Sacred Music

High school choral director, Jonathan Adams, has composed a number of beautiful a cappella pieces. This setting of Ecclesiastes 3:11 contains those yummy suspensions and cadences that choirs yearn for...

Jesse Beulke is a young American composer in his first year of college, yet this, his first published piece, demonstrates a musical maturity well beyond his years. Selected for the David Dickau Signat...

In only a few short years Richard Burchard has become recognized as one of the new, great choral composers in America. His sonorities are often thick but always rich and satisfying. His melodies are m...

God be in my head is the prayer that composer James Gossler has set to music. The beseeching lyrics call for unpretentious vocal lines and soothing cadences and Gossler delivers beautifully. This mode...

Here is a beautiful setting of the classic text from Richard Burchard. Opening with just the chant line the piece soon broadens like a stream into a river of sound. Richard's signature progressions, r...

Uses: General, Christ the King Scripture: Deuteronomy 6:4-9; Joshua 22:5; I John 5:1-5 A rich hymn text is the backdrop for this anthem of devotion from John Purifoy. The opening may be sung a cappell...

Uses: General, Christ the King Scripture: Deuteronomy 6:4-9; Joshua 22:5; I John 5:1-5 A rich hymn text is the backdrop for this anthem of devotion from John Purifoy. The opening may be sung a cappell...

Written in respose to the shooting tragedy in Sandyhook, Connecticut, which took the lives of twenty young children and six adults, 'O Vos Omnes' depicts and honors the incomparable sorrow of the love...

Kane Bradley is a Junior and Senior high choral director and a relatively new composer on the scene. His De Profundis employs minimalism and contemporary harmonies that are quite compelling. He builds...

Memley has set this thoughtful 19th century Barnes' poem in a contemporary madrigal style. Pensive moments cadence on stunning chords, gentle dissonances provoke the listener's ears, woven together in...

Enjoy the contrapuntal textures and fluid lines of the High Renaissance in this 16th century masterwork by the Spanish composer Tomas Luis de Victoria to the text from Isaiah 53. Duration: ca. 3:20.

Enjoy the contrapuntal textures and fluid lines of the High Renaissance in this 16th century masterwork by the Spanish composer Tomas Luis de Victoria to the text from Isaiah 53. Duration: ca. 3:20.

Here is a work with unusual clarity and sonority, perfect for a smaller ensemble or for madrigal singers. While written in simple four-part, this work still demands working with the details of this be...

Using driving recurring rhythms and themes sung in jubilant homophony, this song is perfect for high school and beyond and is well suited for festival use. A carefully crafted, lively selection for an...

It is the lovely and lofty harmonies that Dr. Eglin crafts to Blew's 19th century poem that enable this choral to work well in both school and church. Using a contemporary madrigal style with a beseec...

It is the lovely and lofty harmonies that Dr. Eglin crafts to Blew's 19th century poem that enable this choral to work well in both school and church. Using a contemporary madrigal style with a beseec...

Eglin has set The Lord's Prayer to music using a modern madrigal style. Tender suspensions and beguiling harmonies add a profound depth to this familiar prayer, written in Latin. Excellent for church...

Eglin has set The Lord's Prayer to music using a modern madrigal style. Tender suspensions and beguiling harmonies add a profound depth to this familiar prayer, written in Latin. Excellent for church...

Dr. Cristian Grases of USC is a native of Argentina. He is the editor of a new series with Gentry called The Choral Music of Latin America and the Caribbean, and it is proving to be a delightful colle...

Robert H. Young, perhaps the father of the 20th century American madrigal, brings us a romantic setting of Cherry Ripe. An ancient text unfolds into Young's caring touch with sonorous sounds that care...

Robert H. Young, perhaps the father of the 20th century American madrigal, brings us a romantic setting of Cherry Ripe. An ancient text unfolds into Young's caring touch with sonorous sounds that care...

This ancient Greek prayer asking for God's mercy has been selected for the Bruce Rogers Choral Series. The music is written largely in a homophonic style with shifts in harmony functioning like buildi...

This ancient Greek prayer asking for God's mercy has been selected for the Bruce Rogers Choral Series. The music is written largely in a homophonic style with shifts in harmony functioning like buildi...

Stacey knows how to bring the most out of a spiritual - his arrangements are captivating and fresh. This one is particularly enjoyable, beginning freely then rocking from side to side, quieting down a...

SAB Chorus a cappella (or Piano), or SA Treble Chorus with Piano, or Unison Voices with Piano This motet, sung in Latin, is accessible to a wide range of choirs, with or without accompaniment. The per...