Choral (SATB) SKU: HL.2054777 Composed by Traditional Melody. Arranged by...(+)
Choral (SATB)
SKU:
HL.2054777
Composed
by Traditional Melody.
Arranged by Jay Rouse.
Praise Gathering Choral.
General Worship,
Non-Seasonal. CD. Hal
Leonard #PA8155TCD.
Published by Hal Leonard
(HL.2054777).
Composed by Jeffrey H. Rickard. For SATB choir (with optional 2-5 octave handbel...(+)
Composed by Jeffrey H.
Rickard. For SATB choir
(with optional 2-5 octave
handbells). Sacred
Anthem. Octavo. Sacred
Music Press #S475.
Published by Sacred Music
Press
Choral SATB Choir and Piano SKU: CF.CM9787 Composed by Coty Raven Morris....(+)
Choral SATB Choir and
Piano
SKU:
CF.CM9787
Composed by
Coty Raven Morris.
Arranged by Saleel Menon.
Duration 3:45. Carl
Fischer Music #CM9787.
Published by Carl Fischer
Music (CF.CM9787).
ISBN 9781491164587.
UPC: 680160923496. Key: D
major. English.
Original.
The text
for the first voicing
(SSA) of this piece came
to me in the fall of 2020
while teaching at Crosby
High School in Crosby,
Texas. My students,
though enthusiastic to be
back in Choir, were
struggling to cope with
the civil unrest around
them, in addition to the
pandemic. When
considering how I could
help them navigate this
time, I realized that
they were in need of some
sort of consistency, of
feeling grounded in
themselves. As weÂ
focused on building of
community and
citizenship, this text
and tune came to mind,
each phrase highlighting
an element of personal
and community wellness.I
lead with my
spirit keeping love in
the circle around me.
(Social)Expressing my
spirit
(Occupational)Loving what
I can see and cannot see,
I'll take care of the
vessel I am in
(Physical)I love with me
that's under the skin
(Emotional)Taking care of
my mind
(Intellectual)Envisioning
the me I want to be
(Spiritual)I had the
honor of collaborating
with composer/educator
Saleel Menon to create
the beautiful piano
accompaniment and SATB
setting.Who I Want To Be
opens with a solo
functioning as a mantra
throughout the tune. As
the piece continues,
voices join in unison and
harmony to emphasize the
intent.When the repeats
in mm. 48–51
occur, invite students to
share some of their own
mantras and affirmations,
or feel free to borrow
from the words my
students in the Crosby HS
choir inspired me to
write:Allow yourself
graceI am persistentI am
fragile, not brokenYou
are worthyI am worthyI
know that your success is
not my demise!The only
validation I need is my
ownI believe in myselfI
see youIt’s okay
to not be okayBreatheI
love and I am
lovedPrepare yourself for
not only a powerful
performance, but a
rewarding experience and
conversations with your
students.THIS is the
piece you want stuck in
your students’
heads!~CRM.
Looking Up Chorale SATB SATB, Piano St Rose Music Publishing
Choir, Piano Accompaniment (SATB Choir) SKU: HL.277282 SATB and Piano ...(+)
Choir, Piano
Accompaniment (SATB
Choir)
SKU:
HL.277282
SATB and
Piano Vocal Score.
Composed by Nico Muhly.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Softcover. 60
pages. St. Rose Music
#SRO10015201. Published
by St. Rose Music
(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.