Life Chorale SSAATTBB SSAATTBB, Piano Carl Fischer
Choral SSAATTBB choir, Piano (for rehearsal) SKU: CF.CM9738 Composed by J...(+)
Choral SSAATTBB choir,
Piano (for rehearsal)
SKU: CF.CM9738
Composed by Jacob
Narverud. 16 pages.
Duration 3 minutes. Carl
Fischer Music #CM9738.
Published by Carl Fischer
Music (CF.CM9738).
ISBN 9781491161180.
UPC: 680160919765. Key:
Eb major. English. Barter
by Sara
Teasdale.
Life has
loveliness to sell, All
beautiful and splendid
things, Blue waves
whitened on a cliff,
Soaring fire that sways
and sings, And children's
faces looking up Holding
wonder in a cup.
Life has loveliness to
sell, Music like a curve
of gold, Scent of pine
trees in the rain, Eyes
that love you, arms that
hold, And for your
spirit's still delight,
Holy thoughts that star
the night. Spend
all you have for
loveliness, Buy it and
never count the cost; For
one white singing hour of
peace Count many a year
of strife well lost, And
for a breath of ecstacy
Give all you have been,
or could be. --Barter
from Love Songs (1918) by
Sara Teasdale Sara
Teasdale (1884-1933) was
an American poet whose
short, personal lyrics
are noted for their
classical simplicity and
quiet intensity. Teasdale
was born in St. Louis,
Missouri and traveled to
Chicago as a young woman,
where she grew acquainted
with Harriet Monroe and
the literary circle
around Poetry. Teasdale
wrote seven books of
poetry in her lifetime
and received public
admiration for her
well-crafted lyrical
poetry which centered on
a woman's changing
perspectives of beauty,
love, life, and death.
Jacob Narverud (b. 1986)
is an American composer,
arranger, and conductor.
A native Kansan, Jacob is
the Founder/Artistic
Director of the Tallgrass
Chamber Choir, a
professional ensemble of
musicians from across the
Great Plains. Dr.
Narverud is a frequent
guest lecturer at
universities and
conferences as well as an
active guest
conductor/clinician for
choral festivals and
all-state choirs across
the United States. Many
of his compositions are
publisher best sellers
and are performed
worldwide by choirs of
all levels. Website:
jnarverud.com YouTube
& Spotify:
jacobnarverud. Life
has loveliness to sell,
All beautiful and
splendid things, Blue
waves whitened on a
cliff, Soaring fire that
sways and sings, And
children's faces looking
up Holding wonder like a
cup. Life has
loveliness to sell, Music
like a curve of gold,
Scent of pine trees in
the rain, Eyes that love
you, arms that hold, And
for your spirit's still
delight, Holy thoughts
that star the night.
Spend all you have
for loveliness, Buy it
and never count the cost;
For one white singing
hour of peace Count many
a year of strife well
lost, And for a breath of
ecstacy Give all you have
been, or could be.
--Barter from Love Songs
(1918) by Sara Teasdale
Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
was an American poet
whose short, personal
lyrics are noted for
their classical
simplicity and quiet
intensity. Teasdale was
born in St. Louis,
Missouri and traveled to
Chicago as a young woman,
where she grew acquainted
with Harriet Monroe and
the literary circle
around Poetry. Teasdale
wrote seven books of
poetry in her lifetime
and received public
admiration for her
well-crafted lyrical
poetry which centered on
a woman's changing
perspectives of beauty,
love, life, and death.
Jacob Narverud (b. 1986)
is an American composer,
arranger, and conductor.
A native Kansan, Jacob is
the Founder/Artistic
Director of the Tallgrass
Chamber Choir, a
professional ensemble of
musicians from across the
Great Plains. Dr.
Narverud is a frequent
guest lecturer at
universities and
conferences as well as an
active guest
conductor/clinician for
choral festivals and
all-state choirs across
the United States. Many
of his compositions are
publisher best sellers
and are performed
worldwide by choirs of
all levels. Website:
jnarverud.com YouTube
& Spotify:
jacobnarverud. Life
has loveliness to
sell,All beautiful and
splendid things,Blue
waves whitened on a
cliff,Soaring fire that
sways and sings,And
children's faces looking
upHolding wonder like a
cup. Life has
loveliness to sell,Music
like a curve of
gold,Scent of pine trees
in the rain,Eyes that
love you, arms that
hold,And for your
spirit's still
delight,Holy thoughts
that star the
night. Spend all you
have for loveliness,Buy
it and never count the
cost;For one white
singing hour of
peaceCount many a year of
strife well lost,And for
a breath of ecstacyGive
all you have been, or
could
be.     Â
     Â
    Â
 —“Barter
†from Love Songs
(1918) by Sara
Teasdale Sara Teasdale
(1884-1933) was an
American poet whose
short, personal lyrics
are noted for their
classical simplicity and
quiet intensity. Teasdale
was born in St. Louis,
Missouri and traveled to
Chicago as a young woman,
where she grew acquainted
with Harriet Monroe and
the literary circle
around Poetry. Teasdale
wrote seven books of
poetry in her lifetime
and received public
admiration for her
well-crafted lyrical
poetry which centered on
a woman’s changing
perspectives of beauty,
love, life, and
death.Jacob Narverud (b.
