Mixed choir

SKU: FG.042-08702-2

Composed by Erik Valdemar Bergman. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.042-08702-2).

ISBN 979-0-042-08702-2.

This work was commissioned by the Hungarian Radio for a concert expressly in memory of Bela Bartok. The composer's name was an inspiration and, through the notes B (flat), E and A along with their transpositions, lies at the basis of the work. Ever-present is the spirit of Bartok himself: a composer who oscillated between the quest for the original wellspring of music on the one hand and sophisticated refinement on the other.

SATB choir divisi

SKU: GH.GE-10845

Composed by Staffan Lindberg. Octavo. With Language: Swedish. Gehrmans Musikforlag #GE 10845. Published by Gehrmans Musikforlag (GH.GE-10845).

ISBN 9790070108454. Text: Staffan Lindberg.

Vinnande bidrag i kompositionstavlingen om basta varsang som arrangerades varen 2005 av koren Allmanna Sangen och Radio Uppland.

Choir Secular (SATB choir)

SKU: AP.49687

Composed by Jack Rollins and Steve Nelson. Arranged by Alan Billingsley. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles. Alfred Pop Choral Series. Christmas; Radio; Secular; Winter. Choral Octavo. 16 pages. Alfred Music #00-49687. Published by Alfred Music (AP.49687).

UPC: 038081567747. English.

Frosty goes to the jazz club with this Michael Bublé-inspired arrangement of the wintertime classic. A rapid swing tempo, walking string bass line, and stylized syncopations sync up to create an undeniably big-band vintage vibe. The back and forth banter between voice parts is a blast to perform and adds a charming flair. A Puppini Sisters feature is an optional treble trio or duet in the middle, and a huge drum fill kicks off the ultimate jazz-hands chord at the end. Your jazz ensemble will dig playing the SoundPax instrumentation, or perform with the sizzling SoundTrax.

Mixed choir

SKU: FG.042-08860-9

Composed by Kalevi Aho. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.042-08860-9).

ISBN 979-0-042-08860-9.

The renowned symphonist Kalevi Aho, inspired by the modern poetry of Mirkka Rekola, here turns to an instrument rare for him, the mixed choir, in a song cycle premiered by the Radio Chamber Choir in May 1998.

SATB a cappella Choral; Mixed Choir (SATB a cappella)

SKU: HL.50490228

By Melinda Berlasz. By Veress Sándor. EMB. Classical. Softcover. 147 pages. Editio Musica Budapest #Z14553. Published by Editio Musica Budapest (HL.50490228).

ISBN 9790080145531. UPC: 884088531638. 7.5x10.75x0.365 inches. Hungarian, English, German. Sandor Veress; Melinda Berlasz.

Volume II of the collected edition of the choral works of Veress contains seven Hungarian folksong cycles or cantatas, a choral poem in Hungarian and a choral cycle in English. In his first creative period (1929-1939), which he spent in Hungary, Sandor Veress's direct involvement in Hungarian folk music research played a decisive part: his folksong experience gained through personal collecting work found expression in his first period of composition for mixed choir. In the course of the 1960s, after his emigration, he returned on two occasions to the a cappella mixed choir genre: in 1962 he wrote a piece for mixed choir to mark the 60th birthday of the great Hungarian poet Gyula Illyes (Oda Europahoz - Ode to Europe, based on the poem by Illyes), and in 1967, at the request of the Australian Radio Company, he composed for the 'Adelaide Singers' chamber choir Songs of the Seasons, a seven-movement madrigal cycle making exceptional demands on the performers, to verses by the Australian poet Christopher Brennan (1870-1932).

Chorus a cappella

SKU: BR.CHB-5380-00

Composed by Howard Arman. Choir; stapled. Chor-Bibliothek (Choral Library). Song; Music post-1945; New music (post-2000). Choral score. 40 pages. Breitkopf and Haertel #ChB 5380-00. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.CHB-5380-00).

ISBN 9790004413814. 7.5 x 10.5 inches. German / Latin.

