Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music Downloads

This uplifting piece sets a text inspired by Julian of Norwich, with additions by the composer. Quartel's intertwining vocal lines are beautifully combined with a soaring violin part and flowing piano...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson's comforting text is beautifully set as a lullaby for SSA voices. The natural rocking motion suggests not only cradling the little one, but also the waters of the western sea, fr...

This text-driven setting of Rossetti's treasured poem is top-tier. A well-developed choral interlude sounds like swirling winds with round vowels and captivating harmonies to spare. Most notably, Jay'...

Sung ostinatos join one by one in the opening of this rhythmic arrangement of the authentic Ghanaian folk song. Unison lines, block triads, and a reset of the dynamics in the choral bridge are a blast...

A delicate piano introduction leads the listener to an elegant setting of Christina Rossetti's inquisitive poem. Well-conceived voice leading makes the fully realized choral harmony beautifully singab...

Captivating. Adventurous. With just a hint of danger. This feisty minor key setting of William Blake's gripping poem immediately garners attention with a ferocious fanfare. Then a jaunty, detached pia...

This poem has long been a favorite of singers due to its deep passion and expressive imagery, not to mention the warm vowels at the end of each line. In this artistic setting, Greg Gilpin incorporates...

Commissioned by Texas A&M University in remembrance of a lost friend and fellow Cadet, this thought-provoking piece is designed to be a conversation starter about mental illness, depression, grief, an...

Lilting music resembles a folk song from the British Isles in this happy setting of Yeats' text, inspired by memories of childhood summers spent in the Irish countryside. The 12-line poem expresses a...

Captivate your audience and adjudicators with this masterful work for three-part mixed and treble groups. Grand, awe-inspiring music and a compelling Walt Whitman text make for an impressive festival...

Textured choral writing glides effortlessly over a graceful piano accompaniment in this elegant setting of the romantic text by Chilean poet and Nobel Prize-winner Pablo Neruda. Variations in tempo an...

A tour de force cornerstone of choral literature. Lloyd Pfautsch's remarkable setting of the 17th-century poem by Andrew Marvell continues to be a popular choice with contest, festival, and collegiate...

Sara Teasdale's ethereal poetry creates vivid sky-and-moon imagery that transports listeners to a starry night. Close treble triads and a colorful harmonic palette elevate this lush musical setting. A...

Acknowledge life's many gifts with this splendid setting of Sara Teasdale's poem that reminds us to "spend all you have for loveliness." A lilting rhythmic flow and some refreshing mixed meter moments...

Evoke the feeling of a glistening daybreak with this captivating original. It's a pleasure to sing, with a tuneful theme and some sparkling harmonic highlights that fan out from a single note. Perform...

Edgar Allan Poe's fast-flying words are brought to life in a vibrant, high-energy piece for treble choirs. Employing echo-singing, chromaticism, and back-and-forth meter changes, this setting is one a...

Music gives . . . life to everything. Powerful words by Plato are given a contemporary sound in this buoyant piece by Mark Burrows. Soaring with radiant energy, it uses colorful harmonies and a drivin...

The search for inner beauty is at the heart of this contemplative William Butler Yeats text. A colorful harmonic palate and soaring vocal lines give this opulent concert setting a contemporary flair....

This expressive poetic setting opens with a piano motif reminiscent of rushing wind. Three legato voice parts unfold and intertwine. Staggered entrances in the middle assemble and grow until we "hear...

This shadowy cinematic selection, whose title means "into the night," was featured in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. With a secular text in both English and Latin, the haunting minor-key them...

Emily Brontë's evocative poetry absolutely shimmers in this serene setting by Mark Burrows. Elegant vocal parts include soaring melodies, sumptuous harmonies, and expressive nuances, all of which mirr...

This carol was commissioned by Richard Bristow for the choir of Wimbledon High, A Cappella, and first performed at Wimbledon’s Sacred Heart Church on Wednesday 17th December 2014. The snow lay on the...

Combining a text by Charles Anthony Silvestri with syllables inspired by the song tradition (joik) of the Sami people in Scandinavia, Sing the earth is a tribute to our common home, the earth, as well...

A setting of Christina Rossetti’s poem Dream Land, the raw emotional quality of Dreamland reflects on the beautiful imagery and themes of fantasy and death of the poem. Written in the Autumn of 2020,...

Anyone who has sung in a choir knows the unavoidable and more or less boring exercises of the beginning of a rehearsal: vocal warm-up. Caroline Charriere has drawn a parody from this phase of the rehe...