Choral Sheet Music

The Lord's Prayer has served as text to innumerable musical settings throughout the Christian world. None perhaps more indigenous to a specific region that this version from Trinidad, with its calypso...

Wondrous Love is one of the most beloved songs of the shape-note Sacred Harp (1844). This arrangement is based on the original version of the tune and maintains its stark quartal harmonies.

This Inuit text features free and changing meters and frequent divisi.

This Chippewa text is energized by close canonic entries.

This Sioux text is a vigorous piece with canonic imitation and some tone clustering, starting with single voice parts and expanding to full SSAATTBB texture.

This Nahuatl text is a lyrical, rhapsodic setting of a ravishing text.

This Winnebago text is a quiet meditation, featuring a soprano soloist (imitating a boy soprano).

This Tewa text is quite vigorous.

This movement concludes the larger work Earth Chants in quiet benediction.

This Russian folk song is transcribed and arranged here based on a version sung by Olga and Kristina Bashirin in Irkutsk, Russia, in July of 1993. Includes both English and Russian text with pronuncia...

This charming Tarantella uses a melody and text from the Italian/Neapolitan folk tradition. It tells the story of Nannina, the most beautiful girl in the village, who is dancing the tarantella. A crow...

The text of this piece, taken from Philippians, was selected because of its appropriateness and universal message of virtuousness that transcends any particular religion or creed.

The woman depicted in She Walks in Beauty elicits expressions of tender and gentle endearment from the poet. To accompany words like 'sweet,' 'pure,' 'soft,' 'eloquent,' the music flows gently, uninte...

In When We Two Parted, the bitterness felt by the poet when he thinks of his lost love is expressed musical in several ways.The path of love is not always sunlit. In Shades of Love, the music expresse...

This piece is based on a field yell, from the days when the slaves sang as they worked, both to keep the work rolling, and to send each other messages of support and solidarity.

Islands was inspired by an eight mile strip of revitalized prairie along Illinois Route 6 between Litchfield and Gillespie. The subtly changed colors of the prairie grasses and the surrounding farmlan...

Hamisha Asar are the Ladino words (the Spanish Hebrew language spoken by the Sephardic Jews) for “Tu Be'Shevat,” the Jewish holiday in the spring that celebrates the time when sap begins f...