Noten für Chorleiter

Setting a prose text penned by Helen Keller in her 'The Open Door,' composer and conductor Andrea Ramsey has created a sensitive yet powerful new work exploring 'All that we love deeply becomes part o...

This four movement Missa Brevis is full of multicultural influences with deep roots in the dance. Drawing from Bulgarian rhythm and melodic, Turkish finger cymbals, mandolin figures of bluegrass waltz...

Initially a contour variation (in minor key) of a well-known hymn setting, this descriptive motet-like anthem offers a wide range of contrasts, from early phrasal points of imitation, climactic aggres...

This piece is the anthem for MosaiK', a choral festival in Ottawa, the capital of Canada. One of the festival's guiding principals is the inclusion of the culture and music of both national languages,...

First-Prize Winner of the 2012 Yale Glee Club Emerging Composers Competition.

Written in the style of 19th century Shaker music, this new composition by Wayland Rogers uses claps and foot stomps along with energetic music to capture the sense of movement that is essential to th...

This five movement work for SATB choir is based on five different Native American peoples. The sequence starts with 'Falling,' a lullaby, and ends with 'Rising,' an image of spirits gently swaying on...

The composer states:'Nightfall is an incantatory piece inspired by how light changes at the end of a day: the adding and subtracting of colours and shadow; the slowly building and diminishing dynamics...

This beautiful text by Metaphysical poet John Donne brings a poignant message that as long as you keep what is most loved in your heart, you are never truly parted. This lovely idea is held together b...

This beautiful text by contemporary poet Annie Finch is a love song describing the most beautiful and intimate images of love - 'warm hands,' 'gentlest sounds, touches and hours'. The text is set apar...

Margery Agrell's poem recalls 'faint light' and 'soft winds' and provides a reflective and soothing view of nature in this SATB piece for a cappella mixed voices. The close harmonies produce a lush ye...

Written for Jeffrey Douma and the Yale Glee Club, Stephen Feigenbaum has created a piece that is at the same time classically contemporary and jazzy, light-hearted and sad, insightful and fully transp...

This text comes from the Dakota people who address God as Grandfather and this a cappella work by Ruth Watson Henderson is prayerful, strong and full of passion. With large, low drum.

Beginning with two main thematic ideas that are developed throughout the work: a 2-note gentle, lilting motive and a 4-note lyrical theme that travels throughout the voices, this 7 minute piece for a...

Das jüdische Lichterfest Hanukkah feiert den Triumph des Lichtes über die Dunkelheit, der Reinheit über die Verfälschung, der Spiritualität über die Materialität. Das Stück fängt dieses Gefühl der Fre...

This is in the southern Mexican style of the Huapango. In this fast and fun music, with the flash of reds, yellows and greens and the flash in the rhythm, it's as if the entire landscape becomes the d...

If we can be happy and live well without causing unnecessary harm, why wouldn't we?' This simple and yet profound question is the invitation for choir, listener, and all of us in this beautiful new wo...

Combining the Andean folk song Ojos Azules with folk songs from Ecuador and Peru, this is the sort of music that Stephen Hatfield has excelled at for so long. Scored here for choir and percussion - sm...

This beautiful folk ballad from 17th century England is haunting and timeless. The lyrics tell the story of an immigrant looking for love in a new and unfamiliar land. Each of the 3 verses varies in p...

This chant melody was brought to America from West Africa. It is meant to be sung as a meditation. Pedal notes should sound like a drone that supports the melody. It all leads to an experience for the...

The first word of Psalm 119 is both the first and last word of this music - 'Blessed.' Written to celebrate the 750th anniversary of Merton College, Oxford, This music cannot be rushed. It is relaxed...

Blake Fragments was written for performance in Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic Guggenheim Museum in New York City and calls for the solo voices to be placed in various positions on the concentric rings th...

This short, 3 line prayer has found favor from presidents to world leaders and from the solo fisherman. Here it is set as a simple, a cappella duet for treble voices. This is a wonderful benediction f...

This is the first in a set of three spirituals with the overarching title of Songs for the Journey. They celebrate those who have made the trek to freedom during the era of slavery, inspire those who...

This is the 2nd of three songs that create Songs for the Journey. Setting this traditional spiritual in a slow, gut wrenching style, your choir will find endless places to draw inspiration and emotion...