut-offs. Sing with a full forte, yet maintain beauty and do not over-sing. The slower B-section is legato with a flowing piano accompaniment. Sing expressively with energetic softer dynamics to aid the singers in adding more expressiveness. Observe the sudden dynamic changes in the final A-section. Latin pronunciation: Kahn-TAH-tehA A DAW-mee-nawA A KAHN-tee-koomA A A NAW-voom, Kahn-TAH-tehA A DAW-mee-nawA A AWM-neesA A A TEH-rah. Latin text translation: Sing to the Lord a new song, Sing to the Lord all the earth.A dynamic opener or closer for any concert program, Come Raise a Song on High includes English and the Latin text Cantate Domino, popular because of its joyful nature. The bright, rhythmic A-section contains a powerful, exciting accompaniment and should be sung with strength and exuberance. Keep the syncopated rhythms accurate and sing with precise diction by energizing consonants and executing clean cut-offs. Sing with a full forte, yet maintain beauty and do not over-sing. The slower B-section is legato with a flowing piano accompaniment. Sing expressively with energetic softer dynamics to aid the singers in adding more expressiveness. Observe the sudden dynamic changes in the final A-section. Latin pronunciation: Kahn-TAH-teh DAW-mee-naw KAHN-tee-koom NAW-voom, Kahn-TAH-teh DAW-mee-naw AWM-nees TEH-rah. Latin text translation: Sing to the Lord a new song, Sing to the Lord all the earth.A dynamic opener or closer for any concert program, Come Raise a Song on High includes English and the Latin text Cantate Domino, popular because of its joyful nature. The bright, rhythmic A-section contains a powerful, exciting accompaniment and should be sung with strength and exuberance. Keep the syncopated rhythms accurate and sing with precise diction by energizing consonants and executing clean cut-offs. Sing with a full forte, yet maintain beauty and do not over-sing.The slower B-section is legato with a flowing piano accompaniment. Sing expressively with energetic softer dynamics to aid the singers in adding more expressiveness.Observe the sudden dynamic changes in the final A-section.Latin pronunciation:Kahn-TAH-teh  DAW-mee-naw  KAHN-tee-koom   NAW-voom,Kahn-TAH-teh  DAW-mee-naw  AWM-nees   TEH-rah.Latin text translation:Sing to the Lord a new song,Sing to the Lord all the earth.
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.
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