Choral SSATB Chorus

SKU: CF.CM9569

For jilted lovers everywhere. Composed by English Ballad. Arranged by Ian Loeppky. Mjts. Performance Score. With Standard notation. 16 pages. Duration 3 minutes, 37 seconds. Carl Fischer Music #CM9569. Published by Carl Fischer Music (CF.CM9569).

ISBN 9781491153680. UPC: 680160911189. 6.75 x 10.5 inches. Key: Gb minor. English. English Ballad.

An old English ballad, Scarborough Fair relates the tale of a jilted maiden who instructs her listener to tell her former lover that she will have him back after he performs a series of impossible tasks: making a shirt without a seam, washing it .
An old English ballad, Scarborough Fair relates the tale of a jilted maiden who instructs her listener to tell her former lover that she will have him back after he performs a series of impossible tasks: making a shirt without a seam, washing it in a dry well, to name a few. A modern equivalent might be when pigs fly. Keep it light and bring out the differing accents in the meters, especially the dotted quarter notes. While there is no percussion part written in the score, we had a djembe player play along to bring out the various accents. Feel free to add your own as well. Have fun!.
An old English ballad, Scarborough Fair relates the tale of a jilted maiden who instructs her listener to tell her former lover that she will have him back after he performs a series of impossible tasks: making a shirt without a seam, washing it in a dry well, to name a few. A modern equivalent might be when pigs fly.Keep it light and bring out the differing accents in the meters, especially the dotted quarter notes. While there is no percussion part written in the score,  we had a djembe player play along to bring out the various accents.  Feel free to add your own as well. Have fun!

By Tarik O'Regan. For SSATB (with divisions) and optional organ/string orchestra. This edition: NH7. Mixed Voices. New Horizons No. 7. Secular Choral Leaflet. Vocal score. 24 pages. Duration 5'

SSATB Choir, Piano

SKU: CA.927600

Composed by Gabriel Faure. Arranged by Denis Rouger. Carus digital: Extra digital products. Full Score. Op. 6,2. Duration 3 minutes. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.927600).

ISBN 9790007296117. French. Text: Gautier, Theophile.

A prevailing melancholy mood is characteristic of Theophile Gautier's (1811-1872) poetry; a melancholy mood which inspired composers such as Hector Berlioz and Gabriel Faure to compose settings. Tristesse (Sadness) is taken from the 1838 collection La Comedie de la Mort (The Comedy of Death). With over 50 poems this is regarded as Gautier's major Romantic work. Although the narrator in the poem is conscious of the joy and zest for life of spring coming into bloom around him, he cannot share this: Helas! j'ai dans le coeur une tristesse affreuse. (Alas, in my heart I bear a terrible grief.). Faure's setting portrays this effect less as a dramatic sigh than a melancholic unworldliness with peaceful piano accompaniment in the minor key. This art song was originally composed not for chamber choir, but for solo voice and piano. Denis Rouger has carefully adapted it to suit the requirements and expressive possibilities offered by a larger ensemble, without losing any of the qualities of the original in the process. Each part in the choir has a melodic line drawn from the harmonic and rhythmic framework. In the process, the variety and refinement of the choral language combines with an enormous flexibility in form and expression, as French melodies or German art song demand from a soloist and pianist.The songs have been recorded by the figure humaine chamber choir on the CD ... Wo die Zitronen bluhn (Carus 83.514).

Arranged by Coreen Duffy. For Choral (SSATB A Cappella). Pavane Choral. Octavo. Pavane Publishing #P1545. Published by Pavane Publishing

SSATB Choir, Piano

SKU: CA.924400

Composed by Peter Cornelius. Arranged by Denis Rouger. Secular choral music. Separate edition with CD. Lieder, Secular choral music. Full score. Op. 15, No. 1. Duration 2 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 09.244/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.924400).

ISBN 9790007244392. Key: B flat major. Language: German. Text: Cornelius, Peter.