As director of the Bavarian Radio Choir, Howard Arman has been actively engaged with international Christmas carols through various Christmas-related CD productions in the past years. This has resulted in a number of original arrangements for four- to eight-part mixed choir a cappella, shedding new light on well-known classics such as O du frohliche [O, you joyful], Stille Nacht [Silent Night] and Lasst uns froh und munter sein [Let us be happy and cheerful]. The first volume includes five Christmas carols from the German-speaking regions. They range from simple but harmonically intriguing settings such as Lieb Nachtigall, wach auf [Dear nightingale, wake up] to eight-part sound paintings with bell-like chimes as in O du frohliche and classical double choir settings such as Resonet in laudibus. The second volume includes five Christmas spirituals with English texts, forming a contrast to the solemn and festive character of the first. The choir can prove its swing and jazz qualities here; the stirring arrangements are a gain for classical Christmas concerts, too. Following the tradition of the spiritual, some settings also require soloists, which can, however, also be recruited from the choir if adequate singers are available. The first piece combines the spirituals It's a Birthday and Wasn't That a Mighty Day to form a medley, Ain't That a Rockin' gives a moment of tranquility before the likewise rousing spirituals Mary Had a Baby and Little David conclude the volume. In both volumes, Howard Arman provides a short preface in German and English, explaining the background of each piece and giving advice on performance.

SATB Choir

SKU: BT.MUSSRO100193

Composed by Rachel Portman. Contemporary Music. Choral Score. Composed 2019. 44 pages. St. Rose Music #MUSSRO100193. Published by St. Rose Music (BT.MUSSRO100193).

English.

A setting of a new poem by Nick Drake which takes the form of a conversation within the human mind and body as it breaths, interpolating words from a speech by Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg. It was commissioned by Radio 3 and first performed by the BBC Singers, conducted by Sofi Jeannin at St Paul’s Knightsbridge on 27 September 2019.

Chorus a cappella

SKU: BR.CHB-5381-00

Composed by Howard Arman. Choir; stapled. Chor-Bibliothek (Choral Library). Song; Music post-1945; New music (post-2000). Choral score. 80 pages. Breitkopf and Haertel #ChB 5381-00. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.CHB-5381-00).

ISBN 9790004413821. 7.5 x 10.5 inches. English.

As director of the Bavarian Radio Choir, Howard Arman has been actively engaged with international Christmas carols through various Christmas-related CD productions in the past years. This has resulted in a number of original arrangements for four- to eight-part mixed choir a cappella, shedding new light on well-known classics such as O du frohliche [O, you joyful], Stille Nacht [Silent Night] and Lasst uns froh und munter sein [Let us be happy and cheerful]. The first volume includes five Christmas carols from the German-speaking regions. They range from simple but harmonically intriguing settings such as Lieb Nachtigall, wach auf [Dear nightingale, wake up] to eight-part sound paintings with bell-like chimes as in O du frohliche and classical double choir settings such as Resonet in laudibus. The second volume includes five Christmas spirituals with English texts, forming a contrast to the solemn and festive character of the first. The choir can prove its swing and jazz qualities here; the stirring arrangements are a gain for classical Christmas concerts, too. Following the tradition of the spiritual, some settings also require soloists, which can, however, also be recruited from the choir if adequate singers are available. The first piece combines the spirituals It's a Birthday and Wasn't That a Mighty Day to form a medley, Ain't That a Rockin' gives a moment of tranquility before the likewise rousing spirituals Mary Had a Baby and Little David conclude the volume. In both volumes, Howard Arman provides a short preface in German and English, explaining the background of each piece and giving advice on performance.

Mixed choir (SATB) - difficult

SKU: HL.49041787

Composed by Bose. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Edition Schott. Score. Composed 1986. 26 pages. Duration 10'. Schott Music #SKR 20016. Published by Schott Music (HL.49041787).

ISBN 9790001101486. 8.25x11.75x0.085 inches. German.

The composer set the pensive, lamenting poem by Andreas Gryphius to music as a demanding choral work. The text is musically reinterpreted by means of varied tone colours and through an emphatic interpretation of the words. Initially homophonic, the texture of the setting becomes polyphonic over the course of the piece; the number of parts varies between four and nineteen canonically treated parts. Solo passages round off the 'Karfreitags-Sonett' [Good Friday Sonnet] which was commissioned by the Bavarian Radio and premiered in Nuremberg in 1986.

SATB choir & Organ

SKU: ST.W231

Composed by Nigel Ogden. SATB and Organ. Octavo. Stainer & Bell Ltd. #W231. Published by Stainer & Bell Ltd. (ST.W231).

ISBN 9790220224133.

