Spartiti per coro misto (SATB)

Dona nobis pacem combines two lines about peace from the Ordinary of the Latin Mass. A slow tempo lends grace and poise to the gentle, sustained vocal lines, and the composer juxtaposes homophonic and...

The Gift to Sing è una part-song non accompagnata con un testo dello scrittore americano e attivista per i diritti civili James Weldon Johnson che parla del modo in cui il potere del canto può aiutare...

Two stanzas of emotive verse by Christina Rossetti are set to music of touching directness in this a cappella offering, whose graceful melodies are often adorned by caressing rhythmic patterns. Offpri...

This carol for a cappella choir juxtaposes Latin text with a jubilee spiritual celebrating the Magi who saw the star to lead them to the newborn child. The natural rhythmic energy is amplified by sync...

McDowall brings to life a mystical, brooding nativity text by Nicholas Dakin with dramatic octatonic melodies and parallel movement in fourths and fifths. The propulsive 6/8 metre is decorated with du...

Becky McGlade has set this well-known Christmas hymn with textures both rich and restrained. The original English language hymn was based on a 19th-century English translation of Prudentius's 4th-cent...

Scritto in stile a cappella con accompagnamento scat, "A Tree is a Song" è una gioiosa celebrazione delle connessioni e delle affinità che si trovano in natura e di come la saggezza e la conoscenza po...

A boy & a boy di Stuart Beatch è un testo romantico e alla fine tragico del poeta Matthew Stepanic. Scritto come risposta alla nota opera di Eric Whitacre A Boy and a Girl, Beatch descrive questo pezz...

Stuart Beatch's a boy & a boy sets a romantic and ultimately tragic text by poet Matthew Stepanic. Written as a response to Eric Whitacre's well-known work A Boy and a Girl, Beatch describes this piec...

This setting of the traditional hymn to 'Mary, the star of the sea' contrasts two moods and styles: the flowing simplicity of the 'Ave maris stella' refrain and the slightly faster and more homophonic...

This setting of this popular text was composed in 1997; choir directors should feel free to put a few sopranos on the alto line in the two polyphonic sections. Offprinted from the collection Cantica N...

This Introit is the first of four Latin motets commissioned for the 1976 Edington Festival and first performed in Edington Priory. The Introit firsty pays tribute to Augustine, and then, in a more liv...

At only one point in the piece (bars 37-9) does the the level rise above piano. Despite occassional tuning demands, it should be well within the reach of many choirs. Offprinted from the collection Ca...

A short, eloquant piece commissioned by Winchester College reflecting the spirit of Advent. Offprinted from the collection Cantica Nova.

Bob Chilcott wrote this piece at the request of a friend and colleague Michael Emery, the Producer of the BBC Singers, who wanted a new piece to sing at Mass in Notre Dame, Paris, while touring with t...

This echoing motet was composed for Edward Higginbottom and the Choir of the New College, Oxford, and was subsequently used for their tour around Europe. Offprinted from the collection Cantica Nova.

Written in an a cappella style with scat accompaniment, A Tree is a Song is a joyful celebration of the affinity between trees and how wisdom can be passed on 'as a melody from tree to tree'. McDowall...

In questo arrangiamento del canto popolare degli Appalachi, Mack Wilberg offre un'armonizzazione delicata, adatta a una ninna nanna per il Bambino Gesù. Un leggero senso di presagio è introdotto nella...

In this arrangement of the Appalachian folk carol, Mack Wilberg provides a gentle harmonization suitable for a lullaby to the Christ child. A slight sense of foreboding is introduced in the central mi...

L'originale composizione di Toby Young rinfresca questo noto testo con una melodia magistrale e memorabile, intrisa di una tenerezza indelebile. Young fa uso di efficaci cambi testuali e sincopi, fond...

Toby Young's original setting refreshes this well-known text with a masterful and memorable melody that is imbued with an indelible tenderness. Young makes use of effective textural changes and syncop...

Questa introito, che contiene una colletta del Book of Common Prayer, gioca sull'uso caratteristico di McDowall della dissonanza e delle inflessioni modali per creare un mondo sonoro ipnotico e legger...

Setting a collect from the Book of Common Prayer, this introit plays on McDowall's characteristic use of dissonance and modal inflections to create a hypnotic and slightly unsettled soundworld that re...

Questo breve lavoro di Marques L. A. Garrett mette in scena un bellissimo e toccante testo di Paul Laurence Dunbar che racconta degli effetti curativi della musica e di come il nostro stesso fare musi...

This short work by Marques L. A. Garrett sets a beautiful and poignant text by Paul Laurence Dunbar that tells of the healing effects of music and how our own music-making can spread joy to those arou...