Sei mein! was written and composed by Peter Cornelius in 1865 for his future wife Bertha Jung. The composer set the poem in short rhyming lines using the scheme aaabcccb, recounting with loving humor what his beloved means to him. These art songs were originally composed not for chamber choir, but for solo voice and piano. Denis Rouger has carefully adapted them to suit the requirements and expressive possibilities offered by a larger ensemble, without losing the any of the qualities of the original in the process. Each part in the choir has a melodic line drawn from the harmonic and rhythmic framework. In the process, the variety and refinement of the choral language combines with an enormous flexibility in form and expression, as French melodies or German art song demand from a soloist and pianist. The songs have been recorded by the figure humaine chamber choir on the CD Kennst du das Land ... (Carus 83.495).

SSATB Choir, Piano

SKU: CA.924100

Composed by Charles Francois Gounod. Arranged by Denis Rouger. Lieder. Secular choral music. Lieder, Secular choral music. Full score. Duration 4 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 09.241/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.924100).

ISBN 9790007244361. Language: French. Text: Gounod, Charles.

In Charles Gounod's L'absent, composed in 1873, the absent one asks at night time whether the beloved remembers him in the light of the moon and at the sound of the evening prayer bells. These art songs were originally composed not for chamber choir, but for solo voice and piano. Denis Rouger has carefully adapted them to suit the requirements and expressive possibilities offered by a larger ensemble, without losing the any of the qualities of the original in the process. Each part in the choir has a melodic line drawn from the harmonic and rhythmic framework. In the process, the variety and refinement of the choral language combines with an enormous flexibility in form and expression, as French melodies or German art song demand from a soloist and pianist. The songs have been recorded by the figure humaine chamber choir on the CD Kennst du das Land ... (Carus 83.495).

SSATB Choir, Piano

SKU: CA.924000

Composed by Claude Debussy. Arranged by Denis Rouger. Lieder. Secular choral music. Lieder, Secular choral music. Full score. Duration 2 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 09.240/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.924000).

ISBN 9790007244354. Language: French. Text: Bourget, Paul.

Claude Debussy's romance L'ame evaporee et souffrante is a setting of Paul Bourget's Romance from the collection Les aveux (1882). The song was first published in 1891 with Les cloches, but had probably been composed earlier in 1885. These art songs were originally composed not for chamber choir, but for solo voice and piano. Denis Rouger has carefully adapted them to suit the requirements and expressive possibilities offered by a larger ensemble, without losing the any of the qualities of the original in the process. Each part in the choir has a melodic line drawn from the harmonic and rhythmic framework. In the process, the variety and refinement of the choral language combines with an enormous flexibility in form and expression, as French melodies or German art song demand from a soloist and pianist. The songs have been recorded by the figure humaine chamber choir on the CD Kennst du das Land ... (Carus 83.495).

Composed by Arvo Part (1935-). Choral part(s). With Standard notation. Universal Edition #UE19350. Published by Universal Edition

SSATB Choir, Piano

SKU: CA.924500

Composed by Hugo Wolf. Arranged by Denis Rouger. Secular choral music. Separate edition with CD. Lieder, Secular choral music. Full score. Duration 3 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 09.245/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.924500).

ISBN 9790007244408. Key: E flat major. Language: German. Text: Morike, Eduard.

Hugo Wolf composed over 250 songs to texts by the greatest poets of his day. One of the best-known of these is Verborgenheit. In Denis Rouger's arrangement it reveals its own momentum which does not conflict with the original masterpiece, but presents new facets alongside it, inviting us to discover something new in the old. These art songs were originally composed not for chamber choir, but for solo voice and piano. Denis Rouger has carefully adapted them to suit the requirements and expressive possibilities offered by a larger ensemble, without losing the any of the qualities of the original in the process. Each part in the choir has a melodic line drawn from the harmonic and rhythmic framework. In the process, the variety and refinement of the choral language combines with an enormous flexibility in form and expression, as French melodies or German art song demand from a soloist and pianist. The songs have been recorded by the figure humaine chamber choir on the CD Kennst du das Land ... (Carus 83.495).

