Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music Downloads

This pensive Mark Burrows original paints a pristine picture of winter and its restorative qualities. Gentle, dreamlike voices invite us to come away from "endless busyness" and seek "winter's healing...

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 the poem by Robert Louis Stevenson (‘Late lies the wintry sun a-bed, A frosty, fiery sleepy-head’), Winter-Time was written by the choristers of Pembroke College Girls’ Choir, under the d...

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,...

Cantata mundi is a development of ideas first heard in Songs of Sanctuary, where the world of ethnic influenced (both in vocal sound and percussion) are combined with established Western European clas...

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...

Agnus Dei for women's choir (S.S.A.A.) was first performed in 1993 by the Choeur de Jade of Fribourg (Switzerland) in that city. It was during the period of war time in the former Yugoslavia, and I wa...

Psaume 27 (Psalm 27) has been commissioned by Marc Bochud, director of the great girls choir of the Schola of Sion (Valais, Switzerland). Both pieces require a harp accompaniement. The first one, Exau...

The beginning is taken from one of my previous works (1994) written for women's choir with harp and incorporated into this Libera me, with the addition of two horns. The first performance was given in...

Winter, published by the renowned Carus-Verlag, captures the evocative and magical atmosphere of the cold season in exquisite harmony. Scored for three-part female choir (SSA) and piano accompaniment,...

A text by the American poet Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) forms the basis for the composition Afterwards by choir director and composer Lucia Birzer. The poem There will come soft rains deals with our ear...

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Close your eyes is a phrase my then 5-year-old son Albert once said, before he handed me a surprise present. I also think of it as an invitation to experiencing a world illuminated by sounds, or by ot...

This setting of 3 - Emily Dickinson poems will be the most beautiful part of any concert program. The attention to detail in melodic line and harmonic choice will become a quick crowd favorite. Compos...

In a time when answers seem hard to come by, this song carries with it a great message about how important it is to simply have hope. Patti Drennan and Bert Stratton create a winning combination, gift...

If there is any message that is important right now, it is a message of peace. This was written for the Winter Haven High School Bella Voce ensemble and is a great choice for any SSA group for concert...