Classical Modern Music Sheet Music for Mixed Choir

A message of hope for all people, young and old, navigating life’s transitions and looking for places where they belong. Written for the North Carolina Middle School Honors Chorus.

Emily Dickinson’s poem expresses the quiet strength and enduring spirit of hope.

In creating a choral arrangement of this song in 2011, I endeavored to remain as true as possible to the composer's vocal score from 1894, and to his chamber orchestra score from 1897. The melody in t...

This work was commissioned for and premiered on the 100th Anniversary of the Armistice to WW1, ending the carnage and bringing new hope.

An extended work by noted composer, Gwyneth Walker. This seven-movement work explores the unique character of each of the lakes in the upper midwestern United States and central Canada, as well as the...

A reflective and quiet setting of a poem by Madison Julius Cawein.

This award-winning multi-movement work takes the listener through a journey of reflection and hope. Based on words of Representative Barbara Mikulski to Congress quoting R.F.K. and the Baltimore Sun,...

An epic poem by Emerson that talks about music as mystery. The text is matched with equally mysterious music. A part of a larger work entitled “Sing Evermore.”

This piece gives occasion to explore complex harmonies as an expression of the mystery of chords. These are added-tone sonorities—clusters. The author searches for that perfect peace, the one lost cho...

Based on a poem by African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906). The bird, a prisoner in his cage, beats his wing until the blood is red on the cruel bars. He sings a plea, to Heaven, for he...

A short flute introduction of music floating across the sky opens “Sky-Born Music.” The poet (Emerson) writes that music is heard not only in places of beauty, but also in the mud, the dark, in the da...

The texts for these songs span many centuries and have the common thread of praising music for its power —from Richard Barnfield”s “In Praise of Music and Poetry” (published in 1598) to the uplifting...

This work for mixed chorus carries a message for our society to keep striving for positive change. It's repetitive nature enables the ensemble to emphasize the message.

A hauntingly beautiful work that captures the essence of awakening and transformation. It invites listeners on a journey from the serene depths of slumber to the vibrant embrace of reality.

This gorgeous setting of a hopeful text features a soprano soloist and violin that contributes to lovely color of the piece.

This stunning setting explores the concept of “home,” and when we are far away. A great piece medium level choir with tenor and baritone soloists.

Written for high school and collegiate level choirs, it is an aspirational, hopeful, and inspiring text supported by music of energy, warmth, and connection.

Carl Orff's masterpiece Carmina Burana composed in 1936 undoubtedly is one of the best-known musical creations throughout the world. By popular request, we now publish a separate edition of the openin...

With a text written by the composer, Han Lash’s Canticum Psalmi Falsum, is a spirited work that is both ridiculous and musically powerful. Han Lash is a modern master of choral counterpoint and Lash’s...

THE NEIGHBORING VILLAGE consists of three-and-a-half settings of a two-sentence short story by Franz Kafka, and a musical enactment of the telescoping of time that the story describes. The first setti...

Commisioned by the municipality of Debrecen. Judit Varga (b. 1979) lives and works in Vienna as a pianist and composer. Since 2013, she has been appointed lecturer at the Vienna University of Music an...