Choral Sheet Music

The third volume of the 'Breitkopf & Härtel Chorbibliothek' is devoted entirely to the secular repertoire for mixed a cappella chorus, and in fact especially to the 19th-century choral literature comp...

Two moving settings of wrenching poems by W. B. Yeats (An Irish Airman Foresees His Death) and Sara Teasdale (There Will Come Soft Rain) comprise the master title, Pieces Written in a Time of War. Dur...

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), who studied astromomy, wrote this poem just a few years after Urbain Le Verrier (1811-1887), the well known astronomer, gained great respect for identifying the celestial...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 1892) wrote Crossing the Bar in 1889, only a few years before his death. Although it was not his last poem, he requested that Crossing the Bar appear as the final poem in a...

Written for the Washington and Lee University Singers in 2016, this is a haunting setting of parts of several poems by Joseph Mary Plunkett, the man who came up with the ill-fated plan for the Easter...

The music begins mysteriously with the John Dryden text split among the voices and ending with Alleluias. A sort of scherzo section follows, concluding with a declamation, 'The dead shall live, the li...

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...

Commisioned by the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, Lead Us Home speaks to the power music holds: its ability to comfort, to transport, and heal. In moments of conflict, strife, and grief, we turn...

The friction between professed ideals and painful reality that Langston Hughes captured in his poem, 'Let America Be America Again, ' is also the foundation of the piece commissioned by Shannon Lyles...

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 18th-century poem, Jesus Christ, the Apple Tree, found its way into an American hymnal compiled by Joshua Smith in 1784. Most often classified as a carol. A soprano soloist introduces the simple m...

A set of four contrasting 'memorial dances' for unaccompanied mixed chorus, Suite Remembrance was commissioned by the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus. Movements range from energetic to lyrical and moving,...

A set of four contrasting 'memorial dances' for unaccompanied mixed chorus, Suite Remembrance was commissioned by the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus. Movements range from energetic to lyrical and moving,...

A set of four contrasting 'memorial dances' for unaccompanied mixed chorus, Suite Remembrance was commissioned by the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus. Movements range from energetic to lyrical and moving,...

A set of four contrasting 'memorial dances' for unaccompanied mixed chorus, Suite Remembrance was commissioned by the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus. Movements range from energetic to lyrical and moving,...

A set of four contrasting 'memorial dances' for unaccompanied mixed chorus, Suite Remembrance was commissioned by the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus. Movements range from energetic to lyrical and moving,...