By Elizabeth Alexander. For Men's Chorus (TTBB choir a cappella). Collegiate Rep...(+)
By Elizabeth Alexander.
For Men's Chorus (TTBB
choir a cappella).
Collegiate Repertoire,
Community Chorus, Concert
Music. Courage, Hardship,
Sacred (Worship and
Praise), Choral.
Moderately Advanced.
Octavo. Text language:
English. Duration 6
minutes. Published by
Seafarer Press
(I'll Have a New Life). By Lari Goss. Arranged by Lari Goss. For Choir and Piano...(+)
(I'll Have a New Life).
By Lari Goss. Arranged by
Lari Goss. For Choir and
Piano (TTBB quartet
feature with SATB choir).
Octavo. Duration 2'20 .
Published by Word Music
Men's
Chorus (10 Copies).
Composed by Chen Yi.
Choral part(s). With
Standard notation. 480
pages. Duration 17
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #312-41682.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.312416820).
UPC:
680160050376. 8.5 x 11
inches.
Chen
Yi’s most
performed and most
beloved choral music is a
series of 10 Chinese folk
songs adapted for
S.A.T.B. Chorus
(published in 3 volumes:
312-41731, 312-41732,
312-41733). This special
version is a setting of
the familiar collection,
adapted for
children’s chorus
and
strings. Remembering
when I studied
composition in the
Central Conservatory of
Music in Beijing, I
learned to sing hundreds
of Chinese folk songs
collected from more than
twenty provinces and
fifty ethnic groups, and
went to countryside to
collect original folk
music every year. I
got to know that the folk
songs are a mirror of
people’s daily
lives, their thoughts and
sentiments, local customs
and manners. They are
sung in regional dialects
and use the idioms of
everyday speech with
their particular
intonations, accents and
cadences. This
correlation between
speech and music
distinguishes folk songs
of one region from
another. I learned
all songs by heart and
sang them back in the
exams every week.Â
They melted in my blood
and became my natural
music language. The
more I walk into the
music life,the more I
treasure the rich culture
I have learned from my
homeland. When I
became the
Composer-in-Residence of
Chanticleer and was
invited to write the
first work for its
concert program, as well
as another version for
its
Singing-In-The-Schools
program, I decided to
introduce A Set of
Chinese Folk Songs to my
American audiences, and
add a new flavor to
Chanticleer’srich
repertoire. The work
includes ten folk songs,
taken from eight
provinces (Anhui,
Shaanxi, Yunnan, Shanxi,
Taiwan, Sinkiang, Jiangsu
and Guizhou) and five
ethnic groups (Han,
Hasake, Uighur, Miao and
Yi). I arranged them
for choirs (men’s
or children’s
chorus) with various
combinations in voices,
to be sung mostly in
Chinese, some in
English.  From the
mysterious mountain songs
originally sung in the
open air with high and
long notes that can carry
over great distances, the
sweet and delicate
melodies of young love
compared with nature, the
humorous antiphony by
little children, and the
lively dancing tune by
villagers, you may get an
idea of various music
styles in Chinese folk
songs according to
geographic, ethnic and
linguistic differences,
and appreciate the beauty
of the Chinese folk
music. The pure choir
sound and the
sophisticated singing by
Chanticleer, in terms of
pitches, language and
musical expressions,
really attract and
inspire me to create some
more new works in the
years to come. In
thisedition of A Set of
Chinese Folk Songs for
standard SATB mixed choir
(with piano rehearsal
score), I divided these
ten songs into three
volumes. They are
Fengyang Song, The
Flowing Stream, Guessing,
Thinking of My Darling,
Mayila, Jasmine Flower,
Riding on a Mule,
Awariguli, Diu Diu Deng,
andMountain Song and
Dancing Tune.—Chen
Yi.
Choral TTBB choir SKU: CF.CM9571 Eternal Life. Composed by Joseph ...(+)
Choral TTBB choir
SKU:
CF.CM9571
Eternal
Life. Composed by
Joseph P. Webster. Edited
by John Ratledge.
Arranged by Aaron Humble.
Sanford F. Bennett
(1836-1898). Jbc.
Performance Score. With
Standard notation. 12
pages. Duration 3
minutes, 47 seconds. Carl
Fischer Music #CM9571.
Published by Carl Fischer
Music (CF.CM9571).
ISBN 9781491153659.
UPC: 680160911158. 6.75 x
10.5 inches. Key: Gb
major. English. Sanford
F. Bennett
(1836-1898).
