Spartiti medio per Coro femminile

Arranged for SSA Choir and Piano by Henry Geehl.

SSAA Chorus, Oboe, and String Quartet or Piano American poet Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1917 collection of poems titled Love Songs. The text for this song is taken from '...

This setting of Maya Angelou's poem Touched by an Angel is a reminder that love is not a mere timid, fleeting feeling, but a courageous struggle which heightens our experience of both joy and pain. Lo...

The origin of the melody My Country 'Tis of Thee is not known but assumed to generate from Europe. The melody is also used for the national anthem of the United Kingdom, God Save the Queen. The text f...

Composed for the Columbus International Children's Choir, Tatiana Kats, Conductor, for their performance at the 2018 World Choir Games in Tshwane, South Africa, as an opener to their sacred music set....

Clara Schumann's solo song expressing thankfulness for 'True Love' has been expertly and effectively adapted here for SATB voices by composer/scholar James McCullough.

With lyrics written by the composer, Two by Two is a light-hearted take on Noah's Ark. It features the usual animals, but also many unexpected ones including extinct and even mythical ones. The music...

Night Vision was commissioned by Persephone Singers, a women's choir in Whitehorse, Yukon, directed by Barbara Chamberlin. It was premiered on May 2, 2015 at the Yukon Arts Centre in Whitehorse. This...

Stephen Chatman's Train for SSAA chorus is an arrangement from his original set, Due West for SATB chorus, commissioned by the Vancouver Chamber Choir in 1997. The simple, charming text by Tara Wohlbe...

A familiar American folk song is A Man of Constant Sorrow. Adaptations exist for a maid of constant sorrow as well. This is a very simple melody, placed in the key of C major. The message is a mournfu...

Three Pieces for Chanukah is not so much a set of arrangements of familiar words and tunes than it is a set of original compositions based on them. The first two settings feature jazz-influenced, clas...

Three Pieces for Chanukah is not so much a set of arrangements of familiar words and tunes than it is a set of original compositions based on them. The first two settings feature jazz-influenced, clas...

Released in 2007, this original setting of an anonymous 19th-century text is written in verse-anthem style. The scoring for chorus, harp, and keyboard makes it an ideal companion piece for Britten's A...

The text for this carol was inspired by the priest Phillips Brooks' visit to Bethlehem in 1895. It was set to music by his organist at Trinity Church, Boston, Lewis Redner, in 1868. The arrangement us...

The opening lines, 'Listen, I love you. Do not turn your face / Nor touch me. ', reflect the somber feelings encompassing Sara Teasdale's poem. Paired voices initially express contrapuntal melodic lin...

Stephen Chatman's setting of Sara Teasdale's whimsical poem pertaining to a brown-thrush, April, love and kisses, emulates the meaning, strict rhythm, rhyme and strophic structure of the text. The sof...

Sara Teasdale's poem, Oh day of fire and sun, suggests a loud, fast musical setting. The syncopated homo-phonic choral texture, with high tessituras, exudes drama and excitement: it balances the expan...

Sara Teasdale's poem, The Mystery, depicts deep lasting love - 'Your eyes drink of me' and 'We have long been lovers'. It also raises a question - 'Can I ever know you / Or you know me?' Stephen Chatm...

The opening line of Sara Teasdale's poem, After Love, 'There is no magic any more, ' establishes the theme of vanishing love. Stephen Chatman's setting of the poignant text, in the key of E flat major...

This piece is a fast, joyous outburst. The initial lines, 'I am wild, I will sing to the trees' set the jubilant tone. The perpetual motion of the syllabic step-wise vocal lines is punctuated by stacc...