Noten für Gemischter Chor (SATB)

Let all the world in ev'ry corner sing is an upbeat setting of a hymn text by seventeenth-century English poet George Herbert. Chilcott uses irregular metres, syncopation, and dancing melodic shapes t...

Edward Margetson was born in St. Kitts, British West Indies, immigrating to the United States in 1919. One of only a few published choral works by the composer, A few more years shall roll sets a hymn...

This gentle anthem, written for the Choir of St Chad's College, Durham, sets a text that is adapted from several prayers of St Chad. Warm dynamic swells and rich harmonies emphasize the meaning of the...

Psalm 57 ist eine gefühlsstarke Vertonung, die Momente der Besinnung mit deklamatorischem Jubel kontrastiert und Passagen aus dem gleichnamigen Psalm in der King-James-Übersetzung verwendet. Das 1972...

Bring me all your dreams ist eine wunderbar schlichte Vertonung vertrauter Worte von Langston Hughes und zeigt Harris' effektive homophone Schreibweise und reiche harmonische Palette. Das Stück ist un...

Dona nobis pacem ist eine ausdrucksstarke Vertonung, die zwei Zeilen zum Thema Frieden aus dem Ordinarium der lateinischen Messe kombiniert. Ein langsames Tempo verleiht den sanften, getragenen Gesang...

Dona nobis pacem combines two lines about peace from the Ordinary of the Latin Mass. A slow tempo lends grace and poise to the gentle, sustained vocal lines, and the composer juxtaposes homophonic and...

The Gift to Sing ist ein unbegleitetes, mehrstimmiges Lied mit einem Text des amerikanischen Schriftstellers und Bürgerrechtlers James Weldon Johnson, der davon spricht, wie die Kraft des Gesangs helf...

Two stanzas of emotive verse by Christina Rossetti are set to music of touching directness in this a cappella offering, whose graceful melodies are often adorned by caressing rhythmic patterns. Offpri...

This carol for a cappella choir juxtaposes Latin text with a jubilee spiritual celebrating the Magi who saw the star to lead them to the newborn child. The natural rhythmic energy is amplified by sync...

McDowall brings to life a mystical, brooding nativity text by Nicholas Dakin with dramatic octatonic melodies and parallel movement in fourths and fifths. The propulsive 6/8 metre is decorated with du...

Becky McGlade has set this well-known Christmas hymn with textures both rich and restrained. The original English language hymn was based on a 19th-century English translation of Prudentius's 4th-cent...

A Tree is a Song wurde a cappella mit Scat-Begleitung geschrieben und ist eine fröhliche Feier der Verbindungen und der Verbundenheit mit der Natur und der Weitergabe von Weisheit und Wissen "wie eine...

Stuart Beatchs a boy & a boy vertont einen romantischen und letztlich tragischen Text des Dichters Matthew Stepanic. Als Antwort auf Eric Whitacres bekanntes Werk A Boy and a Girl geschrieben, beschre...

This setting of the traditional hymn to 'Mary, the star of the sea' contrasts two moods and styles: the flowing simplicity of the 'Ave maris stella' refrain and the slightly faster and more homophonic...

This setting of this popular text was composed in 1997; choir directors should feel free to put a few sopranos on the alto line in the two polyphonic sections. Offprinted from the collection Cantica N...

This Introit is the first of four Latin motets commissioned for the 1976 Edington Festival and first performed in Edington Priory. The Introit firsty pays tribute to Augustine, and then, in a more liv...

At only one point in the piece (bars 37-9) does the the level rise above piano. Despite occassional tuning demands, it should be well within the reach of many choirs. Offprinted from the collection Ca...

A short, eloquant piece commissioned by Winchester College reflecting the spirit of Advent. Offprinted from the collection Cantica Nova.

Bob Chilcott wrote this piece at the request of a friend and colleague Michael Emery, the Producer of the BBC Singers, who wanted a new piece to sing at Mass in Notre Dame, Paris, while touring with t...

This echoing motet was composed for Edward Higginbottom and the Choir of the New College, Oxford, and was subsequently used for their tour around Europe. Offprinted from the collection Cantica Nova.

Written in an a cappella style with scat accompaniment, A Tree is a Song is a joyful celebration of the affinity between trees and how wisdom can be passed on 'as a melody from tree to tree'. McDowall...

In dieser Bearbeitung des Volksliedes aus den Appalachen liefert Mack Wilberg eine sanfte Harmonisierung, die sich für ein Wiegenlied für das Christkind eignet. Ein leichtes Gefühl der Vorahnung wird...

In this arrangement of the Appalachian folk carol, Mack Wilberg provides a gentle harmonization suitable for a lullaby to the Christ child. A slight sense of foreboding is introduced in the central mi...

Toby Youngs originelle Vertonung erfrischt diesen bekannten Text mit einer meisterhaften und einprägsamen Melodie, die von einer unauslöschlichen Zärtlichkeit durchdrungen ist. Young macht Gebrauch vo...