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Simple setting of the short form of the mass: Kyrie, Sanctus, Benedictus, and Agnus Dei, with the addition of a response, and a benediction. It uses the approved translation of the Latin text, and is...

Eleanor Daley is one of Canada's most venerable choral composers. Here, she gives us a secular work for unaccompanied divisi mixed chorus. The rhythmic energy will make the work a hit with high school...

This unaccompanied motet for mixed voices by Canadian composer Eleanor Daley calls for divisi in the soprano and bass parts. Contemplative in nature, the lovely work would be quite effective during th...

Canadian composer Eleanor Daly is widely known in America and represented by a number of publishing houses. As is always the case, her works are well-crafted, elegant, and true to the text. This is no...

The story of the manger in Bethlehem is told through a percussive text of no room and easy four-part, a cappella writing. The rhythmic setting can be performed with musical finesse and makes a terrifi...

This contemporary original is an accessible concert or contest work for young choirs and features a strong rhythmic drive with contrasting mixed meter sections.

This contemporary original is an accessible concert or contest work for young choirs and features a strong rhythmic drive with contrasting mixed meter sections.

A light, brisk spiritual arranged for a cappella voices. With independent lines playing with each other throughout, giving some gospel-type solos for the soprano section, the piece makes an excellent...

Based on a text from Micah, this meditative work features recitative-like questions answered by imitative voices twining around the notion of what is good. The work closes with simple chordal statemen...

Based on a text from Micah, this meditative work features recitative-like questions answered by imitative voices twining around the notion of what is good. The work closes with simple chordal statemen...

The Pulizer Prize winning Israeli-American composer Shulamit Ran composed these four settings for the Bar Mitzvah occasions of her two sons. From the story of creation to passages such as How fair are...

Dale Warland Choral Series A Lover's Journey is a set of four pieces which chronicles the extraodinarily commonplace yet supremly elegant story of love and valentining. Written as a Valentine to The K...

Dale Warland Choral Series A Lover's Journey is a set of four pieces which chronicles the extraodinarily commonplace yet supremly elegant story of love and valentining. Written as a Valentine to The K...

This beautiful text from Ovid's Metamorphoses speaks of the creatures named for the time they first appear: vespertilians (bats). Not scary or to be feared, rather, here they slip into shadows with tr...

This beautiful text from Ovid's Metamorphoses speaks of the creatures named for the time they first appear: vespertilians (bats). Not scary or to be feared, rather, here they slip into shadows with tr...

First performed by the choirs of St Paul's, Westminster Cathedral, and Westminster Abbey, this anthem sets a medieval English poem to contemplative music with all the hallmarks of McDowall's style: ex...

This expressive Wedding anthem sets an extract from William Blake's Auguries of Innocence. With chromatic inflections and gently arching vocal lines, the music perfectly reflects the text's emphasis o...

Setting a fifteenth-century English text containing some short Latin passages, this is a joyful, dance-like carol with a medieval feel. The spirited, lilting melody begins in the sopranos and altos bu...

Setting part of a Eucharistic hymn text by Thomas Aquinas, this piece is suitable for liturgical or concert use. Flowing and expressive, it features homophonic sections, melismatic lines, and optional...

Cecilia, Busy Like a Bee is a reflective setting of a text adapted from the Divine Office for St Cecilia's Day. The influence of plainchant is particularly apparent in the soprano solo, and McDowall i...

Commissioned by Ralph Woodward and the Fairhaven Singers in memory of Dora Kemp, one of the choir's sopranos, God is Light sets lines from Psalm 139, 1 Thessalonians, and 1 John. It moves from an unse...