1986) is an American
composer, arranger, and
conductor. A native
Kansan, Jacob is the
Founder/Artistic Director
of the Tallgrass Chamber
Choir, a professional
ensemble of musicians
from across the Great
Plains. Dr. Narverud is a
frequent guest lecturer
at universities and
conferences as well as an
active guest
conductor/clinician for
choral festivals and
all-state choirs across
the United States. Many
of his compositions are
publisher best sellers
and are performed
worldwide by choirs of
all levels.Website:
jnarverud.com  Â
    Â
YouTube & Spotify:
jacobnarverud.
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??
Heavenly Father Chorale SSAATTBB [Conducteur] Crescendo Music Publications
SSAATTBB choir SKU: C4.9790902260480 Composed by Brooke Shelley. Classica...(+)
SSAATTBB choir
SKU:
C4.9790902260480
Composed by Brooke
Shelley. Classical.
Score. Crescendo Music
Publications
#9790902260480. Published
by Crescendo Music
Publications
(C4.9790902260480).
ISBN 9790902260480.
8.27 x 11.7
inches.
Heavenly
Father was commissioned
by Sydney Chamber Choir
for a concert in 2022
which featured Heinrich
Schütz’s
Musikalische Exequien.
Melodic lines from
Schütz’s work
are used throughout
Heavenly Father: the
first soprano melody in
the opening chorus at
‘Herr Gott Vater in
Himmel’ is
featured at the beginning
and repeated throughout,
as are the melodies, for
example, at ‘Also
hat Gott die Welt
geliebt’, and at
‘seinem
verklärten
Leibe’, among
other places.
In a
conversation about what
this commission would be,
it was agreed that the
sense of the work would
be about the circle of
life expressed in
Musikalische Exequien
rather than about death
itself. It is because of
this ‘sense’
that the end of Heavenly
Father is reversed,
illustrating a musical
circle: the lower voices
sing the ‘Herr Gott
Vater in Himmel’
phrase backwards, and the
upper voices sing the
melodies backwards that
were sung by the lower
voices at the
beginning.
Composed
by Marten Jansson.
Stapled. Choral score. 12
pages. Baerenreiter
Verlag #BA07414_00.
Published by Baerenreiter
Verlag (BA.BA07414).
ISBN 9790006559183. 27
x 19 cm inches. Text
Language:
Latin.
Based on the
well-known bible text
“Sing unto the Lord
a new song†(Psalm
96:1-3), this upbeat
composition with strong
dynamics and flowing
block chords alternating
with fast-paced polyphony
brings across this joyful
message and enthuses
singers.
Originall
y conceived for male
choir, women’s
voices have now been
added so that this
version for mixed choir
presents a further
dimension of colour. This
version also makes it
possible to divide the
choir into two groups,
one for women and another
for men, and to have them
sing either together or
as separate units.
The version for mixed
choir was premiered in
Uppsala Cathedral
(Sweden) on 26 October
2013, with the Uppsala
Cathedral Singers
conducted by Ulric
Andersson.
“
My music is my own and I
have never tried to be
original. That has always
been my motto and I have
only tried to use music
to express all the
feelings which life has
to offer. This has led
people to describe my
music as ‘so sad
that it sounds like birds
who have lost their
wings‘ but also as
‘the happiest
classical music that we
have ever
heard’. My
compositions are almost
all sacred. They express
not only my own faith but
also my appreciation and
respect for the timeless
texts that have been used
for centuries and
centuries.â€
MÃ¥rten Jansson (b.
1965), elected member of
the Föreningen svenska
tonsättare (the
Society of Swedish
Composers), graduated
from the Royal College of
Music, Stockholm (KHM)
with an MFA degree in
Music Education, Dalcroze
Eurhythmics and Voice.
For more than ten years
he was the music director
and conductor of
“Carmenâ€, one
of the most prominent
womens’ vocal
ensembles in Sweden. He
currently teaches choral
conducting and music
theory as well as giving
vocal tuition at the
Bolandgymnasiet and
Musikskolan in his home
town of
Uppsala.
Please
find a recording of
Cantate Domino performed
by the Riga Recording
Studio Singers (Latvia)
by clicking on
Multimedia.