By Nicholas Myers. For Choir. (SATB). Choral Octavo. Lawson-Gould. Choral Octavo. 8 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Choir Secular (SATB choir)

SKU: AP.50255

Composed by Mark Burrows. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles. Alfred Choral Designs. Secular; Winter. Choral Octavo. 12 pages. Alfred Music #00-50255. Published by Alfred Music (AP.50255).

UPC: 038081574257. English.

This pensive Mark Burrows original paints a pristine picture of winter and its restorative qualities. Gentle, dreamlike voices invite us to come away from endless busyness and seek winter's healing hush. A rich musical palette reflects the wonder of the season and magnifies the depth of the text. An expressive art song that brings warmth to colder months.

About Alfred Choral Designs

Th e Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.

Mixed choir

SKU: FG.55011-455-5

Composed by Matthew Whittall. Score. Fennica Gehrman #55011-455-5. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-455-5).

ISBN 9790550114555.

This cycle of carols, to the poetry of Christina Rossetti, was assembled piecemeal over a number of years, gradually acquiring a larger dramatic and harmonic arch shape as new settings were added. I was particularly attracted to Rossetti's conflation of the dark, fallow winter landscape with that of the soul waiting for salvation. The cycle traces the long nights of watchfulness before Christmas, with the great event constantly deferred, only glimpsed periodically in different visions before the music turns inward again to contemplation. The opening carol embodies this spirit, with passages of diffuse, roving harmony interspersed with meditative, lyrical pedals, calling out the night watch and dreaming of a far-off summer of the spirit. Earth Grown Old is a kind of double carol, setting two complete poems, their lines at first presented separately as a still, expectant chorale and a jubilant dance, then progressively interwoven toward a fervent climax before once again receding into quiet. In the bleak mid-winter, which sets a highly compressed version of Rossetti's original poem, presents an enfeebled landscape frozen in time, in dire need of deliverance. A gentle melody weaves its way through static drones, broken by an angels' chorus announcing the joy to come. Love Came Down at Christmas ends the waiting, with its gently falling, overlapping lines building to a final revelation, the mystery of Christmas at last made real.

By Greg Gilpin. For SATB choir and piano. Secular Christmas. Octavo. Published by Heritage Music Press. (15/2282H)

By Jan Garrett. Arranged by Larry Nickel. For SATB choir and piano. Octavo. Published by Cypress Choral Music

By Amy F. Bernon. For SATB choir, piano. Concert. Octavo. Published by Heritage Music Press