Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music Downloads

Following in the spirit of his setting of O Nata Lux, Guy Forbes brings us a beautiful setting of this well-known Robert Burns' text. He has reserved the caressing dissonances for tjust the right mome...

As Tim Sharp travels the world as an ambassador for choral music he sometimes hears composers in foreign lands that deserve our attention. So is the case with this selection based on the Sara Teasdale...

The words are simple: they will cry peace where there is no peace - but the setting of the music is rhythmic and dynamic. The repetitions make sense as the words move on to "joy" and "love," and you r...

Based on a poem by Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr. (1895-1919), Greg Gilpin has infused the anticipatory text with a cappella rhythmic energy and drive. Dynamic contrast fills this original work and propels...

Hinshaw Music has long had a relationship with the skilled ensemble Chanticleer.Ÿ This piece, now published separately, was originally a part of the Chanticleer Silver Jubilee Anthology (HMB232). Ÿ Sc...

The Paiute Indian words are a cry of pain and loss that would be true for any father who lost his son. But the Indian imagery brings us outside and touches us inside. Strimple's musical writing is not...

The choral music of Anne Marie Hildebrandt, with great originality, often pays homage to the forms and stylistic considerations of the past. In this work for unaccompanied mixed voices, 2 soloists and...

In the life of every black child, they will have the talk with a trusted adult: what to do if they are pulled over, or have an encounter with the police. This powerful new choral sheds light on the sa...

Commissioned by National Concerts for the 2022 ACDA Southern Region Honor Choir, we are pleased to announce another winning spiritual arrangement by Stacey V. Gibbs. The upbeat text tosses the devil a...

Here is a beautiful love song, passionate and stirring. The composer listed the expression as "bittersweet," which is the essence of the poem, the events all happening on "a golden day." This is an ap...

Commissioned by Dartington Music Summer School & Festival - Summer 2021.

Commissioned by the United States Air Force Band, Colonel Don Schofield, Commander and Conductor based on the 1819 poem by Walt Whitman.

The classic text by Robert Burns is given a fresh, lush, and accessible treatment in this skillful setting by Andrew Bruhn. Inspired by folk singing, each voice part takes its turn at the melody, thre...

The Out from the Shadows Choral Series brings you Summer Is Gone, a new setting of British poet Christina Rosetti's 1862 poem Bitter for Sweet. The composer, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, displays superb c...

An a cappella opening sets the stage for a colorful and descriptive work full of vivid imagery. Sara Teasdale's poem melds the natural world and the personal world in ways that still resonate.

No notes are sung! Instead, 4-part speech teaches rhythm, dynamics, style, choral energy and can even introduce choreography or simple movement. The vocal parts can be a mix of voices and even pared d...

The Jason Max Ferdinand Choral Series presents Stephen Murphy's modern choral setting of a 15th-century traditional text, "Adam Lay Ybounden," for SATB unaccompanied chorus. Murphy uses luscious harmo...

Dedication is a musical statement of self-discovery and self-love from a Black female perspective. The piece features intense rhythmic vitality with heavy syncopation, fluctuating between powerful uni...

This canon offers a beautiful, reverent, and flexible musical addition to any worship service or concert performance celebrating Hanukkah. The format provided can work with just three solo voices to a...

The Formosa Singers from Taiwan are one of the world's renowned choral groups. They commission unbelievably creative and beautiful works by local composers. Pavane Publishing is very proud to launch a...

Emily Dickinson wrote a poem about a railway train. This composition captures the 19th century train on the tracks in America, rolling and hooting along the way. The music is as interesting as the tex...

Following the same compositional style of his choral hit "Connected," this piece carries the message that everything changes and nothing remains but change. Each part gets their own unique melody and...

The texts of e. e. cummings are thoughtful and provoking. Following suit is this musical setting for a cappella voices and violin. The opening is charmingly hypnotic, preparing the listener's ear to h...