Choir, Vocals

This setting of the poem Faldang attempts to capture the flavour of the fiddle tunes referred to in the text with the zestiness of meter changes and no-diatonic excursions. Above all else, it should b...

Moonplay is influenced by the tradition of inventions - studies using limited musical materials. Yi and yu - change and constancy - are the foundations of almost every musical form. And in abstract mu...

The life of Oglala Sioux holy man Black Elk (1863-1950) spanned the tragic decades of the battle with Custer at the Little Big Horn, the ghost dance, and the massacre at Wounded Knee. In 1930, Nebrask...

A flowing piano accompaniment sets the gentle, expectant mood of this piece, returning in each section with further development and ornamentation, inspiring and deepening a sense of awe and Divine ecs...

Autumn Song is a setting of a poem by Emily Dickinson, which depicts the season's onset as a charming change of venue and dress. The wit and conciseness of Dickinson's imagery inspired the similarly c...

Above the “purging” arpeggios in the piano accompaniment, the voices sing melodic and harmonic intervals which are predominantly from the whole tone scale. The singing is effectively frame...

This folk song in the Dorian mode tells an amusing story interspersed with appealing responses and a chorus of nonsense syllables. The active piano accompaniment departs from the scale of the melody,...

Dalglish has masterfully set this quiet text with a simple, flowing melody. The shimmering quality of the hammer dulcimer is a perfect complement to the legato vocal line. The easily-accessible descan...

This lively folk song is accompanied by two repetitive countermelodies, each with its own character and humor. The middle voice is the melody, giving young singers an opportunity to develop inner voic...

Longfellow wrote the text, entitled “Christmas Bells,” in 1863. During that Christmas season, the poet's son was critically wounded in a war, and the text expresses his father's anguish ov...

This short piece was written early in Schein's life and is typical of the Italian madrigal. The polyphonic writing offers each voice a melodic line to shape, and imitation to listen for the other voic...

Shakespeare's familiar text from Twelfth Night about unrequited love is expressed through varying levels of dissonance.

This piece is known in a variety of melodies and dialects in the Ukranian oral tradition.

This piece is one you might do in the fall of the school year, when you have new and inexperienced choristers to train. The added counterpoint at the opening, and few forays into three-part “har...

The Seven Vocal Fanfares is an cappella work written especially for the renowned Girls' Choir of Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland, tailored to their most unusual timbre and talents. The musi...