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This emotive motet sets a combination of verses from Psalms 31, 48, and 71. Essentially a prayer for God's protection and guidance, the piece is characterized by pungent and mesmerizing shifts of harm...

This piece sets a poem by Amy Lowell, vividly conveying the effect of the wind through a moving tapestry of eighth notes/quavers intertwined between the different voices. The melody floats over this b...

Setting a well-known Latin text, Miller mixes expressive harmony and flowing polyphony to create a touching anthem. The opening and closing sections develop the chant-like opening motif, enclosing a j...

This innovative setting of the Magnificat celebrates the strength of teenage girls and is suitable for both liturgical and concert performance. The upper-voices sing in the style of Bulgarian choral f...

For SATBB unaccompanied. A series of superb anthems spanning one of the greatest periods of English music. The anthems reflect many stuyles ranging from simple four-part chordal anthems to elaborate m...

SATB unaccompanied. A fine four-part motet for Christmas.

One of the simplest and best-loved of 16th-century anthems.

A setting of a poem by Ursula Wood, later to become Ursula Vaughan Williams.. The dedication reads, 'To the memory of Charles Villiers Stanford, and his Blue Bird'.

This subtle setting of the popular carol is soft and gentle, never louder than mezzo-piano. The ethereal background starts in a high register with a repeated figure that evokes tranquility. A differen...

For SSATB unaccompanied - While perhaps Tallis and Byrd's Lamentations are better known, Robert White's Lamentations reflects a uniquely bleak and austere vision and is surely one of the composer's fi...

For SSAATTBarB unaccompanied - Descendi in hortum meum is an original setting of the Song of Solomon, unique in that it is arranged for seven voices while still capturing the lush and beautiful essenc...

Helvey sets a combination of sacred texts to beautiful music. Similar to his Cor mundum crea in me Deus, Helvey writes mainly in homophonic textures, with thick, lush chords.

Eleanor Daley sets the text from Corinthians, 'Love is patient, Love is kind' as a descant above a repeated, polyphonic, and homophonic SATB chant of the Latin text Ubi caritas et amor Deus ibi est. T...

For SATB unaccompanied - DiOrio sets a biblical text appropriate for Holy Week and Easter in a fresh, flowing harmonic style. This piece works well in concert settings and in church services.

A very exciting and dramatic arrangement of a traditional early American folk hymn made up of contrasting sections of homophonic textures and a soprano melody against a rhythmic background.

Out of the depths is a reflective, homophonic, and beautifully written work. The choral parts are very accessible, yet the resulting sound is rather sophisticated and thoughtful. This setting of Psalm...

For SATB unaccompanied - Debra Scroggins' setting of a poem by William Blake is both stunning and gentle. The tight harmonies offer a lush and flowing soundscape that conveys warmth and tenderness per...

For SATB with optional solo, unaccompanied. This is a sonorous and dramatic arrangement. It opens with an optional solo that may be sung by the sopranos, and, towards the end, the rest of the choir si...

This is a moving arrangement of the familiar passage from the Book of John. Larsen takes an original melody and arranges beautiful harmonies underneath with delicate suspensions. This is a rewarding a...

All are bound to get caught up in the energy and fervour of this new setting of the spiritual Ride On, King Jesus. Wertsch uses the full range of dynamics and so adds intensity and variety to the vers...

Written in 1844 in thanksgiving for the preservation of the life of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm after an unsuccessful assassination attempt, this is the original a cappella version of the well...

SATTBB unaccompanied Gombert's In illo tempore: loquente Jesu is a six-part unaccompanied study in intricate part-writing, with sinuous stepwise motion and persistent imitative entries. The optimism o...