SKU: C4.9790902260473

ISBN 9790902260473. 8.27 x 11.7 inches.

Forming part of the A Distant Music anthology, Praise: Psalms and Prayers 1 showcases 20 sacred choral works by Australian composers, most published here for the first time.

Containing a variety of accompanied and unaccompanied works, Praise: Psalms and Prayers 1 offers choirs access to quality Australian sacred music. Settings include texts from the Book of Psalms, well-known prayers as well as a spiritual poem by Australian Erica Jolly.

The 90-page volume covers a range of abilities and variety of compositional styles.

SKU: MN.50-9069

UPC: 688670590696.

Spiri tual. Maintains simple beauty and flowing melody of gospel hymn, HOLY QUIETNESS, while developing contrasting theme in accompaniment and varying key and vocal parts for each stanza. Appropriate introduction of traditional gospel hymnody to choirs/congregations.

SKU: HL.14012063

9.0x11.75x0.939 inches.

Dyso n's sumptuous choral epic of 1938, subtitled 'A Cycle of Poems', charts man's journey through life and the afterlife, using a collage of English poems. Quo Vadis is a work that, in its aim, design and achievement, reaches for visionary heights. Right from the start, Dyson's harmonic language and skilful orchestration are completely at the service of his beautiful and carefully crafted libretto. The composer fervently believed in the English choral movement's need for practical, tuneful and lively music. Quo Vadis, with its colourful orchestration and fine melodies, demonstrates the effectiveness of this aestheticapproach. Arranged for SATB Chorus and Orchestra, this major, yet often overlooked piece lasts about 90 minutes in 9 movements.

Sir George Dyson was a well-known English musician and composer of the 20th century. His compositions include a symphony in G major, a violin concerto, and a number of other works, many of them for choir. Apart from his musical career,Dyson was involved with the military during WWI - his handbook on grenade-fighting techniques became the standard Army text for many years.

SKU: GI.G-5015

Text Source: vs. 1, 4, 5: Michael Balhoff, Darryl Ducote, Gary Daigle, vs. 2, 3, 6, 7: Rory Cooney. Text by Various.

Flute, Oboe (or 2 Flutes), String Quartet - 2 Violins, Viola, Cello parts are optional.

SKU: BT.MUSM570205837

English.

Text: Wordsworth, Conrad, et al. First performance: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra and Singers, Leeds Festival Chorus, conducted by Bryden Thomson, Huddersfield Town Hall, 14th April 1973.

SKU: HL.48180116

Composed by Marcel Dupre, Laudate is the last of the Four Motets. Written for a mixed SATB and two organs, the lyrics are in Latin and the volume includes all the scores: female soprano and alto, male tenor and bass and the two organ scores. The piece is introduced by the two organs and the male voices are the first to start singing (tenor, followed quickly by the bass). The full SATB then sings together, sometimes alternated by the organs and the organ parts include an outstanding toccata. Laudate is an amazing way to finish this series with a triumphant and glorious celebration of God. The organ scores require some upper intermediate skills, with the knowledge of pedals and the vocal parts, quite demanding, evolve in polyphony and polyrhythm. Marcel Dupre is a French composer and virtuoso organist who won the Prix de Rome in 1914. He became famous when he played the works of Bach in its totality from memory in 1920. He later became the professor of many renowned students at the Paris Conservatoire such as Olivier Messiaen, Jean Langlais and Pierre Cochereau amongst others.

SKU: MN.60-7003A

UPC: 688670700378.

This unique setting makes primary use of the traditional hymntune MARION, commonly associated with this text. One SATB stanza is creatively set to the hymntune ST. MICHAEL. This setting may be sung by choir alone or choir and congregation. Optional instrumental parts are available for brass quartet (quintet), timpani, and 7 handbells. Choral Score includes reproducible page for congregation. Organist may play from either the Full Score or the Choral Score.

SKU: FG.55011-858-4

Chant des Voyelles - Incantation of Vowels (2018) for mixed choir (SSAATTBB) was premiered by Volti on May 4, 2018 at Noe Vallay Ministry in San Francisco and on May 6, 2018 at BAMPFA, in Berkeley, California.

Martin aitytÄ— encountered at the Rockefeller estate Kykuit near New York City a work by the cubist sculptor Jacques Lipchitz called Chant des Voyelles . It was titled after an Egyptian prayer composed only of vowels that was designed to subdue the forces of nature. Further research showed that many ancient traditions (Egyptians, Greeks and Tibetans) ascribed sacred, mystical and healing powers and significance to vowels. The details might vary in different traditions, yet it is clear that something miraculous happens through the very act of prolonged repetition of certain vowels - whether in the form of a mantra or prayer or as a self-healing ritual.

This work experiments with subtly shifting, sometimes barely audible clouds of overtones resulting from the sustaining of certain vowels in multiple voices in a magical way.

Duration: 16-17'

The works of New York -based Lithuanian composer Žibuoklė Martinaitytė (b. 1973) have been lauded as breathtaking and profoundly moving. Her stimulating music bristles with energy and tension and revolves often around the subject of beauty, which she calls both a guiding principle and an aesthetic measure for sonic quality.