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SSAA Chorus, Oboe, and String Quartet or Piano American poet Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1917 collection of poems titled Love Songs. The text for this song is taken from '...

Winter's Lullaby evokes the tranquil beauty of a snow scene in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Clear treble voices, solo flute, and piano add simple melodies to a text which 'sings a lullaby to winter. '...

This setting of Maya Angelou's poem Touched by an Angel is a reminder that love is not a mere timid, fleeting feeling, but a courageous struggle which heightens our experience of both joy and pain. Lo...

We are constantly bombarded with language and images that challenge us to consider our world from many points of view. This is important, but perhaps even more important is what do we do with all thes...

The origin of the melody My Country 'Tis of Thee is not known but assumed to generate from Europe. The melody is also used for the national anthem of the United Kingdom, God Save the Queen. The text f...

Composed for the Columbus International Children's Choir, Tatiana Kats, Conductor, for their performance at the 2018 World Choir Games in Tshwane, South Africa, as an opener to their sacred music set....

Clara Schumann's solo song expressing thankfulness for 'True Love' has been expertly and effectively adapted here for SATB voices by composer/scholar James McCullough.

A new musical setting of an exquisite text by Thomas Campion (1567 1620). While not overtly religious, Campion's text inspires us in its spirituality, hope, and faith to believe in a power greater tha...

A familiar American folk song is A Man of Constant Sorrow. Adaptations exist for a maid of constant sorrow as well. This is a very simple melody, placed in the key of C major. The message is a mournfu...

Released in 2007, this original setting of an anonymous 19th-century text is written in verse-anthem style. The scoring for chorus, harp, and keyboard makes it an ideal companion piece for Britten's A...

The text for this carol was inspired by the priest Phillips Brooks' visit to Bethlehem in 1895. It was set to music by his organist at Trinity Church, Boston, Lewis Redner, in 1868. The arrangement us...

This text is part of a longer work by Mohja Kahf titled My People Are Rising: An unfinished poem begun in Spring 2011 for an unfinished Revolution begun in March 2011. It speaks so viscerally of the t...