SKU: HL.277285

UPC: 840126914580. 6.75x10.5x0.048 inches.

Nico Muhly's Preservation for SATB and Orchestra presented with piano reduction. Duration: 10 minutes.

SKU: HL.14048145

UPC: 888680662004. 6.75x10.5 inches.

“The Beatitudes” is a work by Nico Muhly, taken from the four-movement work Our Present Charter, commissioned by the Choir of the Temple Church, Mother-Church of the Common Law, to celebrate the 800th Anniversary of the Sealing of Magna Carta on 15th June 1215. This vocal score is for SATB choir and organ accompaniment, and lasts around 4 minutes.

SKU: HL.14048146

UPC: 888680660789. 8.0x11.75x0.036 inches.

Thy Kingdom Come, O God is a work by Nico Muhly, taken from the four-movement work Our Present Charter, commissioned by the Choir of the Temple Church, Mother-Church of the Common Law, to celebrate the 800th Anniversary of the Sealing of Magna carta on 15th June 1215. This is the vocal score, scored for SATB choir and organ accompaniment, lasting around 4.5 minutes.

SKU: HL.244909

UPC: 888680729103. 6.75x10 inches.

Nico Muhly's Lord, Keep Us Modest When We Claim was commissioned by Eastman School of Music through its George W. Utech Congregational Hymnody Fund. First performed on 26 October 2016 as part of the Eastman Rochester Organ Initiative (EROI) Festival.

Arranged for SATB and Organ this piece has a duration of approximately 3 minutes.

SKU: HL.14048130

UPC: 888680660802. 6.75x10.5x0.099 inches.

Nico Muhly's Third Service (Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis) is a work for SATB Choir and Organ Accompaniment. Commissioned by the Master and Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge, it was first performed by St John's College Choir on 29th May 2016. A full performance lasts around 7.5 minutes.

SKU: HL.1122017

ISBN 9781705181744. UPC: 196288108986.

A Good Understanding (2005) was written for Tim Brown and the choir of Clare College, Cambridge with the generous cooperation of John Scott and the Boys of Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue. A Good Understanding, with texts culled from two psalms, is designed to share a program with Rutter's expansive and expressive Mass of the Children. The piece unfolds episodically short choral phrases alternating with longer instrumental interludes. The first half of the text is typical psaltry praise-making: outlining agreements, explaining the rules; the music is, accordingly, severe but practical. The second half of the text begins, The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom/a good understanding have all they that do his commandments.?I find the idea of a good understanding?to be an especially exciting reward for following the rules; the boys sing pulsed syllables and long descants to celebrate the covenant while the choir sings a lilting, repetitive refrain. (Psalm 111, 10). - Nico Muhly.

SKU: HL.14043778

ISBN 9781785580444. UPC: 840126953633. 8.5x14.0x0.37 inches. English.

Bright Mass With Canons by composer Nico Muhly was originally composed for SATB chorus and Organ Accompaniment, but this arrangement features Two Pianos and Percussion. This is the set of Parts for this unique arrangement of a wonderful composition. This work was arranged by Buck McDaniel in 2014 and features an intriguing mix of percussive instruments like the Triangle, Glockenspiel and Vibraphone, together with the Two Pianos, creating a wholly new piece that takes the original composition and transforms it with an entirely new sound and dynamic. The work is divided into four sections, Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus & Benedictus and Agnus Dei .

SKU: HL.1167601

ISBN 9781705188668. UPC: 196288178675. 9.0x12.0x0.063 inches.

De Profundis, composed by Nico Muhly with poetry by Charles Anthony Silvestri, was commissioned by The Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, directed by David Skinner, during the first Covid lockdown in the spring of 2020. It was a year and a half in the making, and was conceived during the dark months of Covid lockdown in the spring of 2020 when, for the first time in long history of the English Choral Tradition, choirs fell silent.

SKU: HL.280831

UPC: 888680888718. 6.75x10.5x0.02 inches. English.

Nico Muhly's A Great Stone for treble semichorus and SATB choir unaccompanied. When Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulcher and departed. Matthew 27 vv.59 60 King James Version (1611).

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.

SKU: HL.14047937

UPC: 888680643508. 6.75x9.75x0.097 inches.

This work was premiered by Stile Antico on 27th November 2015 at Wigmore Hall, London. The text comes from William Shakespeare's Henry IV, and a full performance lasts around 5 and a half minutes.