Ofte n sung congregationally to BERKSHIRE, CHURCH TRIUMPHANT, DEVONSHIRE or DUNELM, Charles Wesley's much-loved Christmas hymn receives a new setting from Nigel Ogden. His skills as an outstanding performer, best known perhaps as host of the evergreen Radio 2 series The Organist Entertains, guarantee both a light touch and a serious musical content. Eminently practical, To us a Child of Royal Birth may be performed by single voices or SATB choir without divisions. The music artfully distributes the four verses between full chorus, upper voices, lower voices, and then tutti again. Ogden's winning command of a popular musical idiom is everywhere in evidence, in the beautifully resolved seventh and ninth chords, and in the assured movement of the anthem from its opening key of E flat to its conclusion in a bright and warm resolution of C major.

Choral (SATB)

SKU: HL.1312735

Composed by Irving Berlin. Arranged by Mark Hayes. Shawnee Press. Concert, Festival, Oldies, Swing. Octavo. 16 pages. Duration 210 seconds. Published by Shawnee Press (HL.1312735).

ISBN 9798350109528. UPC: 196288177661. 6.75x10.5x0.036 inches.

Two of Irving Berlin's most lively songs are married perfectly here in this fun swing, perfect for mixed voices of many ages as well as men's choirs and ensembles. What fun to add simple choreography and some costume flair to your performance pulling inspiration from the many generations of artists that have performed and recorded these songs for radio, television, and movies. A wonderfully classy performance piece your singers and audience will love!

Choral (SATB a cappella)

SKU: HL.289574

Unaccompanied SATB. Composed by Pawel Lukaszewski. PWM. Choral, Classical. Octavo. 16 pages. Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne #11366CHLSC. Published by Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne (HL.289574).

8.0x11.5x0.054 inches.

Prayer for the Homeland to a well-known text 'God, Steward and Lord of nations' by the Reverend Father Piotr Skarga was included in the Missa pro Pace - Mass for the Homeland, commissioned by the Polish Army Concert Orcestra and written in 1998. Dedicated to Slawoj Leszek Glodz, the Field Bishop of the Polish Army, the work has been presented in Poland and abroad many times as well as played on the radio, TV and CDs, always performed by the Choir of the Catholic Theological Academy in Warsaw, where I sang between 1987 and 2002.

Choir Secular (SATB choir)

SKU: AP.49725

Composed by John Frederick Coots. Arranged by Kirby Shaw. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles. Alfred Pop Choral Series. Christmas; Holiday Pops; Pop; Radio; Secular. Choral Octavo. 12 pages. Alfred Music #00-49725. Published by Alfred Music (AP.49725).

UPC: 038081568126. English. Words by Haven Gillespie.

Jolly jing-a-ling-a's provide hip transitions and bright bookends in this jazzed-up version of the great Christmas standard. Kirby's arrangement fits the tune like a glove, and will last in your library year after year. Eight bars in the middle may be repeated as many times as desired, and opened up to include vocal and/or instrumental soloists, improvisation, scat singing, gradual stacking of written lines, etc. Just be sure to save a little something for the shout chorus that follows! SoundPax includes four horn parts, but easily adapts for rhythm section alone.

Choir Secular (SATB choir)

SKU: AP.50272

Composed by Madonna. Arranged by Alan Billingsley. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles. Alfred Pop Choral Series. Classic Pop; Movie; Pop; Radio; Secular. Choral Octavo. 12 pages. Alfred Music #00-50272. Published by Alfred Music (AP.50272).

UPC: 038081574424. English.

Star light, star bright! This dance-pop single from Madonna's debut album made a welcome comeback in the animated movie Luck. Upbeat rhythms, a catchy melody, and no-fuss harmonies allow for ease of learning. Alan's flexible treble voicing works for 2-part singers and includes many optional cue notes for SSA groups. At the end, a featured soloist shows off their star power.

About Alfred Pop Choral Series

The Alfred Pop Series features outstanding arrangements of songs from the popular music genre. These publications provide exciting, contemporary, and educationally-sound arrangements for singers of all ages, from elementary through high school, to college and adult choirs.

Choir Secular (SATB choir)

SKU: AP.50220

(Am I Ready). Composed by Ilya Salmanzadeh, Lizzo, Music by Max Martin, Peter Svensson, Savan Kotecha, and Words. Arranged by Jack Zaino. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles. Alfred Pop Choral Series. Pop; Radio; Secular. Choral Octavo. 16 pages. Alfred Music #00-50220. Published by Alfred Music (AP.50220).

UPC: 038081573908. English.

From high school flutist turned pop superstar Lizzo, here's a high-energy hit about self-confidence and accepting the love we deserve. An '80s rock sound drives singers to answer the question: Am I ready to be loved? This powerhouse anthem will leave you feeling energized, uplifted, and ready to dance!