Spartiti medio Musica classica

Una ricca ambientazione di una poesia di Amy Lowell con un pianoforte lussureggiante e una grande scrittura delle parti per i cantanti, che li indirizza verso la loro "luce guida".

Un'altra opera sapientemente scritta da Karen Marrolli, "Like Stars" è un grande pezzo per un ensemble di scuola superiore o collegiale.

Con voci suadenti e stratificate, il brano trasporta gli ascoltatori in un regno dove il tempo rallenta e le emozioni sono tenute in delicata sospensione.

Una canzone ispirata per giovani voci miste con testo scritto da Coty Raven Morris. Un grande pezzo didattico per la classe.

Nel creare un arrangiamento corale di questo brano nel 2011, ho cercato di rimanere il più fedele possibile alla partitura vocale del compositore del 1894 e a quella per orchestra da camera del 1897....

The deep beauty of Gregory of Nazianzus ™ text is well-matched in this setting for SATB voices (divisi except for the tenors) and solo viola. The divisi notwithstanding, the music is simple and straig...

Do You Love for Beauty? (Liebst du um Schönheit) is the second of Mahler's Rückert songs arranged by Stanley M. Hoffman for mixed chorus, the first one being Into This World I Came As a Lost One (Ich...

A reflective and quiet setting of a poem by Madison Julius Cawein.

An epic poem by Emerson that talks about music as mystery. The text is matched with equally mysterious music. A part of a larger work entitled “Sing Evermore.”

This piece gives occasion to explore complex harmonies as an expression of the mystery of chords. These are added-tone sonorities—clusters. The author searches for that perfect peace, the one lost cho...

Based on a poem by African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906). The bird, a prisoner in his cage, beats his wing until the blood is red on the cruel bars. He sings a plea, to Heaven, for he...

A short flute introduction of music floating across the sky opens “Sky-Born Music.” The poet (Emerson) writes that music is heard not only in places of beauty, but also in the mud, the dark, in the da...

The texts for these songs span many centuries and have the common thread of praising music for its power —from Richard Barnfield”s “In Praise of Music and Poetry” (published in 1598) to the uplifting...