Aaron
Humble's arrangement of
this beloved old favorite
from American hymnody is
appropriate for both
school and church. With
soaring obligato lines
and shimmering harmony,
when sung with a warm and
gentle tone,?The Sweet By
and By?is certain to
paint a picture of a
better time for us all to
look forward. Also
available for SATB Voices
(CM9572). I have great
memories of my family
gathering around the
piano to sing hymns. As
my sister and I learned
more about music through
lessons, band and choir,
we started adding harmony
and really making music.
The old American hymnody
really holds a special
place in my heart.
Webster set Bennett's
text in a time when
American theology had
taken a turn away from
earlier ideas where God
was a god of vengeance
and anger. With this in
mind, this arrangement
should be sung with a
warm and gentle tone
allowing the dissonances
to shimmer, the sweetness
of the harmonies to
bloom, and the obbligato
lines to soar.
SAATTBar vocal soli, SSAATTBB choir SKU: CA.738610 Composed by Michael Wa...(+)
SAATTBar vocal soli,
SSAATTBB choir
SKU:
CA.738610
Composed by
Michael Waldenby.
Contemporary Choir Music.
Sacred vocal music,
Motets. Full score. Op.
49, No. 1. 12 pages.
Duration 8 minutes. Carus
Verlag #CV 07.386/10.
Published by Carus Verlag
(CA.738610).
ISBN
9790007166281. Text
language:
Latin.
The
composition of Verba
Ecclesiastes begun in
2002 as a result of a
comission from my friend
Gary Graden. For many
years I've found those
words from the Old
Testament very
fascinating - as everyone
knows, I'm not alone.
Vanity of vanities! All
is vanity! Writers,
painters and filmmakers
have for centuries been
dealing with the subject
and I found it high time
to set the famous words
to music. The suite, for
soloists, choir and
violoncello, consists of
six movements, each one
enlighting a different
view of life and
afterlife, and also, as
Matthew Arnold puts it of
human misery. Yet the
suite is full of hope and
humanity, specially
recognizable in the two
central parts, Dulce
lumen and Omnia tempus
habent. The music was
completed in 2009.
(Michael Waldenby).
SAATTBB choir SKU: CA.738620 Composed by Michael Waldenby. Contemporary C...(+)
SAATTBB choir
SKU:
CA.738620
Composed by
Michael Waldenby.
Contemporary Choir Music.
Sacred vocal music,
Motets. Full score. Op.
49, No. 2. 4 pages.
Duration 3 minutes. Carus
Verlag #CV 07.386/20.
Published by Carus Verlag
(CA.738620).
ISBN
9790007166298. Text
language:
Latin.
The
composition of Verba
Ecclesiastes begun in
2002 as a result of a
comission from my friend
Gary Graden. For many
years I've found those
words from the Old
Testament very
fascinating - as everyone
knows, I'm not alone.
Vanity of vanities! All
is vanity! Writers,
painters and filmmakers
have for centuries been
dealing with the subject
and I found it high time
to set the famous words
to music. The suite, for
soloists, choir and
violoncello, consists of
six movements, each one
enlighting a different
view of life and
afterlife, and also, as
Matthew Arnold puts it of
human misery. Yet the
suite is full of hope and
humanity, specially
recognizable in the two
central parts, Dulce
lumen and Omnia tempus
habent. The music was
completed in 2009.
(Michael Waldenby).
SSAATTBB choir SKU: CA.738640 Composed by Michael Waldenby. Contemporary ...(+)
SSAATTBB choir
SKU:
CA.738640
Composed by
Michael Waldenby.
Contemporary Choir Music.
Sacred vocal music,
Motets. Full score. Op.
49, No. 4. 4 pages.
Duration 3 minutes. Carus
Verlag #CV 07.386/40.
Published by Carus Verlag
(CA.738640).
ISBN
9790007166304. Text
language:
Latin.
The
composition of Verba
Ecclesiastes begun in
2002 as a result of a
comission from my friend
Gary Graden. For many
years I've found those
words from the Old
Testament very
fascinating - as everyone
knows, I'm not alone.
Vanity of vanities! All
is vanity! Writers,
painters and filmmakers
have for centuries been
dealing with the subject
and I found it high time
to set the famous words
to music. The suite, for
soloists, choir and
violoncello, consists of
six movements, each one
enlighting a different
view of life and
afterlife, and also, as
Matthew Arnold puts it of
human misery. Yet the
suite is full of hope and
humanity, specially
recognizable in the two
central parts, Dulce
lumen and Omnia tempus
habent. The music was
completed in 2009.
(Michael Waldenby).
By Jack Curtis Dubowsky. Chorus. For TTBB choir and optional SA (TTBB choir and ...(+)
By Jack Curtis Dubowsky.
Chorus. For TTBB choir
and optional SA (TTBB
choir and optional SA).
Country Western; humor;
cabaret; folk; Americana;
Pythonesque. Sheet music.
Composed 2006. Duration
3:10