Choral

This piece comes from Ecstatic Meditations which includes Effortlessly Love Flows, How the Soul Speaks to God, I Cannot Dance, O Lord, and How God Answers the Soul.

This piece comes from Ecstatic Meditations which includes Effortlessly Love Flows, How the Soul Speaks to God, I Cannot Dance, O Lord, and How God Answers the Soul.

SSATB a cappella.

The English folk song Arise! Arise! arranged by Joel Phillips for SATB choir a cappella.

Joel Phillips' Song Of The Universal for SATB choir a cappella. This work features words by Walt Whitman.

Two Lorca Songs was commissioned in 1994 by the Central Bucks West Choir. Las Seis Cuerdas was inspired by the poem's haunting melancholy. Crotalo, written for choral competition, is meant to display...

Two Lorca Songs was commissioned in 1994 by the Central Bucks West Choir. Las Seis Cuerdas was inspired by the poem's haunting melancholy. Crotalo, written for choral competition, is meant to display...

The composer of the popular Shakespeare Songs brings us this simple and eloquent new setting of the well-known prayer.

Three poems by William Blake provide the texts for this choral suite by Matthew Harris. Written for a high school choir, these evocative settings provide excellent concert material for a well-establis...

Stunning in its simplicity, this unaccompanied setting of the plaintive John Jacob Niles song is breathtaking!

Three short pieces for mixed choir a cappella set to texts of American poets. May be performed separately or as a set. 1. Fire and Ice (Robert Frost) 2. Richard Cory (Edwin Arlington Robinson) 3. swee...

SATB chorus a cappella with Soprano, Mexxo-Soprano, Tenor and Baritone soloists.

An elegant setting of a poem by Robert Bly, this work evokes the image of water in all its forms through vocal word-painting. Recorded by the Dale Warland Singers.

From Psalm 137, By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion, this a cappella motet is filled with longing and deep emotion. Performance Time: Approx. 5:00

This setting is new music to the words of an old spiritual. Believed to come from the Gullah language of the South Carolina sea islands, this setting explores the rhythmic possibilities of the words a...

Part of a larger work, Requiem for Peace, this piece was built on a cantus firmus melody by Kuni Murai and honors the suffering civilians of the world who have been caught in the cross fire between wa...

Set to a love poem by the Persian poet Rumi, this exotic work evokes the sounds of the Middle East. Your fragrance fills the meadow... I hear you.... Duration: Approx. 3:30.

Based on Lithuanian folksongs, this setting portrays a wild night in a tavern, with singing, laughing, shouting and dancing. For college choirs and up, this is a perfect tour-de-force! Performance Tim...

The Ave Maria has been sung, chanted and prayed in churches, cathedrals and cloisters since before the Middle Ages. This setting, which includes quotations from the plainsong chant, depicts the voicin...

Eric William Barnum is a fresh voice among composers. This expressive and lightly dissonant work for mixed chorus and semi chorus takes its text from a poem by Oscar Wilde. Duration: Approx. 6:00

Set of seven love songs with texts by Alexander Pope, Lord Byron, Shakespeare, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and more. Premiered by Chanticleer in April 1997.

One of the four Marian antiphons, this devotional text has been sung in monastic choirs for centuries. This setting features a homophonic texture and a simple ABA form. Duration: ca. 4:15.

This short unaccompanied work probes the puzzles of living with conscience in a profoundly flawed world. The text by poet William Dickey encourages engagement in the world, yet the piece ends in a wor...

This short unaccompanied work probes the puzzles of living with conscience in a profoundly flawed world. The text by poet William Dickey encourages engagement in the world, yet the piece ends in a wor...

This famous Latin text has been set by many composers over the ages: As the deer longs for running water, so longs my soul for you, O Lord. This setting evokes the settings of the past with a fresh pe...