Choir Secular SSAATTBB choir (SSAATTBB) SKU: PE.EP68578 Three songs fo...(+)
Choir Secular SSAATTBB
choir (SSAATTBB)
SKU:
PE.EP68578
Three
songs for unaccompanied
choir. Composed by
Daniel Knaggs. Choral
Works (inc. Oratorios).
Edition Peters. Choral
Octavo. 44 pages. Edition
Peters #98-EP68578.
Published by Edition
Peters (PE.EP68578).
ISBN 9790300759630.
English.
Of Time
and Passing (2016) is a
cycle of three choral
songs written
specifically for the
London-based ensemble,
VOCES8, taking into
consideration their
versatilityand ability to
beautifully intone a
range of vocal colors
with precision and
grace.
The first
song, I. Life, sets my
translation of the poem A
Vida by Brazilian poet
Olavo Bilac (1865-1918),
a poet I discovered while
studying Brazilian
Portuguese at the
University of Michigan. I
was drawn both to the
simplicity of the text
and to the possibilities
of teasing out dual
contrasting moods. In the
beginning and end, this
song explores a texture
that is very much alive:
wave-like contours,
throbbing sounds, and
plenty of flowing
movement. Rising
eighth-note motives in
particular emphasize the
fleetingness of life. But
in the middle of the
song, the listener is
given a slowed-down
atmosphere to savor
life's beauty.
II.
To Everything a Season
capitalizes on VOCES8's
ability to effectively
interpret popular genres
a cappella. This ancient
text is taken from
Ecclesiastes (dated
around 300 B.C.) but I
set it to a modern,
rhythmically-regular and
percussive pop-style
idiom. Since popular
music in whatever era is
designed to appeal to
a specific ?present
time?, it is by its very
nature ephemeral, and
therefore seemed an apt
metaphor to evoke the
transitory nature of
seasons.
III. Into
Your Hands, confines the
writing into no more than
four parts, often with
octave unisons.This
creates a more direct and
word-focused setting in
which the Psalmist?s
urgent words are placed
at the forefront. Largely
homophonic, this song is
at times chorale-like, at
times
madrigal-like, finall
y relinquishing it?s
tension into peaceful
rest, proclaiming ?You
have redeemed me, O Lord,
faithful God??
Lo Yisa Goy Chorale SSAATTBB SSAATTBB, Piano Theodore Presser Co.
Choral SSAATTBB choir, Piano (for rehearsal) SKU: PR.312419090 Composed b...(+)
Choral SSAATTBB choir,
Piano (for rehearsal)
SKU: PR.312419090
Composed by Stacy Garrop.
16 pages. Duration 5
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #312-41909.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.312419090).
ISBN
9781491135778. UPC:
680160687848. English,
Hebrew.
In Stacy
Garrop’s inspired
hands, divisi mixed
chorus provides a rich
palette of texture and
color. Her setting
intermingles three
versions of the Hebrew
folk tune, taking
artistic advantage of
contrasts between solo
and tutti, homophony and
grand antiphony, divisi
men and divisi women, and
the gradual braiding and
unbraiding of Hebrew and
English texts. LO YISA
GOY is the explicitly
anti-war Scriptural text
better-known in its
English translation that
begins, “And they
shall beat their swords
into plowshares... nation
shall not lift up a sword
against
nation.â€. When
Jonathan Miller asked me
to write two pieces for
Chicago a cappella, I
knew right away that I
wanted to choose two
songs from my own
past.The first piece,
Hava Nagila, is a
celebratory song full of
joy. I wanted the second
work to contrast the
first, and to this end, I
chose the somber text of
Lo Yisa Goy, a prayer for
peace. I remember singing
this song as a young
child in Hebrew school
and synagogue, always in
context (at least in my
congregation) of praying
for the state of Israel.
I think we’re at a
particular point in which
people in a lot of
different nations could
use such a prayer. For
this reason,
you’ll hear the
words in both Hebrew and
English.In my research of
previous versions of the
melody, I discovered
three variants for the
tune, all of which I have
incorporated into my
piece.
Choral
Score SSAATTBB Latin.
Composed by Katarzyna
Danel. This edition:
Saddle stitching. Sheet
music. Choral. General
Worship, Latin, Sacred.
Octavo. Composed 2016. 20
pages. Duration 5' 30''.
Schott Music #C59049.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49045601).
ISBN
9790001166256. UPC:
841886032682.
7.5x10.75x0.067 inches.
Latin. Psalm
89.
About 40
compositions, including
half for accompanying and
unaccompanied choir, are
currently in the catalog
of young Polish composer
Katarzyna Danel (born
1992). After several
national composition
competitions, she won the
13th International
Composition Competition
Musica Sacra Nova with
her Misericordias Domini
for eight-part mixed
choir a cappella. The
complex spiritual a
cappella choir is based
on the Gregorian chant of
the same name (Psalm
89,2). Three principal
structures are
characteristic of this
Latin-language choral
piece: on the one hand,
aleatoric sound clouds in
major pentatonic scales,
soundally supported by
long-held organum-like
notes taken from the
Gregorian choral melody;
As well as a
renaissance-like
polyphony, which is
linked with modern
harmony; And finally long
static chords that blend
into harmony and space. A
wonderfully
mystical-spherical
composition, which also
gives the individual
performer the possibility
of individual design
through the ad libitum
passages marked in the
sheet music.