Here is a playful and creative treatment of the alphabet centered around the theme of children and hope. Filled with slides and scoops, a conventional tone of delivery, and a steady rhythmic drive, audiences will enjoy every minute of the...
Birdsongis a celebration of life. The text comes from a collection of poems written by children who, while incarcerated in the Terezin Concentration Camp in Czechoslovakia during World War II, wrote of their experiences and their dreams. The text's...
After multiple trips to Kenya, East Africa, and studying, watching, listening and singing Kenyan music of all styles, composer Hugh was inspired to write a new piece in the style of this region. Incorporating the guitar, driving percussion and the...
Written from the point of view of a young chorister, this Hatfield original tells the story of a young girl who wants to join her friends in the choir. The effect this has on her and her parents is profound. A perfect recruiting piece or first...
Choirs will love this light-hearted text set to a flowing piano accompaniment.
DetailsPublisher: Boosey & HawkesPublication Date: 06/2006Credits: Elena Kats-CherninPages: 12Length: 10.50 in.Width: 6.75 in.Series: CME Intermediate SeriesFormat:...
Strong, dance-like rhythms carry the opening words of Psalm 96 and make this an inviting selection. Using both English and Latin text, this work combines engaging vocal counterpoint with stirring energy. With piano or organ.
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This setting of Fauré's charming and reverent Cantique de Jean Racine is scored for SSA chorus, accompanied by keyboard with the optional addition of two violins and one cello. Full score and parts available (48001636).
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The melodic material of Chatter with the Angels is pentatonic. Optional improvisatory section for either solfa or Orff instruments.
DetailsPublisher: Boosey & HawkesPublication Date: 06/2004Credits: arr. Charles CollinsPages: 8Length: 10.50...
Appropriate either as a processional or a concert piece, this song's texture builds and builds into beautiful imitative counterpoint. The final accelerando and crescendo of rising vocal lines reaches a high climactic chord, punctuated by metal wind...
This playful and energetic work perfectly characterizes the exuberance of youth, sparkling in self-affirmation: Celebration is daring to be who we are. With piano. Recorded by Young Naperville Singers, Oksana Rodak, Director.
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“Daybreak Song,” the fourth and final movement of Songs of the Lightes, Set I, is based on a Navajo text. The text and harmonies blend to beautifully express the sounds and sights of breaking dawn. For voices and piano with optional...
With Oboe, Piano and Finger CymbalsEarthsongs is a group of three pieces. The texts speak of the wonders of nature and of the importance of protecting the animals, caring for the plants and nurturing one another. The World is Full of Poetry is a...
Scored for unison voices and piano, this piece is a syllabic and through-composed setting of Laura E. Richards' text. The distinctive aspect of the piece is its rhythmic interest and shifting meters, its humor, evident in the lumbering nature of the...
Eliyahu Hanavi is one of the many “Elijah songs” sung by almost every Jewish community from as early as the eleventh century. These folk and para-liturgical songs are sung at the departure of each Sabbath at the Havdalah service....
