SSATB chorus a cappella - Level 4

SKU: CA.5292500

Composed by Max Reger. Edited by Alexander Becker, Christopher Grafschmidt, Stefan Konig, and Stefanie Steiner-Grage. Carus digital: Extra digital products. Full Score. Composed 1902. WoO VI/18. Duration 5 minutes. Carus Verlag #5292500. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.5292500).

ISBN 9790007296032. Key: A major. German. Text: Geibel, Emanuel.

Reger composed Palmsonntagmorgen (WoO VI/18) at the beginning of 1902 at the request of the Chemnitz organist and choral director Georg Stolz. Stolz may also have suggested the text by Emanuel Geibel. The division of the text into sections, and the imitative and chordal passages in the five-part unaccompanied setting already point towards Reger's later motets.

SSATB choir, divisi, piano reduction - Advanced

SKU: GI.G-9610

Composed by Peter Relph. Evoking Sound. Music Education. 20 pages. GIA Publications #9610. Published by GIA Publications (GI.G-9610).

UPC: 785147961000. Latin. Text Source: Attr. Ambrose of Milan, 340–397. Text by Ambrose of Milan.

Composer's Notes When I met Kelsey Rose in Oxford in St. Stephen’s House chapel over the summer of 2017, we had both just attended a very moving candlelit concert by Westminster Williamson Voices, featuring my setting of “Tenebrae lumini.” I was delighted to be asked to write a piece for compline in Princeton University Chapel, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Anglican/Episcopal chaplaincy at Princeton University. “Aurora” is the result of that meeting. Composing by commission often throws up some interesting challenges. The piece had to fit both as an accompanying piece to the plainchant of compline, whilst simultaneously being a celebratory anthem. I was instantly drawn back to the poetry and hymns of St. Ambrose of Milan, particularly “Aurora iam spargit polum.” Fragments of chant (both real and imagined) are used to create the powerful imagery of the descending golden light of dawn. The piece reaches its climax with the plea for the despair of night to “vanish,” which it then does, leaving the sopranos alone on a high G.

Composed by Alistair Coleman. 21st Century, Justice/Peace/Social Concerns. Octavo. Published by E.C. Schirmer Publishing (EC.8266).