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This contemporary original is an accessible concert or contest work for young choirs and features a strong rhythmic drive with contrasting mixed meter sections.

This contemporary original is an accessible concert or contest work for young choirs and features a strong rhythmic drive with contrasting mixed meter sections.

A light, brisk spiritual arranged for a cappella voices. With independent lines playing with each other throughout, giving some gospel-type solos for the soprano section, the piece makes an excellent...

Based on a text from Micah, this meditative work features recitative-like questions answered by imitative voices twining around the notion of what is good. The work closes with simple chordal statemen...

Based on a text from Micah, this meditative work features recitative-like questions answered by imitative voices twining around the notion of what is good. The work closes with simple chordal statemen...

The Pulizer Prize winning Israeli-American composer Shulamit Ran composed these four settings for the Bar Mitzvah occasions of her two sons. From the story of creation to passages such as How fair are...

The Pulizer Prize winning Israeli-American composer Shulamit Ran composed these four settings for the Bar Mitzvah occasions of her two sons. From the story of creation to passages such as How fair are...

Dale Warland Choral Series A Lover's Journey is a set of four pieces which chronicles the extraodinarily commonplace yet supremly elegant story of love and valentining. Written as a Valentine to The K...

Dale Warland Choral Series A Lover's Journey is a set of four pieces which chronicles the extraodinarily commonplace yet supremly elegant story of love and valentining. Written as a Valentine to The K...

This beautiful text from Ovid's Metamorphoses speaks of the creatures named for the time they first appear: vespertilians (bats). Not scary or to be feared, rather, here they slip into shadows with tr...

This beautiful text from Ovid's Metamorphoses speaks of the creatures named for the time they first appear: vespertilians (bats). Not scary or to be feared, rather, here they slip into shadows with tr...

Combining a number of early lullaby texts in one setting, Adam and the Mother is a haunting carol recalling the fall of Adam. It combines irregular melodic lines with lilting ostinato passages and wil...

First performed by the choirs of St Paul's, Westminster Cathedral, and Westminster Abbey, this anthem sets a medieval English poem to contemplative music with all the hallmarks of McDowall's style: ex...

This expressive Wedding anthem sets an extract from William Blake's Auguries of Innocence. With chromatic inflections and gently arching vocal lines, the music perfectly reflects the text's emphasis o...

Originally published in the anthology, An American Christmas, this is a serene setting of a macaronic text by M. K. Dean describing the song the angels sang for the birth of the Christ-child.

Setting a fifteenth-century English text containing some short Latin passages, this is a joyful, dance-like carol with a medieval feel. The spirited, lilting melody begins in the sopranos and altos bu...

Setting part of a Eucharistic hymn text by Thomas Aquinas, this piece is suitable for liturgical or concert use. Flowing and expressive, it features homophonic sections, melismatic lines, and optional...

Cecilia, Busy Like a Bee is a reflective setting of a text adapted from the Divine Office for St Cecilia's Day. The influence of plainchant is particularly apparent in the soprano solo, and McDowall i...

Commissioned by Ralph Woodward and the Fairhaven Singers in memory of Dora Kemp, one of the choir's sopranos, God is Light sets lines from Psalm 139, 1 Thessalonians, and 1 John. It moves from an unse...

With a newly written text by Angier Brock, this compelling anthem by Cecilia McDowall is a welcome addition to the traditional Easter repertoire. Easter Light explores a variety of styles and colours,...

This attractive motet was written for performance alongside Brahms's Requiem. The gracefully sculpted music clothes the text with touching melodies, expressive harmonies and varied sonorities.

This straightforward but effective a cappella arrangement of the well-known English carol speaks directly to the listener, and its occasional unexpected harmonic turns will delight. Offprinted from Ca...

This anthem sets biblical words that explore love and kindness. The opening section creates a mood of hopefulness, and the central section is built around the words 'Be kind, tender-hearted, one to an...

An atmospheric setting of Caliban's dream from The Tempest, this piece transports the listener to a dream-like place. McDowall's immersive harmonies and ornamentation perfectly characterise the reveri...