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In the Jewish tradition, the Song of Songs is associated with love and the coming of spring. This setting is a powerful example of the highly sensual and passionate love poetry. It has long been inter...

The title of this song perfectly captures the spirit of the music: upbeat, happy, energetic and lots of fun to sing. With shifting tonalities and changing meters, this will be a choir and a concert fa...

Stars and all things related to the night are prominent themes in much of Sara Teasdale's poetry. Dale captures this unending excitement and wonder that the poet holds for stars in this beautiful and...

This piece, written for the Houston Chamber Choir for SATB divisi with flute, clarinet, marimba, cymbals and piano and with a text by poet Julia Klatt Singer is a multi-faceted tapestry of sound and c...

Written as part of the 50th Anniversary Tribute Concert of the Minnesota Chapter of the ACDA - to the music teachers that have inspired us, this text is expansive and can be used in any setting in whi...

With lyricism and sonority, this is the perfect concert closer or graduation song, easily-learned and yet full and lush with immaculate craftsmanship.

This musical setting of a contemporary text by J. Philip Newell celebrates self-awareness and openness to God's message. With subtle shifts in tonality and wide swings in dynamics, harmonic complexity...

This heartfelt Mexican folksong features altos for much of the melody, a strumming piano accompaniment (or harp), glistening women's glissandi and a soaring soprano solo descant. In Spanish.

This music is restless and unbridled, like a child who fusses and pouts when not wanting to be restrained. And it is optimistic like a child is naïve, until the final warning words of the work.

With long sections of aleatoric sounds, a viola scordatura and a text filled with duality of imagery, this is an anthem for the advanced and adventurous choir. The viola (or cello) is not an accompani...

The spirit of exuberance should be the guiding inspiration for the choir and the instrumentalists when performing this excerpt from Whitman's famous A Song of Joys. Here the cello expresses Whitman's...

This setting of the poignant and evocative Christina Rossetti poem Dream Land paints dark and brooding images of shadows, stars, and sunless rivers. The center point of the poem is the sad singing of...

This English folk song, also commonly sung throughout the American Revolutionary War, tells the unfortunate eternal story of soldiers going off to war, leaving loved ones at home. René Clausen artfull...

A powerful text by Whitley Rives using strong metaphorical images of life and after life requires imagination and creative thinking by the singers. The 12/8 meter propels the music forward to a thrill...

This 3rd movement in the three movement work The Gentlest Lady by Doug Brandt speaks of hopes that all mothers hope for but the mother of the baby Jesus will never experience. This is strong powerful...

This is a bold reimagining of Hildegard's chant, both tune and text. Actively quoting the source material, DiOrio's setting takes Hildegard's music as a launching point from which to imagine new sonic...

Mozart komponierte das 'Ave verum corpus' für Chor, Streicher und Orgel knapp ein halbes Jahr vor seinem Tod. Hector Berlioz pries das Werk als Vorbild für die richtige Verwendung der menschlichen Sti...

Originally for Orchestra and Chorus. Arranged by Husa for concert band (Grades 4-5).

Von der ersten Note an sehr beschreibend, schildert "Cry of the Last Unicorn" eine schicksalhafte Begegnung von Jägern, die das "letzte Einhorn" verfolgen. Die Musik ist manchmal ergreifend und manchm...

Acclaimed American composer Wallingford Riegger, wrote Dance Rhythms in 1954 originally for orchestra, but then adapted it himself for band. Noted for its light-hearted mood and energy, it is an impre...

Composed in 1942, Barber's Second Essay is a masterwork of concentrated musical drama with a richness of texture comprised of highly charged and succinctly organized musical modules. The opening theme...

From Samuel Barber's acclaimed First Symphony, here is a masterful adaptation for band of the stunningly beautiful lyric movement. While carefully preserving Barber's original intent, Richard has crea...

From Samuel Barber's acclaimed First Symphony, here is a masterful adaptation for band of the stunningly beautiful lyric movement. While carefully preserving Barber's original intent, Richard has crea...

Dieses großartige Werk, das im Stil einer Filmmusik geschrieben wurde, beginnt mit einer dynamischen Fanfare, in der sich die Blech- und Holzbläser zu wahren Höhenflügen aufschwingen. Anschaulich und...

Although considered to be a small work in Shostakovich's catalog, The Fire of Eternal Glory was one of his best known works in the USSR. A recording of the piece, originally written for the war memori...