SSATB Choir, Piano

SKU: CA.926400

Composed by Camille Saint-Saens. Arranged by Denis Rouger, Denis Rouger. Carus digital: Extra digital products. Full Score. Composed 1862. Op. 13, No. 1. Duration 5 minutes. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.926400).

ISBN 9790007261870. French. Text: Victor Hugo.

In his poem Soiree en mer, Victor Hugo describes how the sea can be perceived very differently by two lovers at the same time in the same place. While the man perceives the deepening shadows on the dancing waves, the woman marvels at the stars shining ever brighter in the firmament. In nature, as in the words of the poem, the painful ambiguity that represents life at its core can be experienced. Like no other poet, Hugo captures this almost unbearable simultaneity of living and dying, of love and suffering. Saint-Saens translates this into music - probably the most ephemeral and contemporary of all art forms. His balanced musical form leaves plenty of room for the poetry and his subtle variations in timbre, which also inspired Denis Rouger to his choral arrangement, create a seething motion under the surface of the sea.

This art song was originally composed not for chamber choir, but for solo voice and piano. Denis Rouger has carefully adapted it to suit the requirements and expressive possibilities offered by a larger ensemble, without losing any of the qualities of the original in the process. Each part in the choir has a melodic line drawn from the harmonic and rhythmic framework. In the process, the variety and refinement of the choral language combines with an enormous flexibility in form and expression, as French melodies or German art song demand from a soloist and pianist. The songs have been recorded by the figure humaine chamber choir on the CD ...wo die Ztronen bluhn (Carus 83.514).

Mixed choir: SSATBB - Level 3

SKU: BA.BA08957-91

Edited by Gerd-Peter Munden. Stapled. Choral score, anthology. 32 pages. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA08957_91. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA08957-91).

ISBN 9790006525522. 27 x 19 cm inches. Text Language: German, English, Latin.

Year after year, during Advent and the Christmas season, compositions are sought which present well-known carols in a new light, whether it be compositions set for small or larger groups, for children or adults, with or without accompanying keyboard instruments. This collection by Gerd-Peter Munden presents carols in new settings as a welcome addition to the Christmas literature and will enrich the repertoire of an adults' or children's choir.

- Well-known Advent and Christmas carols in new settings
- With texts in German and English
- With short Latin introductions as a part of each motet
- Ideal for a children's or adults' choir during the Christmas season

Contents
There comes a galley, laden / Es kommt ein Schiff, geladen
O saviour, open heaven's gate / O Heiland, reiss die Himmel auf
O Lord, how shall I meet you / Wie soll ich dich empfangen
Angels from the realms of Glory / Hort der Engel helle Lieder
As I was watching o'er my sheep / Als ich bei meinen Schafen wacht
Good Christian men rejoice / Nun singet und seid froh

The Editor
Gerd-Peter Munden is one of the most creative German church-musicians today. From 1992 to 1999 he worked as the cantor in Minden, where he also directed the music school for choristers. From 1999 he has been the Cathedral-Cantor at the Braunschweig Cathedral and the director of the cathedral school for choristers. He is the initiator and artistic director of a successful school project throughout Germany encouraging youngsters to sing.

Composed by Camille Saint- Saens (1835-1921). Arranged by Denis Rouger. Carus digital: Extra digital products. Full Score. Composed 1868. Duration 3 minutes. Published by Carus Verlag

Arranged by J. Edmund Hughes. For SSATBB. Choral music. Level: Medium. Published by Santa Barbara Music Publishing. (SBMP 599)

By Bruce Sled. For SSATBB choir, a cappella. Octavo. Published by Cypress Choral Music

By Rebecca J. Peck and Jeff Ferguson. Arranged by Tom Fettke / Richard Kingsmore. For SSATB choir with vocal solo. Published by LifeWay